Shaggy dog tale

This is Remy, my boxer.
I am reminded of an old joke...
A man and his dog are coming out of the offy when a runnaway car kills them both.
They find themselves outside the pearly gates but are not allowed in because the dog has lost its tail.
They go back to find it but times have changed and the offy is now a greengrocers. The man goes in anyway to enquire whether his dog's tail was ever found.
He says he was last in there buying some vodka.
The shopkeeper says.....

"Sorry Sir, we don't retail spirits"

Oh dear my boxer has a stump instead of a tail....