Nothing too exciting happens at the relatively calm Meadow Brook Medical Care Facility, a nursing home in Bellaire, Michigan, that cares for seniors with terminal illnesses and dementia—but despite that (or maybe because of it), a stray dog decided that was the place he wanted to make his forever home. Scout—an abused pup who escaped not once, not twice, but three times from the Antrim County Animal Control shelter not far from the nursing home—first showed up at the long-term care facility in 2017. He climbed over two fences, traversed a busy thoroughfare in the dead of night, sauntered through the nursing home’s automatic doors, then “walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto a couch, curled into a ball, and quietly went to sleep for the night.”
When an “astonished” staffer discovered Scout the next day, the local sheriff retrieved him and brought him back to the shelter, but over the next week or so, Scout made his way back to the nursing home two more times–at which point “the staff had a decision to make,” per the Free Press. Their decision was to keep the friendly pooch, who in the years since has become a beloved companion to the seniors who live there.
tail waggin’ ANGELS….they walk among us.
Attaboy, Scout.
“sense when some of them are nearing their end of life”
Take him to meet FJB, give us some good news.
Dogs serve the Lord too.
Some take it more seriously than others.
Much like humans do.
THIS one has a mission and knows it.
Too bad humans aren’t as determined…
That dog must really like Jello and Metamucil.
Scout chose a higher and noble path. (We don’t deserve dogs)
Who’s a good boy? Yes, Scout, you are.
I love this story.
Scout gets a home and the seniors and staff get a dog-Win/Win!
Dogs make this old world almost bearable.
Dog after all is God spelled backwards. And dogs are definitely man’s best friends and, in this case a whole bunch of old people who need to have a dog as a companion in their old age.
I love dogs, but I have the feeling if Scout started camping near me,in an end of life kind of way.
I’m sure I would have an “Oh shit, there goes my day” reaction.
Dear Lord, thank you for giving us dogs as our loyal companions.
“sauntered through the nursing home’s automatic doors” – OK, what kind of nursing home has automatic doors? The ones I’ve visited you need to be buzzed in and out by someone at the desk.
My dogs saved my life years ago when I was at my lowest. Dogs are a gift I think everyone should experience at least once in life.
Wild Bill AT 2:31 PM
‘”sauntered through the nursing home’s automatic doors” – OK, what kind of nursing home has automatic doors? The ones I’ve visited you need to be buzzed in and out by someone at the desk.’
…that does seem careless. Dementia patients like to wander out too, and folks who like to st3al from the elderly like to wander in. Also I thought nursing homes were still playing let’s pretend about Coof?
There’s lots of reasons this should not be possible.
But if the dog’s on a mission, with God ALL things are possible…