Goodison4life

About twenty years ago, in a rural neighbourhood on the edge of a town in Texas in the southern United States, a retired railroad worker called Eugene Bostick noticed something happening on his dead-end street. People were driving up at night, opening their car doors, and leaving their unwanted dogs behind. Eugene and his older brother Corky lived at the end of that road with a horse barn and 11 acres of land. The dogs would wander up to them once the cars were gone. So the brothers started feeding them. Then taking them to the vet. Then keeping them. Within a few years they had nine dogs, all former strays, all now theirs. Eugene wanted to take them out. Nine dogs on nine leads wasn’t going to work. One day he saw a man towing a row of small carts behind a tractor and an idea hit him. He was, in his own words, a pretty good welder. He cut openings into a row of plastic barrels, attached wheels, linked them together, and hooked the whole thing to the back of his small farm tractor. A dog train. One dog per barrel. Names painted on the sides. Twice a week, the dogs would hear the tractor start up and come running. Eugene would drive them around the local lanes, into the woods, down to the creek. Neighbours would stop their cars to watch. A photo of the whole convoy went viral in 2015 and the story spread to newsrooms around the world. Corky passed in 2020 at 91. Eugene was 86 by then. The two of them had been quietly running their stretch of road as an animal sanctuary for about thirty years by the end. When asked once why he kept doing it, Eugene said simply, “I’ll keep it going as long as I can. The dogs have a great time. They really enjoy it.”

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