Dog Story
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A Dog Sat on Top of an Unattended Suitcase in Our Train Station for Three Days and Wouldn’t Let Anyone Near It — We Called the Bomb Squad. What Was Inside Stopped Nine Cops Cold.
Part 2 I’m Rennard. I’m forty-three. I grew up in Southwest Philly and I’ve worked transit my whole career. My…
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Kids Found a Stray Curled Around Something Under a Tree, His Face Swollen Shut and Hornets All Over Him — He Wouldn’t Move. It Took Me Nine Seconds to See What Was Under Him.
Part 2 I’m Adelia. I’m thirty-four. I’ve taught second grade for eleven years in the same building I went to…
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Part 2: Fifteen of Us Were About to Ride Across a Wooden Bridge When We Heard a Dog Barking Underneath It — He Wasn’t Barking at Us. He Was Barking at the Beam.
Part 2 I’m Lyle. I’m forty-six. I do heating and air in Sevier County. I’ve got a wife who works…
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A Dog Slipped Into Our Church Every Sunday for Nine Weeks and Lay Under the Same Pew — Nobody Knew How He Got In. Then I Counted the Rows.
There was a dog lying under the fourth pew on the left side of our church during the ten o’clock…
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A Stray Brought a Child’s Yellow Rain Boot to Our Rescue Station Five Days in a Row — On the Sixth Day a Deputy Followed Her Four Kilometers Up the Mountain.
Part 2 I’m Robin. I’m forty-seven. I drive a plow for the county in the winter and work the pro…
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PART 2: A Dog Was Lying Flat on the Center Line of a Six-Lane Intersection at Rush Hour and Wouldn’t Move — I Went Out to Carry Her Off and She Growled at Me. Then I Saw What Was Under Her.
PART 2 I’m Dale. I’m fifty-four. I run a transmission shop off Pine with two guys who’ve worked for me…
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PART 2: Four Kids Dug a Dog Out From Under an Overturned Boat on Our Beach — She Crawled Straight Back In. What Was Under There Had Been Missing for Five Years.
PART 2: I’m Kelsey. I’m thirty-nine. I’ve lived on the Alabama coast my whole life except two years in Mobile…
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A Dog Lay on the Roof of an Ambulance for Eight Hours and Growled at Everyone Who Climbed Up — Then a Paramedic Opened the Back Doors and We All Understood at Once.
PART 2 I’m Wes. I’m forty-one. I’ve worked the east side patrol district in Wichita for most of my career…
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A Starving Dog Bit Down on a Loaf of Bread and Refused to Eat It — I Broke It Apart in Front of Her and She Still Wouldn’t. Then I Took the Lead Off Her Neck.
PART 2 I’m Ray. I’m forty-four. I run a paint booth at a body shop on Jackson Avenue Monday through…
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Part 2: A Mother Dog With a Shattered Pelvis Tried to Stand Up Eleven Times After Surgery — We Brought Her Puppies In and She Finally Rested. Forty Minutes Later She Tried Again.
PART 2 I’m Shannon. I’m thirty-eight. I’ve worked nights my whole career because I like the kind of medicine that…
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