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The old deaf dog who slept by the freeway

For almost seven months, a big white dog slept beside a freeway. He was old and deaf, and nobody had taken him home. more

Then Hope For Paws got a text about him. Eldad and his volunteer friend Joann Wiltz headed out to a wide open stretch by the road, where a kind security guard told them where the dog hid.

They searched on foot until Eldad saw him and asked Joann to turn around. The dog was asleep and could not hear them coming, and the shaking of the freeway hid their steps. Eldad crept close and slipped the loop of a snare over him before he even knew they were there.

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Mr. Rogers is a senior Central Asian Shepherd Dog, deaf when the rescuers find him.

Up close he was a senior Central Asian Shepherd Dog, and there was no fight in him. He was calm, even friendly. The rescuers sat down beside him with food, and Joann saw that he had hardly any teeth. Little by little he relaxed and began to eat.

They named him Mr. Rogers. The plan was for him to follow a cheeseburger into a crate, but he got nervous. So Eldad slowed everything down and spent seven more minutes just helping him feel safe. Seven minutes, after seven months alone.

In those minutes, Mr. Rogers closed his eyes and pressed his big head into Eldad's side. Soon he had a leash on, and he walked into the crate. Before they left, the rescuers stopped to thank the two security guards, so they would know he was safe. "Oh, we're gonna miss you, buddy," one guard said.

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For almost seven months, a big white dog slept beside a freeway.

At the Hope For Paws center he got a warm bath and a good dry-off. Then a vet checked him for a microchip, looked him over and found an ear infection.

Hollywood Huskies, friends of Eldad's, offered to foster him and find him a loving home. When Joann came to visit a few days later, the infection was gone. At first, his foster family says, he did not know what to do when they opened the door. Now he lies right where he can watch the people and keep an eye on things outside.

The change is easy to see. He wags his tail, and he goes after a red squeaky toy with so much energy that someone asks, "What is a senior?"

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With his few teeth, Mr. Rogers takes on a red toy at his foster home.

He can hear again, too. "I love you, sir," someone tells him, and this time he hears it.

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