Dog the Bounty Hunter reveals how he got his nickname

Actuality TV star Duane “Canine” Chapman, also referred to as “Canine the Bounty Hunter,” has chronicled his transformation from an outlaw to a person of religion in a brand new memoir. 

Throughout an look on “The Eric Metaxas Radio Present” earlier this month, Chapman advised Metaxas about his upbringing and the way he was raised by a deeply spiritual mom who was a preacher within the Assemblies of God denomination and the way his father was an abusive alcoholic. 

After pulling a knife on his father in an try and cease the abuse when he was 13, Chapman ended up leaving residence and dropping out of faculty. He later joined a biker gang referred to as “The Satan’s Disciples” as a youngster, telling Metaxas that he was “demon-oppressed.”

“I wasn’t fully turning my again on God, simply three-quarters of the way in which,” he added. 

Recalling that different members of the biker gang observed he all the time prayed earlier than he ate, Chapman stated he was given the nickname “Canine” by the gang’s management as a result of it was “God spelled backwards” and he was “all the time speaking about God.”

After having his first youngster on the age of 16, Chapman took the newborn outdoors bare and held him as much as God whereas declaring, “I dedicate this child to you.”

“I nonetheless had God inside me,” Chapman maintained, at the same time as he acknowledged his rebellious methods. When one of many biker gang’s tried robberies resulted in one of many gang members dying from a gunshot wound, Chapman ended up going to jail. Whereas in jail, he met a jail chaplain who requested if his identify was “God spelled backwards.”

This prompted Chapman to reply, “How do you know that?” The jail chaplain advised Chapman that he meant to hope to God for his bond to get lowered. The next day, Chapman’s bond was decreased. 

The lower in bond enabled Chapman’s launch from jail and bought a job cleansing a church. Upon getting the job, Chapman recounted telling God, “I’m so sorry that I did this, please assist me.” Whereas he was discovered responsible of homicide in reference to the taking pictures on the theft gone mistaken and ended up receiving a five-year jail sentence, Chapman used his incarceration as a possibility to develop nearer to God. 

Though he needed to maintain his devotion to God secret due to hostility towards the Christian religion behind bars, Chapman ended up performing an exorcism on one among his fellow inmates when he had an “epileptic match.”

Throughout his incarceration, Chapman grew to become the “warden’s pet” after taking up a job because the warden’s barber. He ended up securing an early launch and after getting out of jail, Chapman grew to become a bounty hunter. When requested how he bought the thought to embrace that line of labor, Chapman responded: “God.” 

Whereas Chapman and Metaxas did not talk about most of what has transpired since Chapman has reformed himself as a bounty hunter, an Amazon description of his e book, 9 Lives and Counting, notes that it consists of tales of  “triumphs and failures from his days as a single dad, new beforehand untold tales of bounty looking, the tragic lack of his beloved spouse Beth to most cancers, the sudden blessing of discovering his new spouse Francie, the work he and Francie are doing to evangelise and share about Jesus, [and] his relationship together with his children and household.” 

“With all of the plot twists of a page-turning novel, 9 Lives and Counting is a real-life chronicle of God’s superb grace and restoration which have marked Duane’s journey of religion. You can be impressed,” the outline concludes.