Smarter than you think

When you are animal lover and caregiver of animals, in my case two cats, people tend to share their own animal stories. Most are relatable and heartwarming. But there are a few and rare animal stories that seem so wild to be true.

A friend and co-worker once told me a story about when he still lived in Puerto Rico. He and his roommate had a dog that they were trying to get rid of. Every time they would drive with the dog and drop it off, a few towns over, the dog would always return to their house a few days to a week later. Without fail. By the fourth and fifth time, they had given up and decided to keep the dog.

I asked him why he and his roommate didn’t take it to a shelter. He simply answered with a shrug, as though it were common knowledge, that it’s Puerto Rico and apparently shelters aren’t a thing in his home country.

Anyways, there was a man with a truck that would always drive from town to town and sell his produce. One day, my friend and his roommate were sitting outside their house, drinking a few beers with the dog lying nearby. And as the produce man made his way by my friend’s house, he saw the dog laying outside and decided to stop. The man asked my friend if that dog was his. To which my friend said it was.

It turns out that, every few days or weeks, the man had seen that exact dog, a few towns over, and it would follow behind him as he made his rounds through all the towns. It was then that my friend realized how the dog would return to him and his roommate.

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