The reunion looks like so many happy endings. There’s a relieved human and a dog so filled with joyful exuberance that the entire body wags along with the tail. There’s a lot more to the story of this particular reunion, though.
This man is a homeless fellow who spent the very last of his money to take the bus to the shelter with the hope that his lost dog had been taken there. When an employee of the Dekalb County Animal Services came to work, the man was lying in front of the building after spending the night on the sidewalk. He was eager for the shelter to open so that he could learn whether or not they had his dog.
The dog had indeed been brought to the shelter as a presumed stray, but she had then been taken across town to a different facility. The shelter worker kindly paid for the man’s train ticket over there so that the two could be reunited. The shelter waived the usual fees so that the man could have his dog back despite his lack of funds.
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