‘We adopted a "pound puppy" for Xmas, and did we ever luck out.’: A quiet, overlooked shelter dog finds his forever home just in time for the holidays, immediately charming a dozen visitors and proving his worth as a gentle, calming presence in the family

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 11, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Adopting a doggo for Xmas is usually not the best of ideas. As we all know by know a doggo is not just for Christmas, but still so many people find themselves going to local shelters and bringing home puppers who they have no true way to care for and who deserve a lot more than to be picked and then returned back to the shelter once the holidays are over.

But every now and again the holiday season spouts out a miracle as it is fabled to do, and we are so incredibly excited to share this miracle with you. For today we tell the tale of a couple who lost their precious puppers and went into the holiday seasons heartbroken. Thinking they would never adopt again, in a surprising turn of events they found themselves bringing home the best dog that anyone has ever seen. A canine so classy he can get on with any hooman and any cat, a canine so calm that nothing truly bothers him, a canine that simply breaks the doggo mold.

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    This is Buddy. We got him Friday from the county humane society, the pound, he'd been there 12 days, picked up as a stray. In the line of cells he was the only one calm and not barking. We almost
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    didn't notice him. I had gone in looking for black dogs, since they are most often ignored, yet I almost ignored this white dog whit black spots looking up at me sadly. He looks like
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    900 90
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    maybe a fox terrier beagle mix, maybe some lab or pitt in there, but honestly we don't know or care. We our previous two dogs to old age in the last few months,
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    one just beginning of the month. We thought we'd need time before a new dog, but we were dog people and the house seemed too empty. Our routine was disrupted without a dog.
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    We picked him because he was calm and didn't seem to be jumpy, and my god some of the others were REALLY excitable. Since we are currently living
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    with my 86 year old MIL not having a dog bowl over the old lady and break her hip is a bonus. He has been nothing short of an amazing dog in the 48 hours we've owned him.
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  • Honestly, it is hard to believe that this story has not been optioned for a Hallmark movie. But who knows with its wholesome appeal, family values and happy ending this could very well get picked up for the coming holiday season it is just so dang sweet and lovely. 

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    No barking, takes food from your hand gently, in fact as a whole he's gentle. Saturday, we had about a dozen holiday visitors over, all strangers to him
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    just as we still were. He was the hit of the party, sweet, affectionate, cuddling everyone. He was good with the little ones that came over (we don't have any). When it
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    was all to much he went back to our bedroom and took over the bed. He is properly respectful/fearful of the cats we have (in fact they stopped being all "Puffy"
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    around him after only a few hours. Our older cat hissed at the kitten for 5 full days when we got him in april, in fact she still hisses at him daily for being a putz...). she only
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  • Wow, a dog that knows how to behave around cats and earn their respect is pretty darn impressive if we say so ourselves. Who could imagine that fresh from the pound this pupper would come home humble and wholesome. This couple seem to be amongst the luckiest people in the pupper loving world.

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    hissed at the dog for 2 hours. They all have laid on the bed together, the younger cat playing with toys while he lays on his back sleeping like a goof. They've all been sniffing and
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    touching noses more and more. I'm expecting to walk into the bedroom finding one grooming him on the bed soon at this rate. As time goes on his happy and goofy
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    side is emerging. I cant wait to see what he is really like after he's all folded in. Honestly, this is one of the nicest dogs I've ever met, and he's mine! I feel a
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    little guilty about it, he's such a sweetie he has to have a family that misses him, did we take someones dog? Then I get mad, he was at the pound almost two weeks
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    and no one came to get him? Honestly, he was probably getting close to his "time" there. How could someone abandon this boy? Anyway, I just wanted to put this
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    out there... there are OMFG AMAZING dogs at the pound. Don't pass them by. Anyone else win the fɩng dog pound lottery?
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    edit: word is on the forms he's a dalmation mix, god only knows what he really is.
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