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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — For years the only thing that kept Karen Sjoberg from getting a dog was the fact she wasn't home much.
“I really wanted a dog,” Sjoberg said.
Then she began noticing that some people bring their dogs, and cats to work — there's a cat at True Value Hardware on North Avenue, a dog at Turn the Page Bookstore in Fruita, and a dog named Abbey hangs out at Cornerstone Heating and Cooling in Grand Junction — to name a few.
Sjoberg decided she could also bring a dog to work.
Sjoberg is director of Grand Valley Peace and Justice. Next to her office in the former St. Joseph convent on White Ave. there's an empty room where a cocker spaniel named Libby spends a good part of the day on the couch looking out the window.
Before acquiring Libby, Sjoberg would hardly ever leave the office. These days she goes for daily walks with Libby to Hawthorne Park during her lunch break.
“It forces you to get out no matter what the weather, and it does you some good,” she said.
Steve Thoms, owner of The Winery restaurant in downtown Grand Junction, has an office across the alley in Sentinel Square where for the past seven years he's brought his yellow labrador, Tina.
The nearby office was a selling point when Thoms bought the restaurant in 2004.
Tina accompanies Thoms to the bank, to meetings, and for strolls along Main Street.
“She keeps me company when I'm in the office,” Thoms said. “She makes me laugh.”
Attorney Roy Farber has an office downstairs in Sentinel Square where he also brings his German Shepherd, Mikky, to work.
“She's a dear friend,” he said. “Dog is god spelled backwards.”
Farber shares a lobby with other tenants who don't mind Mikky hanging out there.
“She'll greet them. She's kind of like the concierge,” Farber said.
A yellow labrador named Chulo (Spanish for cute) has the run of the parish office at St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
“He opens the door when the door bell rings,” and he barks at questionable characters, said the dog's owner, Father Edmundo Valera.
“He grew up here. The staff helped me train him.”
When Chulo was still a puppy, he accidentally got baptized when he jumped into the water while Valera was preparing to baptize three babies.
“The parishioners love him. Everyone asks for him,” Valera said.
Chulo accompanies administrative assistant Irene Shea on walks to the post office, and to nearby City Market where he waits patiently outside.
When the office sends out Christmas cards, everyone signs it including Chulo with his paw.
“I really wanted a dog,” Sjoberg said.
Then she began noticing that some people bring their dogs, and cats to work — there's a cat at True Value Hardware on North Avenue, a dog at Turn the Page Bookstore in Fruita, and a dog named Abbey hangs out at Cornerstone Heating and Cooling in Grand Junction — to name a few.
Sjoberg decided she could also bring a dog to work.
Sjoberg is director of Grand Valley Peace and Justice. Next to her office in the former St. Joseph convent on White Ave. there's an empty room where a cocker spaniel named Libby spends a good part of the day on the couch looking out the window.
Before acquiring Libby, Sjoberg would hardly ever leave the office. These days she goes for daily walks with Libby to Hawthorne Park during her lunch break.
“It forces you to get out no matter what the weather, and it does you some good,” she said.
Steve Thoms, owner of The Winery restaurant in downtown Grand Junction, has an office across the alley in Sentinel Square where for the past seven years he's brought his yellow labrador, Tina.
The nearby office was a selling point when Thoms bought the restaurant in 2004.
Tina accompanies Thoms to the bank, to meetings, and for strolls along Main Street.
“She keeps me company when I'm in the office,” Thoms said. “She makes me laugh.”
Attorney Roy Farber has an office downstairs in Sentinel Square where he also brings his German Shepherd, Mikky, to work.
“She's a dear friend,” he said. “Dog is god spelled backwards.”
Farber shares a lobby with other tenants who don't mind Mikky hanging out there.
“She'll greet them. She's kind of like the concierge,” Farber said.
A yellow labrador named Chulo (Spanish for cute) has the run of the parish office at St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
“He opens the door when the door bell rings,” and he barks at questionable characters, said the dog's owner, Father Edmundo Valera.
“He grew up here. The staff helped me train him.”
When Chulo was still a puppy, he accidentally got baptized when he jumped into the water while Valera was preparing to baptize three babies.
“The parishioners love him. Everyone asks for him,” Valera said.
Chulo accompanies administrative assistant Irene Shea on walks to the post office, and to nearby City Market where he waits patiently outside.
When the office sends out Christmas cards, everyone signs it including Chulo with his paw.
