Carter Blanchard and a black lab named Rowdy both have vitiligo, a skin disorder that appears as patches of lighter skin throughout the body. “Around the age of 11, he started to get just a little white,” Niki Umbenhower, Rowdy’s owner, told KATU.com. For the next year, the two began building their “digital” friendship, with Rowdy helping Carter build more confidence about his skin, Adcock said. “[Rowdy] really changed the way he saw his own skin,” Adcock told KATU.com. “I’m actually tearing up.”“Really, it was life changing for him,” Adcock told Fox 8.

Source: Fox News March 22, 2017 15:33 UTC