Occurred on May 11, 2025 / St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA

Info from Licensor: "Crust is a 4-year-old Pit/Cane Corso mix. We rescued her from the Michigan Humane Society when she was approximately 8 months old. She had been saved from a severe neglect case in Detroit, where she was kept in a crate most of the time, starved, and left to lie in her own excrement. This caused open sores on her pressure points. The day we adopted her, all the white fur you now see on her body was stained yellow due to the conditions she had been forced to endure. I’ll attach a photo so you can see the comparison between her physical condition the day we adopted her and how she looks now, four years later.

Crust absolutely loves to play. She has four other dog siblings at home. Balls are her favorite toy, and we keep several in the yard so there's always something to play with when they go outside. However, our two younger dogs—Doughy (a Pit/Boxer mix) and Bear (a Rottweiler)—love to steal the balls from Crust. When her ball is taken, she goes crazy over the rope hanging from the tree. This is a new behavior that started this spring when the boys began stealing her balls.

She'll jump up, grab the rope, and start making what we call “pterodactyl noises,” swinging in such a way it looks like a tornado is about to spin up. She’ll hang on and spin for about 20 seconds before falling or letting go. Then she starts all over again. I have probably 7 to 10 videos of her doing this just in the last few weeks.

We used to have a tire hanging from that rope, and she would jump up and hang onto it for ages. That’s actually how she got her name—Crust. She’d hang onto the tire so long that drool and dirt would drip down her neck, and when it dried, her neck felt crusty.

We always say that Crust loves love and that she loves to play. She is the epitome of a rescue dog—there’s this aura about her, almost as if she knows she was saved and is forever grateful. She could be an ambassador for the bully breeds, showing everyone that the stereotypes surrounding her kind are just that—stereotypes and nothing more.

We have five dogs, four of whom are rescues. Watching Crust play, love the rope, chase her balls, and bond with her siblings brings me so much joy—and, of course, a great deal of entertainment."