05/31/2026
💕Lucario needs a foster💕
Sometimes in life, you meet a dog who is beyond special. It's hard to explain.
A while back, Leigh Ann Lea Colley and I started getting messages about a neighborhood dog who had been dumped and that no one could catch. We suspect little 10-pound Pip had been dumped there with him. Usually when a dog gets dumped, people sadly look the other way. Not this neighborhood.
Everyone rallied to help. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone.
People worked to befriend him, watched out for him, and helped us try to get him safe. Eventually, Leigh Ann and I were able to trap him, and he went to the shelter. He was absolutely petrified there and completely shut down. We felt responsible for him, so we busted him out of the shelter and started looking for another option.
One of the neighbors had a friend who agreed to foster him—an older gentleman. We worried it might be too much, but Lucario thrived there.
Then today, I got a call. Lucario's foster dad had to be rushed to the hospital.
We immediately started scrambling to come up with a plan. None of us had room. Leigh Ann headed to the trailer park to pick up Lucario, but when she arrived, he was nowhere to be found.
Panic set in.
We were told that many people in the neighborhood regularly walked him and looked after him. We started imagining the worst—that when the ambulance came, Lucario had gotten scared and escaped.
Then Leigh Ann spotted him.
He was being walked by a neighborhood kid who walks him often.
Think about that for a minute.
How many dogs are so loved that no matter where they go, people fall in love with them? That's rare anywhere, but especially here.
Lucario went from a dog who had likely never known love or kindness to a dog loved by an entire community.
And if that doesn't show the power of rescue, second chances, and good people, I don't know what does.
