In an episode of Animal Planet, volunteers Tia and Mariah performed a touching gesture that is quickly going viral.
Tia and Mariah had heard of Joshua’s story, and were touched by it. He was a war veteran who, upon returning to civilian life, found it hard to adapt and cope with. He felt out of place and was completely isolated from others. However, he came to love and adore two dogs that showed him the loyalty and support he needed to get back on his feet. Named Panda and Mama, these two dogs stuck with Joshua when nobody else would.
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However, heartbreak struck when Joshua was forced to move to California. He couldn’t bring Mama and Panda with him, so he left them behind in Louisiana. He dearly missed his dogs, and he asked Tia and Mariah to bring them to California for him.
They drove the dogs to Joshua, where they reunited in Los Angeles. Joshua’s reunion with his two dogs is absolutely touching. It’s immediately clear his dogs missed him so much. They begin to wag their tails rapidly, and they jump on and kiss their owner. More importantly, the two dogs are finally eating again. They stopped eating when Joshua left.
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John counted about five or six coyotes inside the pen with Casper and Daisy being the only thing separating them from the sheep.
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There were several more coyotes in the area. John tried to find a solution to his problem but there was one thing he noticed.
“I wasn’t really afraid they were going to attack me or anything,” John said. “But they weren’t responding [to me], they were focused on Casper I think more than anything.”
The coyotes jumped out of the pen and ran off, splitting in different directions. Casper wasn’t going to let them get away with what they did and he ran after them.
He caught up to them at the embankment of the creek near their home where he fought with the coyotes.
That’s when Casper disappeared.
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John was grateful to Casper because he killed eight coyotes that night, but he was concerned about Casper disappearing more than the coyotes. He needed to find him.
“…We thought we could find him, we thought he must have been killed and so we were looking for him,” John said. “If he wasn’t killed, we figured he was hurt, we knew he was hurt, because we found parts of his tail and blood and other things, so we were worried about him.”
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The search continued the next day.
In their search, that’s where they discovered the dead coyotes. Casper is one tough dog!
Unfortunately, they did not find Casper that day, further solidifying the thought that he might also have been killed in the fight.
He showed up in the pen, banged up but alive and checking in on his herd.
“He looked like death, I mean he looked terrible,” John shared. “He came back home and he just kind of looked at me like ‘boss stop looking at how bad I look, just take care of me.'”
