Joker the 100-pound canine likes to cuddle and play exterior, a North Carolina rescue stated.
Screengrab from Heart of the Foothills Animal Rescue- Rutherford County, NC on Facebook
A canine was rescued from a “horrible” state of affairs — and now he’s searching for one other new home, a North Carolina animal rescue stated.
Joker was a part of a litter of puppies that escaped danger in 2022. Someone threatened the pups earlier than they have been taken to Heart of the Foothills Animal Rescue and located protected locations to stay, the organization wrote on Facebook.
But then, Joker’s new proprietor grew to become sick, and the remedies made it inconceivable for the adoptive household to maintain him. He returned to the rescue in June 2023, a few yr after he was adopted, based on the rescue in Rutherford County.
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Now, the canine is searching for one other place to stay, officers wrote Oct. 4 in a social media submit. Joker is described as a 100-pound pup who loves cuddling and might’t get sufficient of enjoying exterior.
“He wags his whole back end when he is happy, which is always,” Heart of the Foothills wrote.
Joker is up for adoption a second time after the puppies in his litter reportedly had their lives “on the line.” A photograph confirmed one in all his siblings being “held up terrified as a show of what would happen” in the event that they hadn’t been saved, the rescue stated.
After Joker’s final proprietor needed to convey him again, he went via a trial adoption. But that didn’t work out as a result of he didn’t get together with the household’s male canine, Heart of the Foothills advised McClatchy News in an e-mail.
“He doesn’t like male dogs. That’s OK, we don’t always like everyone we meet,” the rescue wrote, including that anybody involved in adopting Joker can apply at heartofthefoothills.org/adopt.
The rescue’s adoption middle is in Rutherfordton, roughly 70 miles west of Charlotte.