Dog Story

Part 2: A Couple Checked Out Of Our Roadside Motel In Western Pennsylvania On A Tuesday Morning Last October And Left Their 11-Year-Old Beagle Behind In Room 12. He Refused To Leave The Door. He Refused To Eat. He Refused To Look At Anyone. Three Weeks Later He Was Sleeping On A Quilt Behind My Front Desk — And I’m The Cleaning Lady Who Found Him.

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I started my Tuesday morning cleaning shift…

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Part 2: Mama Dog Lost All Six Of Her Newborn Puppies In A Highway Accident In Rural Georgia. She Stopped Eating For Five Days. Then A Volunteer At Our Shelter Walked In With A Cardboard Box. What She Found Inside Made Her Lay Down On The Concrete Floor And Cry.

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. Brenna Cho-Whitlock walked into our front office…

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Part 2: I’m A Patrol Officer In Lubbock, Texas — Last July I Crawled Under A Parked Car In 109-Degree Heat To Pull Out A Stray Puppy Whose Paws Were Burning On The Asphalt. He Fell Asleep On My Chest In The Cruiser Before I Could Even Radio It In. Six Months Later He Sleeps On The Foot Of My Bed Every Night.

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I got the puppy out from under…

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Part 2: I’m The Morning Shift Manager At A Small Animal Shelter In Rural Indiana — On A Monday Morning In February I Found A 12-Year-Old Beagle Tied To Our Gate With A Backpack. The Letter Inside The Backpack Made Me Sit Down On The Cold Concrete. Eight Months Later I Got A Phone Call I Was Not Expecting

I am going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I got Buddy inside the shelter…

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Part 2: An Old Pit Bull Spent Ten Years at Our Shelter and Nobody Adopted Him. Every Time We Got a New Puppy, He Did the Same Thing at Night. We Did Not Understand What He Was Doing Until We Read the File of the Woman Who Surrendered Him in 2014.

Part 2 Moose was surrendered to the Stockton County Animal Shelter on the afternoon of March 14th, 2014. He was…

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Part 2: A House Fire In Rural Kentucky Destroyed Everything My Brother Owned — When The Fire Marshal Walked The Ruins The Next Morning, He Found A Pit Bull Named Ash Lying In The Ashes Of The Living Room. The Dog Refused To Leave For Six Weeks.

I am going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. After Cassius told me Animal Control…

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Part 2: A House Fire In Rural Kentucky Destroyed Everything My Brother Owned — When The Fire Marshal Walked The Ruins The Next Morning, He Found A Pit Bull Named Ash Lying In The Ashes Of The Living Room. The Dog Refused To Leave For Six Weeks.

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. Investigator Marcia Goldfarb began her formal investigation…

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Part 2: I’m A K9 Officer In Ohio — Five Years Ago I Took Home The Last Puppy In A Litter Of Twelve Because Nobody Else Wanted Him. Last Spring He Dragged Me 47 Feet Across A Gas Station Parking Lot With Three Bullets In My Vest And Bit A Man Who Was Coming To Finish Me Off

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I want to tell you what kind…

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Part 2: I’m A Female Police Officer In Tennessee — Ten Years Ago I Spent $2,000 Of My Own Money To Get A Domestic Violence Survivor And Her Two Pit Bulls Into An Apartment Because No Shelter In Our State Would Take Her Dogs

I’m going to tell this slow. The slow part is the whole story. I sat in my patrol car at…

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Part 2: My Wife Left Me After 17 Years Because I “Only Loved My Bike And My Club” — Two Weeks Later A Chained Pit Bull In A Vacant Lot Taught Me She Had Been Right About Everything

I’m going to tell this in pieces because the pieces are the only honest way to tell it. On that…

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