Dog Story

Part 2: My Boat Flipped in the Middle of a Wisconsin Lake and I Went Under, Unconscious. My Pit Bull Isn’t Even a Strong Swimmer. He Dragged Me 200 Yards to Shore Anyway — and the Vet Said It Should Have Been Impossible.

PART 2 I have to tell you that I don’t remember any of the part that matters. I was unconscious…

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Part 2: I Pulled Over a Drunk Driver Swerving Across Two Lanes. Routine DUI. Then I Opened His Trunk — and Found a Starving Mother Pit Bull Who’d Given Birth to Four Puppies in There Weeks Earlier.

PART 2 I have to slow down and tell you about that wait, because it’s the part of this whole…

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Part 2: They Sent the Smallest Firefighter on the Crew Down Into the Drain to Get the Trapped Dog. When She Climbed Back Out, She Wasn’t Alone — and the Dog Wouldn’t Let Go.

PART 2 I have to tell you about going down into that pipe, because it matters for everything that came…

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Part 2: My Son Has a Heart Condition That Means He Can’t Run or Play Sports. He Spent Every Day Watching the Other Kids Through the Window. Then We Adopted a Rescue Pit Bull Who Couldn’t Run Either.

PART 2 I have to tell you about Heart, because the why of him is the whole heart of this…

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Part 2: At 3 A.M. We Realized Our 5-Year-Old Autistic Son Was Gone From His Bed. We Called 911 in a Panic. The Police Found Him in the Backyard — Asleep in the Dog House, Wrapped Around Our German Shepherd.

PART 2 I have to tell you about the dog, and about how we almost didn’t have him, because that’s…

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Part 2: Thirty of Us Were Riding a California Mountain Pass When Something Got Thrown From the Car Ahead. We Stopped. Inside the Tied-Off Bag Was a Three-Month-Old Pit Bull, Still Alive.

PART 2 I have to tell you about my club, because the whole story turns on who we are versus…

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Part 2: Some Kids Found a Pit Bull Wired to a Concrete Pillar in an Abandoned Lot. When My Son Told Me Why Those Boys Had Tied Him There, I Called My Brothers and We Brought the Tools.

PART 2 I need to tell you about my club, because the whole point of this story turns on who…

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Part 2: I Was Clearing the Backyard of a Foreclosed House I’d Just Bought When I Heard Something Scratching Inside an Old Refrigerator. The Door Was Locked From the Outside.

PART 2 I have to tell you what I knew, standing over that fridge, because it made the next few…

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Part 2: We Held a Final Retirement Walk for Our K9 Hero, 12 Years Old and Dying. He Limped Between Two Rows of Saluting Officers. His Handler Didn’t Cry. Four Days Later, Hero Was Gone.

PART 2 I have to tell you about the bond between Cole and Hero, because the whole back half of…

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Part 2: A Therapy Dog Named Filter Slept Under My Dialysis Chair Every Week for Two Years. Then a Family Adopted Him. Two Months Later They Drove Back to the Hospital to Tell Me Something About Him.

PART 2 I have to tell you about Filter, and about what a dialysis unit is actually like, because you…

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