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Paws up at last for a pit bull frozen with fear

Everything at the construction site looked deserted, except for one dog in the middle of the yard. When the rescuers walked up, he did not move at all. more

His name is Odin, a pit bull, and Hope For Paws in California had been called to help him. He had planted himself in the middle of the site among a set of metal tunnels, and one rescuer guessed he felt safer there. Nobody knew where his owner had gone.

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A Hope For Paws rescuer at the empty construction site where Odin was found.

Odin didn't growl or snap. He wasn't angry, just badly scared, so the rescuers moved in slowly. They tried food, which usually works with a frightened dog. He would not touch it, and the harder they tried, the less he seemed to want it.

One rescuer suggested a leash. It took a few tries to get it on him, and the plan was to walk with him wherever he wanted to go. The moment they pulled, Odin pressed his whole body flat against the ground. "I wish I could just pick him up," one rescuer said, but he was too nervous for that.

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Everything at the construction site looked deserted, except for one dog in the middle of the yard.

That's when Eldad Hagar, who founded Hope For Paws, stepped in. Odin was so nervous that he passed gas right in a rescuer's face. Then, with an extra pair of hands and a count of three, they got him out of that yard.

They checked him for a microchip and found none. Later, the dog who wouldn't take a step is up and moving when someone calls his name. By the end he lies on his back at a rescuer's feet, one paw in the air.

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At the end, Odin lies on his back at a rescuer's feet with one paw raised.

"My kitten," a rescuer tells him, three times over. It's a funny thing to call a pit bull, and from the look of him, Odin doesn't mind one bit.

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