He’s the sweetest boy ❤️️
By Lily Feinn
Published on April 8, 2020 at 10:04 AM
It’s impossible to pass Speck’s kennel at the Bullock County Humane Society without stopping to say, “Hi.”
The second the loving pup sees someone approaching, he pushes his face between the metal bars and reaches out his paw.
“All he wants is people love,” Desiray Miracle-Wilder, the shelter’s director, told The Dodo. “He will reach his little hand out and he just wants you to touch him and hold his hand. And he’s so sad when you walk off to finish cleaning or whatever you have to do.”
Speck has sat unnoticed in a small kennel in the Alabama shelter for a year and a half waiting for a family to choose him. Judging Speck by the scars on his face, you might think the dog would be hardened by years of living on the street, but he couldn’t be more trusting.
“You could put anything else around him — another giant dog, a cat, but he is just so fixated on getting love from people that he doesn’t care about anything else,” Wilder said.
“He just wants you to touch him,” she added. “If you sit down, he’s laying on you, if you hold his hand, he’ll hold your hand, if you scratch his belly, he’ll roll over.”
Last Thursday, Wilder was cleaning the kennels when she was inspired to film the pup’s sweet hand-holding routine.
Hoping to drum up some interest in Speck, she posted the video on her Facebook page, and the clip quickly went viral, gaining 96,000 views in just a few days.
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Speck’s video caught the attention of Allie’s Hope For Paws Dog Rescue, who helped connect the shelter dog with an amazing adopter.
“He will be running on a 26-acre farm with Mike, his family and two fur brothers!” Wilder wrote on Facebook. “We are so excited. Not only did Speck get adopted due to this video of his cuteness but he also helped a few other fur babies get rescued and he got us some food donations!”
Now, Speck is waiting for transport so he can finally meet his forever family. He leaves behind a few other long-timers who are still waiting for their chance to find a loving home, but Wilder is hopeful that Speck will inspire people to open their hearts to his friends.
To help homeless dogs like Speck, you can make a food donation by checking out Bullock County Humane Society’s Facebook page.
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Mama Dog Leads Women Through Jungle To Litter Of Babies Needing Help
“I trail her … and she ducks sideways into the jungle.”
Sisters Aria and Grace Keilbach, cofounders of Boonie Babies animal rescue, were driving through a remote area on the Western Pacific island Saipan when they saw a dog jump into the road.
Concerned, the sisters got out of their car to investigate. They offered the dog a bowl of food, which she seemed too agitated to stop and eat. She started walking toward the trees bordering the road, and the sisters decided to follow her.
“I trail her a little more, and she ducks sideways into the jungle,” Aria told The Dodo.
The mama dog led the two women to a secret she’d been guarding: her litter of five puppies. She’d been taking care of them all by herself in the middle of the forest.
While the mama dog had been doing her best to raise her babies, left without food or shelter, the puppies were not doing well.
“They’re covered in fleas and ticks, and their bellies were super, super swollen, which means that they’re full of worms,” Aria said.
The dogs seemed to sense that Aria and Grace were there to help them.
“I tried to walk back to the car to get some supplies, and they wouldn’t stop following me,” Aria said.
The dog rescuers tried to grab all the babies as well as their mama, but the adult dog didn’t let the women anywhere near her. Aria and Grace had to make the heartbreaking decision to take the puppies and leave the mama behind.
“[W]e knew that if we left them even for a day or two, that they would not make it,” Aria said.
Bright and early the next morning, the sisters returned to get the mama. Luckily, they found her almost right away.
They offered her food, but she had no interest in it. All she seemed to care about was getting back to her puppies. She jumped right through Aria’s open car window and rode in the front seat back to the shelter.
The sisters wasted no time reuniting the mama with her babies. When the little family was together again, their tails would not stop wagging.
One by one, each and every one of the puppies and their mama got adopted into permanent, loving homes.
Thanks to the mama’s bravery in asking two strangers for help, her family is safe and happy now.
To support other animals like these dogs, you can make a donation to Boonie Babies here.
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