From the archives: This story was last updated in April 2019.
When Janine Guido, the huge-hearted founder of Speranza Animal Rescue in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, met a dog called Watson, everything she needed to know about him was written on his face.Watson was picked up from an emergency vet’s clinic after a college student found him wandering around in a local park. The vet estimated that Watson was around 7 or 8 years old. “He looked exhausted,” Guido told The Dodo, “like he was ready to give up the fight.”