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Dog Story
Part 2: I Adopted A 4-Year-Old German Shepherd Who Refused To Get Into Any Vehicle. Six Trainers Told Me He Had Car Trauma. The Seventh Trainer Sat In My Car And Read A Book For 22 Days Before She Figured Out The Truth — And It Was Not What Any Of Us Expected.
I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I brought Tundra home from the Henry…
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Part 2: My Grandfather Promised To Be At My College Graduation. He Died Two Weeks Before. On Graduation Day, His 8-Year-Old German Shepherd Sat In His Empty Seat For The Entire Two-Hour Ceremony Without Moving Once.
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Part 2: My 86-Year-Old Grandmother Has Laid A Tiny Reindeer Pajama Set On The Armchair Next To Her Christmas Tree Every December 24th For Eight Years. It Was For A Dog Who Died In 2016. I Surprised Her With A Pit Bull Puppy On Her 86th Birthday. She Was Furious. Then The Puppy Climbed Into The Chair.
I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I want to tell you about Christmas…
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Part 2: A 13-Year-Old Pit Bull at Our Tucson Shelter Comforted Every Frightened Dog That Came Through Our Doors for 4 Years — Nobody Ever Adopted Him. When He Died Last September, 247 People Showed Up the Next Saturday
I want to tell you what Comfort did, because I watched him do it for eleven years of my professional…
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Part 2: I’m The Night Doorman At A 14-Story Apartment Building In Brooklyn. For Seven Months A Small Dog Named Pickle Sat In Front Of Elevator 2 Every Single Evening At 6:47 PM Waiting For An Owner Who Was Never Coming Back.
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Part 2: Our Detroit Motorcycle Club Has A Pit Bull Named Mercy Who Has Walked Behind The Casket Of Every Brother We’ve Lost For Eleven Years. Last September We Buried Our President. Mercy Refused To Walk. Until We Opened The Casket.
I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. My big brother Rook died on the…
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Part 2: A 9-Year-Old Girl In Rural Oregon Started Coming To Our Animal Shelter Every Saturday Morning To Read Bedtime Stories To The Dogs Nobody Wanted. She Sat On The Concrete Floor With A Picture Book In Her Lap. The First Dog She Read To Was A Pit Bull Mix Named Gravel Who Had Bitten Two Volunteers And Was Scheduled For Behavioral Re-Assessment. Eight Months Later, Twenty-Seven Of The Dogs She Had Read To Had Been Adopted. The Reason Why Made Our Staff Vet Sit Down On The Floor And Cry.
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Part 2: A 13-Year-Old Cocker Spaniel Named Winston Was Adopted From Our Shelter On A Tuesday And Returned On A Saturday Four Days Later With A Bag Of His Medications And A Surrender Form That Said “Too Many Medical Issues.” He Spent The Next Six Days In Kennel 11 Refusing To Eat. Then A 71-Year-Old Retired Veterinarian Walked Into Our Office On A Friday Morning And Said Eleven Words That Made Me Sit Down On The Floor And Cry.
I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. The Whitmore-Calloways pulled into our gravel parking…
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Part 2: The Security Camera at My Convenience Store in Albuquerque Caught a Starving Stray Pit Bull Doing the Same Thing Every Night for Six Weeks Before I Finally Watched the Footage. He Was Letting a Stray Cat Eat First. The Reason Was on a Folded Piece of Cardboard the Animal Control Officer Found in His Collar.
Part 2 I will tell you about the cat now, because the cat matters. She was a small black-and-white tuxedo…
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Part 2: I Bought a Tesla in March. My Pit Bull Lightning Refused to Get Into It for Three Months. I Posted One Video to TikTok That Got Eight Million Views — And a Researcher From a University I Had Never Heard Of Sent Me an Email That Made Me Sell the Car.
I want to tell you who Lightning is before I tell you the rest of this. He is a brindle…
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