Another happy boy ...

A letter from Bono's new family

Bono 

Hello animal lovers,

It began when we read about a sweet Golfo, a very sad Spanish water dog. We realised that he looked very like our other Spanish water dog, Mop, who is sadly deceased. We found our Mop in Spain, when he walked into our neighborhood in Spain (where we had lived for 7 years). They looked almost identical and, in the beginning, Golfo was equally as fearful and, like Mop, he didn't wag his equally short tail. 

How different it is now. Golfo, now called Bono, has been joined by two Galgos, Duuk and Bettie.
Duuk is missing his right hind leg but he runs even more than Bono. They play together beautifully. Bettie is a cast-off hunting dog aged ten and a half. She too wants to play with them, but we can't always let the Galgos off the lead together as the hunting instinct is so strong and they are straight away chasing the bunnies.

Bono had a bad ear infection when he arrived in the Netherlands, but he allowed himself to be treated and didn't make a fuss, even though he was in pain. And now after a brisk shave, done by the boss himself, he looks beautiful. And now we can clearly see his little tail and after a week or two we see it every morning when the dogs greet us. Bono's tail wags back and forth. 

Bono was and sometimes still is very cautious. So that when we call him he does not dare to come into the room. But as soon as we call Bettie, then he will come and rushes to be the first one to come to us.   He loves to lie in the boss's lap, or otherwise on the ground next the boss's chair. When the boss gets up, he gets up too and follows his boss. He would even help him tie his shoelaces if he could, is eager to have his collar and lead on and walks nicely with Duuk beside the boss. Bettie always walks behind on the other side.

If possible we will take them to the beach so that all three of them can have a lovely, interesting, one- hour walk. Bono, like all water dogs, does not like to go in the sea, he finds it strange.  At low tide Duuk likes to lie down in a puddle and then then Bono loves to rush over and splash him and get him wet, but then he quickly runs away! Also when we leave them off the lead, Bono stays close to us, he will walks on his own towards other dogs to greet them and then he comes back nicely.

Bono has many similarities with Mop so that it feels as if he is back with us again. Fortunately Bono is young, only three, and we hope to have a lot of fun with him for a long time. Therefore on Bono's behalf we hereby thank everyone who has worked to rescue him and enable him to come all the way to Holland to us.

PS Bono has twice fallen into the ditch, he thought it was grass, but it was green slime.  That happened late in the evening. He really stank and was put straight into the bath - he found the hot water a nice bonus!

Greetings Rob and Joke vd Kleij.

King of the Castle!

All tucked up with my brother and sister.

Keeping close to the boss.

Lapdog!