"Their whole body language and bearing is saying ‘I apologize for my existence.'"
Every dog that he rescued — the scared ones, the scarred ones, the ones that stunk from neglect or were spotty with mange — heard the same thing from Jack Novoselski.
He’d hold them close and whisper into their ear that everything was going to be okay. No one would hurt them again.
“That’s the promise,” said Lynn Keeney, a volunteer with SouthEast Beagle Rescue. “He always did that.”
Novoselski, who lived in Carrollwood, founded the rescue in 2011. He worked 60- to 100-hour weeks and drove 40,000 miles a year to pick up dogs at kill shelters in Alabama, Louisiana and around Florida in his SUV, dubbed The Beagle Bus. He brought them back to be cleaned up and cared for before heading to a foster home.
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