When Melissa Elliot Smith of the senior dog rescue organization Old Dog Home in Georgia first met senior dog Holly around Thanksgiving 2019, the circumstances were tragic. Holly had been brought to the vet to be euthanized by a grandfather and his granddaughter for no particular reason.
The reason they gave for wanting to put her down, however, was flimsy at best, and the medical staff contacted Smith instead to see if she would take Holly in order to save her life. Later, Smith wrote in a Facebook post that the “granddaughter looked at me and shrugged—‘We just don’t really like her. We like our other dogs better.’”
