Burdge brought a small fox terrier puppy to keep him company at the newly built West Bank Lighthouse, while his wife and six children lived ashore. Like it had with his owner, lighthouse life quickly got into the dog’s blood, and he refused to live anywhere else.
"You couldn’t get that dog to live ashore. Sometimes when I took him with me after supplies, he’d run down to the edge of the water and look out toward the light, and whine. If the light dimmed at night, or the fog signals stopped, he’d bark and tear around. He recognized a lot of boats, too, and would bark to the tugs he knew."
