This Dog Rescue Will Make You Believe In Fate

The Dodo

Is fate real? There can't be any other explanation for this rescue story  ❤️  Our producer Brielle was in Mexico when her friend rescued a street dog — and what happened next is truly meant to be.  We are celebrating Pride Month by spotlighting some of our favorite LGBTQ+ pet parents, their pets and rescue work.

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00:00This dog would still be on the streets if it wasn't for my amazing friend Joey.

00:06Oh, she's a beast.

00:10He's truly a dog hero.

00:13I've known Joey for years now.

00:15So when I started working at the Dodo, I was so excited to get a chance to show the world how amazing Joey is.

00:21I decided to go follow him on one of his rescues.

00:25Joey, what are we doing?

00:26We're going, we found this dog that it seems really sick.

00:30He was just here a second ago.

00:32I know.

00:33I've covered so many rescue stories as part of my job.

00:36But experiencing it firsthand while watching Joey was so humbling.

00:40Because I could really feel how desperate and scared this dog was until Joey came along.

00:45I watched him rescue not one, but three dogs over the two weeks he was there.

00:52Joey was asking everybody about where this dog came from.

00:55Hello, he's lost.

00:57He's lost? Can you take him?

01:02You want a dog? Garrison, Perro?

01:06He brought the dog chicken and beef to try to earn its trust.

01:10He didn't let us come near him at the beginning.

01:12So we would have to like throw the chicken and beef at him.

01:15Every time another person came by, he would cower away.

01:19Oh, he's scared.

01:21But I knew the whole time this was a good dog.

01:25This was a dog that didn't deserve to be on the streets.

01:28And just needed a chance to feel loved.

01:34I couldn't come out the next day, but Joey was committed.

01:37It's okay, baby.

01:39We're going to attempt to get the dog with this amazing vet.

01:44When Joey told me what happened after this, I couldn't believe it.

01:47Can you speak to just like how you suddenly knew like,

01:50oh, there's hope for this dog and we're going to make this happen?

01:53There's often times we don't have a plan.

01:55And we're like, let's just take it day by day, minute by minute.

01:58And it was very fateful because just as we were about to get the dog to the vet,

02:03this amazing couple came out of the restaurant saying that we were actually

02:07trying to figure out how to adopt the dog. We didn't know how.

02:11So it was just such a community effort where everybody just coming out of restaurants

02:16and like different cafes. Luckily the dog wasn't really sick.

02:19So we were able to get the plan in motion.

02:22It really is like a little Pixar movie how it happened.

02:27Did I come back? Are you happy? Yeah, look at that tail.

02:31The issue was that there was an embargo.

02:34So no dogs could leave Puerto Vallarta by plane. They lived in Canada.

02:39So we had to be very resourceful. I reached out to some of my contacts.

02:43We got the dog to go to Tijuana for a couple of days.

02:46We got somebody to drive the dog from Tijuana to Los Angeles.

02:50And the adopter drove all the way down from Canada to get the dog and then drive back up.

03:07Now Jesus is in Canada and living his best life.

03:14They sent me a video of Jesus with his new owners at a cafe.

03:19He looks so relaxed. I'm so excited to see him just learn to love and learn that he's safe.

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