After 700 days at the shelter, an elderly dog finally got a new home and a new name!
Dogs are the eighth wonder of the world – their loyalty, love and wet nose snuggles are unmatched and make life about 80% better on any given day. Sadly, many of these fluffy creatures spend long days waiting at shelters instead of cuddling with a loving owner. Beluga was one of them – this senior pooch spent over 700 days waiting for that someone special who would take him to a forever home and call him a good boy.
“He has a neurological issue, so his head kind of tilts to the side, and he looked like, ‘Oh, look at poor, little me.’ So I said, ‘Okay, I have to see him,'” Jeanette said in anWhile the partially deaf and blind dog with arthritis didn’t sound like a dream pet, his rescuers never gave up hope to find him a perfect home“He was reserved at first, but as soon as he came out with me, he changed,” the 74-year-old recalled their first meeting.
This February, 74-year-old Jeanette visited the shelter in hopes to find a new companion after losing her two pups in December“He’s never more than two feet from my side. That’s why I renamed him Velcro. If I get up, he gets up. Wherever I go, he follows me. If I’m up and moving, he’s up and moving with me,” Jeanette shared.
The pair also take their slow daily walks around the neighborhood: “I’m not that spry myself, but it gives me a reason to get out in the fresh air and walk in the woods. We don’t walk; we stroll,” Jeanette revealed.Initially, she had her eye on another dog, but as soon as she saw Beluga, she knew he was the one
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