00:04He came to us completely shut down, wouldn't look at anyone, wouldn't wag, wouldn't respond
00:10to a thing, like he'd just given up.
00:20Nothing we tried reached him, but Bear knew what to do.
00:42He didn't fuss over him, he just lay down beside him, exactly the way the little one
00:49was lying, same spot, same way, just there with him.
01:06He did it day after day, wherever the little one lay, that's where Bear lay too.
01:22And little by little, something started to come back.
01:29And then one day, he lifted his head, and he looked right at Bear, and his tail, it wagged,
01:37just once.
01:39He'd given up on everything, so the old dog just stayed exactly at his level for as long
01:46as it took, until he looked up again.
01:49Nobody taught Bear to do that.
01:51He somehow knew you don't pull a broken dog back.
01:54You just lie down beside him, and wait for him to come back to you.