From Scrappy to Happy: Scruffy Street Dog Gets a One-Way Ticket to Her Furrever Home After a Traveler Rescues Her From the Streets of Korea

When you're traveling in another country, sometimes you stumble upon street animals that could have been someone's beloved pet in your native country. Although most people see a cat or a dog as a house pet, in other countries, they sometimes run feral on the streets, sneaking through trash like the raccoons, rats, and opossums we've been taught to avoid. So whenever a traveler stumbles upon a feral dog in a new city, it's tough not to make up scenarios in your head where you tame the beast and bring them home. Hmm, perhaps that's called something– I think it's a savior's complex?

Anyways! Sometimes the savior in all of us gets satisfied by real-world stories where people do tame the street animal and just the notion of saving a creature from a destitute life surviving on scraps is enough to stoke the spark in anyone's heart. In this particular story, one woman found a scrappy little scruffball of a dog, dashing through the streets of rural Korea with a chain dragging from her neck. Boin, who later became a doggo with a one-way ticket to paradise, won the pup lottery when she met her would-be owner – a woman who came to Korea just to forage for some mushrooms, but left with a furbaby in her arms instead.

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer