This Stray Dog Was Impossible To Catch!

The Dodo

This guy missed the chance to catch a stray dog — but he's determined to find him a home by Christmas ❤️

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:04 Once he felt that leash get a little bit tighter

00:06 around his neck, he just started flailing all over the place.

00:09 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

00:11 Lost hold of the leash, and he just took off

00:13 running as fast as he could.

00:16 Hey, buddy.

00:17 First day I met Weston, he was just

00:18 a very calm and friendly boy.

00:21 Want a treat?

00:22 He did everything you would want a stray dog to do.

00:25 He saw me, he saw I had trees, he came right up to me.

00:28 He was eating out of my hand.

00:30 I was able to pet him.

00:32 I'm thinking, oh, man, he's going to be a piece of cake.

00:34 Want the leash?

00:36 Soon as he saw the leash, he was like, nope, I'm out of here,

00:38 and left.

00:39 So I tried again the next day.

00:40 I was thinking, if I just cover his eyes for a few seconds

00:43 at a time, that could give me the chance

00:45 to put the leash around his neck without him seeing.

00:48 It took a little bit of time, but eventually he

00:50 was just where he needed to be.

00:53 It worked just like I planned.

00:55 It's OK.

00:56 It's OK.

00:57 It's all right.

00:58 And that's where things took an unfortunate turn.

01:00 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

01:02 Settle down.

01:03 Settle down.

01:03 No, no, no.

01:04 No, no, no.

01:04 I was devastated.

01:05 I was really, really worried.

01:08 After I had blown it with the leash,

01:10 he wouldn't come to me anymore.

01:12 Is this your dog?

01:13 Yeah.

01:13 Trying to rescue him.

01:15 I couldn't be the one that would get him.

01:17 Hi, buddy.

01:19 Thankfully, somebody else stepped up.

01:22 When Sheila arrived, he was very calm.

01:24 We made no effort to try to get away.

01:27 We were able to keep him cornered and contained.

01:30 We didn't want to use the leash, so we split up a crate.

01:33 It just came a little tap on the bottom,

01:34 and he went right inside.

01:36 Good boy.

01:37 The leash was our biggest hurdle.

01:45 He was terrified of the leash, so we took things extremely slow.

01:50 Mr. Tail Tuck.

01:51 We just let him let us know when he was ready to actually

01:57 move forward with things.

02:01 We used Ginger a lot on walks.

02:04 He follows what she does and realizes that things

02:07 are OK because she's OK.

02:09 And now he wags his tail when I get the leash out.

02:12 When he started doing zoomies, that's when he let it all out.

02:22 It was at that moment where I knew he was going to be OK.

02:26 We got him early December 2021.

02:28 He definitely made our holiday way more

02:31 adventurous and fun that year.

02:33 Weston, now Wesley, he didn't have a lot of self-confidence

02:37 when we first got him, and so we've worked really

02:40 hard to create that bond.

02:42 He definitely needs a little bit of a security blanket.

02:45 The instant connection between him and Izzy,

02:48 yeah, they just hit it off right away.

02:50 He's come such a long way.

02:52 Good girl, Izzy.

02:53 Good come.

02:54 Come.

02:55 Good come.

02:56 Good boy.

02:58 He's such a love.

02:59 He loves his people.

03:00 He loves his Izzy.

03:03 And he trusts us.

03:04 I'm just really proud of that.

03:06 For Christmas, I always get the dog stuff.

03:08 Oh, you get it.

03:10 We'll do a long beach walk and just quiet time.

03:23 That's kind of like our Christmas holidays.

03:26 Long day, but a good day.

03:27 Right, bud?

03:29 Yes.

03:30 Oh, very good.

03:31 Good boy.

03:34 Yeah, you too, baby.

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