Baseball Player Take His English Bulldog For A Road Trip Across The US!

Nationals’ baseball pitcher, Blake Treinen packed up his bulldog, Maxx and made a cross-country drive from Washington state to Washington, DC for spring training with the Nationals.

This just might be one of the longest road trips made by a baseball player for spring training but lucky for Treinen, he had his trusty bulldog, Maxx to keep him company.

It seems the English bulldog isn’t big on traveling though. Treinen reports, “ so attached to my wife, Katie, that when we’re on the road, it’s really hard to get him to eat. He drinks a little bit at night. This year was a lot better. Last year, he didn’t really eat for three or four days on the road. Once we get to where we’re going, he feels more comfortable. I think he just gets a little on edge, a little stressed out. But on the road, if I’m eating something and I have some scraps, I’m more than willing to give it to him because he doesn’t really eat much. I’m sure it’s pretty stressful for him. Whatever lightens the load for him.”

Apparently getting scraps is a perk for Maxx when he’s on the road. His dad says, “He’s not really allowed to do it when he’s just at our house in Washington. But once we get on the road and we’re at other people’s houses, if they throw little scraps here and there, Maxx will start begging. When he’s allowed to get close to you, he’ll start drooling a little bit. He’s good at blowing bubbles out of the corner of his mouth. I swear, he goes from looking like an average bulldog to looking like the best-looking bulldog. He knows how to put on a face to win some food over. He’ll whine a little bit. If anybody knows bulldogs, they don’t bark. They wobble. It’s kind of an interesting noise. It catches you off-guard. If you’ve never heard , you’d probably give him scraps because it sounds so sad.”

“Maxx was in the cab with me, but I kept him in the kennel because I didn’t want his hair everywhere,” Treinen said. “Don’t worry — we stopped every few hours so I could let him run around.”

While it sounds like travel might not be Maxx’s first choice, it definitely seems to have its perks!

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