It can take a while for some dogs to find their ideal forever home. Some might say that everything is, is on the right time, I cannot help but think no dog should wait that long to be with family.
Billy Bob was one of those dogs: almost 9 years old, and had been at the shelter just shy of 3.
Hundreds of tails were wagging, and barks were howling as the days turned to weeks and months turned to months. However, within the booming walls of the shelter, Billy Bob came and went without being seen and without a family to call his own.
For 1,000 days, that concrete kennel was to be his only home, or so it seemed.
Some time passed before the next chapter in Billy Bob’s saga read like an epic on a lifetime of happy-ever-after.
A Shy Dog Named Billy Bob
In April, 2021, Billy Bob was brought to the League for Animal Welfare animal-shelter in Batavia, Ohio, after he was rescued from a West Virginia rescue group that was closed down for animal cruelty and neglect.
He came to League with a scared disposition about the entire World around him. It just makes you ponder what this sad little fella endured in his all-too-short fuzzy life. But perhaps it is better that we don` t.
The Ohio-based shelter posted on Facebook: “He was terrified when he came to the League – so scared to walk on leash, so scared to come to people, slunk to the ground to try to make himself smaller to disappear, too afraid to be seen.”
Luckily, a wonderful foster home from the shelter took Billy Bob home for a whole year! In foster home — dude learned not all humans is bad feathers.
Although he became somewhat better, he was still such an extremely timid and scared little guy who struggled when meeting new people.
For the next two years Billy Bob lived in the shelter because his fostering family could no longer keep him.
The shelter was looking to find him the right family in no time but unfortunately this wasn’t the case, and Bobbers (as the call him) lived there for more than 1,000 days.
Bobber’s Forever Home
The staff were eager to find this senior chip a home, given he was nearly nine-years-old and had been at the shelter for three years.
Not a senior dog, not any dog, should be spending such long random months in a shelter.
To cap it all off on St Patrick’s Day, something amazing truly happened :Billy Bob got adopted.
Finally, BOBBERS IS GOING HOME! The shelter posted this cool update on its social media: “Fingers crossed for Billy Bob and his newfamily – he has a doggie sibling he likes, and a new dad who has a history of anxious dogs, so here’s to hoping he’s home for good now.”
The timid little Pity who would panic at the sound of any loud noise was placed in the home of someone who could work with him and love him for life.
Bobbers already seems to be embracing life as a permanent member of the family and he appears to hit it off well with his fur-sibling Oakley.
They already enjoy playing together, and I am tickled pink for little Bobbers. So, after everything he has been through, I hope he gets a lot more years with his new family because he deserves it.
And just to finish on a nice image, here is Billy Bob smiling in his new home asleep:
