Scared dog found roaming near busy NC hotel. Now ‘thriving,’ she awaits a new home
A scared dog roaming near a busy hotel was rescued — and now, she needs a home.
Lee Loo has warmed up to strangers as she has spent roughly 100 days waiting in a North Carolina shelter.
“This sweet girl has not had the best start to life,” the Watauga Humane Society wrote June 13 in a Facebook post. “Having been found abandoned next to a busy hotel, there were not many people she trusted at first.”
In December, she was spotted “living alone in the woods” near the hotel in South Carolina. The person who rescued her planned to keep her, but couldn’t afford her medical care, according to an online adoption profile and details a shelter spokesperson told McClatchy News via email.
Lee Loo eventually arrived at the shelter in the mountain town of Boone, North Carolina, a roughly 85-mile drive west from Winston-Salem. The 4-year-old mixed-breed pup was scared around almost everyone early on but is now “thriving,” the humane society wrote in a past social media post.
“It took our kennel team some patience, love, and way too much peanut butter but they broke through the hard shell,” the shelter wrote.
Lee Loo, described as an “expressive” dog with a love for companionship, also had a skin condition and needed to gain weight. She received treatment before she became available for adoption.
“Why she’s been with us 100 ... days?” the animal organization wrote. “Honestly, we don’t know, she’s amazing! She is fearful of humans at first, but she has progressed so much while in our care and now just takes a few minutes to warm up to anyone new!”
As of June 14, Lee Loo was still in need of an owner. More details about the shelter’s adoption process can be found at wataugahumane.org.
