HEDGESVILLE, West Virginia — The jukebox blares only the first few notes of Tanya Tucker’s voice singing “Delta Dawn” before Kahlua starts drowning it out with her own rendition.

Kahlua was born a few yards from here. Someone had brought a scared, pregnant dog to the Longbranch Saloon in the middle of the winter about five years ago. She became “a bar dog,” as Becky, a Longbranch regular, puts it.

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