“She just wanted pets and to give kisses to anyone willing to receive them” 🥹
By Ashley Ortiz
Published on June 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On a recent early morning stroll in Key West, Florida, Delaney and her fiancé, Carl, were admiring a docked shrimp boat when they suddenly noticed a large pink sign. The sign, positioned above one of the boat’s rectangular portholes, displayed four unexpected words.
“It said, ‘Kissing booth, call Luna,’” Delaney told The Dodo.
Delaney and Carl lit up. As animal lovers, they constantly look for dogs and cats on their vacations, especially when they have to leave their beloved pups behind. And moments before discovering the sign, they’d spotted an adorable dog sunbathing on the ship’s stern.
“I put two and two together and realized that it was to get closer to the dog!” Delaney said.
Delaney and Carl did as the sign instructed, calling out Luna’s name and hoping to be met with a familiar face. Almost instantly, the sweet black-and-white pup’s face appeared in the porthole, and she couldn’t contain her excitement.
“She was so excited to see people, she didn’t even care about the treat we had for her,” Delaney said. “She just wanted pets and to give kisses to anyone willing to receive them.”
You can watch that moment here:
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Luna was thrilled to have customers at her kissing booth, and the visiting couple was overjoyed to meet her. They stayed with Luna for nearly 10 minutes, introducing her to Delaney’s sister and best friend, while talking to her dad about her origin story.
They soon learned that Luna had been adopted from the Humane Society of St. Lucie County., and she was now living her best life in the Florida Keys.
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Despite her difficult past, Luna couldn’t be happier with how her life turned out. When she’s not relaxing on a boat in a sunny vacation destination with her loving dad, she’s meeting new people and showering them with affection.
“Luna was so excited to see people, she immediately started giving kisses and tried to lay down to get a belly rub,” Delaney said. “I was a little bit nervous she might fall out of the hole, but she is a professional, and I’m sure she does this all the time.”
After 10 minutes of love, Delaney and her family had to continue with the day’s activities and sadly said goodbye to Luna. Their time with the sweet pup may have been brief, but the unexpected encounter turned out to be the highlight of their trip.
“We are very close with our dogs, so the happenstance to stumble across such an adorably sweet dog like Luna on vacation was a blessing and made us so happy,” Delaney said.
To help pets like Luna get the care they need, you can donate to the Humane Society of Lucie County here.
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When Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary needed to relocate out of Oregon, they found the perfect property in New York — and were surprised to learn that it came with a single cow named Miriam.
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Miriam’s new humans spent hours and hours putting in the work to win her over, and it slowly paid off. They made lots of promises about how her new life would look, and one by one, they made those promises come true.
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