The Adventures of Junior and Spike the Wonder Dog. Book 28: Junior Learns Religion

The Adventures of Junior and Spike the Wonder Dog. Book 1: The Adventure Begins. This is the first book in a series of 31 children's books written and illustrated by Moshe. Book 1 begins with introducing Dad, a big burly biker that raises show roosters and desires to have a family of his own. Dad meets the beautiful Jasmine and soon they have a child together. Junior is born, mom says goodbye, leaving Dad to raise Junior on his own, and so Dad quickly adjusts his life to accommodate Junior's needs, by first selling all his show roosters followed by opening a motorcycle shop in the garage, attached to the house. When Junior is a few months old, Dad and Junior look at pit-bull puppies. Junior chooses the puppy chewing on his shoe and Dad names him, Spike the Wonder Dog, because he is such a terror in just a few weeks old. Spike and Junior quickly become best friends, but Dad does not allow Spike to sleep in Junior’s bed. This all changes after a rattlesnake bites Spike, while saving Junior. Dad, Junior and Spike rush to the veterinarian via motorcycle, and that night, Spike sleeps with his best friend, Junior. All 31 books of The Adventures series are action-packed, often with a lesson for the children. Usually a rescue occurs, performed by Dad or Spike and sometimes Junior. Some adventure involves Junior’s mischievousness. Only Book 1 does not end with Dad telling Junior and Spike a bedtime story. All 31 books begin with Junior on page one and Spike on page two. Both are dressed in some type of costume related to the bedtime story Dad tells at the end of the book, except Book 1, where in the first two pages, Junior and Spike are dressed as Superman, with Junior displaying a J and Spike a S.
I based The Adventures series on my son and his pit-bull, whose name actually is Spike the Wonder Dog. We received the Red-nose pit-bull, when it was three weeks old, wanting to fight and already eating solid food, hence the name Spike the Wonder Dog. We lived on my ranch in Three Points, Arizona, where I raised show roosters and built motorcycles. Spike terrorized all the rabbits and anything else he could catch. I once watched him crash head-on into the bumper of a Ranger pickup traveling approximately 10 mph. I believe Spike put a dent in the bumper. I had watering troughs made from 3-inch irrigation pipe, on my rooster pens that were over 100 feet long, glued together from 20-foot sections. Spike ripped every one of them off the pens, brutalizing them further until breaking down to the 20-foot sections. He would do some type of balancing routine to get the pipe pointed upward, so its contents whether rodent, rabbit or whatever slid down to his mouth, which was tightly closed to hold up the pipe. I cannot remember how many times I watched the rabbit or packrat jump out the other end of the pipe, away from Spike. I always wondered how many times a rattlesnake rolled down the pipe to Spike. Spike was a neighborhood kids’ best friend, not caring how rough they played with him.