4 Ways to Give Your Heart to Your Adult Rescue Dog

Allison Lane
P.S. I Love You
Published in
9 min readAug 20, 2020

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When our dear Loretta died, we had a silent six months of doglessness.

Twelve years before, she found us at a Raleigh animal control shelter, quiet and waiting. The other dogs erupted in raucous song while this lanky shepherd sat patiently. Too old to appeal to the “puppy seekers,” she had missed her marketability window.

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