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When Patrick Stewart met his foster pit bull

Sir Patrick Stewart played Captain Picard on Star Trek, but in this living room he is just a man in a green sweater, meeting the pit bull he is about to foster. more

This is their first meeting. He sits on a light sofa with the dog close beside him, and the warmth comes off him right away. He likes her, and he's not shy about showing it. She seems to feel the same, and it has the look of love at first sight, on both sides of the sofa.

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Sir Patrick Stewart played Captain Picard on Star Trek, but in this living room he is just a man in a green sweater, meeting the pit bull he is about to foster.

It's a side of him not many people get to see. He's famous for Captain Picard and for the X-Men movies, and here he is, a big dog lover, making a fuss over a foster dog.

Pit bulls carry a rough reputation, and a lot of people saw this as a quiet push back against it. They blamed the bad name on cruel owners, not on the dogs, and thanked him for taking one in.

Fostering means the goodbye is built in. He wasn't able to keep her, and that stings, because it's plain how much he adores her. The good news is that she went on to a home of her own. For a while, at least, she had a knight for a foster dad.

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