Miley (about 4 y/o) from Detroit has been in our shelter for 15 months
Hello,
This sweet girl Miley has been looking for a home for about 15 months now. She is a little barky and anxious around her stall, so she doesnt make good first impressions. She had been there so long she would have accidents in her stall, and sometimes rip up blankets or bedding. It broke my heart but I knew she was going to be a special case that needed a special home, but I loved caring for her at the shelter she is so sweet in the time we had.
Fast forward to last week our shelter had to redo the flooring and we had to get the dogs out for 3 days for the work. I stepped up and decided to take her home, and expected it to be very difficult. We have 4 cats and 2 dogs (already over the limits my city allows but they gave me an exception for our 4th cat that came from the shelter). We took my dogs to my parents house and cordened off our house with baby gates to seperate the cats from the dog area.
But she far exceeded our expectations and it became abundantly clear to me that she is a sweet little angel and she just needs to be in a home so she can heal. In our yard her barkiness dissepated almost completely. She was trying to get my neighbors dog to play through the fence. She had great interactions with our cats and with time she will be able to adapt to living with them. She had a couple accidents the first day, but quickly improved. All she wanted to do is lounge on the couch and cuddle.
It absolutely broke our hearts to take her back to the shelter. My wife was pretty distraught but we knew going in we wouldnt be able to keep her, and I kept insisting to her that we were helping her by proving she was more ready to be in a home than we previously anticipated. I feel like we definitively proved that to be very true and I would move hell and earth to get her into a good home. I will drive pretty fucking far to meet you if it came to that. She is not perfect but I know when she has a chance and is shown some love she will get pretty close.
Side note - Just getting ahead of it. We couldnt keep her we are already beyond full on animals and it wouldnt be fair to the ones we currently have. I wish my parents could have held on to our dogs longer but my dad just had his hip replaced so our dogs had to come home.