The Dog that Saved Farmers Branch

Dallasblog.com | Brian J. Burns:

“Can a dog really save a city? Well, this one did. In June of 2006, my wife, Robin Bernier, started e-mailing members of the city council of Farmers Branch, Texas. ... She was e-mailing the council about the problems that the city, the state, and the country were having with illegal immigration. She found a friend through a steady sharing of information on the subject with City Councilman Tim O’Hare. Tim also told Robin about a dog in his neighborhood that wasn’t being treated well. His name was Merlin. Since 2002, Tim had watched this animal get very little attention from its masters, and was left out in the extreme heat and cold with very little shelter.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

The story gets even more heartwarming from there. How touching. Two xenophobes, separately working to evict illegal immigrants from their homes in Farmers Branch, are accidentally brought together out of sympathy for a homeless dog. Kudos to Dallas Blog for adding satire. I had to check the masthead to make sure I wasn't reading The Onion.