Dogs can be fiercely loyal when it comes to taking care of their human families.
Just as I love my dog, I know he loves me just as much. I know he would do anything to defend me and look out for me, just like the hero dog who rescued his owner. So when I saw this beautiful story about the bond between a pit bull and a young girl, I was absolutely moved.
This story has been circulating the internet for years. A dad is worried that the family pit bull will be dangerous to have around his extremely young daughter. He warns his wife that the dog will have to be gone at the first sign of trouble. But when he sees what the dog does instead? He discovers an entirely new meaning for the term “man’s best friend”.
Read through this beautifully touching story below and let us know what you think in the comments.
My wife and I owned two dogs that we had owned before we met and brought into the marriage. Her dog was a pit bull/labrador cross named Zack, and he hated me. When our daughter was born, I said to the wife,”If he so much as nips at the baby, he’s gone.”
We brought our daughter home in a car seat, and both dogs sniffed and licked her, tails wagging. I had to pull Zack away from her because he wouldn’t stop licking her. Zack immediately became my daughter’s protector, and when she was lying on a blanket on the floor, he always had to have one foot on the blanket.
Zack loved my daughter immensely, and when she became a little older always walked her to bed, and then slept on the bed with her. He somehow knew whenever it was time to go upstairs, and he would wait at the foot of the stairs for her, and then follow her up to bed.
Zack was poisoned by some dirtbag neighbor kids, and we had one of the worst days of our lives. Watching my daughter say goodbye to him as he laid still on the kitchen floor, my wife and I were both sobbing.
At 8:00 that night, my daughter walked to the stairs to go to bed. At that moment, all three of us realized what was about to happen. After 5 years, she didn’t have Zack to accompany her upstairs. She looked at her mother and me with a look of horror and panic.
It was at that moment that my dog, who loved my daughter dearly but was not in Zack’s league, stood up, walked over to her, and nudged her with his head. He put his foot on the stairs and looked up at her. They walked up to bed, with my daughter holding tightly to his neck.
For the next six years, until he died, Sam waited for her by the stairs each night.
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