Hudson was rescued by B.O.N.E.S. from a bad situation in Limington, ME. After the gentleman called 911 (and subsequently passed away), the local ACO found 20 dogs living in squalid conditions.
B.O.N.E.S. took most of them and found them new homes. Overall, Hudson was in very good shape but when he had his physical, they found a serious mast cell tumor in his nose. As much as possible was removed.
B.O.N.E.S. wanted to find a wonderful home for Hudson and we did. John is a long-haul trucker that had lost his beagle companion of 13 years. He wanted a new companion. Luckily John found Hudson (or Hudson found John). It was a wonderful match. Hudson reported in regularly, and we share his "Chronicles" on this page.
Greetings from Maine. John and I are home for a few days after spending Thanksgiving in Michigan with his brother and family.
After our trip over Halloween to North Carolina, we loaded a load to Colorado. John had a snow groomer at one of the ski areas that needed to come back east. The load we had was a load of liners going to a mine near Grand Junction, CO. we loaded it in Georgia and by the time we got to Chattanooga, the load had shifted and John had to hire a wrecker to push the rolls back on the trailer. Later that day, the rolls started to shift again. The rolls are made of felt and the bottom ones would flatten out and this would start the next layer leaning. In turn, the top row would start leaning as well. John had to find another wrecker company to reload the front row that was leaning badly. We headed west again, only to watch the last two rows start the process as well. So, one more time, we had to hire someone to push the rolls back onto the trailer. there were so many straps on the load that it would never fall off, but it was leaning over the edge quite a bit.
Along with these problems, the alternator on the truck quit working so we wasted half a day getting that fixed at a truck stop. A simple repair of a three hundred dollar part cost John $650.00! That's what happens when you breakdown on the road.
After four days and $1200.00, We made it to Grand Junction and got that load from Hell off our trailer.
We then loaded the snow groomer in Crested Butte, and then picked up a table saw in Denver and had a nice, uneventful trip home.
John had lined up some loads going out to Wisconsin and had everything lined up to be in Michigan for Thanksgiving. We made all the deliveries in Wisconsin and when it was time to start loading we found that the Wisconsin load had been put on hold. There go the well laid plans of Beagle and man. John and I had a lovely turkey TV dinner in the truck. He rented a car on Friday and we had a road trip to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It was a fun weekend seeing all the family. They have two shelties and they even allow me up on some of the furniture!
Sunday we headed back to Green Bay with an additional stop in Chicago. We had John's niece Katie ride along with us. She goes to Northwestern and decided to hitch a ride with us. John thought she wanted to ride along to enjoy his company. In reality, it was better than the bus sitting next to a smelly stranger. We didn't tell John, though.
We had a nice walk around campus and I had fun chasing squirrels. After all these years, I never realized that I was supposed to chase things. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
After dropping Katie off, we went back to Green Bay, returned the rental car, and found some loads going back east. It was an uneventful trip home and we were able to see some of the progress on the new driveway.
That's all for now.
Hudson, the semi-beagle
