Rex ran into The Leaping Wolf after surviving a car accident, and when the pub manager Dan took him to the vet he was informed that Rex's owner did not make it, so Dan adopted him.
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00:00Hi, I'm Dan. I'm one of the managers here at the Leaping Wolf 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's 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.
02:22He's well trained as you can see.