The call was for an \”aggressive dog\” on a freezing, remote road. When the officer arrived and saw him, he sat in the snow and refused to move. Officer Matt Kade was 10 hours into a long winter shift when the call came in. An \”aggressive, possibly dangerous dog\” was spotted on an old service road. He arrived, expecting to find a growling dog. Instead, he saw a skeleton. The dog was huddled by a snowbank, so emaciated that every rib and vertebra was visible. He was wearing a heavy, spiked collar, and his face was a raw, red mess of infections and frostbite. The dog was too weak to even stand. He just trembled, his eyes wide with a terror that said he’d never known a kind hand. Kade\’s training was to call for animal control, but his heart told him something else. He knew this animal wasn\’t aggressive; he was a victim, left to die. He didn\’t use his catch pole. He didn\’t even stand over him. He just quietly sat down in the snow, a few feet away, and started to talk. \”Hey buddy,\”…… (continue reading in the 1st comment)

Officer Matt Kade was nearing the end of a brutal ten-hour winter shift when the call came in: an “aggressive dog” was blocking a remote service road. Dispatch warned him…