Dog does incredible photobomb on his parents' wedding day

“I was trying to keep my composure a little bit, fighting back a smile.” No Images? [Click here]( August 10, 2018 Good morning! Today we have the funniest dog photobomb, a cat and her favorite mailman and a sick coyote’s fast recovery. 1. Dog Does Incredible Photobomb On His Parents' Wedding Day Photo Credit: Chris Davis/Good Road Co Ever since Boone was a puppy, he and his dad, Jayce Conway, have done everything together. “Boone basically goes everywhere that I will go,” Conway told The Dodo. “He would wake up with me at 4:30 in the morning, ride with me to work and then he would ride around on my golf cart with me all day while we managed the golf course.” About a year and a half after getting Boone, Conway started dating Angie Blumberg, a girl he knew from his hometown of Freeburg, Illinois. Blumberg and Conway ended up falling in love, although they had to navigate a long-distance relationship for about five years while living in different states. Whenever they did spend time together, Boone was always there, too. “Seeing Jayce take care of this dog so well was part of what made me fall in love with him,” Blumberg told The Dodo. “We’ve been a little family. He’s my bud.” So when Conway and Blumberg were planning their wedding, which took place in Big Sky, Montana, they knew Boone had to be involved. However, Conway knew it probably wasn’t a good idea for Boone to be a ring bearer. “I didn’t want to tie any rings on him,” Conway said. “He is very well-behaved, but he cannot resist water, and we got married about 7 feet from the river. So I just kind of had a nightmare about him running in the water with rings tied to his wrist or something. So his only role was to stand there next to us, and pose for pictures.” During the ceremony, Boone dutifully lay by Conway’s side — but he ended up doing something to steal the show. Photo Credit: Chris Davis/Good Road Co “It was during the opening prayer …. Boone was on the side of Jayce during the prayer, and he kind of moved forward and laid in front of us, and then decided to roll around in the grass,” Blumberg said. Everyone laughed at Boone, even the pastor. “He was trying to read the prayer while not laughing out loud,” Conway said. “I was trying to keep my composure a little bit, fighting back a smile.” Photographer Chris Davis snapped a photo of Boone rolling around in the grass, which he sent to Conway and Blumberg shortly after the wedding. “I shared it in a private Facebook group that we had created for the wedding, and then the next day, Angie made it her profile picture,” Conway said. “My sister shared it, and then one of her friends [who] worked for KSDK [News] in St. Louis [saw it].” When KSDK News asked for permission to publish the photo, Conway and Blumberg agreed. Then the newlyweds drove into Zion National Park in Utah. “We thought it would be a local fluff piece … and then we basically went into no [cell] service,” Conway said. “We didn’t know what happened … and by the time we were able to get some messages through, it had already been shared like 40,000 times just since St. Louis, and that was in like 12 hours or something crazy. From there, it just took off like wildfire.” Conway and Blumberg are more than a little surprised by the attention their wedding has received, thanks to Boone’s antics. 2. Senior Cat Will Never Let Favorite Mailman Leave Until He Gives Her A Hug Photo Credit: Mike McEuen One of the best perks of Mike McEuen’s job is the pets he gets to meet along his routes. While McEuen, a mail carrier in McKinleyville, California, loves them all, one special animal named Bijou stands out from the rest. “There are a few dogs on my routes that I really love seeing, and a couple that seem to know the sound of my truck's door sliding open. If I can make it work (still gotta get done on time!) I like to at least give them a ‘hello’ and some quick love before moving on,” McEuen told The Dodo. “However, Bijou is the only cat I have on my routes that seems to make it a point to visit every time I am there.” McEuen met Bijou four years ago when he started a new route. Though the elderly cat, who has one milky eye and a crooked half-tail, seemed tough, she had a reputation among other mail carriers as the ultimate sweetheart. “The first time I met her, my first impression was that she was a super old, sweet kitty that looks to have been through it all. A bit rough around the edges but nice as can be,” McEuen said. “I told the regular carrier on the route about it and he told me, ‘Yeah, that's Bijou. She’s the best!’” Bijou has never been shy and, even in the first few weeks of their friendship, she would rub against McEuen’s feet until he was done delivering. Recently, the old cat has gotten even more bold, climbing into McEuen’s truck while he’s distracted. Photo Credit: Mike McEuen Over time, the two have grown close, so close that Bijou will not let McEuen leave without giving her some quality attention — even if it means taking control of his vehicle. “I learned right away that I couldn't just shoo her out of the truck. She would hold her ground and gently protest until I pick her up and give her a few pets and squeezes,” McEuen said. “Once that is taken care of, she’s happy to head back to her house until I see her next time.” While Bijou may seem demanding, her visits always brighten McEuen’s workday. “Most cats seem content doing their own thing and keeping to themselves,” McEuen said. “I like to think Bijou looks forward to the mailmen showing up as much as we look forward to being greeted by her!” McEuen and Bijou are just one example of the special connections that mail carriers can have with animals, and McEuen hopes his visits improve their days just as much as they delight him. “I like to think the animals appreciate someone stopping in and saying hello during the day when their family members are at work or school,” McEuen said. “[It] breaks up the monotony of their day and gives them a little human interaction on what might be a kind of lonely afternoon.” 3. Coyote With 'Worst Case' Of Mange Makes Incredible Transformation Photo Credit: Wildlife Care of SoCal When the staffers at Wildlife Care of SoCal first saw a picture of the coyote they were supposed to help, they could barely tell what they were looking at. His body was so covered in mange that he looked like a stone. “Literally, when we were looking for him, he looked like a stone or a piece of cement,” Anna Reams, director of Wildlife Care of SoCal, told The Dodo. “We had to go up to rocks and poke them to make sure it wasn’t him.” Reams’ team caught the coyote, now known as Ser Jorah after the “Game of Thrones” character, drove him to Wildlife Care of SoCal’s rehabilitation center, and started treating him with medication. They hoped for the best. Unfortunately, mange is a huge problem for wild coyotes in California, and rescuers are often called in to help animals like Ser Jorah. Reams believes this kind of mange is caused by a poison called rodenticide — when coyotes eat rodents who are affected by this, they become poisoned themselves. And when animals’ immune systems are low, they’re particularly susceptible to mange. Reams said that Ser Jorah had the “worst case” of mange she’d seen, but he also recovered the quickest. In fact, she started seeing improvement within one week. Photo Credit: Wildlife Care of SoCal And after eight weeks in rehabilitation, Ser Jorah was ready to be released back into the wild. Reams hopes that Ser Jorah will remain healthy and strong, although there’s always a chance he’ll get mange again if the root of the problem isn’t solved. The best way to prevent coyotes like Ser Jorah from getting mange is to stop using rodenticide, Reams explained. “Pest companies will tell you that it doesn’t secondarily kill, and that’s just because they’re not informed,” Reams said. “It does kill.” Another way to help protect coyotes is to avoid feeding them, Reams said. “They can survive just fine with what they can find in the wild, but artificial sources of food like cat food is just not good for their health,” Reams said. “So basically just not to feed the wildlife, but also not to use poison.” Rescue Squirrel Keeps Coming Back To His Mom [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( [Instagram]( The Dodo 100 Crosby St., 201 New York, NY 10012 [Forward]( [Unsubscribe](