Alan Moncayo rapidly fell for Jihoo, a 65-lb. pit bull combine who had spent 240 days on the shelter
Fairfax County Animal Shelter
Alan Moncayo, his daughter and canine Jihoo
An animal shelter worker’s lunch order led to an extremely completely satisfied ending for one affected person rescue canine.
On Saturday, Feb. 10, Grubhub driver Alan Moncayo delivered lunch to a supervisor on the Fairfax County Animal Shelter‘s Lorton, Virginia, campus.
When he walked in Moncayo noticed a canine within the entrance window staring proper at him.
“It was love at first sight,” Moncayo, 51, tells PEOPLE. “He checked out me, and I seemed again at him.”
Because it was a weekend, the one dad had his 5-year-old daughter, Sabrina, with him.
“My daughter’s been asking me for a puppy for the longest time,” Moncayo says. “She wished a canine so dangerous.”
He requested if he may meet Jihoo, the 65-lb. black-and-white pit bull combine he noticed within the window.
He and his daughter performed catch with the canine. “It was superb,” Moncayo says. “We hit it off with him proper from the very starting.”
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Alan Moncayo and Jihoo
The common size of keep for dogs on the Fairfax County Animal Shelter is 24 days. Jihoo had been on the shelter for 240 days since his homeowners surrendered him.
“He was tremendous beloved by our workers,” says Rebecca Cavedon, communications supervisor on the Fairfax County Department of Animal Sheltering “He would go on hikes, he’d go go to totally different parks, he cherished enjoying with any and all squeaky toys. He even spent the day at our entrance desk greeting guests — and that was the perfect day ever, as a result of he was so fantastic with everybody who walked in. He would soar up on the counter and wag his tail. He was simply good.”
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Celebrating Super Bowl weekend, the shelter occurred to be having an Adoption Bowl” event for giant dogs, waiving all adoption charges for pups over 45 lbs.
Thanks to the lunch supply resulting in this opportunity encounter, Jihoo was one in every of 20 dogs adopted over that weekend.
“His adoption is simply so particular. Bringing folks and pets collectively is absolutely the core of our mission — there’s a lot love and pleasure in adopting a pet,” Cavedon says. “To see a pet that was so cherished by our total neighborhood thriving together with his new household means all the things to us.”
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Moncayo was thrilled that the shelter not solely waived the adoption payment, but additionally despatched him home with a model new canine crate, leash, toys and meals.
“He’s so light, loving,” Moncayo says of his new pet. “He matches so completely in our household. We love him a lot, it is such a blessing to our hearts.”
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