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Service dog gets portrait in school yearbook next to his human

Taffy the service dog is for sure the best looking sophomore in America this year.
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Taffy the service dog is for sure the best looking sophomore in America this year.

A student at Northern Guilford High School in North Carolina discovered on picture day that he'd be pictured next to his diabetic alert dog, Taffy.

According to WMAZ, Taffy is a quiet, humbly handsome canine student who likes pats on the head. His job is to alert his human, Harry Hulse, an insulin-dependent diabetic, when his blood pressure spikes.


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"He looked really cool. He looked better than me," Hulse told WMAZ. 

Taffy, please sign our yearbook. HAKAS.

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Max Knoblauch is the Assistant Humor Editor in the NYC office. He is a journalist, comedian and illustrator. More humor and art by Max can be found on his website.Follow him @MaxKnoblauch

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