Shelter’s Longest Resident Refuses To Leave Her Collection Of ‘Stuffies’ Behind.

 Every day, dogs and cats are taken in by animal shelters all around the country.

Pet owners who can no longer care for their animals leave them behind in large numbers. The majority of the time, these ex-owners have the best of intentions and think that their pets will find new homes shortly.

Sadly, many people are unaware that some of these animals are put to death. Despite the fact that there are no-kill shelters, some of them euthanize animals within a few days, some even as soon as four. For this reason, it's crucial that animals from shelters get adopted and placed in new homes as quickly as possible.

One of the fortunate shelter dogs is the stray pit bull Waffle Sizzli. RACC (Richmond Animal Care and Control) rescued her and provided shelter for her in November 2022. She continued to be at the shelter in January 2023, awaiting adoption. She had been living in the shelter for quite some time by this point.

Waffle found another thing she adored in the shelter, soft toys, often known as stuffies, aside from receiving affection and cuddles from the RACC personnel. When Waffle was initially brought into Christie Peters, director of RACC, office, she saw soft toys. Several soft toys were waiting for her here, she discovered. 'She adored them. To get the stuffies, she crossed the hallway to the other office. In order for her to have more, she took them back to my room, Peters told The Dodo.

Wherever she went, Waffle carried her beloved stuffed animals. While Waffle lay in her bed, the toys encircled her. At least one toy was always with her when she got out of bed. Even when she went to the bathroom, she took her toys outside before returning them when she was done.

Redbones were her preferred cuddly toy. The frog came in second place, but his dangling legs occasionally caused her to trip. The bird came in third in the lineup, and Peters said that she brought it around a lot. Waffle didn't engage in much socialization with the other dogs at the shelter, but every time she passed by cages containing other dogs, she proudly displayed her toys to them. She was proud of her toys but didn't want to wrestle with her priceless stuffed animals.

She was willing to provide them to us, but she didn't want us to take them. All she wanted was for us to admire her with her stuffed animals, which we did. Every day, in essence, was the Waffle Sizzli show, with us acting as the audience, as Peters recollected. At the shelter for three months, Waffle Sizzli was eventually adopted. She caught the attention of her new owner after he watched a video of her playing with her stuffed animals on RACC's channel.

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