Aaahhhhh!!!! Wolf Wolf

I had tried many times in vain to tell my youngest daughter the story of 
"The Boy that Cried Wolf" because she likes to scream at everything when 
playing, being teased by her brother, etc. and she sounds as it she's 
being killed all the time. After trying in vain to teach her to stop that 
nonsense I had finally given up. 
We were having a picnic at the lake one day and the kids had decided to 
go wading. The three of them were all out in the water having fun. I was 
taking some pictures of them and went back to sit down. A few minutes 
later we heard my youngest yell "WOLF, WOLF, HELP, WOLF". My husband and 
I looked at each other, a bit confused and then ran to check out what was 
going on. There in the brush was this wolf type animal looking at the kids 
like they might be DINNER and then looking again at my husband with a very 
strange look in his eyes. As my husband has started inching his way to the 
water where the kids were, the wolf was also inching his way towards the 
kids. He jumped into the water and started heading toward my children. This 
animal had gotten to the kids just about the same time as my husband did. 
He sniffed my son and stayed along side him, and growled at my husband and 
then jumped him and we thought he was going to go after his throat. My 
husband put his belt around the animal because he had no idea what his 
intentions were and needed to constrain him so that the kids could get out 
of the water and to safety. We got a rope from the car and he and my 
daughter pulled and tugged and got the animal to our picnic area. He was 
fighting it every step of the way. One we got him there we knew that he 
was not a wolf, but a dog, a scared beautiful dog who was full of ticks 
and fleas and had a horrible, horrible odor. There is no telling how 
long he had been lost in the woods. 
After he had calmed down and decided that we weren't going to hurt him 
and we figured out that he wasn't going to hurt us, we had tried to get 
him into the van, he wanted no part of that at all until I had backed 
the van up a bit and as soon as he saw the open door he ran in and laid 
in the back of the van. We left him alone for a bit, not knowing what he 
may do, but he just sat there looking at everyone with his puppy dog eyes. 
We decided to load the van and see how that would suit him, and it didn't 
bother him at all. We had a rope around him for the trip home so that we 
could restrain him if he decided he didn't like us, but he just lay on 
the floor all the way home. When we got home we had put a leash on him 
and tied the leash to a pole and had given him a flea and tick dog shampoo 
bath, we didn't know how he'd feel about the bath, but he loved it. We 
didn't have any dog food so we took him inside and I gave him some turkey 
cold cut meat, after that he was my buddy. The next day we had reported 
him to the local animal shelter and were told that if nobody had claimed 
him within the next 10 days that we would be able to adopt him and that 
is exactly what we did.