Meant to be! I fell in love with Annabelle (formerly Hannah), but another family snatched her up before I could! Don't worry, this is a happy ending though! On a snowy December day, my boyfriend and I drove to the Humane Society of Huron Valley to visit the dogs. We had gone so many times by this point that we knew all the dogs, and enjoyed meeting the new guys and seeing who had gone home. As we were walking through, saying hello and giving nose rubs and kisses, I stopped at a new dog. She looked up at me with big brown puppy-dog eyes (which was nothing new, but hers were heart-melting) for a moment, and suddenly grinned and dropped to the floor, rolling over to offer me her belly. So of course, in an instant I was reaching my hands through the bars to rub her belly and watching her whole body wiggle with puppy-like joy. I looked at my boyfriend who was chuckling at her lovable antics and told him, "I've found her. This is my dog!" We had an interaction with her and walked her and I fell even more in love. We went home that day, making a list of the things we still needed for her. The next day, we had everything ready, so we drove back with a new leash and collar for her. We power-walked to the back to see her again...only she wasn't there. We hurried to the front desk and they told us that a family had come and adopted her. I handed my boyfriend my car keys, and he drove home as I watched my tears fall onto the vacant leash and collar in my lap.
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