Wilbur
Wilbur gets about 50 visitors a day. The 9-year-old basset hound has worn a path through his lawn, greeting everyone who passes.
“All the children come by here walking to school,” says Guerry Denson, “He’s gotten a little lazy. He won’t get up to see them to school, but he sits there at 3 o’clock because he knows they are coming back.”
Wilbur also knows the difference between delivery trucks … only one stops to give him treats. “He is very particular about the driver,” says Nancy Denson. “It has to be a certain FedEx driver. He gets very disappointed at times because it's the wrong driver.”
In the 49 years Nancy and Guerry Denson have lived at the corner of Montcrest and West Montcrest, they have had four basset hounds — Luther, Chester, Leo (Napoleon was too long to say), and Wilbur. Longtime neighbor Oliver Booth remembers all of them, but Wilbur has become a Crestline landmark. “I just tell people I live next to Wilbur.”
“All the children come by here walking to school,” says Guerry Denson, “He’s gotten a little lazy. He won’t get up to see them to school, but he sits there at 3 o’clock because he knows they are coming back.”
Wilbur also knows the difference between delivery trucks … only one stops to give him treats. “He is very particular about the driver,” says Nancy Denson. “It has to be a certain FedEx driver. He gets very disappointed at times because it's the wrong driver.”
In the 49 years Nancy and Guerry Denson have lived at the corner of Montcrest and West Montcrest, they have had four basset hounds — Luther, Chester, Leo (Napoleon was too long to say), and Wilbur. Longtime neighbor Oliver Booth remembers all of them, but Wilbur has become a Crestline landmark. “I just tell people I live next to Wilbur.”