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secret of how he found the welfare office on that first trip down from the hollow years ago.
“Skipper’s been following me for so long that I can't remember when he started. It’s been three or four years,” said Nancy Reeve. "We’ve never taken our animals anywhere with us so he must have followed the car. I was driving a real oil burner. Maybe he smelled the oil and followed the smog!
“I don’t know what makes him think he has to go to work,” she continued. Initially, dog power carried Skipper both ways. He ran in behind Nancy in the morning and followed her back home at quitting time.
Counting days off for federal holidays and vacations and the few occasions when more pressing doggie business kept Skipper from the office, he logged about 3,000 miles a year on the round trip.
After three years, he must have sat down with an efficiency expert and figured that there was a waste of energy somewhere. “Now he won’t run back home,” Nancy reported. "He wants his ride home. He stays in
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