Buddy; a Tennessee hound came to live with me during a car purchase. I was looking at a 1978 camaro and Buddy; a friendly and happy fellow helped me inspect the car. He was a stray, he had been dropped off on the highway by the car owners house. They let him hang around as an outside dog. The car purchase ended up with Buddy coming with the car. My friend Kevin and I trailered the car and put Buddy in the truck. He was not happy about that, he felt like he was being kidnapped. Which he was. On the way home we stopped and got some food. Buddy got a hot hamburger. After that he started to like the arrangement. He became an inside/outside dog. We had many adventures which included road trips to buy cars and car parts.
Jumpin Jake; photo and bio coming soon
Pep; the dog was sentenced to life in prison for murder in the 1920s
The Pinchot family bred labradors, which gave the governor an idea. He “sentenced” Pep, who was a relatively bad-behaved dog, to life in prison at Eastern State for murdering his wife’s cat. This cutesy backstory (he wasn’t really a kitty killer) was much more fun than simply saying Pinchot was donating a therapy dog. The prison played along with the colorful tale, too. Pep had his mugshot snapped with his inmate number, C2559. Not a real inmate himself, Pep freely roamed around as the cutest morale-booster in the cell block.