Bud is on the Alpha Dog transport, his truck left Arkansas at 4 p.m. Thursday and is heading up along the East Coast. ending up in Connecticut, Vermont and Maine.

We’re picking Bud up at 11 a.m. Saturday in Brattleboro, Vt. I keep going over the list of things we need, but I think we have everything. Bud is a good deal bigger than Gus, he weights about 27 pounds.

I could tell that Carol Johnson was sad about putting Bud on the truck, she grew pretty fond of him, and he adored her and the steady stream of treats, snacks, chips and cake he got to nibble on.

We’re bringing a crate in case, but Bud may just end up in somebody’s lap for much of the. I imagine the truck ride – it’s a huge FDA truck with heating and air conditioning and space for the dogs to move around.

But I imagine Bud will be more than a little stressed out after leaving Carol and driving in truck for 48 hours. We’ll take a few days to acclimate him to the farm and get used to us for a few days.

He has an appointment with our vet Monday morning to get registered there and checked out. Dr. Bradshaw at the Southern Veterinary Clinic in Arkansas says he is quite healthy now.

I can’t wait to see how he takes to the donkeys, he can see them from the yard, but he isn’t going into the  pasture for  a long time, never if he doesn’t like the idea of it.

We’ve got two small beds, but I think he might need a medium, one for my study, one for the living room. I’ve bog treats and American rawhide chews for him. I’ve never had a dog that didn’t like it on the farm.

Carol said her cats and a one-eyed poodle named Walter were delighted when Gus left, he sometimes chased the cats and he didn’t get along with Walter at all.

Carol says she’ll miss him, but I promised a steady stream of photos, plus his story on the blog. There will be no dearth of photos.

I’m not sure he’s fully housebroken, we are about to find out. More later.