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Guy And His Dog Are Visiting All 50 States On A Motorcycle (Original Post)
catbyte
Aug 2019
OP
That's where they started. They live there & where the pup learned to ride. It's in the first
catbyte
Aug 2019
#2
This man did a super job of training Sox for riding. Sox seems quite secure! Love it!
Karadeniz
Aug 2019
#7
virgogal
(10,178 posts)1. Even Hawaii?
catbyte
(34,447 posts)2. That's where they started. They live there & where the pup learned to ride. It's in the first
part of the video.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. Sure. ride the bike onto the plane / ship. ride off . :)
Bayard
(22,149 posts)5. Oh....Wow.
That is totally awesome. What a great dog! I just worry about him falling off the bike if they hit something major.
Goodheart
(5,339 posts)6. How f*ing cute is THAT?!
My own Black Lab used to love to ride the Waverunner with me. When we stopped in the middle of the lake he'd of course jump in for a swim.
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)7. This man did a super job of training Sox for riding. Sox seems quite secure! Love it!
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)8. They both are clearly living
Their best lives. I love it. (Though as a vet and a dog mom, I am also a little nervous about him falling off.)
catbyte
(34,447 posts)9. Me too, but he looked so happy I just had to post.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)10. Not only amazing but touching.
At least it was for me. It's about sharing a life ...with a respected and very loved dog.
Tonight I just read about Rudd Weatherwax, the dog trainer and owner of Pal, the Collie who portrayed Lassie on the screen. This is from Wiki:
By 1957, Pal
was growing blind, deaf, and stiff, and rarely visited the Lassie set. The star of the show Jon Provost later recalled, "As young as I was, I recognized how much that dog meant to Rudd. Rudd loved that old dog as much as anyone could love an animal or person."[17]**
Pal died of natural causes in June 1958 at age 18 (about 85 in "dog years" ) and for months Weatherwax slipped in and out of deep depression. Robert Weatherwax, Rudd's son, later recalled, "It hit him very hard when Pal died. He buried him in a special place on the ranch and would often visit the grave. Dad would never again watch an MGM Lassie movie. He just couldn't bear to see Pal. He didn't want to have to be reminded of just how much he loved that dog."[19]
**That's how I imagine the bonding between these two must feel. Some of us know how that feels.