Inside the homes in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, it was warm and bellies were full just three days after Christmas. However, outside, the weather was freezing cold with pouring rain, and an abandoned skinny Labrador-mix puppy was chained to a fence, soaked to the bone and shivering.
But for the then-11-month-old puppy, his holiday present for 2018 would come in the form of New York Police Department officer Michael Pascale, who was on patrol that day.
