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Woman Brought Home A Dying Shelter Dog So ‘She’ll Feel Loved For 24 Hours’, But A Miracle Happened
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Woman Brought Home A Dying Shelter Dog So ‘She’ll Feel Loved For 24 Hours’, But A Miracle Happened

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Meet Jay-Z, the adopted chihuahua with her signature sticking-out-tongue and no less extraordinary story than her looks. She was a very old and very sick pooch at a shelter where everyone thought she didn’t have much left. Then, the eyes of the dog and Heather Hayes, a marketing manager at the Asheville Humane Society, met, changing their lives forever.

“The staff at the shelter wondered if she was even adoptable because her health was so bad,” she tells The Dodo. “I said, ‘Let me take her home for a night and if we decide she doesn’t have a quality of life and we have to let her go, I want her to be at a home. ‘At least she’ll feel loved for 24 hours.'”

Since that day, 4 marvellous years have passed. Yes, the doggie survived the next day, and the next, and in fact, being loved gave her a second life. “It is so rewarding to bring home animals who are overlooked and give them a family… She has the most incredible will to live of any animal I’ve ever known.”

The woman added: “Jay-Z taught me to cherish senior animals, who need love and comfort the most in the final years of their lives. Just like people.”

More info: Asheville Humane Society | Facebook | Instagram (h/t: thedodo)

Meet Jay-Z, the adopted chihuahua with her signature sticking-out-tongue and no less extraordinary story

She was a very old and very sick pooch at a shelter where everyone thought she didn’t have much left

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Then, one day the eyes of the dog and Heather Hayes met, changing their lives forever

“The staff at the shelter wondered if she was even adoptable because her health was so bad”

“I said, ‘Let me take her home for a night and if we decide she doesn’t have a quality of life and we have to let her go…”

“I want her to be at a home. ‘At least she’ll feel loved for 24 hours'”

Since that day, 4 marvellous years have passed. Yes, the doggie survived the next day, and the next…

“It is so rewarding to bring home animals who are overlooked and give them a family”

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“She has the most incredible will to live of any animal I’ve ever known”

“Jay-Z taught me to cherish senior animals, who need love and comfort the most in the final years of their lives”

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Raju Sesharaj
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God bless her and her animal babies. Sir Jay Z you inspire us!

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Melissa Nunya
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is such a great story, thank you for sharing and thank for for being the kind of human that dog needed.

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Raju Sesharaj
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God bless her and her animal babies. Sir Jay Z you inspire us!

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Melissa Nunya
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is such a great story, thank you for sharing and thank for for being the kind of human that dog needed.

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