Nubs' savior makes Ellen appearance
Marine Major Brian Dennis, who took in and shipped home a dog named Nubs while serving in Iraq, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show yesterday.
Brian found Nubs -- a stray whose ears had been cut off -- while on patrol and nursed him back to health.
An F18 pilot, Brian took in the abused dog, but was forced to relocate. Nubs later tracked him down 70 miles away.
After that, Dennis, with $3,500 of his own money and contributions from others, had the dog shipped home. Dennis returned to the U.S. last month and was reunited with Nubs.
If it sounds like a book or a movie, just wait: It likely will be both.
Ellen gave Brian and Nubs $15,000 (coughed up by PETCO) and a lifetime supply of dog food from Halo, a company she recently became co-owner of and, as the photo shows, is pretty good at getting free advertising for.
Photo by Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.
Comments
Major Dennis is almost as cute as Nubs. (Sorry!) I hope they'll have a long and happy life together. I don't watch Ellen (or Oprah) but would love to know what their reunion was like after Nubs tracked Major Dennis down. It must have been incredible--just imagine his reaction. These two deserve to be together.
Posted by: Anne | April 8, 2008 9:19 PM
Brian is my step-brother and an AMAZING guy! I'm just so happy to have him home alive. Thanks, Brian, for all the woderful e-mails you sent while in Iraq...my mom forwarded them all on to me. Hopefully someone has all of them..would make a great book.
Love you! Kelly
Posted by: Kelly Forret | April 11, 2008 4:36 PM