When we adopt a dog, we agree to keep them as part of our family for the rest of their life. However, does that promise include making the right choices for them or keeping them by our side through good and terrible times? Usually, these are not interchangeable.
When he was two years old, Roland, then known as Shorty, was up for adoption at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Conroe, Texas. A squat, overweight dog wearing a blue bandana and smiling is shown in his intake photo. Although a tad heavy for someone his size, Shorty’s weight of 40 pounds was not harmful. A lot of potential adopters were alerted when the picture was posted on social media in March 2019, the day after he was taken into the shelter. Read the full story here ▶
