Of course, the workers at Saving Carson Shelter Dogs try to soothe him, but for a dog who has grown used to a home and a family, there can be no substitute.
Alongside the clip, the shelter explained: “Sweet AJ is beautiful, he has amazing energy and he was surrendered with his beautiful brother Toby. They did great walking on a leash next to each other when they came in but now they are confused and alone and missing each other and home. They need help.
“AJ is 100 percent pure sweet, gentle, loving beauty, he loves other dogs and he is missing his brother, He is shutting down, he has a cold and he needs your help…”
Watch the video of AJ here:
It should come as no surprise that the heart-wrenching footage soon went viral, amassing more than five millions views and an abundance of comments and shares.
Fortunately, it wasn’t long before the crying dog, AJ, found his forever home. In a follow-up post, the shelter wrote: “This beauty touched the hearts of a lot of people and today he was lucky enough to take his freedom walk out of the shelter, even while he is struggling with a cold.
“He was rescued, and we are hoping tomorrow that rescue will work with the different rescue that is saving his bonded brother Toby, so they can be reunited. Both have been seriously depressed since they were separated…Happy life sweet AJ.”
For AJ – and hopefully for Toby, too – being left at a shelter was simply a temporary misery before they found new, loving families. Sadly, for the vast majority of dogs this isn’t the case.
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