What a lovely dog, Rose! We actually also lost a long-time member of our family on Easter. His name was 'Bear'. He was a blue heeler that my almost-20-year-old son received for his 7th birthday. It was the most horrible thing-he had arthritis very bad and couldn't get around very well. We came home on Easter to find him drowned in the swimming pool. I guess maybe he was going to get a drink out of it and fell in; we really don't know what happened. My son had to drag him out and bury him.
Here is a picture of him and Dante a couple of years ago.
