When a Swedish extreme-sports team sat down to eat before a 20-mile
trek through the Ecuadorian rainforest as part of the Adventure Racing World
Championship, a mangy stray dog wandered over. One of the men fed him a
meatball and thought nothing further of it, but when he and his teammates
started off, the dog followed. Day and night, through deep mud, steep hills,
and treacherous streams, he fearlessly stuck with his new friends, trotting
alongside their mountain bikes and swimming next to their kayak until they
pulled him in. The Swedes tried to discourage the dog, primarily for his own
safety, but he refused to leave. By the end of the race, they had named him
Arthur, declared him the fifth team member, and decided to take him back to
Sweden and adopt him. One member commented, "I came to Ecuador to win the
World Championship. Instead, I got a new friend." As Pudd'nhead Wilson
said, "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
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