Our Adoption Stories

While volunteering at the shelter, I met MooMoo. She was a middle-aged (borderline senior), smaller-sized pit mix who had lived a hard life. And while her specific history was unknown since she came in as a stray, she was underweight, barely had any teeth, and had some old injuries that had never received vet care. The assumption was that she had lived her whole life outside, most likely on a chain. She had clearly had multiple litters before entering the shelter. I don’t remember what it was that caught my eye first, but about 2 months after meeting her, I took her home as a foster so that she could be treated for heartworm. In those 2 months, I swear that I networked her, and attempted to find her an adopter that wasn’t my own home, but life happened. She was there for my family during a tumultuous time in our lives, and provided us the most comfort and empathy that we could have imagined. So when her meet and greets kept getting delayed, it felt like a sign. We officially signed her adoption papers after the holidays in 2022, and she has been the most constant provider of love to anyone who enters our home since then. She was my sidekick during my pregnancy, a calm presence postpartum, and now is a second mom and bff to my son. One of his first words was “Daw-gee” soon followed by “Moo!” MooMoo is always nearby, often found napping in bed or on the sofa, and is well known by friends and family as everyone’s unofficial “emotional support dog.” People often warn us that they’re going to steal her, to which we reply, while Moo is incredibly special, shelters are filled with dogs like Moo Moo who need homes just like she did. While we adopted Moo, MooMa, MaMa, MooCow, she truly has filled a gap in our lives that we didn’t even know we had. Our lives will forever be better since we have been lucky enough to be Moo’s forever family.