Poncho is a pit bull mix with fur the color of a Dairy Queen peanut butter cup Blizzard. Today is not Poncho’s birthday, but he gets a peanut butter cake all to himself—all for being exactly what the words iced on the cake read: The Goodest Boy.
The Martinez family of Española, New Mexico, adopted Poncho eight years ago and are now more thankful than ever that they did, because good-natured, tail-thumping Poncho might have saved their lives. In June, a man with a knife broke into the upstairs of their home, and Poncho defended his family.
