Our Latest Success Story: Hayden

GOOD SHEPHERD


“I didn’t know if I was ready for any dog, let alone a large dog!” exclaims North Carolina’s Lisa Napier. The family already had a cat and a Chow dog, but Lisa’s four-year-old daughter had just fallen in love with the Benji movies—and, says Lisa, “She was pleading for a small dog who would play with her and sleep in her bed.” The family decided to check out what the local Mecklenburg County shelter had to offer.

“I usually won’t go in,” says Lisa. “Having worked in a shelter before, I know how heartbreaking it can be.” But that day they walked through the kennels, “talking to each sweet face” as they passed. But Lisa, her husband and her daughter found themselves stopped in front of one dog in particular.

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