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This is Scooter as a tiny puppy. This particular photo is actually described in "The Gift: A Christmas Story."
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This is Scooter as he looked when the story was written.
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Jethro loves Christmas. I think he gets a kick out of first tearing up the boxes.
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Jethro taking five from a hard day at play.
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Scooter, Jethro and the author's youngest daughter, Penny, playing in the snow.
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Sorry, best picture I could find of R. Louis Carroll. This picture was taken during an interview with the Nisqually Valley
News.
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Jethro is considerably older now than he was when "The Gift: A Christmas Story" was written. Though we will never really
know his age, he has slowed to become a typical basset hound lounging around and taking it easy. Unfortunately, Scooter was
near 95 in dog years when he died peacefully at home in the arms of his family following a long period of dimished vision,
reduced hearing, arthritis and other medical ailments. He was quite happy and an occasional spurt of playfullness kept him
young at heart right up to his last days.
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