Clearwater Threshers Bat Dog Retires And Receives The Sweetest Farewell

“She has simply type of been in my proper pocket for 13 years,” Layla’s dad, Andrew Davis, tells FOX 13.

Davis adopted Layla 13 years in the past. And he by no means imagined the issues her pooch would’ve achieved in all these years.

Again in 2018, Layla turned an web sensation after a video of her retrieving a can of beer from the fridge went viral.

And who would’ve thought that that viral video would really be Layla’s ticket to changing into a baseball bat dog?

“As soon as it took off there was no stopping it,” Davis mentioned. “I by no means would’ve anticipated to have a well-known dog.”

WMNF Radio reveals that after the video went viral, Davis reached out to Dominic Repper, Threshers supervisor of promotions and sport leisure, and confirmed him the video.

“Once we first contacted the Threshers, Layla didn’t even know what a baseball bat was,” Davis tells WMNF Radio.

So, Davis took Layla to native baseball fields and taught her the best way to choose up a bat and produce it to the dugout.

Layla, who used to coach alongside athletes at Webber Worldwide College when Davis was a scholar on the college, mastered the artwork of retrieving baseball bats and acquired signed to the Clearwater Threshers.

Nonetheless, after being on the job for six years, Davis seen that Layla was beginning to decelerate throughout video games.

Davis informed FOX 13, “I informed them (the Threshers), ‘I don’t know if Layla goes to be as much as the problem subsequent yr.’”