Guy Walks Hundreds Of Miles To Help Unhoused People Feed Their Dogs

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Guy walks over 200 miles every month to help unhoused people care for their dogs — and he just adopted a pittie off the street who rides around on his bike now!

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00:00This guy does everything by sport to take care of about 60 to 80 dogs on a weekly basis.

00:17I just heard of feeding one dog and the word kind of spread throughout the community.

00:27There's no real reason that I do this work outside of just to love all these animals.

00:35The one thing is their dogs.

00:38That's what keeps them going.

00:39And often times that's just what gives them a reason to live and carry on, period, is

00:44that dog.

00:48They can slow me for blocks.

00:51I've become like the Santa Claus and the ice cream man.

00:56I just kept asking questions and learning about his story.

00:59So I became interested in creating a documentary about Paul.

01:02So who's this?

01:04This is Mimi.

01:06She's my latest puppy.

01:09I only work at my actual job and get paid for about 11 hours a week and all the rest

01:14goes to keeping projects of those ongoing.

01:17It runs us $400 to $500 every week.

01:21I raise the funds by snapping photos and taking little videos and sharing them to my social

01:26media.

01:28And all the money that he raises, it goes directly to the dogs.

01:32I take these dogs to the vet whenever possible.

01:34It might be a little big, but it's nice.

01:38I provide food as well as the harnesses and leashes.

01:41Thank you, good puppy.

01:43You gotta hold still, though.

01:44You gotta hold still, Kelly.

01:46It's okay, buddy.

01:47I administer whatever vaccines you put legally without those licenses and stuff.

02:01Dottie kind of got the short end of the stick as far as her life before Paul.

02:04Off to her appointment at Betts and Vans, finally.

02:13She came to live with me and just became part of the family.

02:18She just loves everybody and she loves to just come up and nuzzle between your legs.

02:25I have four dogs that all came off of the streets.

02:33I take in as many as I can.

02:37You got the biggest box on earth, I guess.

02:39Do you have a box cutter on you?

02:41Very nice.

02:42The car, it's about 200 pounds.

02:45I found out that his hip was bothering him, so we helped coordinate the electric bike with a big bucket in the front.

02:57It's been such a blessing.

02:58It helps me zip her out of town and feed these dogs in a timely fashion.

03:05The best thing is that Dottie really likes to go out and ride around with it.

03:09When she first came to me, I pushed her around in an oversized dog schooler.

03:13I just carried her over into loving to ride around on the bike.

03:23I suffered a lot of severe child abuse, which basically just made me shut down and not really associate with people very much.

03:31But it did draw me to animals.

03:34Dogs are a lot better than people in a lot of ways.

03:37It's kind of the pureness of love without motives or agendas.

03:41It's just incredible to see one person have such an impact.

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