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Pittie Brothers Have The Most Special Bond
The Dodo
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1/26/2024
Rescue pittie knows exactly what to do when his brother's not acting like himself
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00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:01
Aw, sweet, sweet angel.
00:04
Simon and Bub both came from pretty rough backgrounds.
00:07
I adopted them from a kill shelter in Central California.
00:10
He's so happy to be over there.
00:12
Bub had been used as a bait dog in the past.
00:14
That's a good boy.
00:15
That's my boy.
00:17
And Simon had actually been chained up for most of his life,
00:21
so he had never really gotten to see anything at all.
00:23
So both of them had not known a lot of excitement or adventure
00:27
in their lives.
00:28
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:30
The first big thing to do when I got Simon home
00:35
was introduce him to my dog, Bub.
00:37
Bub, what do you think?
00:40
What do you think, misty?
00:43
Bringing Simon home, I definitely
00:45
knew that was going to be a difficult adjustment in some
00:47
ways because of the sheer size of having two big dogs.
00:51
I was definitely concerned because I
00:53
knew both of these dogs had had rough pasts
00:55
and hadn't been properly socialized or trained
00:57
at any point in their lives.
00:59
So I was worried at first.
01:00
I wasn't sure how they would react to sharing space and toys
01:03
and my attention.
01:06
Something just clicked, and they immediately
01:08
became best friends.
01:09
[MUSIC PLAYING]
01:12
[LAUGHTER]
01:16
Oh, boys.
01:21
[LAUGHTER]
01:23
I always knew whenever I got a dog
01:29
that I wanted to be able to share adventure with my dog.
01:32
And when I got Bub and Simon, of course,
01:33
I had no idea really how they would
01:35
react to those sort of things.
01:37
And so I just kind of went for it when I got them.
01:39
I remember for both of them, taking them on their first hike
01:43
and just watching them let go of the scared and kind
01:45
of unsure personas that they had up until that point.
01:48
[LAUGHTER]
01:51
About a year and a half after I adopted Simon,
01:55
I noticed that Simon started limping on one of his back legs.
01:58
One day, he just didn't want to put any weight on it
02:00
and was clearly in a lot of pain.
02:02
Hey, what's going on?
02:04
When Bub first realized that Simon was sick,
02:07
he seemed like he could tell immediately
02:08
that his brother wasn't feeling well anymore.
02:10
And so instead of trying to get him to wrestle with him
02:13
or get him to play tug, he would just lick him.
02:16
I took him to the emergency vet.
02:19
No one could quite figure out what was wrong with him,
02:21
but he just kept getting worse and worse.
02:25
It was just a really emotional time
02:26
because two different vets told us that we should put him down.
02:29
And we just saw how much pain he was in,
02:31
and that was just killing me.
02:32
And so we made the decision to amputate his leg
02:35
because we were told it was very likely never
02:37
going to regain movement.
02:38
It was still causing him discomfort.
02:40
[LAUGHTER]
02:42
Hi.
02:44
[BARKING]
02:47
He bounced back to the happy and silly and just wonderful boy
02:52
that he always was.
02:54
Bub just did one quick sniff of where Simon's leg used to be,
02:57
and then immediately he was just happy to have his brother back.
03:02
We noticed he wasn't able to keep up and do as much
03:05
as he used to do before his amputation.
03:08
So I started looking up different options
03:10
for how to help him stay mobile and be able to go
03:12
on adventures with us still.
03:15
I found a wheelchair that seemed perfect for him.
03:19
It was like as if he'd been born in that wheelchair.
03:22
I was worried about what Bub would think, just because he
03:24
can be kind of an anxious dog.
03:26
I kind of thought seeing his brother in this contraption
03:29
might freak him out a little bit.
03:30
But he didn't even give it a second look.
03:32
He was just like, all right, there's my brother.
03:34
We can go run again.
03:36
Once we saw how much he was enjoying being in the wheelchair
03:38
and how much it really opened up his world again,
03:40
a lot of our favorite trails became covered in snow.
03:43
So we just swapped out the wheels, put the skis on,
03:46
and then he was just cruising around.
03:47
Look at him go.
03:48
It's really the most amazing feeling in the world,
04:10
just knowing the life that both of my dogs used to have.
04:14
They're both absolutely perfect, and they just
04:17
make my life so much better.
04:20
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04:24
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04:28
[MUSIC PLAYING]
04:31
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