A Pittsburgher and a mysterious dog recently teamed up to save two unconscious individuals in a story that has earned the pair thousands of plaudits.

Gary Thynes shared both on Facebook and to local news station WTAE that he was playing with his own dog in a park when a leashed male pit bull arrived without an owner and made what was clearly a plea for attention.

“He would get just close enough where he was out of arms reach and he would bark and turn and run a few steps and turn back around,” Thynes shared on Facebook. “Something put the idea in my head, VERY STRONGLY, that this dog wanted me to follow him. So I did.”

That Facebook post opened with a dedication of personal gratitude for his sobriety—that it allowed him to get in touch with his intuition, which told him the dog was tr

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