I’m Bruno
Hey there!
I’m Bruno. It’s nice to meet you! Will you help keep me safe? Mom says you have to or else I can’t go exploring on my own, and I really really want to so please say yes! I’ll give you cookies!
Mom no. Stop. Don’t interrupt, I told you I would do it! Okay fine. I’m sorry. Let me start over.
Ugh.
Hey friends in CT! My name is Bruno and I am just a sweet little bulldog who ony wants to explore small businesses and meet great people but my dumb mom and dad are refusing to take me..
Tee hee. Is that better mom?
FINE. MOM. STOP. I’ll do it right. I PROMISE…
Ugggggghhh
Hey friends I haven’t met yet. My name is Bruno. I’m about two years old (which means in dog years I am basically a grown up) and I wanted to ask if you would reassure my mom that you will help keep an eye out for me while I explore small businesses in CT starting this January, because mom and dad are going to be working on a really important project for community dogs and they won’t have as much time to take me out and about.
Mom and dad worry about me. I understand completely, and it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to know they love me so much, but I think CT is the safest and best place to live so I don’t think they have anything to worry about. If I tell you a bit about myself, then we can be friends, and friends look out for each other right? If you’ll look out for me then mom and dad will let me explore while they work on their project, and they did say they would reward you for helping keep an eye on me. Will you stick around for a minute so we can be friends?
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You’re still here! Oh yay! I am so excited!! Okay! So I guess I’ll start by telling you about myself, and then you can tell me about yourself in the comments, and then we can be friends!
My name is Bruno. You may already know that but I actually didn’t know it for a really long time. I thought my name was “No” for the first six months because I honestly just never listened. I had a good thing going but once they got my ear infection cleared out I couldn’t pretend anymore. It was so gross. It was dripping from my ears and crusting over and it took like 2 whole months and what dad called "a shit ton of money” to get them cleared. It was so funny though because they would try to put these drops of liquid in my ear and it took both of them to hold me down, and still everytime I would slam my giant block head into dads chin and shake as hard as I could to make the liquid fly everywhere. Then I would charge around the house jumping on furniture and skittering around corners while they tried to catch me. My brothers and my sister would join in barking and chasing and it was complete chaos! That’s when mom started bringing out peanut butter to distract me and keep me in one place, so honestly at the end of the day, I won because I got peanut butter AND cookies so yay me!
The lady (she’s my mom now, but at the time she was just some lady) said my name real funny. Dad (I liked him most so I called him dad right away but that lady had to earn it.) called me BrunoNO but mom would say BRU… NO. I thought No was my name. I had no idea it meant I shouldn’t do something. I get it now, but it’s not my favorite thing if I am being honest. I also am not completely sure if my name is Bruno or just Bru. Lately they’ve been calling me Broody, Bruddy Bruddy Bru, and BruBru and all sorts of silly stuff. I don’t even know if they know if I am being honest but don’t tell them that ok?
They tried out a lot of names because they didn’t know I already had one. I’ve never told them what it was, and now I really like Bruno and all those variations. My previous name was never spoken nicely, and I knew everytime I heard it that I was going to be hurt or something bad was going to happen. So getting a new name felt like a fresh start. Even if it’s taking me a long time to let go of all the bad things I did that got me dumped the first time. I wonder sometimes if mom and dad will get tired of me and tie me to a fence like my last mom and dad. It was cold and I didn’t like it so I probably should be a better boy than I am, but honestly I don’t always know what that means. I find a lot of things funny that mom and dad don’t, but I promise I’m trying…
Oh gosh what am I doing? You won’t want to be my friend if you think I am naughty! Can you forget all that stuff I just wrote maybe? I’ll ask mom if she can delete it before she posts it because this should only be about all the reasons you would like me, and I haven’t done a very good job of that yet. Ooof maybe mom is right and I am too little to be out on my own…
How about I tell you some of the things I like to do and maybe you’ll like some of them too, and that will make you want to be friends!
Let’s see… I love eating. I mean I am a FOODIE and I will eat absolutely anything. My siblings have bowls of food down that they can just eat whenever they want, but those bowls are behind gates and mom told me I have something called “allergies” so she feeds me a special food. Dad says it costs “a shit ton of money” and that’s what he said about those annoying ear drop things so I decided day eleven that I didn’t like my special food anymore, and I have come up with the most creative ways to get behind that gate and eat that other food. My favorite trick is when I have my bigger brother use his nose to open the gate. He likes to snuggle up on mom’s bed and terrorize one of our senior citizen brothers who always sleeps there and I can finish a bowl of food in thirty seconds flat. I mean I can’t keep it down when I eat that fast and so usually I jump up on dads bed to throw it back up. I make sure to do it between the pillows and the blanket so he doesn’t find it until he goes to bed for the night and then when he pulls back his blanket it’s a nice bedtime treat surprise for him! I love leaving him presents like that. I leave other types of presents for mom around the house…
Those are naughty things again aren’t they? I’m not very good at this…
Let’s do this for now. I am going to sit down and make a list of things you will like about me, and in the meantime will you go check out the website that tells you all about what mom and dad are doing? Actually it may be linked to this thing already? I don’t know but I do know the name because I helped them name it!
I’ll tell you all about the name real soon too. I think I have to get better at this writing thing because there is a lot of stuff I have to tell you. For now though, I’ll go think of what you might like about me, and you’ll go check out the website so you have a better idea of the big picture? Deal? OH OH! I know “give me paw” so that’s a good thing about me right?
You have a super awesome day. I’ll talk to you soon!
Let’s Play! - Bruno