Poor puppy found wandering aimlessly around apartment complex after pawrents moved home and left him behind given loving foster home with hoomans who made sure that: ‘At minimum he’ll have a safe place to get healthy until we find his forever family.’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 1, 2026 12:15 PM EDT

It seems that with the dynamic nature of apartment renting in this country we are hearing more and more about poor puppers being left behind when their pawrents have to move into a non-dog friendly home. However, the pup in this story was lucky enough to be picked up by a family who would do anything fur their doggos and so was given the best care a canine could dream of.

You might not have heard of Denton, Texas before reading this story but we can assure you that you will be quite familiar with it by the end and even with a pawticular block of rental apartments where our story takes place. Sadly, this tale is one of many in America that involve a pawrent who has a change of circumstances, has to move, but cannot find a place to move to that allows pets. A heartbreaking situation and one which often results in the abandonment of those pets in the very place they once used to call home. Can you imagine how heartbreaking it is to lose your pawrent and your home all in the same day?

Thankfully though, this doggo would not know what it is to be totally alone for too long as a dog loving family would soon find him aimlessly wandering around their apartment block. Still not having given up hope of his pawrent's return, but also at a loss for what to do until said return. But once this family embraced the downtrodden doggo things began looking up. They cleaned him, cared for him and made sure that however long his time was with them it would be wonderful. Giving a dog who had so little, more than he could have ever hoped for in that dark moment of desperation. 
 

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    "He is a very sweet boy and was very popular at the vet."
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    Found puppy tonight at (edit because we recently moved and I'm an idiot) Wood Hills apartment off of Teasley. We're taking
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    him to the vet tomorrow to check for a chip but wanted to post here in case someone is missing him! (We'll
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    be checking with the leasing office here too just in case) Small update: he is not chipped, nobody
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    has claimed him yet, we scheduled him for an exam on Friday and hopefully he can start to be slowly introduced to our other dog just
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    so he doesn't have to stay in our bathroom long term. We're continuing to ask around, and look for potential owners but we suspect he
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    was abandoned. At the very least, we're not taking him to the shelter since we have the means to care for him. We got
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  • Now that is 100% right! We cannot put enough emphasis on how uninformed most people are when it comes to what to do  when you find a pup with no pawrents around. Unless you absolutely have to, you never take a doggo to the shelter, and even if you have to, you first put the word out that you have found a lost dog so that its pawrent might have a chance to pick up the pup without too much drama. Otherwise you are prematurely subjecting that poor pupper to shelter conditions which are not great to say the least. 

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    him puppy food and a harness so we can officially take him out to go potty and won't risk him running off
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    So Laszlo is not chipped, and has still not been claimed. We actually think based on his behavior around our apartment complex
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    and some light investigating that he was abandoned by someone living here when they moved out. Poor guy has hookworm so he got
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    a dewormer at the vet along with his first round of puppy vaccines. He has another visit scheduled for next
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    month and then we can try introducing him to our other dog officially. Not sure if we're keeping him, but at minimum he'll have a safe
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  • Wow, well at least he has a place to stay that is actually close to his old home, giving him familiar surroundings to hang out in until someone comes to adopt him. But what a sad backstory for such a sweet pup. Sadly this kind of thing happens a decent amount considering the constraints of renting an apartment, you might end up finding yourself in a situation where you simply cannot move home with your pupper. Not that dumping the doggo where you once lived is the right response…but you can see how someone in such a position might end up doing so.

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    place to get healthy until we find his forever family. Wanted to post him again just in case someone recognizes him :/
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