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<\/p>\nPrincipal Dr. Jason Oliver started giving dogs in the drop-off line treats a little over a year ago<\/p>\n
BENBROOK, Texas \u2014 When parents bring their little ones to school in Benbrook, their babies are so excited, they\u2019re practically scratching and clawing to get out of the car.<\/p>\n
Not their actual babies, but their fur babies.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because every morning, Dr. Jason Oliver, principal at Benbrook Middle-High School, gives them a treat.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI tell parents all the time, \u2018If you want to leave them here, you can come pick them up at 3:45,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll take them around the school all day.\u201d<\/p>\n
This all started a little over a year ago when Oliver noticed one dog come through the drop-off line.<\/p>\n
Later, a second dog was along for the ride. When he saw them again, he had treats.<\/p>\n
Now, every day, up to 30 dogs come through the line crying out for treats.<\/p>\n
\u201cPenny, Tovi, which is short for Beethoven, Bear, Luna,\u201d Oliver said, rattling off names of his dog-friend regulars.<\/p>\n
At this point, it\u2019s hard to tell who loves it more, the people or the dogs.<\/p>\n
Oliver buys the treats with his own money. It\u2019s worth it, he said, because feeding dogs feeds into students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just about being part of the community and celebrating school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Oliver said that by seeing someone go so far for a dog, kids see how much further you\u2019re willing to go for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody matters, and something as simple as a handshake, a smile, just an acknowledgement to kind of brighten their day- it\u2019s just about building community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why dogs will always be welcome in cat country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are the bobcats,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cWe have had a couple of cats, believe it or not, but the cats usually just stay on the parents\u2019 laps.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why dogs avoid catnaps because you snooze, you lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Principal Dr. Jason Oliver started giving dogs in the drop-off line treats a little over a year ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-429401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429401","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=429401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}