You say you've been buds, eh?

My friend's garbage man was telling her the other day that he and her dog have been buds for several years (apparently for like 10 or 12 or something like that)! Well, the dog she has now has only been around for 3 and looks something like this:



...which looks nothing like the dog before him which looked something like this:


So, my friend said to me, "What, did he think I gave the dog a perm or something??"