Densho Digital Archive - Mas Hashimoto Interview (denshovh-hmas-01-0021)

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TI: I want to go back to something we touched upon earlier, and that's your, your dog. So you have now Sunny in camp, and so I'm just curious, what was it like taking care of a dog in camp? Were there certain things you had to, like food and walks? What was, talk about taking care of Sunny.

MH: I didn't have to take care of Sunny, everybody took care of Sunny. Everybody wanted to feed Sunny. We almost had to keep food away from her because, you know. She was the petting zoo, everybody wanted to pet her, especially the younger children. 'Cause you couldn't exactly pet a rattlesnake or a scorpion, whatever. But this little dog would go to anybody, and you couldn't tell one end from the other, it was a white little furry thing. And there was one time when we were really scared when she disappeared, and we didn't know whether somebody stole her or whether she was eaten by a coyote or what, and she was gone. I'm in tears, you know, and three days later, she showed up. And we couldn't ask the dog, "Where have you been?" But we were so happy to get her back. I have absolutely no, those three days, I have absolutely no idea what happened, and we were looking all over, we were looking all over. Everybody was looking for her, we don't know what happened.

TI: Oh, that's interesting. And so in general, Sunny had the run of the camp, she could just sort of go wherever and people knew about her.

MH: Yeah, absolutely.

TI: I'll have to check, were there ever any stories written about Sunny in the camp newspaper, anything like that?

MH: Not that I know of.

TI: That's a good story.