Today, the AWESOME is in Rustburg, Virginia. Sienna, the dog, was up for adoption and was sweetly greeting visitors with her tail wagging at a recent adoption event. Then something unexpected happened. Without being called or coaxed, Sienna walked away from the crowd and approached a man she had never met. She paused, sat down beside him, put her paw on his foot, and just sat there. It was a couple of minutes later that she started pawing at his leg, and his wife came around the corner and said, ‘Oh my goodness. This means he’s probably going to have a seizure.’ The woman later shared her astonishment with volunteers, noting that her own three dogs had never exhibited such a pre-seizure warning.
The shelter shared in a Facebook post:
“This is the kind of magic that shelter dogs carry inside them—unspoken wisdom, deep empathy, and an unfailing ability to connect with us in our most vulnerable moments. Sienna wasn’t trained to do this. She simply felt it.”
This is just further proof that shelter dogs, adopted dogs, dogs that need furrever homes, are AWESOME.
