A short interview segment about PT, a rescue dog saved from a Miami pound who became a mascot and community outreach figure. Speakers describe rescuing him five years earlier, his name origin (Petey/P.T.), his role visiting a physical therapy office and teaching children about kindness, and plans to create a children’s book about him to promote rescue and compassion.
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Would you mind sharing with the audience a little bit about what PT the dog represents for you and what you're doing with that children's book?
Oh, thank you so much for asking. Yes, he is my heart.
So I had heard on a podcast many years ago, like, you know, we've been talking today a lot about passion and purpose, right. That if you can combine your. Your passion and your purpose in your. In your career as well as personally, like, it's a home run. And so PT the dog for me is combining my. Again, going back to my purpose of changing lives, and it's combining my purpose of doing that through my community with. With apex, but also doing it to save and help more rescue dogs. And so I was able to bridge the gap and bring them both together, which happened completely organically when I saved this dog, PT from 5 years ago from a pound in Miami. And.
His name was Petey.
Like the Little Rascals. P E T E. Yeah. With the eye patch, you know, and took him to the veterinarian's office to fix his leg. And I said, I don't know. Just name call him Petey.
I don't know.
We just rescued him. Just help fix his leg.
And they literally wrote the words P.T. on his intake paperwork.
Come on.
No, P.T. the initials.
And later, you're a physical therapist not knowing that's what you sign your name on hundreds of times a day.
Now, they heard when I said pd they heard PT and this is how.
His story got started. So I was like, he's going to be my mascot. He's going to be like, this is how I'm going to bring both of these worlds together. So he's a tripod.
He's amazing.
He comes to the office with us every day, and we started taking him.
Out into the community.
To teach kids.
About kindness and rescue dogs. And in doing that, long story short, somebody caught wind of it and said, I need to write a. Help you write a book about him so you can read his book to.
The kids in the community.
And so a friend of mine helped me write and illustrate his story as a children's book that we began then going into the community, going to YMCAs and churches and summer camps and whatnot. And we take. We take PT we take his book. And his book is all about teaching kindness. And his message is to never give up and teaching that powerful message to our young folks.
