This Is Roscoe

My name is Roscoe Scheuermann and I’m a four year old Yorkshire terrier. I live with my adopted mom and dad in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ted, that’s my dad, just read that I am the equivalent of 20 human years right now. Wow, I can vote! I mean, considering how many “dogs” run for office, why can’t we vote for them too! I wonder where I have to go to get registered.

     I was born on New Year’s Eve, 2008, and got adopted by Ted and Jane on April 1, 2009. I didn’t remember this when I got a little older, but I began to notice that I didn’t look much like my parents. After a while, they told me the truth, a very smart thing to do. Now I know I live with them not because I have to, but because they really want me with them.

    
     I’m good looking, but then all Yorkies are. I’m average height and weight, coming in at a whopping 3.5 kgs. or almost 8 pounds. I spend almost all my time in our compound surrounded by a big wall and an iron gate. That’s the way everyone lives in Ethiopia – walls and gates. I seldom go out, except when I can fool someone who doesn’t know and get out for a little run.

     I am fast. I don’t really know what that is, but every time I do get out, the person who chases and catches me, only when I want them to, says “Boy, is Roscoe fast.” So I’m fast.

     Since I am an only dog, I play with mostly older humans. That’s cool because so many people come to see me. I feel bad for Ted and Jane because no one ever comes to see them; just me and only me. I think it’s a good thing though. Otherwise they would have no company at all.

     There’s a lot more to tell: like when we were flying to Addis the first time and had to make an emergency landing in Dubrovnic, Croatia; my trip over the road from Mekele to Addis last year; my most favorite friends, like Sammi, Ephrem, Fukadu, and Addis.

      Keep coming back. The two things I love most, after food, of course, are personal attention and making people happy.

Roscoe