Sgt. Faith gives hope at MU Children's Hospital
Posted: 11.04.2012 at 7:52 PM
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Calling Faith simply a dog would be quite an understatement, because she marches like a soldier.
Jude Stringfellow is Faith's owner, and she came to realize just how special the dog was when her son first rescued it and brought it her over six years ago.
"He brought to me as a project, I guess you'd say, for us to help her, and we did.” said Faith's owner Jude Stringfellow. “And as we helped her, she turned around and helped us, as a family."
Faith the dog has appeared on national talk shows such as the Oprah Winfrey show, and she spreads spreads her message of hope to people who have disabilities and terminal illness.
Faith is actually am Army Sergeant, a rank she attained just before doing contract work overseas, presumably inspiring people over there.
But she's doing plenty of that at home too, with people like Sherry Gibbons son, whose is battling with Type I diabetes.
"To see that the dog can actually make it through, and to only have two legs,” said Gibboin. “It was really inspirational to him. It was something we just to come do."
After six years of inspiring people all across the world, at the end of next month, Sgt. Faith will finally take her well-deserved retirement.
"I don't think she knows. I don't think she understand what retirement means. So we're probably going to still have to take her back and forth to the airport so she feels she's done something."