Heartbroken Shelter Dog Is Now Officially Available for Adoption
Update, 12/7/2016: As promised, Zuzu has officially left the Downey Shelter for a better life. The 2-year-old German Shepherd left the shelter on December 3 and headed to Pet Adoption Fund, a non-kill rescue and adoption organization in Canoga Park, California.
Zuzu is now officially available for adoption, and we're sure it will take no time at all for her to find her forever home.
The sweet pup made headlines last week after being picked up by Animal Control in California. She was taken to the Downey Shelter, where she was happy to see her family arrive to rescue her. Turns out, they were actually there to adopted another dog, and left Zuzu at the shelter. We're happy to report that the family in question was not allowed to adopt another dog.
Original, 11/30/2016: On Monday, Desi Lara, a shelter volunteer at the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control Downey, posted a video that will absolutely destroy you. It shows a 2-year-old German Shepherd named Zuzu, who was picked by Animal Control after getting loose and hopping the fence into her neighbor's yard. When her family arrived at the shelter shortly after, Zuzu got super excited, thinking they had come to take her home.
"With her fast wagging tail seeing her owners Zuzu lit up like a Christmas Tree," Lara wrote in the caption. "She looked like the happiest dog."
But her happiness was short-lived, when she realized that they weren't there for her. They were there to get another dog. Apparently, Zuzu had become too much of a downer since her father passed away.
"Their reason was because she was crying and sad since her father passed away. She wasn't a happy dog anymore," Lara wrote. "Their solutions for her unhappiness was just leaving her here! And go get another dog."
Facebook users immediately slammed the family for their despicable, heartless act, and told the shelter the family should never be allowed to adopt another dog ever again.
The staff at the shelter renamed her "Zuzu" (it is unclear what her name was previously), after the daughter in the movie It's A Wonderful Life.
"Why, because we are going to post, tag and share her and give her a new life. A wonderful life!" Lara wrote.
On Tuesday night, the Downey Animal Care Center announced that Zuzu had been taken in by a rescue organization, and will be leaving Downey on Friday, which is the first day that she is legally allowed to be adopted.
Let's find her a happy home!
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