Savannah Bananas adopt abandoned puppy and give her a job
The dog days have already arrived for the Savannah Bananas baseball team and its season hasn’t even started yet.
A staff member for the newest addition to the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate baseball league, found an abandoned puppy, estimated to be seven weeks old, in the parking lot several weeks ago and the team president, Jared Orton, and his wife have adopted the puppy.
[Previously: The Savannah Bananas are your new favorite baseball team]
They named her Daisy and have plans to train her to retrieve balls and bats and make her the team’s official bat dog.
Meet the new bat dog for the #SavannahBananas .. I’m in LOVE! @WJCL_News pic.twitter.com/OyU3ccX1Yf
— Nicole Baker (@NicoleBWJCL) May 10, 2016
The Bananas don’t play their first game until June 2, but Daisy already spends plenty of time in the team’s offices each day helping put smiles on the faces of both staffers and customers who stop in to purchase tickets and merchandise.
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This isn’t the first time a baseball team has adopted a stray dog. The Milwaukee Brewers did the same thing two years ago a dog wandered into the team’s spring training complex looking a little rough around the edges. He was adopted by the team, cleaned up and named Hank.
During the early days of spring training this year, some Brewers fans and others speculated that Hank had died or been replaced with a similar looking dog when pictures surfaced of a dog that looked different from Hank. But those fears were put to rest when the Brewers held a press conference to produce a notarized letter from a vet verifying Hank’s identity had been confirmed by scanning his microchip.
Let’s hope nothing that bananas happens to Daisy.
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