Bruno's New Friend

 

There has been a stray beagle/hound here since we got here.  He started off being very scared of everything & everybody.  When we went for our walk after dinner (still light down here then), we would see him hiding in a gully or behind a tree.  The minute Bruno went towards him, he would run away.  But then we'd look back and there he'd be following us at a distance.  We noticed he was wearing a collar, but there was a big hole on the top of it like the metal piece that had the piece to hook a leash was pulled right off.  Almost like he had been tied and pulled so hard to get loose that the piece pulled right out of his collar.  As time went by he would follow us a little closer until he & Bruno finally started playing a bit, but at a distance.  Now he walks next to us.  Yesterday when Bruno went out to pee, guess who came running from down the street.  Bruno wasn't on his leach so we weren't up close, so the stray dog we call Buddy didn't feel threatened so they went through the sniffing introductions.

 

 

My turn, your turn.

 

They ran & played.  Bruno even came back in the coach to get his pillow to share.

 

 

There are people here who want him caught, but there's a handful of us who are concerned about having a dog catcher catch him, will he go to a shelter who kill their dogs after a week?  He's getting so he will take a treat out of our hand but runs real fast so we can't catch him with a rope that's been looped at the end.  You can tell he's a really nice dog.

  

 

So when Don went out with Bruno this morning for his morning duties (Bruno's, not Don's), guess who was waiting for him.