Dog Walks a Risky 4-Mile Trek Each Night to Get Leftovers and Run Back to Feed Friends

Dog Walks a Risky 4-Mile Trek Each Night to Get Leftovers and Run Back to Feed Friends
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From the archives: This story was last updated in September 2019.
The Brazilian junkyard dog in this story could have devoured the leftovers herself, but instead, she saved them for somebody else! Her selfless gesture teaches us an important lesson about sharing.
Lilica the mutt was abandoned in front of a junkyard in São Carlos, Brazil. Though destitute, she soon found warmth in her new home after befriending other stray dogs, cats, and chickens living in the junkyard. And later, Lilica had a bigger family after giving birth to eight puppies, according to the junkyard’s owner, Neile Vãnia Antônio, as shown in a viral video in 2013.
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