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Judi Lynn

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Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:12 PM Sep 2015

This Man Built A Dog Train So He Could Take Homeless Dogs On Adventures

This Man Built A Dog Train So He Could Take Homeless Dogs On Adventures
The Huffington Post UK | By Ryan Barrell
Posted: 23/09/2015 14:45 BST Updated: 23/09/2015 14:59 BST

Meet 80-year-old retiree Eugene Bostick. Since he stopped working for a living 15 years ago, he noticed a lot of people abandoning dogs near his house.

So, he did the natural thing and started letting the stray dogs in. He fed them and let them run around on his farm, and even built a train on the back of his tractor to transport eight of them at a time.

Now Eugene takes the animals on adventures in his dog train, which is made from old plastic barrels and carts.



"We live down on a dead-end street, where me and my brother have a horse barn," Bostick told The Dodo. "People sometimes come by and dump dogs out here, leaving them to starve. So, we started feeding them, letting them in, taking them to the vet to get them spayed and neutered. We made a place for them to live.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/23/dog-train_n_8182966.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

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This Man Built A Dog Train So He Could Take Homeless Dogs On Adventures (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2015 OP
Thanks Judy Omaha Steve Sep 2015 #1
Squeeeeeeeeee! U win teh Awesome Award, kind sir! shenmue Sep 2015 #2
Adopt! Wilms Sep 2015 #3
there is good everywhere I love these people. Soooo cute. :D roguevalley Sep 2015 #4
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