Residents of St. Lucie County, Florida were about to finish a job when they heard something that made them stop.
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An almost inaudible whimper coming from a manhole, where they found a puppy drowning. He had no home, and one of the officers thought it was his destiny to find him and adopted him without hesitation.
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The guards were about to leave their posts when they heard screams coming from an empty camp. Most people would have ignored them, but not these men.
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James Gettings was one of the officers who found the puppy forced to float in a sewer. When he was rescued, he was scared, exhausted and almost ready to give up.
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They bathed him several times to make him smell like a dog again and then tried to find his family. But apparently no one was there and the Gettingler thought it was fate that they had met.
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He took him home and named him ,,puddle”. Now he is growing quietly and has no deficiencies.