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Awhile back, Bill Neel lost his beloved support service dog, a Boston Terrier named Rocky, to an illness. Bill wasn't sure he could bond with another dog, but then a neighbor told him about a family with an extra-hyper dog that they couldn't control. That neighbor told those folks that Bill had just lost a support-service dog, so they called Bill and asked if he'd take their unruly pet. Bill was about to say, "No, I just can't do that right now," but then they said, "He's a Boston Terrier, an older one." Bill thought, Well, I'm an older person, and maybe Cactus and I could grow older together, since I'm in my eighties. That evening, they brought Cactus to Bill's home--and it felt like he'd always lived there. They told Bill to keep Cactus inside, as he might run away. "Oh, was that wrong " Bill later said. "As time went along he just about caused me to run away." And that's how Cactus and his newfound human gave each other a new leash on life. Don't you just love happy endings?