Aaron & Brego
do stuff

This is Brego — a miniature long-haired dachshund of unusual focus. Every pin below is a documented adventure, plotted from the photographs themselves. Tap a pin for the evidence; tap the evidence for the full record.

Plates made inside the den are omitted from the map. A dog’s home is his own business.

Index of Locations

The Chronicle

Twelve weeks old to present day. A partnership, in chapters.

June 2022 — Twelve weeks old

We Meet

He is roughly the size of a loaf of bread, with the confidence of a much larger loaf. The training begins immediately. So do the naps, wherever the naps find him.

Summer 2022

The Curriculum

Daily walks become the standing appointment. Classes begin. He learns sit, stay, down — and roughly forty other things nobody asked him to learn, filed away for later.

August 2022 — The Lake

The Expeditions Begin

First lake. First dock, inspected board by board. Meanwhile the names accrue: Mr. B. Big Guy. Sir. Bud. He answers to all of them, when it suits him. His family and I become friends; I become part of the operation.

The years since

The Public Takes Notice

Strangers begin declaring him the most attractive thing they have ever seen — regularly, unprompted, without exaggeration. I adopt a policy of acting bored about it. He adopts a policy of agreeing with them.

Present day — age 4.4

The Stare, Final Form

Attentive. Calm. Serious. Smarter than he lets on. We trained for this his entire life — and somewhere along the way he became my best friend, and I became his.