Gary Thynes was relaxing at the dog park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his own pooch when something caught his eye. A pit bull had wandered into fast-moving traffic on Chestnut Street. He wasn’t lost—he was trying to catch someone’s attention.
Thynes left his own dog with a friend and raced after the small pit bull. “He would come just close enough for me to be out of arm’s reach, and then he would bark, turn around, run a few steps, turn around, bark again.”
The dog’s message was clear. “I got this overwhelming feeling that he wanted me to follow him.”…