Meet the man dedicating his life to helping thousands of stray dogs. Also: the childhood sweethearts who reunited after 85 years, and Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, playing college basketball with only one arm.
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I meet this man who's helped thousands of stray dogs in Thailand, two childhood sweethearts reunited after more than 85 years.
All these years just passed, and then suddenly we got in touch again. And...
I looked at the text and I thought to myself, like, history? Like, what are you talking about? And then that's when it clicked in my head for a second. I was like, OK, maybe this is kind of a big deal.
An historic moment in college basketball. Meet the first player with one arm to score during a game. We begin with the story of a man in Thailand who's become an online celebrity after sharing his stories of the abandoned street dogs he's fed, rehomed and treated. Niall Harbison lives on the island of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand.
His story begins when he himself was in a bad place, recovering in hospital from alcohol poisoning. He decided to turn his life around. and began to befriend some of the island's many stray dogs, and that became his mission, to fix the global street dog problem.
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