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I LOVE this story.  A woman is using her dog to deliver food to an elderly woman next door. 71-year-old Colorado resident Renee Hellman hasn’t left her house in more…

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I LOVE this story.  A woman is using her dog to deliver food to an elderly woman next door.

71-year-old Colorado resident Renee Hellman hasn't left her house in more than three weeks, fearing exposure to the coronavirus could prove fatal.   She has a history of heart and breathing problems.   So when her neighbor offered to deliver groceries to her home, she was apprehensive, fearing contact with another person could be dangerous, so the neighbor came up with an idea.

Karen Eveleth, her neighbor,  trained her dog Sundance to deliver food to Hellman.

The doggy-delivery system worked out so well, it's now become part of Sundance's daily routine.

Eveleth says. In the past two weeks, he's delivered frozen chickens, sacks of flour and other goods to the isolated woman's home. "I make meals for her also, and Sundance brings back the empty bowls," Eveleth says.

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