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.
Hi from Durham, ME.
I want to start out by apologizing to everyone for slacking off the last few months. We had a great time at the bash and lots of people came up to John and said that he needed to get more chronicles coming. It was fun seeing him get in trouble for slacking off! I'm always ready to tell stories, sometimes, he doesn't seem to feel the same way.
We did two more trips to Montana after our last update, the third trip was an oversize load. the weight was very close and everyone was nervous until we could get to a truck stop and weigh the load to see if it was legal. Luckily, it was, otherwise, we would have had to wait over the weekend and unload some parts and leave them behind. That would have involved calling the ski area and figuring out what to leave behind. Fortunately, everything worked out. We made it half way across Pennsylvania before we had to shut down for the weekend because of the oversize load. John spent Sunday polishing the truck while I relaxed. He saw a friend that he hasn't seen in 10 years. They spent several hours talking truck talk. To listen to them, you would think they were capable of stopping global warming, curing cancer, and creating world peace. I'm glad I'm not a Corgi, like Maggie, because "it" was getting pretty deep!
After we finished the Montana loads, we have been pretty busy staying on the east coast. One of the trips was down in North Carolina, picking up some snow guns headed for Michigan. We had been to this ski resort three times already. we pulled into the staging area where the equipment was and John noticed a wire swinging wildly. Walking down the driveway, this wire was only about 8 feet off the ground. John then noticed that the stack on a farm tractor he had on the trailer was bent. The mystery is that our truck was taller than the stack on the tractor. Apparently, the wire caught our stacks, slid up and over and caught the stack on the tractor. Fortunately, the wire was an out of service phone wire. John couldn't figure out why he had caught it this time without catching it the previous three times, until one of the crew mentioned that a garbage truck had hit the wire the week before. After that, we made it home without further incident.
The next day, we went west to Libby, MY and loaded a heavy duty wrecker going to Syracuse, NY. John's computer crashed and we spent the day in Missoulla, MT waiting for the Geek Squad to repair it. He is still trying to work out some minor bugs.John was also able to pick up a small machine going to Massachusetts that fit on with the wrecker. Overall, it was a pretty good out and back. We didn't have to sneak around scales, nothing broke, and we got rid of John's obnoxious nephew! (John's words, not mine!)
As usual, we had a great time at the beagle bash. there was a good turnout and the weather was fine. I don't mean to brag, but I was the loudest beagle there, for a while anyway. John spent a good amount of time at the table helping sell calendars and t-shirts. Some of John's cousins and his aunt and uncle also came by. Joey, who is a second cousin, what ever that means, was a big help selling t-shirts and calendars. He takes after his grandfather...poor kid! Thanks to everyone who helped support this years bash. All the beagles who benefit make all the effort worthwhile.
I hope everyone has a great fall season.
Hudson, the semi-beagle
