[Dailydrool] Today's Calendar Hound - Bosley

[Kenneth Miller]

Greetings to all

First, Bosley is slinging loads of healing drool for all the sick  
hounds and slaves out there, and believe me, Bosley has a ton of drool!

I am a rare poster, because it simply is so hard to keep up with the  
Daily Drool, I can only skim things and with work being so busy it is  
hard to post anything. Our thoughts and prayers for healing drool for  
all slaves and families who have lost beloved hounds recently, the  
list is so long. I do feel your pain, the loss of my first hound,  
Edsel, now six years ago, still hurts some, but I know he is happy,  
healthy and enjoying the rainbow bridge these days, awaiting to be  
joined by his family.

Anyway, on to today's calendar boy. Bosley was adopted two years ago  
on September 17, two weeks and a day after I got married. Bosley had  
kind of a rough life before he came to live with us. His first owner  
apparently loved him and took good care of him, but died suddenly  
when Bosley was about a year old. After the first owner died, her  
sister took him in, I suspect somewhat reluctantly, as she already  
had a little dog already, and Bosley did not fit in well, he had to  
fight for food.

During this time, apparently Bosley was teased or abused by a man,  
possibly an older man. When we went to see him that first afternoon,  
he was beautiful, and he galloped right over to me sitting on the  
patio, I scratched ears, and I think that was all it took, he was  
ready to go home.

He still has some issues, again, I don't really know what happened  
over his first two years, but he was aggressive about his food at  
first, and has bit my mother and father, not seriously, but enough  
several times. It all seems to be related to having his tie out rope  
being attached or removed from his collar. He is better now, but,  
occasionally still has some issues. He does not like my father (89)  
and is very protective of my mother (87). He does not even like my  
father to approach while he is sitting with my mother.

Bosley commutes to work every day. I take him to my parents place,  
his job is to take care of them. He is always ready to hop in the car  
every morning and enjoys his day there, but by the time 5:30 arrives,  
he is ready to go back home, his job for the day is done. So my wife  
or I pick him up and take him home.

He has now settled into a routine of this, and is doing much better  
than when we first got him. He sleeps through the night, usually,  
occasionally I have to get up and put him out. He loves both homes,  
when we go out and leave him at the house, he is always up on the  
back of the couch to watch us leave with his head poked through the  
curtains. But he settles down and takes a nap while we are gone, he  
never seems to mess in anything while we are gone, only when we are  
there and not paying appropriate attention to him!

Anyway, happy calendar day to my big boy, and happy second gotcha day  
plus 12!

Ken and Beth with Bosley and Edsel (ATB 9-22-02)