A senior canine in an Illinois animal shelter has one factor she appears to sit up for each day: Getting tucked in when the shelter closes up for the evening.
Sandy, estimated to be round 10 years outdated, has been on the Knox County Humane Society within the metropolis of Galesburg for practically a yr, the shelter mentioned in a Fb publish earlier this week. The publish included a video of the canine Sandy being wrapped in blankets on a giant plush chair, together with a number of photographs displaying her bundled in blankets.
“Since being right here, Sandy has picked up the routine of getting tucked in each evening,” the shelter wrote. “It’s one thing that has grow to be an virtually each evening factor that she seems to be ahead to.”
The publish famous that Sandy had ended up on the shelter after her prior proprietor “sadly turned sick and needed to relocate.”
Keneshia Martin, the workers member who took the photographs and is nearly all the time the one to tuck Sandy in, mentioned she believes it’s a behavior the canine picked up some time in the past.
“I feel it was simply one thing she was used to at her earlier residence,” Martin advised HuffPost. “She simply does it.”
Sandy’s different pursuits embody automotive rides and being “pleasant to everyone,” Martin mentioned.
Shelter director Erin Buckmaster described Sandy as “very candy,” although she famous that the canine dislikes cats.
Sandy’s lengthy stint on the shelter is an instance of how onerous it may be to seek out properties for older canine, in accordance with Buckmaster.
“I simply assume it’s unhappy that every one the older canine are left behind,” she advised HuffPost. “When we now have puppies, everyone fights over all of the puppies.”
And like animal shelters throughout the nation, the Knox County Humane Society has seen an uptick in surrendered pets in current months fueled by rising rents and inflation. Many individuals have to surrender their pets once they’re evicted. They both grow to be homeless or can not discover reasonably priced housing the place pets are allowed, Buckmaster mentioned, including, “I hate landlords.”
Buckmaster hopes folks study Sandy and understand how nice older canine will be.
“Our dream is for her to have her personal eternally residence,” she mentioned, “the place she’d get tucked in each evening.”