The Sweet Life

Back in May we took in two stray dogs and fostered them until they found their forever home. Penny and Bolt (dubbed by my kids) were sweet, but not the greatest with our elderly great dane. We posted the duo on Paws in the City, attended a few adoption events, and eventually Penny found a home.

Bolt stayed with us throughout the summer and into fall, and a few times I thought “I guess we’ll keep him…”, but it just never seemed to click. I had a feeling that his family was out there somewhere.

A few months ago I fielded another call from someone looking for Penny (why did her ad always yield results while NO ONE called about Bolt?). I explained that no, Penny was already adopted…but his brother was still available. Turns out that this family had just lost their dog to cancer days before, and their home was just too quiet with him gone. Our phone call turned into an overnight ‘sleepover’, and finally the words I had been hoping to hear: “Bolt has found his forever home!”.

His new family is *wonderful*, and exactly what he deserves. When we picked up Penny and Bolt they were hours from being euthanized. Now both have found their perfect home, and everyone has their happy ending.

I’ve stayed in contact with Bolt’s new family (as this being the small world that it is, the mom is the sister of one of our sweet clients), and after reading a recent sweet email about how Beau (how he has come to be known) and his new little girl, Marisa, have become the dynamic duo, I asked if I could photograph the pair.

We met this morning and it was SO wonderful to see how big, how confident, how bright eyed and how eager to please sweet Beau has become. He’s enthralled with his little girl, and I couldn’t have asked for a better family!