Bruno, the well furnished dog
Published: September 15, 2005
What would you do if a stray dog that looked suspiciously like a pit bull walked into your house and sat down? Get a gun? Hurry the children away and call the pound? There is the story of a pit bull who found a perfect home at a furniture store.
Who knows? Bruno might have turned vicious if things had not turned out the way they did, but when you have your own special treat filled drawer, when your owner Tony Bruno brushes your teeth with chicken flavored tooth paste every day, things are pretty good.
“It’s looking better. We have some work to do though,” Tony Bruno says to his dog Bruno.
If you’re owner buys you your very own tuxedo and you have the run of a huge furniture store, a smart dog like Bruno knows better than to mess with heaven on earth.
“He’s just a sweet little dog. He wasn’t real small. He was only about eight months old,’ says Bruno’s owner Tony.
It was several years ago that Bruno walked across Western Avenue and right into Bruno’s Home Furnishings. Tony Bruno could have given him the boot, but there was something about him that looked like he belonged.
“He came in here and was happy as a puppy and sat right down,” Tony explains.
“From when he first walked in, everybody he saw, he was happy to be with and you could tell that’s how he was,” Tony says.
It doesn’t really matter by now that Bruno is not a pit bull but an American Staffordshire terrier. The kids who populate Bruno’s very own website don’t care either. Over the years he’s become a good mascot for the store.
“He reacts with kids so well,” Tony Bruno says.
He even knows a good trick to keep his owners happy.
“Would you rather shop at another furniture store or be a dead dog?” Bruno’s owner says. That is when Bruno plays dead.
Bruno has the kind of life that might soften the hearts of even the meanest pit bull, even though he’s not a pit bull and he’s not mean; he never has been. He’s just lucky, that’s all, to have found such a cushy spot in what can be such a harsh world for animals that look just like him.
In Oklahoma City I’m Galen Culver for NewsChannel 4. Is this a great state or what?
Tony Bruno thinks his dog is around eight-years-old now. He’s still at the store just about every day except on Sundays when Tony can’t get him out of bed.
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