A dog photographed roaming the rainy streets of Detroit bring a drab toy in her mouth has actually had a significant modification of luck.
The heartbreaking picture of the dog, now called Nikki, was posted on Facebook last week by Michigan not-for-profit Almost Home Animal Rescue League.
“This beautiful German shepherd dog has been wandering the streets with his toy stuffy in his mouth. We were told his owner passed away,” the post read. (Nikki was at first thought to be a boy, however rescuers later on discovered she was a lady.)
Two days later on, the post was upgraded with good news. Another organization, South Lyon Murphy Lost Animal Recovery, had actually handled to capture Nikki. And things just improved from there.
“Nikki is in the most loving foster home as I write this,” Gail Montgomery, director of Almost Home Animal Rescue, informed HuffPost in an email. “They already love her and omg Nikki loves them.”
Montgomery thinks that if all continues to work out, Nikki’s foster family will adopt her completely.
“Nikki is enjoying the good life,” she said.
As for the toy seen because very first picture, Montgomery told The Dodo that it was “extremely dirty and a total mess.” Rescuers cleaned it, fixed it and returned it to Nikki, and initially she couldn’t wait to snuggle with her freshened-up toy. But Montgomery informed HuffPost that the dog now isn’t as connected to it as she utilized to be.
“She is so content with her foster parents she doesn’t even need her stuffy much anymore,” Montgomery said. “I guess it was her security binky.”
