Dumped orchard puppy sweetens an antiques deal at a gas station when the seller notices the scared doggo in his buyer’s pickup truck and adopts him, dog dad says: ‘Me never knowing how to say no to a dog because...I instinctively say yes’

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    "I hoisted myself onto the truck bed and picked this little dude up and put him in my car."
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    Background before i really get into it: My family and I lost all three of our childhood dogs within the span of three years. 2 within 1 year and our last girl this March. It
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    was painful to say the least and I really wouldn't wish that experience upon anybody. So needless to say we weren't looking. My sister and I couldn't think about another
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    dog, she had just adopted a cat so it was not in the cards...until it was. So here's where our story starts. I was headed down to visit my sister about a
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    ки KINGS
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    month ago but I had a FB marketplace deal to do at the gas station as I sell antiques as a small side thing. So I pulled up, let the person know I was
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    there and was waiting. Low and behold this man and his wife pull up in a white pickup, the kind the companies use and I get out of my car and notice they have this small
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    little white floof in their truck bed. He's so dirty, so scared but extremely friendly. I comment on him and say "Hey he's so cute!" and the guy who is pulling out his cash
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    while his wife inspects the lamp I am selling them, says to me, "Oh, do you want him?" Me never knowing how to say no to a dog because...dog I
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    instinctively say yes but the logical part of me does ask why they want to basically give him away. Apparently this little guy was found running around in their
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    orchard, come to find that the area they live in is a common dumping ground for dogs. They had tried to find an owner, posted in local groups and no dice
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    so they were on their way to surrender him to the local shelter in the next town over. So, knowing full well that I wasn't looking for a dog but also
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    shelters are SO SO full right now, I hoisted myself onto the truck bed and picked this little dude up and put him in my car. The couple drove off and
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    I drove to the vet to get him scanned. Vet scanned him, no chip nor were there any missing dogs filed with his description. So then and there I got him a vet appointment
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    for the next day for appropriate vaccines and a check up, took him to my sisters and...yep. We now have a Zeus. He's a GSD/Husky/B...y mix according to his DNA test and he's 4
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    months approx. weighing in at 37lbs! He loves playing fetch and we recently started obedience training with a trainer who has experience with
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    Huskies and GSD's. He truly is blessing and and has helped us heal from our three losses. (And has also encouraged me to start hiking again!)
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    Needless to say; I love him. Thanks for reading :)

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