05/11/2026
Hard to put into words what it feels like to lose one of your best friends of almost 12 years. . .
I remember when me and Frank drove out to Pingree to this yellow farm house. We pulled in and got out. As we exited the car we hear a voice "MOOSE NOOOOOOO!!!!" We then looked to see the biggest, happiest, floppiest big daddy lab coming right for us! We braced and I thought about jumping back in the car. But we quickly learned the worst he was going to do was knock us down and lick us until we played and gave him loves. That was Persephone's Dad. We then met the softest, long ear, sweetest eyed baby girl I have ever known.
She never needed a training class. This girl just listened at 8 weeks old and was mellow and followed me and the rest of us anywhere we asked. She learned when she picked up a sock and we told her to "drop it"... that meant she got loves and attention for dropping it right away. This became a life long game of hers. She would bring me a sock so that I would tell her to drop it and she would get loves.
