, seven dogs escaped a meat-trade truck in China and traveled 11 miles together to find their way home.

00:00 All right, we were just talking about China a couple of minutes ago, and I want to thank the texter for sending me this story because it is a great one. I know we got a lot going on in the world right now, um but there are some really great stories out there that are happening in China. um There are black market meat dealers, and we're not talking about 00:28 pigs and chickens and cows. We're talking about dogs. There are bandits out there that will actually steal people's dogs and take them to be processed as meat. And this happens a lot, a lot. 00:51 And this story is about some dogs that were headed towards that fate. Seven dogs were stolen, not just stolen. They were dognapped and being transported for the dog meat trade. And somehow they escaped. Not one, not two, but all seven. 01:19 escaped. They jumped out of a moving truck and this is where the story gets really interesting because you know I love my dogs. These dogs when they jumped out of that truck they didn't scatter. They didn't all go in different directions. They didn't panic. They organized and the leader of the whole thing was a corgi. You know a little corgi. 01:50 Short legs, cute butt, big ears, bigger attitude. 01:58 The Corgi's name was Dapang. Dapang translated into English means Big Fat, because they usually are. Well, Big Fat took the front of the pack and witnesses say as they trekked home, Big Fat kept turning around making sure that nobody got left behind. And there were larger dogs in the pack, golden retrievers, labs, basically running protection. 02:28 And in the middle of the whole pack was a German shepherd. The German shepherd was injured. He was limping. And the rest of the pack, at the direction of Big Fat, slowed down their pace to match his. Think about that. 02:47 These dogs refused to let the injured German Shepherd be left behind. So they slowed down so that he could keep up. 02:58 They traveled about 11 miles over two days along highways and open terrain and they did it together. No GPS, no phones, no plan, just instinct and loyalty and they made it. Every single one of them ended up back home and safe. Now here's the part that really hit you. People who saw the video said these dogs moved like a unit, like a family. 03:29 One guy said they looked like little brothers in distress moving together. Man, I tell you what, you watch a story like that and you start realizing that in a lot of ways, dogs get it better than we do. Nobody gets left behind. You protect the weak, you stick together and you get home. 03:57 That kind of sounds like a lot of people in our United States military. That's what they do. Seven dogs led by a corgi walked 11 miles through traffic to get home, didn't leave a single one behind. That's leadership from a little corgi. That's amazing to me. I love stories like that. I mean, you know how Sheila and I are with our pubs. We love them. 04:25 And to hear something like that is just absolutely amazing. That's why when we see people that abuse dogs in any way, it really, as a society, it infuriates us. Because we know how kind and loving and gentle and enthusiastic dogs are. 04:51 we want to take care of them. I mean, they really are. They're an absolute gift from God. They truly are. 04:59 they've got instinct. Our dogs can read us. You know what, I'll tell you what happened today. Usually when I get home, I had some running around to do today, this morning, did some shopping for Sheila, well us, grocery shopping, went out. And usually when I get home, my wife will get out of her chair, because she's usually working, and she'll come to greet me. Well today she didn't do that. 05:28 She was busy working on a design for the company that she works with. She's working on this design. I came home, said hey, she said hey back, but she didn't get up. So little Sophie. 05:44 She took that to mean that mom is mad at dad. That daddy's done something wrong. So she was kind of walking a ...