Re: Bernie the German Sheperd from Castrojerez
don´t know about Bernie, but I know Jackie, an enormous Leonese Mastín, who lives at the pilgrim hostel in Terradillos de los Templarios. Occasionally he will walk with pilgrims, but only as far as Moratinos, the next village along the camino. He hangs around the plaza, greeting pilgrims and cadging food, then comes to MY house and hangs out until his owners come for him, sometimes hours later.
There are plenty of stories of pilgrim dogs following along the trail. Our dog Tim came to us with two French pilgrims, from the trail outside Carrion de los Condes. And Don Trigo, another dog from the same neighborhood, followed Pieter Pannevis, a Dutch pilgrim, all the way to Santiago. (Pieter took him back to Netherlands with him, and Don Trigo was featured for a long time on the Santiagobis website.)
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