Introducing Rupert
August 10, 2020
![Melissa and her new golden retriever, Rupert.](https://alisongarwoodjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Melissa-and-Rupert-2.jpg)
This past May marked the passing of Henry Slatkoff, the white golden retriever so many of you fell in love with on Instagram and in person.
Typical reaction: “Oh look at the “snow bear,” said a nice old lady when we were out on a walk last summer. She ruffled his ears for a good five minutes and went home happy.
Yesterday, Henry’s Mom — my friend and neighbour Melissa — brought home Rupert. And the love engines are revving again.
As with Henry, I am Rupert’s “fairy dog mother” and caretaker when Mama Melissa needs a yoga time-out or a holiday. Afterall, it takes a village to raise a kid and a dog.
When Melissa asked me to bestow a middle name on Rupert, I immediately thought of Paul: Rupert Paul (RuPaul) Slatkoff. But his nature, now that we’ve met him, bends more towards sweet and floppy, not strutting and fabulous. So I suggested Trevor, to build on the British theme.
Trevor was my dad’s name. He loooooved dogs. He had a black lab from the time he was born in the late 1920s until the day he died in 2011.
World: meet Rupert Trevor Garwood-Jones-Slatkoff.
I’m guessing I will shorten it to Rupert Bear.
Thank you, Melissa. xo
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