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Bruno and his daily walks
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Print version: Dog becomes legendary for daily walks to town
Author: Boyd Huppert
Published: 9:01 PM CDT July 2, 2017
Updated: 10:18 PM CDT July 2, 2017
Note: This story originally ran Aug. 21, 2016.
LONGVILLE, Minn. – The lumbering figure comes into view shortly after sunrise. His pace is steady, his resolve determined on his four-mile walk up Highway 84.
Bruno, a wandering, wooly, wolf of a dog, is on his way to town.
“It's just been his routine as far back as I know,” said Sharon Rouse, who watches Bruno’s arrivals from the picture window of the Hansen Realty office, where she works the reception desk.
“Everybody knows Bruno,” Rouse laughed. "(You) may not know the people, but you'll know Bruno.”
For most of the past 12 years, Bruno has been taking a daily walk of nearly four miles to Longville, making his rounds around town, then heading back home to his owners, Larry and Debbie LaVallee.
“The first time I seen him in town, he almost beat me to town,” laughed Larry LaVallee, who used pick up Longville’s trash. “I was picking garbage on the way, and I get in town, and I wasn’t there five minutes, and there’s Bruno.”
Bruno was a wanderer right from the start.
“A guy come in my driveway, and Bruno was a little pup,” Larry LaVallee recalls, “and he said, ‘I found your dog at the end of your driveway.’ I said, ‘Well he ain’t my dog.’”
LaVallee said he looked at the puppy in the man’s car and decided on the spot to keep the stray, who he believes had been abandoned.
“And that was the beginning of it all,” LaVallee said.
Bruno’s makes his rounds in Longville, with stops at city hall, the library, the ice cream shop, several real estate offices and Tabaka’s grocery store, where deli workers greet him at the back door with meat scraps they’ve saved.
“He’s our buddy, we kind of watch out for him the best way we can,” said Patrick Moran, who owns a real estate office on Bruno’s route. “Last week he came in stayed about an hour and a half or two hours.”
The LaVallees say they tried, early on, to keep Bruno at home, even chaining him up to keep him from running to town.
Larry LaVallee said Bruno “almost hanged himself” he pulled so long and hard on the chain.
They’ve grown accustomed to receiving calls from newcomers in town, claiming they’ve found their dog. They’ve also grown used to silence on the other end of the phone when the LaVallees tell the helpful caller to just let Bruno go, he’ll find his way home.
Bruno has also entered the world of social media. Someone in town created a Facebook page to follow his comings and goings.
Mary Tripp regularly treats Bruno to donuts she buys just for him.
“Don’t you buy your best friend treats?” she asks, without a hint of sarcasm.
“He’s more friendly that most of the humans in town, and I’m not saying that in a negative way about the humans. He’s that lovable,” Tripp said.
Bruno’s ability to dodge traffic has become almost mythical.
“He’s got to have a guardian angel,” Moran said.
If there’s one thing Bruno hasn’t been able to dodge, it’s his age. His gait is slower than it once was, and laying down is now a labored process involving several steps and a grunt. Some days he even stays home from town to rest.
“He’s getting old so you know he’s not going to be around a lot longer,” Debbie LaVallee said, sadly.
But Bruno’s legacy is already firmly planted in Longville. Last year, the town dedicated a carved wooden statute in his honor, in a park on Longville’s main street.
“Longville’s town dog and ambassador,” the engraving on the accompanying marker reads.
Rouse said the honor was well earned.
“He is the mascot of Longville,” she said.
Update: Bruno and his owners will be grand marshals of the Longville Fourth of July Parade in 2017.
Print version: Dog becomes legendary for daily walks to town
Author: Boyd Huppert
Published: 9:01 PM CDT July 2, 2017
Updated: 10:18 PM CDT July 2, 2017
Note: This story originally ran Aug. 21, 2016.
LONGVILLE, Minn. – The lumbering figure comes into view shortly after sunrise. His pace is steady, his resolve determined on his four-mile walk up Highway 84.
Bruno, a wandering, wooly, wolf of a dog, is on his way to town.
“It's just been his routine as far back as I know,” said Sharon Rouse, who watches Bruno’s arrivals from the picture window of the Hansen Realty office, where she works the reception desk.
“Everybody knows Bruno,” Rouse laughed. "(You) may not know the people, but you'll know Bruno.”
For most of the past 12 years, Bruno has been taking a daily walk of nearly four miles to Longville, making his rounds around town, then heading back home to his owners, Larry and Debbie LaVallee.
“The first time I seen him in town, he almost beat me to town,” laughed Larry LaVallee, who used pick up Longville’s trash. “I was picking garbage on the way, and I get in town, and I wasn’t there five minutes, and there’s Bruno.”
Bruno was a wanderer right from the start.
“A guy come in my driveway, and Bruno was a little pup,” Larry LaVallee recalls, “and he said, ‘I found your dog at the end of your driveway.’ I said, ‘Well he ain’t my dog.’”
LaVallee said he looked at the puppy in the man’s car and decided on the spot to keep the stray, who he believes had been abandoned.
“And that was the beginning of it all,” LaVallee said.
Bruno’s makes his rounds in Longville, with stops at city hall, the library, the ice cream shop, several real estate offices and Tabaka’s grocery store, where deli workers greet him at the back door with meat scraps they’ve saved.
“He’s our buddy, we kind of watch out for him the best way we can,” said Patrick Moran, who owns a real estate office on Bruno’s route. “Last week he came in stayed about an hour and a half or two hours.”
The LaVallees say they tried, early on, to keep Bruno at home, even chaining him up to keep him from running to town.
Larry LaVallee said Bruno “almost hanged himself” he pulled so long and hard on the chain.
They’ve grown accustomed to receiving calls from newcomers in town, claiming they’ve found their dog. They’ve also grown used to silence on the other end of the phone when the LaVallees tell the helpful caller to just let Bruno go, he’ll find his way home.
Bruno has also entered the world of social media. Someone in town created a Facebook page to follow his comings and goings.
Mary Tripp regularly treats Bruno to donuts she buys just for him.
“Don’t you buy your best friend treats?” she asks, without a hint of sarcasm.
“He’s more friendly that most of the humans in town, and I’m not saying that in a negative way about the humans. He’s that lovable,” Tripp said.
Bruno’s ability to dodge traffic has become almost mythical.
“He’s got to have a guardian angel,” Moran said.
If there’s one thing Bruno hasn’t been able to dodge, it’s his age. His gait is slower than it once was, and laying down is now a labored process involving several steps and a grunt. Some days he even stays home from town to rest.
“He’s getting old so you know he’s not going to be around a lot longer,” Debbie LaVallee said, sadly.
But Bruno’s legacy is already firmly planted in Longville. Last year, the town dedicated a carved wooden statute in his honor, in a park on Longville’s main street.
“Longville’s town dog and ambassador,” the engraving on the accompanying marker reads.
Rouse said the honor was well earned.
“He is the mascot of Longville,” she said.
Update: Bruno and his owners will be grand marshals of the Longville Fourth of July Parade in 2017.
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a)
b)
c)
d)
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Update: Bruno passed away on Sunday, May 6. Here's that story.