What unites us? Dogs
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I took note of a particular passage in Sen. John McCain's farewell message and wondered whether it was really true.
"We have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement."
Do we? "Like what?" I thought.
Then I read the story of Bentley.
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Bentley, a goldendoodle, got lost after the 4x4 in which he was riding rolled over on a mountainside in Colorado, killing Jennifer Orr, 43, and injuring her adult daughter, Samantha, Bentley's owner.
For the last few weeks, Sam has taken to social media asking people to look for the dog.
So Joe Stratmann, who lives three hours away, doesn't know the Orrs, but has dogs in common with them, drove to help.
He's a dog lover, although he tells a local TV station that once he arrived and started hiking the trail near where Bentley was seen, he didn't like the odds.
“(After) 16 days, the dog is probably dead, (I thought) ‘What am I doing here?'” Stratmann said. “But, I went ahead and started walking up."
And found Bentley.
“[Bentley] was bouncing around, hunting mice up in the rocks," he said.
He left food on the mountain for the dog, and retreated to call Sam, who drove back to Colorado from Kansas to meet up with them.
A lost dog fears everybody; even its owner. They'll run if you're not careful.
This is how you do it.
https://www.facebook.com/BringBentleyBack/videos/924138367786013/
"Even in tragedy, there are heroes everywhere," Samantha's father, Tom, said.
(h/t: Paul Tosto)
