It was a rainy autumn night when fate decided to intervene. On his way home, a man noticed a faint sound beneath the hiss of the falling rain — a weak whimper, almost lost to the wind. He followed the noise to the side of the road, where under a flickering streetlight lay a German shepherd, soaked to the bone and trembling. She looked up at him with weary eyes, too exhausted to move. When he knelt beside her, she didn’t flinch — instead, she rested her head gently against his knee, as if she already knew she could trust him. Without hesitation, he wrapped his jacket around her and rushed through the rain toward the nearest veterinary clinic.