Exactly 200 years after Catherine the Great built Odessa, the Clay Quarterman family moved to Ukraine. After living in Lisbon, Portugal, for 14 years as Presbyterian missionaries, they took up a new language and a new life in Odessa for the next 17 years. They left their mark on the city, and their dog left his marks on them!



The four boys grew up speaking Portuguese, Russian, English, and Ukrainian and then moved back to America. But their vision of the world was shaped not only by these languages and cultures, but by the animal who shared their home!



If you met him, you never forgot him.

If you didn't meet him, get to know him in these pages! Enjoy and share these...



...WOOKIE TALES!