Have you ever thought about adopting a dog from a shelter? Read the story of Lucie the Wonder Dog’s adoption to see how one adoption turned out.

Rabi wrote this letter to the shelter where she got Lucie. It’s quite long but it is very moving. Here is the conclusion:

I wanted to write you this letter to let you know how lucie turned out, since her fate seemed so uncertain last fall. besides that, I also wanted to send you a long overdue thank you. lucie can certainly be a challenging dog, and without people who believed in her capacity to also be an extremely good dog — which she assuredly has become — I doubt I ever would have met her in the first place. sometimes when people ask me what kind of dog lucie is, I tell them simply that she’s a shelter dog. I guess the goal of any good shelter is to find homes for all its animals, so they won’t be shelter dogs anymore, but even now that lucie has (and will always have) a home with me and my family, none of us have forgotten where she came from. thank you, from both of us, for being such an important part of lucie’s success story. Read more…

And here are some more of Lucie’s pictures:

presenting: lucie the winter wonder dog!

lucie is always listening to the call of the wild.

lucie can’t go anywhere without people stopping us to ask:
what kind of dog is that?

My dog Shellie is a shelter dog too. I guess you can tell that I think shelter dogs are wonderful! Tell me about your experiences with adopting a shelter dog.

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