March 22, 2015

For those of you that don’t follow The Parador on Face Book, Razor passed away yesterday.

He’s been suffering from arthritis for some time and it’s been getting worse.  He was developing other issues and on Wednesday he seemed to just give up. He stopped eating, didn’t want to come inside, just wanted to lay outside.  He was a great friend and host at my Inn and had worked hard with RJ training his replacement from when RJ was a puppy:

Actually, Razor didn’t start as my dog.  While living in South Florida, a friend of mine in the Glades had two Lab puppies left and wanted to know if I was interested in one of them.  I knew both of the parents and they were great dogs.  So I took them both, JJ for me and Razor for my best friend Dino.  JJ was stolen from my yard and I was heart broken.  Dino went back up to Minnesota for a bit and asked me to look in on Razor since his daughter wasn’t the most reliable.  🙂  I came up one day and Razor was very lethargic.  I took him to the vet and he had parvo.  Had that treated and when Dino returned, he had decided to move back to Minnesota and asked if I wanted Razor.  I jumped at the offer and he’s been with me since.  I took Razor to the vet for a check-up and he then had heart worm.  The treatment for heart worm is a carefully induced amount of cyanide.  It had to be extremely accurate to kill the heart worm and not the pet.

Razor has always been the most obedient guy, while Dino owned him, Dino would leave a basket of biscuits on a floor level shelf.  When Razor wanted one, he would go over by the basket and sit there looking at Dino.  Dino would say “OK” and Razor would take one biscuit and lay down on the floor to enjoy it.

There have been over 2,000 page views of the post on Face Book about Razor’s passing and well over 100 personal condolences.  It makes his passing more manageable knowing he was so well loved.

Thank you all,

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