Dog Found A Forever Home But Missed His Foster Mom Like Crazy — So He Ran Away

Mar 05, 2019 by apost team

A sweet story of a runaway dog has captured hearts worldwide. It all started when Geoffrey, a big-eyed puppy dog, was fostered at the home of a young couple. They were quite fond of him, and they affectionately called him "our little shadow" because of the way that he'd follow them around the house.

They were foster parents, however, and they knew that they couldn't keep Geoffrey in the long run. So they eventually let him go to a "forever home" with a new family. Imagine their surprise when they got the call that Geoffrey had run away!

Too attached to his foster parents to settle with his new owners, Geoffrey set out on a journey to return to his first home. It was a dark, dangerous time, and he was even hit by a car as he wandered, but he didn't stop. Meanwhile, his foster parents were frantically looking for him. They posted all kinds of pleas and pictures on social media as they enlisted the whole world to help them find their lost dog.

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"I'm out looking for Geoffrey," his foster mom says in one of her video logs. The distress on her face is easy to see as she clenches her steering wheel and looks through the window into the dark night. "I don't know which way he went. I don't know where to look." One day, a tip came in that a dog matching Geoffrey's description had been spotted in a warehouse. His foster mom raced to the scene, and to her delight, she discovered Geoffrey hiding under a pallet.

"That's him, that's him!" she cried, pressing her entire face to the floor as she tried to coax the scared pooch out of hiding. "Come here, Geoffrey! Come here, my monkey!" At the sound of his mother's voice, Geoffrey crawled out from under the pallet and was immediately cradled in her arms. She couldn't hold back her tears as she hugged him fiercely. "We got him," she wept. "Oh my gosh."

Geoffrey never returned to his second home. After the ordeal that they'd gone through to find him, his foster parents decided to make an exception to their usual rules and keep him. Today, he lives a happy life with his forever family, and their only social media updates are upbeat ones filled with smiles, cuddles, treats and doggy-howling along with the radio.

What do you think about Geoffrey's story? Wasn't this reunion the cutest? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and be sure to pass this article along to all dog lovers out there!