| Meet Bodacious |
Rhonda didn't go looking for Bo, or Bodacious, as she is formally known. Bo simply showed up for work one day.
"I had the door to my office open, enjoying the weather of a nice afternoon, and in walked this beautiful yellow lab."
A Working Dog
"I had the door to my office open, enjoying the weather of a nice afternoon, and in walked this beautiful yellow lab," Rhonda explains. "She walked around behind my desk as if she was right at home and said hello! She hung out with me all afternoon and after work the two of us went all over town looking for her home."
The Dog Who Came to Dinner
"I eventually found out from a local store clerk that she had been abandoned by parents who had moved away and left her," Rhonda continues, "and that no one in town was able to keep her because she kept escaping. So I invited her to my house for dinner and in the ten years she's been a member of our family, she's never tried to escape."
Carrying the Torch.and the Book
"Bo and I bonded immediately and became best friends," recalls Rhonda. Bo quickly became so attached to Rhonda, in fact, that when Rhonda would go to work or leave for more than a few hours, Bo would find something Rhonda had handled, "anything she could get her teeth on," and carry it around until Rhonda came home.
"There were two puncture holes in
the book. I always thought that was
Bo's way of telling me she liked vampire
books too, and enjoyed reading mine."
"Sometimes those things didn't survive being carried around all day," says Rhonda, "but the funniest incident happened not long after she adopted me. I read vampire books and I'd left one that I was reading in my recliner. I came home one night, picked the book up to read it and there were two puncture holes in the book.the vampire book. I always thought that was Bo's way of telling me she liked vampire books too, and enjoyed reading mine while I was gone to work. I'm still wondering why I found my hand lotion bottle in the same condition. Bo IS beautiful but something tells me she doesn't need to moisturize??!"
Along For The Ride
Although Bo spends her days "looking after her three sisters" - adopted hounds named Jewel, Daisy, and Charity - she is still so attached to Rhonda that "she follows me everywhere I go when I'm at home," Rhonda says.
"She seems so determined to be there
that I'll move the car another location
in the drive just so she can enjoy the ride."
She'll even follow Rhonda into the car, despite the fact that "BoBo doesn't travel well, she has motion sickness issues," according to Rhonda. "She follows me and as soon as I open the car door, she hops into the passenger seat," Rhonda says. "Sometimes she seems so determined to be there that I'll move the car to another location in the drive just so she can enjoy the ride."
Girl Talk
"When she gets out of the car," Rhonda continues, "and we go back into the fenced in area of our yard, she bounces all around and tells the other girls where all she's been. It's quite a sight. They all crowd around her and I swear I can hear them asking where she went, and her wagging tail appears to be bragging about her journey. She also loves to go next door to Granny's house and the same ritual takes place when we return home from there."
A Howler of a Dream
Bo has even been known to get attention from Rhonda in the middle of the night. "After Bo had been living with us for a few weeks, and after we fell in love with just how sweet natured she is, we were extremely surprised one night when we were awakened to what I can only describe as sounding like a howling hound of hell.
"I flew out of bed only to see Bo sitting
straight up howling this very longggggg
wolf howl. I very gently woke her up
and she looked at me like.'what's up'"?
I flew out of bed only to see Bo on her bed on the floor at the foot of our bed sitting straight up howling this very longggggg wolf howl with her neck, head and snout completely outstretched towards the heavens! I very gently woke her up, which took a couple of minutes and finally I saw Bo come back into her eyes and she looked at me like.."what's up?" and immediately began wagging her tail and acting as if she had no idea what the distressed look on my face was. I have to stop leaving my vampire and werewolf books lying around where she can reach them!!
The Cat's Meow
Bo may sound like a dog, but she sometimes acts like a cat. "We've speculated that while she was homeless and had been abandoned, she must have found a cat family to live with," says Rhonda. "She always rubs against our legs from her nose to her butt, JUST like a cat!!
"She looks so much like a cat doing that. Even after all these years we all still laugh and 'meow' at her. The only difference is that when a cat rubs against your leg, they don't have enough weight or strength to knock you over. That sometimes happens with Bo, however!"
Fetch Toy, Act Coy
When Bo behaves like a dog, she does it in her own style. "Her favorite thing is to fetch the ball or other toy and bring it back to you," says Rhonda, "only to play coy and act like she's going to give it to you, and then quickly turn her head away." Other favorite activities include greeting the family with "something, anything," Rhonda says, "a ball, a sock, a stick, whatever she can find and bring to us as part of her greeting."
"One of her favorite things," continues Rhonda, "is digging holes to lounge in even though she knows she's not supposed to, and she turns crazy circles until you'd think she'd fall over dizzy when she hears the BLUE bag rattling and knows it's breakfast or dinner time."
Bo and BLUE
"Bo was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago and immediately I was searching for a 'better' quality dog food for her and all of our girls," says Rhonda. "That search lead me to BLUE, and the last visit that Bo made to the vet, these are his exact words about her diabetes and how she's doing: 'If I get diabetes, I want to come to your house!' That says it all. We monitor and manage her diabetes very closely and a large part of that is the quality of BLUE! Bo knows exactly when it's time to get an insulin injection and actually gets excited about it because she knows that as soon as she gets her shot, the BLUE bag rattles!!"
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