‘My manager decided that he and his family were going to adopt her... she's been determined to be a Great Pyrenees mix.’: A pet store colleague’s compassion saves a customer’s abandoned puppy, whose massive paws and heart secured her immediate adoption

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 14, 2025 1:00 PM EST

As much as it pains us to say, it seems as though people have still not learned that a doggo is a massive commitment. And when you commit to a darling doggo, you are committing your time, energy and finances to giving them the best possible life, as you would your own children. But let's say, that for whatever unforeseen reason a person who adopted a doggo finds themselves in a situation where they cannot care for the pupper as it deserves. Well, they at least ought to step up, swallow their pride and shame and make sure that they hand it over to people who can truly help the doggo. Which is ironically not what this ex-owner did when they brought their unwanted pupper to a pet store.

Just going to show how people still view dogs as just another thing you can buy and return to a store. But lucky for the doggo, in that very store were a collection of colleagues who were eager to help make sure it would be safe and cared for. Resulting in a happy ending…this time.

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    To set our scene, I work for a small chain pet store. We don't sell many animals, mostly supplies. It was around 7 on a rainy Saturday night in a city where the
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    percentage of dig use is higher than the vast unemployment rate. I was working with a keyholder who was hired a few weeks ago and the store was mainly do d and we were talking
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    because there wasn't anything to do. One of those goldish-brown Buicks pulls up in front of the store and sits there for about 10 mins. A
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    guy gets out holding, putting a puppy on the sidewalk and watching her walk around for a moment in the pouring rain and I kinda groaned, getting a store
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    owned leash out because I had a feeling this guy was going to come in and let this soaking wet puppy run around the store while he shopped.
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  • Well, this store employee was sure about to get a whole lot more than she bargained for with her initial assessment of the situation. Though we get it, it must not be the nicest feeling to have to run around a store you have just cleaned to stop a soaking wet doggo from mucking up the place.

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    He gets back in the car, they sit there for another 10 minutes and then he wanders in carrying the puppy like he's never carried a dog before. For dialogue
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    purposes, I shall be Me, keyholder shall be K, and the guy who comes in shall be A for a le. A: Do you guys take puppies? I found her in the middle of the road.
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    K: hesitates for a moment before I step in Me: No, we don't, but I'll be happy to find the number for the SPCA and see if they have someone who can come pick her up after hours.
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    I pull out my phone, trying to find a number while K talks to him. K: The SPCA doesn't open back up until Tuesday. Is there any way you can hold her for a couple of days and then drop her off?
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    A: No, I live in an apartment and I have a (I can't remember the exact age of his child. Somewhere between 2 and 4) at home. K: Do you know someone who can watch her until then?
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  • Wow, this is truly one of those ‘I do not get paid enough for this’ moments. Though seeing as it is about the wellbeing of a doggo you can certainly understand why someone would do whatever they could to make sure the doggo would be cared for, even if it is beyond their job description.

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    A Sticks his head out the door for five seconds, being twitchy like he's on something and acts like he's talking to someone before looking back in No, my mom lives in the same apartment.
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    Me: Give me a moment to find the number and you can call them. The keyholder is petting the puppy and they guy sticks his head out the door again for a moment before walking out and
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    when I look up, he's peeling out of the parking lot like he's on fire. My coworker and I look between each other and all I can say is, "St." My coworker said she may be able to take in the puppy for
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    a few days and calls her boyfriend and I put the leash on the puppy before I tell her to get in contact with our manager since he has connections with the lady who runs out local SPCA. He calls
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    her, she says she'll be up there in a little while and my manager tells us to put the puppy in a kennel in the back of the store since we do offer grooming services.
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    I'm dumbfounded and kinda angry at this point. I was trying to help the guy, but he just acted like a total jk. To note here, this puppy wasn't skiddish. She didn't
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    smell like wet dog despite being covered in rain, she wasn't matted anywhere, her fur was perfectly soft, and she was playing with us and giving us kisses on the cheek. She was about the age where
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    people end up buying animals for Christmas and I had a slight feeling that either this man decided he couldn't take care of her, or she had been stolen. I high doubted she was lost.
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    My manager comes to the store with his wife, the keyholder's boyfriend shows up, and the lady from the SPCA comes to the store to take pictures so that they can post them to their Facebook page to see if they can find her owners.
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    My manager is keeping the dog until Tuesday where they can take her to the SPCA to get checked out. If they can't find her owners, they're going to get her set up so she can get adopted out. She's a
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    beautiful fluffy puppy and we were upset that this happened to her. I ranted on Facebook about it and posted pictures of the pretty girl that I would link here, but it reveals where I work. I also know
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    that no sort of corporate pet store would take a random dog off the street that someone brought in. This guy was just a total jok who thought it'd be okay to do this type of thing and it breaks my heart.
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    I hope they can find her owners and if they can't, I know she'll go to a loving home. I just can't believe that someone would do this to such a pretty puppy.
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    Last Tuesday (a week ago), when the SPCA reopened, my manager took the puppy to them to check to see if she had a microchip and she didn't. They were unable to locate her owners so
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    after some deliberation, my manager decided that he and his family were going to adopt her as his wife had wanted a larger dog for a while (she's been determined to be a Great Pyrenees mix)
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    and after having her for a few days, his family had fallen in love with her. I worked with him for the first time since he took her home yesterday and he had brought her in to be bathed by our groomers and
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    the moment she saw me, she ran up and gave me kisses all over again, wagging her tail like there was no tomorrow. His wife was the one who came to pick her up during my shift and she's in love with her so much.
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    They ended up naming the sweet girl Maggie and I'm so happy that she's found a wonderful home after the situation that she ended up in. I'm sure I'll get to see her in the future
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    again and I can't wait to see what she looks like as she grows up as we all know that she's going to get big as she already has some massive paws on her.
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