When Erica got a call from her neighbor one morning in San Diego, she didn’t expect it to turn into a rescue mission. But the moment she heard the urgency in his voice, she dropped everything.
Her neighbor had been walking through Balboa Park when he spotted a gray pit bull tied to a sign near a quiet area known as Juniper’s Staircase. The dog was alone, and something about the scene didn’t sit right.
Knowing Erica had a soft spot for pit bulls, and a history of rescuing them, he reached out, hoping she could help.
Erica rushed to the park and found the dog just as described: tied to the sign, sitting patiently, and looking up with tired eyes and a hopeful wag of his tail. But what truly broke her heart was the crumpled note left beside him. As she wrote on Instagram:…