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 Durham, Maine. I started this out with greetings from Casper on New Year's Day but when I was done dictating to John, he started yelling and screaming and when he finally calmed down, I found out the computer crashed. After three weeks on the road, we were able to get home and he had to buy a new one.
Way back in early December, I took John to the beagle wrap at the Borders book store in Braintree, MA. I was a little nervous about how he would act but he did OK. One woman made fun at his lack of wrapping skill but he took it well. After that we had several short trips that kept us busy up until the holidays.
John and I spent Christmas day visiting friends and neighbors and had a nice, low key day. There has been lots of snow this year and John went snowshoeing with friends that day. He has kept a path opened up for me at home so I can go to my favorite telephone pole to do my business.
The day after Christmas, we loaded a log home that was going to Casper, Wyoming. We were scheduled to deliver at 10 am new year's eve but we were late because interstate 80 was closed at the Wyoming border due to whiteout conditions. We were one of the first ones when the road was closed so we were able to get parked at a little truckstop at the state line. Trucks that arrived later had a hard time finding a place to park. The next day the interstate opened up and we arrived at the job site at about 1 pm. I had a chance to chase some rabbits while we were there but they were really fast. It was a disappointment having my dog food that evening after thinking I was going to have fresh rabbit. I guess I've been hanging around John too much. He's ruining my hunting skills!
There were a lot of storms this trip and we spent a lot of time dodging them. We went up into South Dakota to pick up a load going to Grand Junction, Colorado. We had to wait half a day in Denver because I-70 was closed due to avalanches. The following weeHudsonkend we spent in Reno, Nevada.We waited out three storms that came into California in the form of heavy rain in the San Francisco area and then snow in the Sierras, up to 10 feet! We were able to get through the passes mid-day Monday. From that point, we had better luck coming home.
We had some deliveries in Virginia and were able to spend the weekend visiting with two of John's sisters and their families. They both have dogs so it was fun for me too. We had the usual territorial disputes but we got them settled. Two of the dogs, Shadow and Toby, I had met last summer so it didn't take long to get re-acquainted. The other dog, Haley, took a little longer but we ended up getting along well.
John and I are off to Wisconsin on Monday and then back out to Los Angeles to pick up a street sweeper among other things so we'll be gone a few weeks. Let's hope there aren't so many storms!
By the way, here is a photo of me on the path John shoveled to get to the telephone pole.
Hudson
