{"id":12354,"date":"2022-08-11T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:16:59","slug":"a-gone-dog-no-more-the-surf-dog-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/2022-08-11\/a-gone-dog-no-more-the-surf-dog-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf Dog: A Gone Dog No More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some dogs have all the luck.\u00a0The dog in this story has had all <em>that<\/em> luck, and then some.\u00a0 As a road-running stray, he captured the imagination of animal lovers in Ochlocknee, Panacea, and Crawfordville, Florida.\u00a0Today, they call him Buddy and he lives with Ivanhoe and Cliff Carroll, plus various other animal friends on their spread down in Ochlocknee, Florida. But before he came to live with the Carrolls, locals in the area called him Surf Dog.\u00a0A nickname he was given because he lived in the woods by the water tower off Surf Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"pbs-viral-player-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/3070837838\/\" allowfullscreen allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\">Head down on the white line<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-1024x576.png\" alt=\"A man and woman sitting next to each other on a bench.\" class=\"wp-image-12357\" style=\"width:436px;height:245px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CliffIvanhoeCarrollSmile.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cliff and Ivanhoe Carroll talking about Surf Dog at their home in Ochlocknee, FL.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Surf Dog survived on handouts and his quick wits, avoiding capture by animal control for a least a couple of years.&nbsp; Ivanhoe was the director of Wakulla Animal Services, and she remembers those days when Surf was on the run, \u201cEverybody was concerned for him.&nbsp; Everyone tried to catch him, which was just not possible.\u201d&nbsp; Locals would see him running the road between Tallahassee and the coast when storms would erupt.&nbsp; He was frightened by lightning and thunder, which would send him scurrying, head down, on the white line.&nbsp; Sometimes for weeks at a time.&nbsp; \u201cYou could get up close to him or you could try to intercept him with a hotdog, or a steak and he just had his head down in a trot going down that white line, going away from what was frightening him\u2026\u201d&nbsp; But he always made his way back to the water tower on Surf Road.&nbsp; It\u2019s a miracle he wasn\u2019t hit by a car.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"12367\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A dog sitting in the dirt\" class=\"wp-image-12367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfLay_edited.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Surf Dog taking it easy at the water tower on Surf Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"12365\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A large tree\" class=\"wp-image-12365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220515_123001-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The water tower with Surf Dog&#8217;s name on it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\">Surf Dog had a Facebook page<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Surf wasn\u2019t anti-social, just cautious.&nbsp; He would take handouts from many of the locals and would even let some of them occasionally touch him.&nbsp; The difference between Surf Dog and other stray dogs was his social media presence.&nbsp; Surf Dog had a Facebook page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-1024x576.png\" alt=\"A woman in glasses looking at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-12359\" style=\"width:397px;height:223px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CherylMinskeySmile.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cheryl Minskey talks about efforts to capture Surf Dog when he was running, and response to his Facebook page. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\">&#8220;I saw him here, I saw him there, all the way to where he got.\u201d&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheryl Minskey didn\u2019t create his Facebook page, but she did become its administrator.&nbsp; She says, \u201cHe would run all the way to Tallahassee\u2026you would know that he was running, everybody started posting pictures. &#8216;I saw him here, I saw him there, all the way to where he got.&#8217;\u201d&nbsp;Social media allowed people to communicate his whereabouts, post snapshots of him, express their fears and feelings, and romanticize his adventurous life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\">Meet him at the water tower<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Russell lives in Ochlocknee, off Surf Road and he took it upon himself to make sure Surf Dog got a square meal every morning, assuming he wasn&#8217;t on the run.&nbsp; He would meet him at the water tower and then post his \u201cconversations\u201d with \u201cThe Boy\u201d or &#8220;Buddy&#8221;, on the Facebook page for others to read.&nbsp; Cheryl recalls, \u201cThe Surf page kind of evolved from a page that was just tracking him to a page where we could tune in every morning and read Bill\u2019s story about how Surf came up to him or didn\u2019t come up to him or, whatever it was.\u201d&nbsp; Without Facebook, we probably would have never heard of Surf Dog\/Buddy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow dog and a man sitting on a bench.  They are looking at each other.\" class=\"wp-image-12360\" style=\"width:732px;height:549px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94879687_3039631146058108_3039577410832957440_n-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Russell made sure that Surf Dog had a square meal every day.  He would look for Surf at the water tower each morning where they became good friends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\">He has a great life now<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-1024x576.png\" alt=\"A yellow dog standing next to a fence with a donkey.\" class=\"wp-image-12368\" style=\"width:392px;height:220px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-696x392.png 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-1068x601.png 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey-747x420.png 747w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SurfDogDonkey.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Surf Dog, now renamed Buddy at home in his backyard with his pet donkey.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Surf Dog\/Buddy has a great life now.&nbsp; He has a safe home, companionship, and lots of room to be a dog.&nbsp; And when lightning and thunder strike, he has a warm, dry bed to hunker down in. &nbsp;I would say that this was a good outcome of the use of social media.&nbsp; But the huge difference in the outcome between Surf Dog\u2019s story and that of countless thousands of other stray dogs speaks to the power of social media in our daily lives.&nbsp; Over 4 thousand caring people bought into his Surf Dog\u2019s online tale. &nbsp;This time, it had a happy ending.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-6 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram\" class=\"wp-image-14702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-1068x1602.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/52855836622_9a6e9a4781_k.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/2023-05-05\/three-wfsu-local-routes-videos-win-major-awards-for-stories-about-our-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congratulations to WFSU Producer Mike Plummer for winning a 2022 Florida Association of Broadcast Journalist award for this story on Surf Dog!<\/a> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-purple-background-color has-background wp-element-button\">Discover what other WFSU Stories brought home FABJ Awards.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dogs have all the luck.\u00a0The dog in this story has had all that luck, and then some.\u00a0 As a road-running stray, he captured the imagination of animal lovers in Ochlocknee, Panacea, and Crawfordville, Florida.\u00a0Today, they call him Buddy and he 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