Krooky The Roofing Dog

Thank you to Omar Orellana and his roofing crew in Frisco, Texas for sending us this photo. Krooky the dog has been doing roofing with them since he was one year old. Every morning he is the first one inside the truck to go to work. Krooky is one loyal dog!

I had a best roofers dog contest once. I should do that again. Or I could save myself the effort and just give the prize to Krooky.

Years ago on a condo project, a framer had a long-haired mutt that would climb up ladders. If you were on the roof and patted your thigh, the dog would come up to visit, which angered his owner, but amused us, so we did it constantly.

One time, one of my guys had it come up to 2 stories to the top of the ladder. Unlike every other time it had come up, this time tile was laid around the ladder. When the dog stepped onto the tile and found it a hard surface, it froze. The owner called for it to climb down, but the poor dog was too scared. My guy went over to carry the dog over to a pallet we had almost empty to be lowered down. But the enraged owner would have nothing to do with that, he insisted on making the poor dog climb down on it's own, requiring him to beat on the dog almost all the way down. That was the end of our dog on roof play.

I had beagle, ("Louie")....We were building a garage in my back yard and he just climbed right up the ladder and ran around on the roof....Had to carry him down the ladder though.....

I had a black lab climb up on a job once. He fell about 10 times all told, but he was up and down all day long. The roof was about 10/12. I taught the wifes dog to climb, but I have to carry him down, so I quit letting him up. Besides him being as heavy as a bundle of shingles, wife said she would use a bat and match any broken bones he gets, and even break a few more before shooting me.

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