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One day as a small child I recall seeing my neighbour struggling to remove something from the back of her car, after a short while I saw that it was a dog. Locking eyes with the creature I was mesmerized, I saw a fire in him I'd never seen before. As she already owned two dogs she meant to call the RSPCA and have someone pick him up the next day. I could see this fiery dog hadn't the temperament to be rehomed,so I begged my family to let me keep him. It was a stormy night and my grandmother insisted he slept outside on the deck and so did I, I held him close as the fear of the storm caused seizure after seizure. 'You're home now.' I told him and he was. Zac became the best big brother a kid could as for, terrifying the neighbourhood kids who teased me and protecting me for all kinds of harm. We had a fantastic 14 years together until he sadly passed last year, but to this day I can't argue that it wasn't I who rescued Zac, but rather him who rescued me.

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