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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Lessons of Cletus the pit bull

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I have read the sto­ry about Cle­tus and watched the video about this loy­al ser­vice dog about 100 times, and I am still touched by how many lessons there are to learn from this sto­ry that popped up on the In­ter­net last week. An­i­mals teach us so much about life–once we're will­ing to recog­nise the lessons they pro­vide for us to learn.

On May 14, 2014, Cle­tus, a black and white ser­vice dog with a long, sad face ex­ag­ger­at­ed no doubt by his droop­ing jowl, showed up at the grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny for Ida­ho State Uni­ver­si­ty (ISU) stu­dents in Pocatel­lo, Ida­ho. Cle­tus had been in­vit­ed to cross the stage with all of the grad­u­ates.

For ob­vi­ous rea­sons, Cle­tus, who might have been named af­ter a char­ac­ter on The Simp­sons, did not wear a cap and gown. He wore his work­ing clothes, a bright, red har­ness with the words "Ser­vice Dog Seizure Alert" writ­ten in no­tice­ably large let­ters across the sides of the har­ness.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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