Owner Dies, Pit Bull Ends Up With His Favorite UPS Driver

California UPS driver Katie Newhouser befriended a woman on her route when she saw her out walking her dog. 

"Leo took a liking to me," Newhouser says of the pit bull. "He would even hop in my truck and look around the back." Then, in October, Newhouser found out Leo's owner, Tina Rummel, had died. 

Rummel's son, Canon, was in training to be a Marine, so Newhouser offered to take Leo in until his training was complete. "But after Christmas break, I decided that he was getting along so well with my other dogs that he should just stay," Newhouser tells Today, and thus Leo found his new forever home.

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