Little was road testing his mountain bike outside of Columbus, when his ________ partner, Dixon, stopped suddenly. Something in the ________ moving among the trees caught her attention. It ________ out to be a young Labrador, when they approached.

“He was really bony, and had a ________ leg,” Little told CBS News. They fed the ________ dog food and water. They also quickly realized the dog was coming with them, but they had no ________ how. “Ten miles from the town, we couldn’t ________ him,” Little said. “Out there next to the Oxbow Meadows, he was going to ________ as alligators’ (鳄鱼) food.”

An idea hit Little. He ________ picked up his new friend and slipped the 38-pound dog’s hind legs (后腿) into the ________ pockets of his cycling suit. Then he hung the dog’s front paws over his ________.

“He was injured, so he wasn’t trying to ________,” Little said. “He was also happy that we were there, touching and ________ him.” After a 30-minute ride, they arrived at a store. That was when Andrea Shaw, a lawyer on business, ________ to pass by. The dog went directly toward her, licking her, and “________ her”, said Dixon. Shaw was ________ and, after learning what had happened, declared her plan: “I am ________ this dog.” Shaw named him Columbo after the town where they’d met and ________ an operation on his leg.

Today, Columbo is living a ________ life on a farm with a horse, a pony, and her six-year-old boy keeping him ________. Literally the luckiest dog alive.

As an only child, Nicole Renae often felt lonely in her youth. But that all changed when she turned ten. For her birthday, Renae’s grandmother _______ her with an adorable gray _______ named Chloe.

From the very start, the two were _______. “She was my best friend,” Renae said. Every ounce of love Renae gave, the little dog returned tenfold.

But when Renae was 14, her father _______ a new job that came with a shocking warning: He’d be working at home, and the house needed to _______ noise disturbance.

“Chloe was very noisy,” Renae said. “I was just a kid, so I didn’t have any _______ in the matter. I didn’t want to _______ my dog. I just felt so sick and _______ about it. With no easier option, the family sent Chloe to a humane society.

_______, Renae grew up, got married, and had a child of her own. But her family didn’t feel quite complete. Remembering the ________ that having a dog had brought her as a kid, Renae wanted her daughter to ________ the same. She had it in her mind that she would ________ a puppy, but then one day she saw a post on a social media platform about a ________ dog that needed a new home. The dog in the photograph looked a lot like Chloe —she was even named Chloe. In an instant it was ________: She would adopt this older dog.

When she met Chloe, the dog seemed so familiar. And Chloe appeared to feel the same ________ about Renae. Soon Renae cried with excitement because she felt so lucky to have Chloe again.

Steven Chilvers and his wife Dawn, realised their two-year-old daughter Emily wasn’t hitting her milestones at the same pace as her twin sister._______, after a psychological assessment, Emily was diagnosed with autism (自闭症). But instead of feeling_______, Steven and Dawn were pleased they had a diagnosis, and they could _______ to find therapies to help their daughter.

As they noticed Emily _______ animals, especially big ones, the devoted parents considered how dogs could help ease her _______. After conducting some of their own research, they _______ a charity called Dogs for Good. It matches people living with_______with specially trained assistance dogs, which the couple thought it was a(n)_______ idea for their daughter.

After filling out the paperwork, they waited for a(n)_______ for their daughter with patience. __________, they were paired with Oslo, an 18-month-old black Labrador, who had been through a four month training programme to __________ things like socialization and how to __________ different situations.

Since Olso __________ the family, he has been critical in helping Emily __________. According to Steven. Emily was really __________ the day Oslo moved in. The family let him have a run around in the back garden and the girl couldn’t take her eyes off the __________. Since then. Emily has become less and less anxious. And now she is delighted to hold onto Oshamess (背带) and go for a walk with her parents.   

“She’s really __________being with him and once she even reached out her arms to __________ him. For a child with autism, that’s a __________ thing and clear evidence of her __________with him, ” Steven said.