As you all know, we’re currently fostering a 3-legged dog named Buddy. Buddy is an adorably sweet thing that doesn’t seem to be the least bit bothered by his shortcoming. Oh how I envy that.
Well, just this morning I received the following story from my father-in-law, who by the way, thinks Buddy is awesome (so he should probably just adopt him now). I won’t spoil the story here, but I will say that “it’ll make you feel good” (but not in that drug induced kind of way). And if you love animals, are pregnant, or have pms, you might want to have a tissue handy.
This is the story I received:
This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002. He was born with two legs. He, of course, could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him.
His first owner also did not think that he could survive and he was thinking of ‘putting him to sleep’.
But then, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted to take care of him.
She became determined to teach and train this little dog to walk by himself. She named him ‘Faith’.
In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to let him feel the movement. Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for him for standing up and jumping around. Even the other dog at home encouraged him to walk.
Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle, Faith learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward. After further training in the snow, he could now walk like a human being.
Faith loves to walk around now.
No matter where he goes, he attracts people to him. He is fast becoming famous on the international scene and has appeared on various newspapers and TV shows. There is now a book entitled ‘With a Little Faith’ being published about him. He was even considered to appear in one of the Harry Potter movies.
His present owner Jude Stringfellew has given up her teaching post and plans to take him around the world to preach that, “even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect soul.”
In life there are always undesirable things, so in order to feel better you just need to look at life from another direction.
I hope this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone will appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day.
Faith is the continual demonstration of the strength and wonder of life.
A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this story circulating
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Did you cry? If not, you probably hate kittens and babies.
