{"id":314836,"date":"2026-05-30T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:42:09","slug":"when-a-texas-man-was-forced-to-give-up-his-dog-a-fire-station-gave-him-a-home-you-could-tell-hes-been-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314836\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Texas man was forced to give up his dog, a fire station gave him a home: “You could tell he’s been loved”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Worth, Texas \u2014 Fire Station 8 in Fort Worth, Texas, is what is called a “safe baby site,” a place where desperate parents can leave a baby they are unable to care for.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a little one was left right at the base of the fire station’s flagpole: a dog named Jake. <\/p>\n

Accompanying Jake was a note that read, “His name is Jake\u2026If you really care about helping babies, please help my baby.”<\/p>\n

“You could tell he’s been loved,” Fort Worth Fire Capt. Jason Bryant told CBS News about Jake. “Super healthy, super strong. You can tell he hadn’t missed a meal.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jake had been living with a homeless man named Tom Miner. But Miner became homeless a couple years ago after his landlord told him he couldn’t keep his dog. <\/p>\n

Miner finally decided to give up Jake, begrudgingly, because he believed his dog deserved a better life. <\/p>\n

“I live with that every day,” Miner said. “\u2026It is, hands down, the hardest decision I ever made.”<\/p>\n

Miner said he ran from the fire station after dropping Jake off because he “couldn’t look back.”<\/p>\n

But then came a bright side. The crew at the fire station decided to keep Jake as their own. <\/p>\n

Then, Miner got a new place too when the Fort Worth Fire Department convinced a local business to donate a camper to him.<\/p>\n

“This is my home,” Miner said of the camper. “And there ain’t no place like home.”<\/p>\n

The fire department also provided supplies and arranged for him to see a dentist, doing everything it could to make sure Miner gets back on his feet.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And when that day comes, the firefighters plan to fix the hole in his heart as well by returning Jake to him. <\/p>\n

“One day he’s coming home,” Miner said. <\/p>\n

The fire department stressed that this situation was a one-time exception, because it cannot have the public dropping off dogs at its fire stations. <\/p>\n

“If we can hand Jake back over to Tom, I think that’s the happy ending everybody wants,” Bryant said. “\u2026I think there’ll be 30 grown men bawling.”<\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

\n Go deeper with The Free Press\n <\/p>\n

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