It’s a critical problem for animal shelters everywhere that their capacity is usually full to bursting. While the adorable kittens and playful puppies attract lots of attention from potential adoptive families, the longer pets stay on, the less likely they are to be adopted. For senior animals who have been homeless or shelter-bound most of their lives, finding a forever home becomes very unlikely, while an untimely end is often the outcome.
So when a woman walked into the Asheville Humane Society in July 2019 and asked, “Which two dogs have been here the longest, with the most special needs?” the staff almost couldn’t believe their good fortune. As the AHS wrote on their Facebook page, it was “the kind of day that every person who works in an animal shelter dreams about!”
