Every year, animal shelters help many homeless stray animals find new homes, but at the same time, they also euthanize many stray animals that cannot find new homes.
There may still be people who think that if they no longer want to keep their pets, they can send them to a shelter. This is of course allowed, and shelters will naturally not refuse to take in any small animal sent to them.
Shelters don't necessarily offer a second chance for every abandoned animal. In fact, many animals have very little chance of being re-adopted. If they are not adopted within a certain period, they will face euthanasia.
Like this dog named "Pete," he is one of many abandoned dogs in the shelter, and he only has 3 days left before he is to be euthanized, which means he only has 3 days to fight for the chance to be adopted.
According to the shelter staff, Pete is a little different from the other dogs there. Most dogs brought to the shelter are quite timid and hesitant to interact with people. A few dogs are more outgoing, but these are more likely to be liked and thus have a greater chance of being adopted.
Pete's personality is such that he is neither afraid of people nor enthusiastic towards them, and he appears very calm. During Pete's stay at the shelter, whenever he hears someone passing by his cage, he will immediately come out and lie on the wire mesh to watch the person passing by.
In fact, the fact that Pete has come this far already shows that its chances of being adopted have increased. However, it looks depressed and doesn't seem excited to see people at all.
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For adopters, seeing a dog show excitement towards them can lead them to believe that the dog likes them and that's why it's so excited. I think it would be hard for someone who was considering adopting an animal to resist a dog's enthusiasm!
If you think about it carefully, even people can't maintain a happy mood when they are in adversity, so dogs are even less able to control their emotions. You can tell whether they are happy or unhappy from their faces.
Pete was abandoned and then sent to a place where he had no freedom whatsoever. How could he possibly be happy? His aggrieved and unhappy expression only evoked pity, but not much desire to adopt him.
Therefore, after Pete arrived at the shelter, he never found anyone willing to adopt him. People who saw him only felt sorry for him, and that pity only lasted for a moment. After they walked past Pete's cage, they no longer had that deep impression of him.
With only one day left before Pete's scheduled euthanasia, he met John. John came to the shelter intending to adopt a dog, and he carefully selected his favorite dog from the cages outside.
When John approached Pete's cage, Pete immediately lay down on it, his eyes still filled with sadness. Looking at Pete's sorrowful eyes, John couldn't help but reach out and stroke Pete's little paws.
John stroked Pete for a moment and then prepared to leave. Just as John reached his hand back, Pete eagerly stretched out his little paws, trying to grab John.
Pete's action sent a shiver down John's spine; he could feel Pete's longing to be adopted. John found a shelter worker and learned Pete's story, discovering that Pete had been abandoned on the street by its owner and rescued.
John knew Pete was going to be euthanized, so he decided to adopt him. Pete wasn't actually the dog John had initially wanted to adopt, but he believed more in fate, because after all this time, Pete had finally chosen him.
It turns out that things destined by fate usually have their reasons. John and Pete are now like close friends; they can tease each other and sleep together regardless of the location.
