Parooni was our first dog. He was really a great dog! He was a ‘pure mixed-breed’ with a noble name, Parooni = in English ‘Baron’. At that time (in the 1980’s) it was very common at countryside that the dogs where free all the time. Our Parooni was a real ‘ladies’ man’ and he used to leave to his trips every now and then – always returning back to home… except once. It was a Spring and Parooni had this ‘overflowing Spring spirit’ and he left to this trip again. He was away for almost two weeks. After few days we started to get worried and we searched him from everywhere. We were afraid that something bad could have happened to him. One day when Heikki was driving home from his work, he saw a dog sitting at the steps of one store. That dog looked quite much like Parooni, but not enough… This sight bothered Heikki’s mind as he was driving along, so he had to return and check this once and for all. And Parooni it was, although he had lost really much of his weight and looked like he had given his everything for this trip! When Parooni got back home, he ate ‘non-stop’ for almost 2 days and slept at least a week.