I admit I am going a little crazy waiting for Bud, who is undergoing heartworm treatment in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He has been in antibiotics and is about to get the first of several toxic injections to kill the heartworm bacteria. They are powerful and dangerous, so he’s not coming up here until  those shots are completed.

I wish I could get him up here and treat him here, but that would be dangerous.

It will be about two months before he comes here to live.

Carol Johnson, the gracious fosterer who has been caring for Bud for Friends Of Homeless Animals/RI, tells me Bud is really coming around. He is getting cuddly, playing with some energy, and  sleeping in bed on during most of this hot Southern summer.

“He’s really a great and sweet dog,” Carol told me (I call her regularly to check up on Bud), “I will really miss him.” At  first, she said, Bud shook and hid for much of the day. He is beginning to come out of shell, he  seems both loving and solid.

He does seem to like  the Pee Pad Carol uses in her home, I will want to get him off of that quickly once he gets up here. The more I hear about Bud, the more I think he has real potential as a therapy dog. He is calm and loving.

We’ll see. In the meantime, I just have to work on being patient, not my strong point. But we are excited.