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Gasp! It's me!

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But there's the real Dru!

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Well done

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Melissa asked on the comments of one of
my previous vlogs this month,

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if I've told the story of Dru, how I got
Dru. And I probably have but it doesn't

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hurt to tell it again.

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It was August 2004. It had
been a little while since I lost my

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previous dog to heartworm disease.

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I was missing having a dog in my life so
I started looking on various pet

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adoption websites and craigslist and I
checked in with my girlfriend at the time,

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Carrie, with photos of the dogs that I
liked and she liked a few of them but

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then I send her a photo of this dog,

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this one, and Carrie said, "Oh! This,

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this is the one. You should get this dog!"
The photo came from a craigslist ad. A couple

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had found this dog in Druid Hill Park, a
part of Baltimore. She was tied to a post

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covered in cuts and bruises and they
were doing interviews with people who

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are interested in adopting her.

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They already had a few dogs, which is why they
couldn't keep her for themselves. They had

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her set up in the kitchen and were
interviewing people.

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Apparently, most of the people who had come to
check Dru out had been met with

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growls and snaps and just general
disapproval from Dru.

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But when I came in and I sat down and I
just waited, she came over to me and was

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very friendly with me! She had been named
Druidzilla, the monster of Druid Hill Park,

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but to me she was always just Dru.

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I feel like the fact that of all the people
came to interview to adopt her,

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she came to me and was friendly with
me, means she kind of chose me instead of the

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other way around.

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When I adopted her the vets suspected that she
was about a year old.

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She had not been spayed yet, so that was the first
thing that we did. The life expectancy

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for a dog like Dru is probably about 10
years, so I've been very lucky and i hope

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that i keep on being lucky for a while.

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I've already won!

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Dru!

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[laughter!]

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so that's my vlog for today, all about
Dru, today. Even have a shirt with Dru

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on.. on it!

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Leave me some comments about my adopting
Dru story down below or tell me

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anything that matters to you, because I
want to know what matters to you.

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Thank you for watching my dog vlog today,
here at the end of the video is where I

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always say:

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Tomorrow

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will be even better!