We Lost a Faithful Friend in our Office

I am sure that many of you have been to our office and met our office mascots, Paul’s dogs Romeo and Rascal.  On March 2nd we lost Rascal.  He is shown in the picture above with snow on his nose.  (He liked plowing in the snow.)  Rascal just showed up at Paul’s home about 6 years ago.  One morning he arrived from a walk-about with some serious cuts on his eye and face; it seems he got in a fight with another stray.  Paul took him to the vet’s office to have him sewed up.  I remember Paul calling the vet office that day to ask if they were done only to be told he was still in surgery.  Paul took all this in stride and paid a rather large bill to get Rascal mended.  After the surgery Paul took great care of him, applying his eye drops on schedule.  Rascal was a gentle soul.  He never barked at anyone who came through the door at the office.  He would lay quietly under Paul’s desk.  When I would walk by Rascal, he would occasionally come out from under Paul’s desk to ask for a treat.  He would walk up behind me and punch me in the back of the knee with his snout.   He was not picky, he would gratefully accept any treat with subdued enthusiasm.

He will be missed.