In a small town in Turkey, there was a scruffy stray dog that everyone sort of knew. He’d wander around daily, always with a hopeful wag in his tail, as if he was waiting for someone kind enough to notice him. People would occasionally toss him scraps, and he’d accept them always with a soft, grateful look.
One day, he was walking about near a butcher shop, probably drawn by the smell of meat. A young woman named Annie spotted him. She’d just bought some steaks and noticed how he looked so kindly at her bag. Something about him just tugged at her heart. She went back inside and asked the butcher if he had any extra bones. He did, so she took one and gave it to the dog.
The funny thing was, he didn’t dig in right there. He took the bone carefully in his mouth and went off down the street. Annie was curious about this behavior of his, but she decided to go home and she shrugged it off.
The next morning Annie was walking down and about, when she noticed the same little pup from yesterday. The dog also noticed her and came over to her. She also brought him some sausages, but the same as the day before, the pup didn’t eat them and instead walked off like he had somewhere to be. “Interesting..” she thought to herself just as she was walking away.
The third day rolls by, and Annie spotted the dog again, but this time it seemed like the scruffy stray dog was waiting for her to come. She had some treats in her bag, and fed him and just like the other two times, he went away. This time Annie decided to follow him from a distance. Eventually, the two of them came across a street where she watched as the dog sat beside a storm drain. As he was sitting down, he looked into the drain and dropped one of his treats on purpose, before eating his own.
Puzzled by this behavior, she noticed that over the next few days, the pup continued to drop food into the drain before he would eat his own, so she decided to take a look herself.
Annie went closer and peeked into the drain. She couldn’t believe it, inside were five tiny kittens, all cuddled together, and the kind dog had been bringing them food, trying to keep them alive from starving to death.
Feeling a rush of urgency, Annie called the local fire department. The firefighters came and carefully pulled the little kittens to safety. They were weak and hungry, but thanks to the dog’s daily meals he had been bringing them, they survived.
Afterwards, Annie decided she couldn’t let this kind-hearted dog roam the streets anymore. She took him home and named him Kurt. And as for the kittens, she found them all loving homes. This story of the stray dog with a heart of gold became one that folks in town wouldn’t soon forget—a small reminder that compassion can show up in the most unexpected places.