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Part 2: I’m A 23-Year-Old Animal Control Officer In Texas — Last Spring I Cut An 8-Year Chain Off A Pit Bull Who Had Been Tied To A Tree His Entire Life, And What He Did Next Wasn’t What Anyone Trained Me To Expect

I’m going to tell this in pieces because it’s the only way I can. Pets & Animals After I cut the chain at the tree end, I sat down in the dirt.I did not stand. I did not approach him. I sat down about six feet from him with my legs crossed and my hands […]

Part 2: I Found A Pit Bull Lying In The Middle Of A Mountain Road At 1 A.M. Last March — When I Went Back To That Same Stretch Of Highway Two Weeks Later In Daylight, I Sat Down In The Dirt And Cried

I want to tell this slow. Slower than I have told it before. Out loud, to a couple of brothers in my chapter, I have told it in about three minutes. Once, on a podcast a sober biker friend of mine runs out of Knoxville, I told it in about eleven. To my therapist I […]

Part 2: I Adopted a 9-Year-Old Pit Bull Nobody Wanted Because “Old Dogs Need Homes Too.” She Avoided My Eyes for 3 Months. Then She Started Sleeping on My Chest Every Night. A Week Later I Found the Lump.

I want to tell you about the months before I adopted Patience, because they are part of this story. My husband, Owen, had died in March of 2020. A heart attack, two weeks before his sixty-fifth birthday. He had been a retired math teacher. He had been the man who had brought me coffee every […]

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. Dogs After Cassius told me Animal Control would be twenty minutes out, I sat back in the water and I thought about what to do.Twenty minutes is a long time in five inches of rising stormwater during a Category 1 hurricane. […]