Goliath

My baby! from Philadelphia, PA

Goliath is about 3 years old. My kids & I found him at PAWS animal shelter in January of 2008. He was on the "urgent" list, meaning he had to get out of the shelter soon or face euthinasia. The reason he wasn't having luck finding a home is he had a limp because of a "bum leg". Goliath was the first dog we took out to play with that day and I think we pretty much checked out all of them. Three & a half hours later, as we were about to give up I found myself standing in the aisle and heard a single bark from the cage next to me. I looked down to see Goliath smiling up at me with a look that said "C'mon Mom, what are ya waitin' for? Let's go home!" Well, that was it, he was ours & we were his! The next day I took him to the vet to have his leg checked out and the doctor said his knee cap wasn't fitting into the grove properly. He was very underweight when we adopted him but after putting some meat on his bones the limp went away & we haven't seen a hint of it since!

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