Dusty-Danger Dog

Modern Love

The New York Times

Storytelling, Nytimes, Nyt, Redemption, New York Times, Society & Culture, Loss, Essay, Love

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Feeling election stress? Today's stories about a man and his dog may help. Timothy Braun was on a run through the Texas heat. When he stopped at a local animal shelter for a drink of water, he was taken by a dog who stared at him with pointy ears and mismatched eyes — one brown, one blue. He had no intention of adopting a dog, but “out of curiosity, or God knows what” he looked into the dog’s folder. It said that he'd been abandoned by an old woman. Her reason? “Dusty keeps following me around the house.” On today’s episode, we follow Dusty and Timothy’s relationship through two stories, seven years apart. Featured stories:“Four-Legged Reason to Keep It Together" and "She Wanted a Man With a Good Job Who Was Nice to Animals" by Timothy Braun Timothy's stories story were recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

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0:00.0	Yeah, damn I
0:02.3	Have something to play for you at my phone
0:06.1	Okay, we've strapped it
0:09.0	You ready? Yeah
0:14.8	What is that it's my dog Greek girl
0:19.0	It doesn't sound like a happy sound, but it's actually a happy sound
0:23.8	It's so happy
0:25.9	Sounds like someone in pain. So it sounds like he's in pain or something, but he's actually like
0:32.4	He like throws his head off and it's sort of a moment of pure bonding and joy
0:37.0	To howl and howl and howl go as long as we go. Oh wow
0:42.9	No one more
0:44.9	Now
0:54.6	Okay, that's it now
0:57.4	Well, thank you for sharing that
0:59.5	Sure
1:01.2	So
1:02.6	Today we actually have two essays by the same author Timothy Braun and
1:07.3	They're both about his relationship with his dog
1:10.4	Mia, have you ever had a dog?
1:13.4	No, I've actually never had any pets really no pets at all no
1:18.2	I had I had goldfish, but I can't say it was particularly close to any of them
1:22.9	I don't remember the names they didn't serve as like sort of a rallying, you know a central focus of the family or anything
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