[Ben Mugged]

Read the entire story. I promise you it is worth your time.

[La Lydia]

Sniff. What a great story. Good Odie.

[VeniVidiVici]

bump for later

[scottdeus12]

Dogs are awesome.

[netmilsmom]

Oh may the Lord bless that owner.
A great man.

(Good Dog!)

[Sans-Culotte]

Dogs know when things just aren’t right.

[Paradox]

aw heck, I wasn't even able to finish reading the story out loud to my wife...

Nice to see a "good dog" story for a change here, what with all the "bad dog" stories that are posted these days.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Bookmarked! Huzzah for The Dog!!!

[Dustbunny]

Something uplifting, thanks for posting.

[fullchroma]

Good dog!

An aside: If health care in this country is so lacking, how is it that this woman has been successfully treated twice for cancer and her son has had heart surgery and some kind of transplant. Clearly they aren’t among the Evil Rich and yet they’ve received some of the best health care on the planet — that being, American health care.

[AStack75]

I know this is besides the point of the story, but 4000 copies of a lost dog flier!?!!?

[BornToBeAmerican]

Wow, that was touching. Thank you

[Marty62]

OK....now excuse me while I go cry.

[MozarkDawg]

First off, cheers for hero-Odie, not only a dawg that understands he can play rough with the younger boy but must treat the older, bigger one more gently, I've witnessed this kind of thing personally with any number of dawgs. But the behavior when Christian is in trouble, this is not so much a learned thing, there are certain breeds who recognize particular problems, even some mutts who can be service-dawgs.

But really, what a kindness for Randy to have done, it can't have been easy, not to mention his own children ... I hope he gets them another dawg, not to take Odie's place, that could never be, but to ease their pain, someone else to love.

Great piece, thank you for posting it.

[Grumpybutt]

That little dog wasn’t lost at all. He was right where he was supposed to be.

What a great story. Thanks.

[BossLady]

Oh boy....you are right....Triple Hankie Alert!!!

[knittnmom]

Best use of my time today. What generosity! What a cool story!

[Apercu]

Great story.Here is another:
“St. Roch was born in France in 1295. When as a young man he heard the plague had reached Italy, he walked from Montpelier to Rome to help the victims. While in Rome, Roch himself caught the plague.Believing he was soon to die, he went into the forest at the edge of the city, built a small hut, and began to pray & prepare himself for death. As he was in prayer a dog came to him holding a piece of bread in his mouth.Roch took the bread from the dog. The dog then licked the plague wounds on Roch's leg, and the wounds were healed.Roch ate the bread and brought back to wholeness by the dog and his gifts,he and the dog returned to Rome, where they worked to heal others and comfort the dying.The story demonstrates the bond between humans and dogs and the power of each to heal & rejuvenate each other.”

From an accompanying handout of a statue of St. Roch and his dog made by artist Hank Schlau.