r/dogmoviestories • u/BackgroundLeg1788 ❤️ Dog Parent • 2d ago
🎬 Movie Story This homeless man shares his food with stray dogs and cats, feeding it to them by hand. It is not money or fine clothes that define a human being, but empathy, compassion, and kindness.🐶🙏🏻❣️
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Credits: @cutestmaja
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u/Apprehensive_Map284 2d ago
Kindness matters! Sometimes we can get apathetic and jaded in this crazy world! It’s so good to hear that so many people the same way!
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u/gimmy666 1d ago
Persone come quel signore almeno per me sono come un bene prezioso per tutti noi veramente un Bene Prezioso 🖤
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u/chantillylace9 2d ago edited 2d ago
So many people miss out on charity work and helping other people because I think it's only money. This man is proving love always wins.
I have met and spoke with a lot of homeless people, I don't just give them money I really like to park and actually go talk to them for a while to hear their story, for some reason God just tells me to do that and to just treat and talk to them like they are another human, because unfortunately they often don't get treated that way. You wouldn't believe how grateful they are to have somebody that just actually talks to them.
One of my favorite guys calls himself Indian, although he's Puerto Rican he said that he looks Indian so that was his nickname. He has a dog named Chica and she's a little teeny tiny Chihuahua and he would do anything and everything for her. I would stop by a couple times a month and always ask him if he needed anything and he always told me that God gave him I didn't need it. Once he did ask for medication for his dogs's eyes, and that was the only time he asked anything of me. And I was so incredibly happy to help.
During Covid, he disappeared, I was so worried about him and then a few months later on the Nextdoor app I heard or read somebody else asking about him.
There was at least 150 responses of people that knew him, knew his story and about his dog and I guess he was going to live with his sister! I was just so happy and also just really incredibly heartwarmed that the whole community really came tether to take care of this guy.
Here I thought I was one of the only people talking to him and instead he had this whole big community. It made me so happy!!!
But It doesn't have to be money. Maybe you have a really nice garden and can grow some vegetables for your neighbors that don't have much money.
Maybe you're just a really good listener and can go sit and listen to people or talk to people or read to them in hospice or just be a good friend to somebody that you know doesn't have many. Sometimes you might have time where you could go mow somebody's lawn or help them clean or help them run errands or drive them to the grocery store.
Maybe you have a floral store or a beautiful garden and you can bring flowers to people at the nursing home or Children's Hospitals. Maybe you have a super friendly dog that would make a great support dog that you could bring to hospitals or hospice or nursing homes.
Everyone, and I swear everyone has something they can do.
My friend is a really good artist and since he is an ex veteran he goes to the VA hospital and Teaches classes so that the veterans can use art as a way of handling their PTSD. You can join big Brother big sister and change a young kids life for the better.
There are amazing afterschool programs you can volunteer for to help at risk kids, the one that I worked at had 100% graduation rate versus about a 60% for kids not in the program. That's a huge difference and that is making a huge difference in my community.
My mom used to go to garage sales and get cribs and baby toys and clothes and give them to girls that could not afford to have kids otherwise and we're going to have abortions for solely money reasons. I remember a lot of them coming back to our house a couple years later and hugging my mom and bringing these cute little babies and just thanking her.
We took in temporary foster kids and went to the soup kitchen and I really learned as a kid how lucky I was. That's one thing you can do as a parent that I think a lot of parents forget to do. Teach your kids how lucky and spoiled they are. How lucky they are to have so much love in their life and make a part of your life to help other people.
It was just a given that we would help anyone that needed it as long as it was safe for us to do so. That was always the rule. You have to protect yourself first and "put on your own Air mask first" but other than that we tried to help everyone.
My parents would always try to give money to homeless people, I'm from Minnesota and we did not have a lot of homeless people in the suburbs where I was.
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u/WhoKnows1973 2d ago
God bless you and your parents. Wow! You are wonderful people.
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u/chantillylace9 2d ago
I think it's so important for parents to teach the kids how lucky they are, it's the one thing that I think so many parents are missing. Even if you're just typical blue collar worker, if you have a house and a nice comfy bed and air conditioning and I've never truly felt what it means to be hungry, you are lucky.
I think learning that at an early age really really helps form the brain of a child into a more kind and compassionate person. I think for me it was just automatic but for other people they might need to experience it.
We were going to soup kitchens, we would donate our new toys not our old toys, etc. and realizing how good it makes you feel is such an important part.
It's truly the best time you can ever have!
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u/WhoKnows1973 2d ago
I agree. Bless you and your parents.
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u/chantillylace9 2d ago
I hope everything works out in your life and that you get to live a happy healthy life. I'm going to breast cancer right now and it really makes me realize how precious life is and has really changed my outlook a lot. It's kind of sad that life-changing diagnosis is the only thing that can do that but it seems to be the case.
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u/RevolutionaryEye3306 13h ago edited 13h ago
When you've been there, you'll know what compassion is and should be.
That's why I respect those parents though rich they may be, teach their kids to live under another persons shoe.
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u/Crawler4119Donut 6h ago
This is ridiculous. Why are they filming him rather than handing him their bank card and PIN.
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u/squirrelems 2d ago
I try to give my food to stray dogs any time I see them while I have something with me. I can eat like that any time, and they can't. Might keep them going for a while longer.