When Moose sends you a Bear: a story of rescue & fate
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Gretchen shares the emotional, unexpected story of adopting Bear, the rescue dog who showed up at exactly the right time, looking almost impossibly like Moose and Henry combined.
She talks about the moment she and Troy saw his photo, why it felt like Moose had sent him, and how grief, timing, fate, and love all collided in one very surreal day. From bringing Henry and Dallas to meet him, to watching Lennon call him “Moose,” this episode is a tender reminder that nothing ever replaces the ones we lose, but sometimes love finds its way back into the house when we need it most.
Gretchen also talks about why she will always advocate for rescuing, and the quiet magic of giving a shelter dog the life they deserve.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday was one of the craziest days of our lives. Troy and I literally instantly started crying. |
| 0:07.9 | It was the weirdest sense of fate. It was perfect. |
| 0:15.1 | D-bad baby. That stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. And we're not sugar-coating shit. So let's get into it, |
| 0:21.0 | shall we? |
| 0:25.4 | Hi, guys. I'm recording this on Wednesday the 22nd. So you've probably seen it on my Instagram by |
| 0:32.5 | now. But yesterday was one of the craziest days of our lives. We adopted a dog. His name that he came |
| 0:40.9 | with was Bucky, but we are trying to change it to bear. And guys, if you have not seen my |
| 0:45.7 | Instagram, you have to go watch. He is literally a spitting image of Moose and Henry combined. |
| 0:52.4 | It's so crazy. I talk about the whole story there, but I really just |
| 0:56.0 | wanted to share about him because he is so insanely special. And there is not one doubt in my mind |
| 1:03.8 | that he was sent to us from Moose. So my friend Amanda, she's friends with this girl who works at a |
| 1:10.2 | shelter here in Atlanta. And that |
| 1:12.5 | girl messaged Amanda and was like, hey, I know that it might be too early. But this dog is at |
| 1:18.6 | our rescue and looks identical to your friend Gretchen's dogs. We just wanted to see if maybe |
| 1:25.2 | she would be interested. So Amanda sent the pictures and the videos |
| 1:29.6 | to me and Troy and I literally instantly started crying. It was the weirdest sense of fate. |
| 1:37.9 | And like things were going like this when things in our life felt so empty to a sense, which is so hard to say because we have |
| 1:46.2 | such a full life. But the loss of moose literally made like our house so quiet. Everything felt very |
| 1:52.7 | quiet. Everything felt very almost like monotone. I don't know if that's really the right way to |
| 1:57.3 | explain it. But it's like seeing those videos. I was sending the videos around to my |
| 2:02.2 | friends and they were like, wait, that's not moose. And I was like, no, that is Bucky. This dog who's at this |
| 2:08.0 | shelter, terrified of the shelter, was crying the entire time. So all the volunteers were trying to |
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