Hello, welcome to Stories Podcast. I'm your host Amanda Weldon. This week we are presenting

the Dog Who Wasn't Useful, an original story by Daniel Hines. Today we'd like to say a

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the stories podcast team would be able to produce two episodes a week. Hi, I'm Landon Wittson,

and I host an episode of Who's Amazing Life, a Wondory podcast for kids and families. In the plant

doctor, you've always loved plants, but when you leave home and search of new opportunities,

you discover that your passion for bulbs and blooms can help others, and maybe even change the world.

Listen to the plant doctor and other incredible stories from Who's Amazing Life on Amazon Music

or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy the episode! The dog who wasn't useful.

Their once was a happy little farm that sat in a happy little valley in a happy little town.

It had all sorts of animals on it and they were happy too. It also grew all sorts of vegetables,

but being vegetables they didn't feel much of anything. Safe to say though, if they had been able

to feel, they would have felt happy. In fact, there was only one solitary creature on the entire farm

that wasn't positively dripping with happiness, and that was the dog. You see, everyone else had a

job to do on the farm, something they were good at, but the dog was just left to roam around on his

own. This caused the other animals to tease the dog terribly, and one day he finally decided

enough was enough. He would find something to be good at. So the next day, the dog went to see

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