When Fronky, a 180-pound mastiff, completes his breakfast every early morning, he right away heads outdoors to await his buddy to come for a go to.
“After breakfast, Fronky knows his best friend Shaun, the letter carrier, is going to be coming over to see him,” Fronky’s mother, Eileen, informed The Dodo. “He can’t contain his excitement, so he’s like, ‘OK, can I go out now?’”
Eileen said that if Shaun takes too long in her truck, getting all the mail and plans prepared, Fronky gets impatient.
“He’ll stand on the fence, and for somebody that doesn’t know Fronky, it can be a bit overwhelming,” she said. “He’s 180 pounds, and he doesn’t know he’s twice as big as Shaun.”
He wasn’t constantly two times as huge as Shaun, however. Fronky and Shaun’s relationship started when Fronky was simply 7 weeks old.
“The two of them bonded right away, from day one,” Eileen said. “It’s just been an ongoing thing. They see each other pretty much every day unless she’s off.”
Shaun is the emphasize of Fronky’s day, and Eileen thinks Fronky is among the highlights of Shaun’s day, too.
“Her job is very stressful and her route is super long,” Eileen said. “I think just having this little break with Fronky helps her out and gives her something to look forward to.”
Sometimes Shaun can just remain enough time to provide Fronky a treat and drop the mail, however the majority of the time, she makes time to provide Fronky great deals of scratches and family pets on his head. “And even at the end when she leaves, every time she either says, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow,’ or, if she’s off, she says, ‘I won’t see you for a couple of days,’” Eileen said. “She always lets him know.”
Since succumbing to Shaun, Fronky has actually made an effort to be familiar with individuals who walk by his lawn, too. “He knows everyone on our block,” Eileen said, consisting of shipment employees like UPS drivers and other USPS mailcarriers.
But Fronky has an unique location in his heart for Shaun. “It just makes me so happy that every day he has this great moment of happiness in his life to look forward to with Shaun,” Eileen said, including that he even waits on her to come on Sunday, her day of rest. He in some cases waits on her by the fence till nighttime.
“Shaun sort of has become part of our family,” she continued. “As soon as [Fronky] hears her voice, his tail is just out of control … I think her relationship with Fronky is really special to her, [too]. I like that it’s a mutual love. I feel like she loves him as much as he loves her.”
