Abandoned outside a retail equipment store in Oklahoma, an anxious dog named Lucy shivered in the rain, wondering where to turn. According to workers at the store, someone dumped Lucy there about two weeks prior, and she’d been wandering the area ever since.
Luckily for Lucy, a woman named Rachel and her husband, both dog lovers, happened to visit the store. Watching Lucy cower on the pavement, Rachel knew her husband wouldn’t be able to go home without her.
“I knew as soon as we pulled up into the parking lot that he would not leave her there,” Rachel said in a video for The Dodo.
Lucy gratefully allowed the couple to move her into their car. As soon as she arrived at their home, the appreciative pittie showered them with affection.
“We set her up in our laundry room to just decompress and relax,” Rachel said. “I definitely don’t think she had ever lived inside the house before.”
The next day, Lucy enjoyed roaming around the couple’s yard and meeting their other dogs — all 13 of them.
“She got to smell all the other dogs,” Rachel said. “The first dog we introduced her to was Ellie … it was immediate love at first sight.”
Lucy excitedly wrestled with her new friends, surely feeling elated to be part of a pack, no longer on her own.
“It’s like she knew she was home,” Rachel said.
Meanwhile, Rachel and her husband searched for Lucy’s family, to no avail.
“Every attempt was made to find her original owner,” Rachel wrote in a TikTok video. “But after many flyers, social media posts and phone calls, they were never located.”
After a month with no luck, it was clear to everyone that Lucy wasn’t going anywhere. She’d found the place she belonged.
“She’s so sweet and thankful to be here,” Rachel said. “I couldn’t imagine uprooting her again.”
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