It is a great gift every morning to see a new and happy Bud evolve. We didn’t see that for the first few months that he was here. Bud loves to play and have fun, and in the frigid weather, Maria goes down into the basement to feed the barn cats Flo and Minnie, who come inside into the basement – it’s warm and there are mice to hunt. Bud doesn’t go down into the basement, he waits eagerly at the top of the stairs, and tries to spring out and surprise Maria when he comes up.

He barks and springs out in this surprise, a new game he has invented. Maria seems to love it too. Bud does this to me when I come downstairs our out of the shower. This inventive and playful side of Bud has only emerged in the last couple of weeks. He came to us as a very serious and wary creature, this Happy Bud is a lot of fun. Come and see, the Happy Bud videos are getting very popular.

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