A pair have taken drastic steps and created a lookalike after their canine suffered extreme separation anxiousness.
Marc and Kristen created Farc, or ‘fake Marc’, for 15-year-old Shorty, in a bid to show the old canine new methods.
Shorty, who has been at Marc’s facet for the previous 11 years, was adopted when his proprietor was working in a canine pound in Reno, Nevada.
Kristen told Bored Panda: “Now that he’s older it’s too difficult for him and we don’t want him getting sick. When Marc is gone Shorty is extremely anxious. He’ll bark and cry and nothing will calm him.
“If I hold him he’s still upset.”
After months of struggling Kristen’s mom had a brainwave after seeing the degrees of misery endured by the canine.
“She was over one day while Marc was away and saw how upset Shorty was. She went home and ordered the mannequin from a Halloween store that night.
“When she told me about it, I thought she was nuts.
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“I really didn’t think it would work and it would just be a funny photo opportunity.”
When the model arrived, Kristen made certain that it could resemble Marc as a lot as doable. So not solely did she dressed the dummy in her husband’s garments, however she additionally placed on the tattoo sleeves on its arms.
The couple run a ‘retirement home’ for elderly dogs on Rhode Island, the place Farc has additionally reportedly introduced consolation to the 32 different residents.
