Stray dog roaming rural village chooses young girl to be his hooman, but with it being unclear who owns the dog the girl’s family are cautious to take a dog that might have a home, says: ‘This isn’t my community and I don’t know how it works here.’

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Aug 21, 2026 7:30 AM EDT

Many of us have found ourselves thinking about how delightful it would be to be on vacation, going for a walk and suddenly meeting the stray dog of your dreams who would come home and live with you happily ever after. It's a nice dream, we cannot deny that. But the question is would you be able to do it in real life? This story tells the tale of one man who had to do exactly that.

Considering this hooman's position it is more than reasonable that he posted this story looking for doggo related advice. After all, he was in such an overwhelming emotional position that we cannot imagine that he could think clearly about anything really. On the one hand he had this sweet dog who seemed to be interested in them beyond their ability to bring him food. On the other he has his daughter who had deeply bonded with the dog. And overall he has the context of living in a city, not in the wide open spaces of a mountain village.

These three issues weighed heavily upon this man's head. Who would not want to fulfil their dream and bring back a vacation dog? Who would not want to delight their daughter and add another loving soul to the family? We will tell you who. The responsible man who deeply cares for the canine in question and first and foremost asks the question of whether this dog would actually like his life with them in the city, or would it be suffering?

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Black and cream colored dog standing on path next to grass field
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Oh gosh this is so so sweet! It sounds like a Disney movie. You have the young girl being taken far away from all that she knows. Sad at her new reality she withdraws into herself while the adults all go off to do things. But then in her darkest, loneliest moment she makes a pupper best friend fur life and everyone lives happily ever after. It hardly gets any more wholesome than that. That is until this discovery. It must have been hard to hear and understand, a dog who sort of has a home but not really.
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It is incredible how varied an emotion love can be. We often think of love as a purely positive emotion. But look how love made this little girl cry herself to sleep. Look at how love for his daughter and love for this dog is tearing apart the father. He is very much justified to feel this way as well. On the one hand he understands this dog’s life better than his daughter does, and is more than reasonable for worrying about reactivity to loud city noises after a life in the mountains. It could literally ruin the pup’s life. But a father’s love for his daughter is pretty darn powerful in itself.
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