I'm not crying... YOU'RE crying! This is an amazing story of an amazing dog that adopted a nursing home before the nursing home adopted him.
He’d had enough of being at the animal shelter, so Scout the dog climbed over one tall fence and then another, crossed a busy highway in the darkness, entered the automatic doors of a nursing home down the road, walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto a couch, curled into a ball and quietly went to sleep for the night.
He did this THREE times before staff finally realized that this was the place that Scout needed to be. The staff formally adopted him. Suddenly the nursing home had its own pet. And the residents were delighted.
Scout is still a mystery. Nobody knows where he came from, what his original name was, how he wound up a stray that was picked up and brought to the county shelter. And nobody knows what bad things happened to him.
But most of all, nobody knows why he wanted to be here so badly.
“You know, it’s really hard to say,” said Marna Robertson, the nursing home’s administrator. “Maybe he felt like it was a safe environment. He certainly has a penchant for the elders. He’s very in tune with what they need, especially our very vulnerable population. If they have dementia or if they’re dying he knows that, and he will go and be with them and comfort them. He must’ve just felt like he needed to be here.”
But make sure a tissue is handy. You'll thank me later!
Scout was a stray mutt. He had no identity, no history. The shelter staff gave him his new name, but otherwise they knew nothing about him, though they noticed he had the distinct demeanor of an abused dog.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/animalkind/2023/08/31/dog-shelter-michigan/70725971007/
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