This is not a story from Thailand least of all Krabi. It happened about as far away from Krabi as you can be as it was on the East Coast of the United States. We had nothing to do with this adoption but it is still a story of success and how a dog with no home finally found exactly the place where he belongs.
In many countries, the organizations that try to find homes for strays and abandoned dogs will have a bit of a trial period where potential adoptees can look after a particular dog for a trial period before they commit to taking on the dog forever.
This is a good idea because in places that do not allow trial periods, many times the dogs simply get abandoned again when the new owners or caretakers find out that the dog in question is more work than they were planning on. Without the option to return the dog in a certain period of time being an option, many people who could potentially be adopters, simply don't even try to have a dog. I always encourage people who have never had a dog before to think very carefully about getting one, even if it is a rescue, because all dogs require a great deal of attention. This idea that all doggos are just going to calmly sit in their dog beds and obey commands from day one is extremely incorrect.
This particular dog became a little bit famous because he was on his 14th "trial run" and it was starting to look like he was a lost cause. Despite his cute look and kind of lovely demeanor, he is a large puppy basically, and for the wrong family - in which there were already 13 in his case - this type of dog is simply too much work.
Thankfully the story has a happy ending.
His name is Ronald, but the SPCA caretakers had nicknamed him "Unlucky" because of the amount of families that had tried and failed to re-home him. The problem was always the same: Ronald was super-energetic because he is a puppy... a puppy that already weighs 64 lbs.
According to the staff at the kennels owned by the SPCA, Ronald was very popular with potential adoptees because he is very cute and appears to be very well behaved when visitors are in the kennels. It's almost like Ronald is putting on his best behavior in order to get them to have interest in him. But then as soon as the families take him home that puppy energy gets unleashed and he starts behaving like all puppies do. He is a very mixed-breed puppy and again, just like all puppies he is not only super-energetic, but also clumsy. After breaking things and having more energy than the families were prepared to deal with, he was time-and-time-again, returned to the kennels.
The people running the adoption end of SPCA put a Facebook post out there about Ronald's tough luck and it must have resonated with the public, because the next thing they know the post had been shared over 70,000 times. Out of nowhere the SPCA was inundated with requests for adoptions and this was a good thing at first, but the rules of the SPCA don't allow for thousands of people at at time to have a go at re-housing him.
It was simply by the luck of the draw that Ronald ended up with the perfect family, who already had one dog in their home, and it ended up being the perfect place for him.
The family in question has a decent amount of land for Ronald to run around in, children for him to play with, and most importantly, experience with dogs in the past. Ronald is definitely not a "starter pet" and Ronald fit into their lives perfectly. There was some concern about their already existing dog getting along with Ronald, but it was clear after just a few days that the two had already become best friends.
These heartwarming stories are unfortunately quite rare and it would be nice of the internet community could come together as strongly as they did for Ronald. I know it is impractical to make every single dog adoption go viral, but in this case the power of the internet did something amazing and took a dog that was starting to seem un-adoptable, get exactly the kind of home that he needed.
Now we just need several million more success stories like this to happen. We'll take what we can get and we are very happy for Ronald, and his new family in his furever home!
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
Krabi Animal Welfare is a charity run entirely by volunteers and are a registered non-profit organization in Thailand and the U.K.. We aim to relieve the pain and suffering of dogs and cats within Krabi Province.
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