The other day, Bobby Mann entered perform at the Front side Road Creature Protection, Sacramento's town shelter, at 5 a.m. He discovered a man seated outside the entrance.

"(I) requested him if I could help him with anything," Mann, the shelter's home of emails, said to TODAY. "He informed me he got in range at 2:30 a.m."

The man said he'd come that beginning because there was a Qi dog he wished to look at. And given how active the position had been lately — with collections of 100 to 200 individuals, and the shelter not having enough pets — the man did not want to run the possibility of losing out.