any place around town people always ask
and house buddy doing is he still
working at the interpretative center the
answer is yes buddy the dog is the
official greeter at the center and it's
kind of hard to miss him he fetch a
friendly dog he's got the great
personality anybody and everybody his
his friend the six year old Newfoundland
came to Great Falls from Alaska
I got buddy as a rescue when I was up
and living up in Alaska and I had no
idea how my life would change by getting
buddy in my life
but at first it wasn't for this job he
was trained as a hospice dog to bring
comfort to people near the end of their
lives it always brings a smile to their
face and even when patients are having a
hard difficult time just petting buddy
you can see the smile on their face and
the interchange of attitude and
eventually the pair found their way to
the interpretative Center I had a
neighbor that says hey you have a
Newfoundlander we need one at the center
right you come down and volunteer with
us and of course we volunteered over 750
hours in less than two years down here
so I mean it's opened up my horizons and
of course buddy was the attention he
gets from anybody and everybody that
comes in the center and they've been
best friends ever since he is my best
bud he really is he completes my life in
Great Falls Kelly Collins MTN news
