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This young gentleman is Sean. He dropped into our lives at the end of August when we received a phone call from Seminole Animal Control saying they had picked up a dog that had one of our tags on it. Hmmmm. Well, fortunately we microchip all of our pets and enter the numbers in our database so through the magic of technology we were able to find out that we were looking at Nanuk, a pup we had adopted out over a year before. We called his owner who was quite distressed. Her home situation had changed and she had a friend watching Sean (not too well obviously!) and did not know he was missing. She said she would be right down to pick up her darling. And that was the last we heard from her. How sad is that?!
So we have renamed our boy Sean and are looking to give him a new life with a new family. Sean is really sweet and loving. He does terribly at adoption events because he gets so stressed out he barks and growls, scaring everyone away from not just him but all our other pets as well. It's ridiculous because that is not who he is at all! In a normal environment he is just as happy-go-lucky as you please. Sean needs a home that will love him and play with him and give him the life that he sooo deserves.

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