| This is a story about "Little Bit". Little Bit first showed | | | | normal and we began to inch the dish closer and |
| up as a stray at our farm in rural Missouri four years | | | | closer. It was a great day when he got on the porch |
| ago, looking quite shaggy and abused. He appeared | | | | to eat about 6 feet from us sitting in the porch |
| very fearful and distrusting of all humans. He would | | | | swing. |
| not come to us but stood back and growled and | | | | Soon we could reach out and touch his back and |
| barked at us! The neighbors said "that dog is bad" | | | | then it happened! He jumped up on the swing with |
| and "that dog is too far gone for you to save him". | | | | my husband and just sat there and listened to him |
| We just kept thinking that there was a purpose for | | | | talk. After that it was a short time until he would get |
| that dog to show up at our place after passing | | | | in the swing and lay his head on our lap and let us |
| between two other homes to get to our house at | | | | pet him and talk to him and he would lick our hands. |
| the back of the property. | | | | We then could get him to the vet and groom him |
| He was so thin and had matted fur and scars all over | | | | and provide care to make up for his past hard life. |
| him but there was a look of longing in his eyes, a | | | | Now four years later he is the best dog! We moved |
| longing for someone to love him and to care for him. | | | | to the city and now he lives in his big Dog House |
| We started to sit on the porch swing and put out | | | | with a Dog Pen and special Dog Bed that we have |
| food about 20 feet away and at first he would not | | | | for him and he is such a happy dog. He has never |
| eat or drink until we went inside the house. After a | | | | liked being indoors so we have made him as |
| couple of weeks he began to eat with us out on the | | | | comfortable as possible outdoors! Bad Dog gone |
| porch swing. We would talk to him as if all was | | | | Good!!!!!!! |