He first encountered Xena and Gabrielle as a would-be member of Callisto's army, and soon began following them around, much as a stray sheepdog would - annoying, but too harmless to shoo away. He has acompanied them on most of their missions involving Callisto, as well as adventures involving the Scythians, the warlord Draco, and the followers of Dahak. Often he has been involved in spells cast by the goddess Aphrodite, once metamorphosing into a swashbuckling hero at the ring of a bell. He has a deep puppy love crush on Gabrielle. More significantly, he stood by her in the Amazon village after her daughter's death, at the Temple of Mnemosyne, and brought flowers every day to the supposed site of her death. Almost alone in Greece, he has stood up (however futilely) to Callisto, Hope, and Xena, not thinking of his own life, but rather protecting Gabrielle, or, in one case, Xena's horse.