A dog’s journey after being left at a Texas firehouse 02:48<\/p>\n
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.<\/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.”<\/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.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog’s journey after being left at a Texas firehouse 02:48 Fort Worth, Texas \u2014 Fire Station 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125,113223,116,113224,27,29,28,110227],"class_list":["post-314849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fire-department","tag-firehouse","tag-fort-worth","tag-jason-bryant","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tom-miner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}