Alex and Stephen Adams had agreed they have been a two-dog household.
However as Alex was driving down Eisenhauer Highway in the future in 2019, she observed just a little canine with massive ears working alongside the road.
“It was busy, so I pulled over and he simply jumped proper in my automotive,” she says, laughing about it now.
She and Stephen took him straight to a veterinarian who discovered that he had no chip, was affected by parasites and was blind in a single eye. The vet guessed the pup was round 12 weeks previous and had seemingly been dumped.
The Adams agreed to maintain him for at the very least every week and put up flyers and posts on social media hoping to search out his proprietor. Alex describes herself as a little bit of a serial rescuer, however says in every case earlier than she’d been in a position to reunite the canine with its authentic proprietor.
When nobody emerged this time, they put the phrase out amongst pals that they’d “a tremendous canine” up for adoption. After a meet-and-greet with a possible household, although, Stephen admitted that he is likely to be prepared to budge on that two-dog restrict.
“We will’t give him up. He’s actually the perfect canine,” Alex remembers him saying.
That was in 2019 and Howie is now a central a part of the Adams household. “He’s a Velcro canine,” Alex says. “He sleeps in our mattress and he’s a full-on lap canine.”
Together with palling round with the 2 German shepherds the Adams already owned, Howie was additionally there to welcome the couple’s first youngster, Elliott, when she was born final yr. “They’re besties,” Alex says. “They’ve been connected on the hip since day one.”
It was whereas up in the course of the night time with Elliott that Alex observed SAM’s Cutest Pet Contest and submitted a photograph of Howie and his signature ears. The remaining, as they are saying, is historical past.
“We would like him to reside perpetually,” Alex says. “He’s an absolute treasure.”
