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I’m Interviewing Bud, the Dog Who Lives with USA TODAY Bestselling Author Roz Lee!

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Rawhide: Bud, tell us about your adoption!

Bud:  You’re a tough reporter, starting out with the hard stuff! I don’t like to talk about the year or so before I was adopted, but here’s the part I feel comfortable telling. I’d had a tough time before a very nice lady in Georgia found me in a shelter. She took me to another nice lady who fed me and made sure I saw a doctor. I thought maybe that was my forever home until one day she put me on an airplane with a bunch of other dogs. The next thing I knew, another nice lady in New Jersey took me home with her. She had lots of dogs and I thought this was my forever home. Then, one day, she took me to meet a nice couple who had once had a black lab like me and wanted another one. They loaded me up in the backseat of their car and took me home with them. No one else had loved me enough to keep me for more than a few weeks, so I kept my distance for quite a while, afraid I might do something to make them send me away. I shouldn’t have been worried. No matter what I do my new mom and dad never get mad at me. I’m the luckiest pup in the whole world!

Rawhide: What kinds of books does your human mom Roz write?

Bud: My mom writes books with happy endings, sort of like the story I just told you except with humans. Her characters have all kinds of troubles and adventures before they find their forever love, just like me! Sometimes she writes about baseball players because she loves the sport. She even has a New York Yankees purse. How crazy is that?

Rawhide: Roz is doing a series featuring Texas Brides.  Tell us about that.

Bud: My mom grew up in Texas and loves everything to do with the Lone Star State. She also loves a good love story, so she combined those to create the Billionaire Brides series. The series is set in Butte Plains, Texas. That’s a fictional town she created based on the small town she grew up in. There are two books in the series so far—THE BACKDOOR BILLIONAIRE’S BRIDE and THE YANKEE BILLIONAIRE’S BRIDE. One of the characters in the next one, THE RELUCTANT BILLIONAIRE BRIDE, has a black lab named Bud who likes to bark at ducks. She says that one will be out in time for summer reading. Yippee! Everyone can read about me!

 

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Rawhide: Do any other animals (Cats, dogs, birds) live with you?  How about regular visitors from other family members with pets?

Bud: I’m the only pet my mom and dad have, but I have a friend, Scout, who comes to visit with my oldest sister, her husband, and their new baby boy. Scout is little and fearless. Scout doesn’t like other dogs, but she loves me. We have a lot of fun together, especially when the weather is nice and we can hang out on the deck. When I first came to live here Scout helped me to see how generous and loving my new family is. I still can’t believe some of the things she does without getting in trouble. Man, oh man, we’re both lucky dogs!

Rawhide: Bud, you live in an area like I do, with a lot of wildlife.  What kind of wildlife do you enjoy barking at?  (I hate those wild turkeys and bark at them a lot).

Bud: Just this morning I saw a BIG bear! It was in the neighbor’s yard. Mom said not to bark, so I didn’t. I don’t think she wanted to play with it as much as I did. We also have deer, bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks and groundhogs. I haven’t seen a turkey in a while, but I did see a fox. I thought it was a cute lady dog but mom said it wasn’t. Those bears look a lot like me, only bigger. I don’t know why I can’t play with them. Do you?

Rawhide: The bear near my house is a lot bigger than me so I don’t want to play with it.

Rawhide: What is a book Roz read recently that she enjoyed?

Bud: When mom isn’t writing her own books, she’s reading someone else’s. She just finished Lucy Score’s Blue Moon series and has moved on to a big, fat book, Cock Tales – the Cocky Collective. She said she bought it to support a good cause. Mom doesn’t need a reason to buy a book. She has lots of them.

Rawhide:What other hobbies does Roz like?

Bud: Mom loves antiques and shopping for them. She has a bunch of antique glassware she won’t let anyone touch. She also loves to think up projects for my dad to do around the house. The two of them are always remodeling something around here. You should see the dust they stir up and oh, the noise! Still, there’s no place I’d rather be.

Rawhide: Anything you’d like to add, Bud?

Bud: I’ve said it before, but I’m a very lucky guy. I was beginning to think I’d never find a famy to love me, but thanks to the nice people at HOME FOR GOOD DOG RESCUE, I did. I’m glad you found your forever home, too. *High five*, Rawhide. Cool name, by the way!

Rawhide: Thanks Bud!  (I like my name too.  My Mom says I’m named after a favorite old TV show).

 

My Human Mom has a New Book Out!

Hi everyone!  Rawhide here.  This last week has been fun.  It was finally warm enough to go to the dog park, so my human mom took me!  It’s been such a cold, long winter and spring and it gets windy up there so it’s the first time in months we’ve been able to go.  I had fun running with some friends and met some new ones.

Yesterday my mom was dancing around.  She has a new book that got published!  She says it is a historical romance with a mystery and ghosts.  I’m not sure what that means, but she seemed very happy, so I was happy too.

My mom buys me lots of toys.  She says I am an aggressive chewer.  I don’t know if that’s true but I LOVE to chew and pull the stuffing out of toys and chew other toys to bits.  The other day I was eyeing the TV remote and she put it where I couldn’t reach it because she said it was not a toy.  I don’t know about that–I see my mom and dad using it a lot.

Anyway, my mom told me if she sells a lot of books she can buy me even more toys to chew and get more for the animals in the local shelter.  She cares alot about finding homes for pets like me who need a good home. 🙂

Here’s the link to my mom’s newest book.  I’ll see you here again.  I’m off to take a nap in the sunshine coming through the living room window!

How I Got Adopted

Let me tell  you the story of my adoption!

Many years ago, My mom Roni and dad Jeff and their kids Amy & Josh adopted a dog from Noah’s Ark Animal Shelter.  Sable lived a long, happy life with them.  Last spring, when she was 14 1/2 she crossed the Rainbow Bridge.  Everyone missed her very much, even Amy and Josh, who were grown and had moved out.  My parents were especially sad and missed having a dog.  They decided that at the end of the summer, after their vacation, they would adopt another dog.

My mom tells me that while they were visiting Utah, she had a dream that Sable was walking with a dog who looked just like ME!  When they got back to NJ, she went to Noah’s Ark but I wasn’t there.  So she went on Pet Finder.com and found me at Common Sense for Animals.

I don’t remember too much about the first year of my life.  I lived in South Carolina and was surrendered to a high-kill shelter.  The people there recognized I was a nice, adoptable dog so they sent me up on transport to Common Sense for Animals along with a bunch of other dogs.  The people at Common Sense were very nice but I wanted to live with a family.

Then my mom and Dad found me there and brought me home.  I had a family!  I was so excited I did get into a little trouble at first (don’t ask my mom about the time I chewed up some cookbooks).  But I settled down and I love it here!

Since Roni is a writer she spends a good part of her day at home on her laptop while I hang out with her.  We also play and go on long walks and she says she gets ideas for her books sometimes while we’re walking.  I have doggy friends in my neighborhood and there’s wildlife to bark at.  Roni also took me to a Basic Training class at St. Hubert’s Noah’s Ark campus so I could learn some new things like sit and stay.  I also have LOTS of toys to play with!

Sometimes we go to the dog park which is lots of fun.  But it’s been such a cold winter that my mom says we have to wait til it warms up to go back since it’s cold and windy up there.

Please join me here to learn more about ME, my mom and her books, western TV shows, and rescued pets.  I’ll be interviewing other dogs, cats and other animals who were adopted!  Stay tuned!

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