Golden Retriever Waiting Each Day For A Visit From His Favorite Squirrel, Wild – The Dodo

Khi Judie Jacobs nhận thấy chú chó tha mồi vàng của mình, Murphy, đi chơi bên cửa trượt phía sau nhiều hơn bình thường, cô bắt đầu chú ý hơn.

Hóa ra Murphy đã kiên nhẫn chờ đợi mỗi ngày để cùng một con sóc đỏ đến thăm. Mặc dù ban đầu cô ấy rất thận trọng, Chippy, như Jacobs gọi cô ấy, bắt đầu gắn bó với Murphy ngày càng nhiều.

“Theo thời gian, niềm tin đã được xây dựng”, Jacobs nói với The Dodo. “Chippy thực sự sẽ đến cửa và gọi Murphy ra ngoài. Chúng tôi nghĩ rằng nó thực sự ngọt ngào, vì vậy chúng tôi bắt đầu nuôi dưỡng tình bạn của họ.

Jacobs nói rằng cô và Murphy bắt đầu rời khỏi hạt sóc, và Murphy hiểu chính xác ý của Jacobs khi cô hỏi anh ta, “Anh có muốn cho Chippy ăn không?”

“Anh ấy bước ngay vào phòng đựng thức ăn và anh ấy ngồi và anh ấy đợi, và chúng tôi bước ra ngoài,” Jacobs nói. “Nó đã trở thành một thói quen thực sự đáng yêu đối với tất cả chúng tôi.” Murphy thậm chí còn bắt đầu mang cho Chippy quả bóng yêu thích của mình và các tài sản quý giá khác.

“He’s just a very tender, sweet, loving dog who happened to fall in love with this red squirrel who’s living in our yard,” Jacobs said.

At one point in their friendship, Chippy stopped visiting Murphy as often as she used to and, according to Jacobs, Murphy was feeling a bit “melancholy” about this. But one day, she came back — and she had someone with her.

“We realized Chippy had gone away because she was pregnant and she had babies,” Jacobs said. “She was busy being a mom.” And she couldn’t wait to show her babies off to Murphy.

One of Chippy’s babies who lost his tail, and whom Jacobs later named Peanut, was especially drawn to Murphy. “I could see that Peanut and Murphy had developed this magical friendship — the same way he had developed it with Chippy,” Jacobs said.

In catching up with Murphy, Chippy and Peanut, Jacobs said that Chippy and Murphy are still the best of friends.

“Chippy and Murphy still hang out,” she said. “We see Chippy almost daily and some of her other squirrel babies.”

“Peanut seems to be on the other side of the yard, and we wonder if she is off having babies,” Jacobs added. “We discovered that she is a girl.”

Once spring hits and new squirrel babies are born, Jacobs expects they’ll get a better idea of what Peanut has been up to this winter.

And even more squirrel pals have joined Chippy and Murphy’s animal friend group.

“We now have a black squirrel that we named Eddie and a gray squirrel that we named Buff,” Judie said. “[We think] Eddie is living in the house that my dad built for the squirrels.”

And even with the newcomers, Murphy is still as gentle as ever. “The biggest thing Murphy has taken away from all of this is that he loves wildlife and likes to sit and admire them,” Jacobs said. “He does not bark, he does not chase, and he seems to have a gentle nature which we encourage when we see wildlife in our backyard such as deer, too!”