Marine Major Brian Dennis, who took in and shipped home a dog named Nubs while serving in Iraq, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show yesterday.Brian found Nubs — a stray whose ears had been cut off — while on patrol and nursed him back to health.An F18 pilot, Brian took in the abused dog, but was forced to relocate. Nubs later tracked him down 70 miles away.
After that, Dennis, with $3,500 of his own money and contributions from others, had the dog shipped home. Dennis returned to the U.S. last month and was reunited with Nubs.
If it sounds like a book or a movie, just wait: It likely will be both.Ellen gave Brian and Nubs $15,000 (coughed up by PETCO) and a lifetime supply of dog food from Halo, a company she recently became co-owner of and, as the photo shows, is pretty good at getting free advertising for.Photo by Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.

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Award-winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has become an owner of Halo, Purely For Pets®. “If you love your pets, you only want the very best for them, and this food is the highest quality.”