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"Pumpkin's Going Home!"

. . . sang the shelter staffer gleefully.


We brought Pumpkin home and renamed him "Roscoe" (after dismissing "Buster" [Keaton], "Fausto" [Coppi] and "Karl Friedrich" [Gauss]).


Roscoe was young, but had had a bad start. His large paws told of stunted growth, maybe starvation.