Dogs can come in all breeds, shapes, and sizes, although these combinations are not always what you might expect. For one Georgia pup, his mixed heritage has made him into an internet sensation – and for good reason!
Meet Rami, the perfect mix of a waddling weiner dog and a stout pitbull.
Rami was discovered roaming the streets in Georgia, apparently abandoned by his previous owners. Without any clue about who Rami might have belonged to, he was taken to the nearest shelter in the hopes of finding him a new home.
According to Rami’s Facebook Page, the Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society took him in, helping Rami get back into good health. The shelter provided Rami food, clean water, and finally, a safe place to rest up. After waiting patiently for 5 days to see if Rami’s original owners might appear, Rami was placed up for public adoption.
The Humane Society posted a photo of Rami on their page, hoping to find Rami’s new forever home – but then, something amazing happened.
Overnight, Rami’s photo received over 1 million hits, making him one popular pup!
By the next day, over 3 million people had viewed and shared Rami’s photo. Phone calls began pouring into the MCCHS’s office as people began clamoring to adopt Rami, the famous pitbull-weiner mix.
“It’s a true pitbull head on a dachshund body,” Dawn Blanton, the director of the MCCHS, said to Pawpulous about Rami.
However, despite the endless adoption offers they received, the MCCHS decided that Rami had a higher calling, deciding instead to keep Rami.
Rami became a shelter ambassador and therapy dog for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society.
Now Rami works around the clock as a therapy animal for other homeless dogs that the MCCHS needs to relocate and bring into the shelter. Rami helps to make the other dogs more comfortable around the rescuers, showing that they can be trusted and making it easier to capture the feral dogs.
Thanks to Rami and his kindness, other dogs are getting rescued and finding their very own fur-ever homes.
Be sure to follow Rami on Facebook, where more than 10,000 people are already following him!
According to the ASPCA, more than 6.5 million dogs enter animal shelters across the nation every year. If you’re looking to get a dog, please consider saving a life and adopting a dog from a shelter, like Rami.
