Parents Can’t Make Baby With Bad Flu Feel Better, Then Rescued Pitbull Enters

Parents Can’t Make Baby With Bad Flu Feel Better, Then Rescued Pitbull Enters
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Ever been achy and sick and at the same time felt like nothing in the world could cheer you up? When little Dawson, the son of Bryan Junior and Chelsea Bernstein, came down with the flu, the cure wasn’t in a warm soup or tea but instead his childhood companion, a rescued pit bull.

In 2015, Bryan Junior adopted a pit bull, which he named Riddick, from a non-profit animal welfare organization called Rescue Dogs Rock NYC, whose mission is “to save abused and at risk dogs from kill shelters and provide vetting and loving homes.”