Several years ago our clinic cat Grayson passed away after a hard fight with cancer. One of our very kind and wonderful clients requested a picture and had an artist make a paper mache replica of our beloved kitty.
It.Is.Terrible.
We were all (appropriately) very appreciative and kind, and for all this time Paper Grayson has been sitting on top of our file cabinet in the reception area...freaking people out. While it is cat shaped, it doesn't really look at all like our wonderful old guy and the eyes are actually quite weird. But we still really appreciated the gesture.
Just recently we have decided that we all have had enough of Paper Grayson staring down at us with his weird eyes and have taken him off the filing cabinet. We were sort of at a loss for what to do next. None of us really wanted to toss him out, but none of us were bonded enough to want to take him home either. So for a week or two now, we have been randomly putting him places around the clinic and scaring each other hollering out "!!!Paper Grayson!!! and laughing uproariously. Now we have decided on a solid course of action. Paper Grayson is going to become a traveling "gnome" (only he will still be a cat). Each of us can take him home, take him places, take photos and we will send them to our boss in Iraq and most likely someday make a little Paper Grayson scrap book of all the fun places he has gone!
I took him home today and since it is really nice outside, posed him on my birdbath. The picture turned out quite good I think, it looks like he is walking along hoping for a bird to land so he can eat it. I am not sure what we are up to this weekend, but I am sure I can find some fun places for Paper Grayson to get his photo!
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