‘My dad froze in fear, but this dog just booped his ear as if to thank him.’: Family adopts a dumped Pit Bull they almost ran over and learn to love the breed they once feared, all thanks to a single affectionate boop

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 7, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Pit Bulls and 'aggressive' breeds in general get quite the bad reputation. Especially that it has been proven time and again that it is not the breed itself which is dangerous or aggressive, it is their pawrents who are that way and who taught their doggos to behave that way. But, nonetheless, the stories prevail and these poor puppers walk around this world with a sign around their heads that reads do not approach.

Which is quite the shame if you consider that these doggos did not want to be this way and that when it comes down to it, they just want the same love and affection that any other cute canine receives immediately. Which is what makes this story so sweet, as one family who could not bear to see a doggo be dumped out in the cold, overcome their fear of this breed and find out that their preconceived notions were nothing more than a fallacy.

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    Around New Years a couple years back, I was driving to my parents house late at night. Right when I was about to pull into their neighborhood, I saw a silhouette in the road. I slammed on
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    my brakes and stopped a couple feet away from this beige dog with big floppy ears. He casually turned around, sniffed my tire, and walked away blissfully
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    unaware of how close he came to death. I was going to just drive back and be on my way, when overwhelming guilt gripped me (likely enhanced by the adrenaline). I
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    couldn't just let him stay out here on this cold, winter night. I felt like I owed it to him since I had.. well.. almost ked him. I called my mom and let her know of the situation, and she
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    said she would be on the way with treats and a leash. I went to go find him, and upon doing so I made a startling realization... he had the aggressive, rounded head of a
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    pit bull. I had no experience with this breed of dog, and neither had my parents. Only thing I had heard up until this point were the news stories about people getting md by this breed of dog.
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  • ‘My dad froze fear, but dog just booped his ear as if thank him.’: Family adopts dumped Pit Bull they almost ran over learn love breed they once feared, thanks single affectionate boop | thumbnail includes two images one image shows a brown and white dog lying on the floor, the other image shos a brown and white dog resting its head on a person’s shoulder in a car ‘“They fell so in love with the breed that they now donate to charities for pit bulls.”’

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    I'm sure you can imagine the irritation my mom had when she found out what situation | had dragged her into.. especially since, in my panicked state, I had said "I just almost hit
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    a poor, little dog" when on the phone with her earlier.. yeah she doesn't let me live that one down still to this day. And I can't even tell you just how alarmed my dad was when we had finally
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    gotten him into the house. Luckily, we had a big kennel laying around somewhere in the garage to keep him in. I dragged it out, and my dad started to assemble it on the kitchen floor. I
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    don't remember seeing this, but apparently the pit bull had come up behind my dad while he was sitting on the kitchen floor trying to assemble the crate. My dad froze
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  • Honestly, the most heartwarming thing about all of this is that while this family feared this darling doggo with an intensity usually reserved for actual monsters. They still did whatever they could to help it. To make sure that it felt safe and to make sure that its neglect would be no more. 

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    in fear, but this dog just booped his ear as if to thank him. You see, when I was growing up we had 3 miniature pinchers, and my dad wasn't really all that into them it turns out. 2 of them had
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    unfortunately passed from old age at this point. He had been saying that after our last one passed, we wouldn't have any more dogs. But something changed in him with that boop. He later
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    told me he would be a bit heart broken if he had to return that dog. I ended up sleeping on the couch next to him to keep him company since he whined while he was locked up (we had an old, frail dog at this time
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    and had no idea if they would get along). We searched around online for days trying to find the owners of this dog. Community forums, the vet, shelters, Facebook... nothing.
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    It was just baffling to us because this dog was probably the sweetest dog we had ever met, and he looked so well cared for when we found him. However, about a week later, we got a tip.
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    It turns out, someone had seen this dog at a park on the day that I found him... along with a family. A mom, dad, and 2 extremely upset daughters all walking away from this dog and leaving him behind. He had been abandoned.
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    We still looked for the owners just in case, but after a couple weeks had passed we decided that it was time to end the search. We had fallen too deeply in love with this dog at this point. My parents
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    decided to name him Koda (despite my protests of wanting to name him Jabba because of his wrinkly face and the "talking" he does when he wants to play).
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    I know it's gross to read soppy dog stories, but it dawned on me today just how much my parents have changed because of this dog. In fact, they decided that one extremely energetic,
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    belly busting pit bull just wasn't enough for them and adopted themselves another pit bull named Roxie. Roxie is a complete opposite of the pit bull stereotypes since she is so gentle about
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    everything (until she starts to play with Koda which sounds like a couple of dinosaurs from all the growling and hyperness) and LOVES to go "ROOWOOWOOO" when you come home. They fell so in
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    love with the breed that they now donate to charities for pit bulls and make posts on Facebook about how wrong it is for these dogs to be grouped into the "aggressive breed" category.
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    Okay so I guess | broke the rules and this story kind of has a point. But, in my defense, I am just away from home for the longest I have been and I just really miss all those goofballs and wasn't sure where to share this story.
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