Faith, the Two-Legged Dog

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Oprah talks about the many ways animals teach and inspire us. Oprah shares the lessons she's learned from her own dogs and from other animals featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah says one of her greatest teachers was her beloved dog Sophie. Oprah was also inspired by one of her most memorable guests, Faith, the dog who overcame severe deformities to learn to walk on two legs. "If that little dog can do that, what can you do?" Oprah asks. Oprah also takes a look back at a ground-breaking program called Puppies Behind Bars, which teaches prisoners to train puppies to become service dogs for wounded soldiers. Oscar-nominee Glenn Close takes us inside a prison to hear how men with histories of violence are being transformed by this amazing program. Finally, Oprah looks back on a touching moment played out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as Nate Berkus comes to the aid of a survivor unable to part with his beloved dog, Rafiki.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.1	I am a woman who loves dogs. I've always loved dogs and I think that one of the reasons
0:31.3	why I love them so much is because as a child I wasn't allowed to have them. And as I grew
0:37.5	up, that was the first thing I wanted, was to get my own dog. To date I think I've had,
0:43.9	I've just counted up before the show, I think I've had 21 dogs since I was an adult.
0:50.4	And one time I had 11 dogs all at one time and nothing makes me happier than being with
0:58.8	my dogs.
0:59.8	We're going walking. Yeah, we are. Come on.
1:04.3	Nothing makes me happier than a walk in the woods or a walk on the lawn or a roll on
1:09.1	the lawn with my dogs. Over the years I have felt the truest, purest love, the love of
1:19.1	God really. I imagine that's what God's love feels like is the love that comes from your
1:25.5	dog because everybody says it's unconditional and they're happy to see you no matter what.
1:31.4	And there's never any judgment.
1:34.1	One of my greatest teachers is my dog, Sophie. Now Sophie lived for 13 years and came to work
1:42.1	with me every day.
1:43.1	Hi, Sophie. Hi, Sophie. Hi, Sophie.
1:50.1	Was there for every show, was backstage at the Oscars, at the Emmys, was waiting in
1:56.1	the car if I went to the gynecologist, Sophie and Solomon travel with me everywhere.
2:02.0	But even more particularly Sophie and Sophie was, I don't know, she had some kind of,
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