An officer was called to help a blind, deaf dog. He shot him instead.

Teddy, a fluffy, 13-pound white Shih Tzu mix, stumbled around a stranger's yard. Deaf and blind, he used his nose as a guide, eventually laying down in the grass.

He was lost. But the stranger gave him water. He licked her hand and leg, spending the next 45 minutes of the sunny Sunday lolling in the expansive Sturgeon, Mo., yard.

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