find his health was actually the easiest part .
Since May , followers of the Pennsylvania SPCA ’s societal media accounts have been receiving update on Pepe , an adorably energetic pit bull mix . The glad fellow had been bestow into the shelter the previous October and was finding protection life sentence in particular hard . So the PSPCA pulled out all the stops , making him the subject of weekly societal media update that searched for a forever plate to call his own . Then , on October 18 , the good news finally came : Pepe had been espouse .
When Pepe was first bring to the PSPCA from Philadelphia Animal Control on Oct. 26 , 2020 , the hapless pupper was emaciate — the shelter list his intake weight at 38.8 pounds — and workers mistrust that he had been abused by his premature possessor . The PSPCA slowly rehabilitated Pepe back to full strong point , a cognitive operation that take about two calendar month and , as the PSCPA’sTwitter accountsaid , " would bend out to be the easiest part of his journey . "
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A smart , forthcoming doggo , Pepe retrieve life in the shelter to be progressively stressful .
" This is obviously not a long - full term living place for any dog or computerized tomography , " PSPCA Manager of Lifesaving Maddie Bernstein distinguish Daily Paws . " [ brute ] can show strain in a destiny of way and for a lot of dog that can manifest in what we call doghouse stress . "
Every day , he would joyfully spring out for railcar rides or retentive manner of walking , but when it was meter to bring him back to the kennel , Pepe would cry and trouser . Once in the kennel , Bernstein say Pepe would exhibit emphasis behaviour . He would jump high to attempt an escape cock and wound himself by push his face into the side of the kennel , trying to see visitors and the other dogs .
As the days at the shelter turned into months , the PSPCA crew ramped up its efforts to find Pepe a forever home before the stress behaviors became unmanageable . However , it would ultimately take quite a while before a well conniption could be found .
" I think his large roadblock was his unfitness to live with other frank , " Bernstein says . " He would pull towards them and bark loud and just come in a little hot . So we had to regain a family with no other dogs or cat and a home with no young minor because of his intense Energy Department levels . "
But last month — exactly 348 days after he was brought in — Pepe found his forever family . Rather than having a prominent celebration , the PSPCA prefer for a more low-keyed parting to keep the gamey pupper from getting too amped up in the moment . Staff conduct photos of Pepe before he quiet went home with his new kinsfolk , and declare his big news to volunteers and friends of the PSPCA social media .
" Pepe ’s story is not an rare one . There are so many worth andiron in shelters who get overlooked for various understanding , " the PSPCA wrote on Twitter . " Dogs like Pepe are our reasons — they are our why s. And we know they are yours , too . "
From the looks of it , the sweet , snuggly pooch is fitting right in at his novel home , 348 days in the making .
