English pub landlord adopts dog that ran into bar after owner’s fatal crash

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An adorable pub dog is proving a hit with locals after being adopted by a kind-hearted landlord when his owner died in a car cash.  Two-year-old Shih Tzu Rex dashed into a busy bar after surviving a car accident which sadly killed his original owner last September.   Regulars at The Leaping Wolf in Wolverhampton were left startled when the lost pooch ran into the pub during a football match.  Manager Dan Morris, 33, caught the runaway hound and took him to the vets to see if he was OK and where he needed to be returned to.  But he was left shocked after being told by the vets that Rex's owner had passed away and he had nowhere else to go.    Refusing to let the poor pup find his own way, Dan saved Rex by adopting him and he has been living at the pub ever since.

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00:00Hi, I'm Dan. I'm one of the managers here at the Leaping Wharf in Wolverhampton on Waterloo Road.

00:06This story is about this dog, Rex.

00:10It was last year's Liverpool match.

00:13It was rammed inside the outside bar and everyone said there was a dog running around

00:19and we didn't know it belonged to.

00:21So I took it to the vet the next day.

00:24They couldn't tell me too much for data protection

00:27but it turned out that the owner is deceased so we decided to adopt him.

00:33All the customers look after him.

00:36They buy him presents as you've seen already.

00:39He's spoilt.

00:41If we have takeaway, he has takeaway.

00:43If we have a roast dinner, he has a roast dinner.

00:46He's the most spoilt dog in the world.

00:48You can see just as you've been here for the last 20 minutes how much people have spoilt him.

00:55He's a really well-behaved dog.

00:59I think he needs a girlfriend.

01:02I don't know how you're going to crop that out.

01:05But no, he's really well-behaved.

01:09He loves attention.

01:12He loves treats.

01:14There's customers who purposely literally go over to Asda before they come to the pub

01:19and buy him some dog treats to come because he always runs up to them for a treat.

01:24He's well looked after.

01:26He sits there and he waits for people to come through the door.

01:31If it's someone who is undesirable, it's like he knows.

01:38He barks at them.

01:41You haven't heard him bark because there's no undesirables

01:44but sometimes in this area you get undesirables.

01:48Somehow he knows and he barks at them and you have to calm him down.

01:53We first rescued him.

01:57He wasn't that good because we had to look after him.

02:00He was running around.

02:01Whereas you can see now he just likes to sit down and chill.

02:06He's found his home, basically.

02:09It took a bit of training, obviously, because having a pub dog is a hard game.

02:16Having a dog is a hard game as well.

02:18But having a dog in a pub, you have to train them properly.

02:22And he's well trained, as you can see.

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