When a senior dog named Sammy from North Carolina needed compassion more than ever, his family brought him to a shelter to surrender him.

For a dog his age, the last thing he needed was to spend his final years behind metal bars.

At fifteen, Sammy was frail and covered in lumps. His legs were weak, and walking across slick floors had become a challenge.

Chrissy Elder, founder of Forgotten, Now Family Rescue (FNF) in Charlotte, North Carolina, knew that a shelter would be an especially difficult place for a dog like him.

As fate would have it, she happened to be at Animal Care and Control the very day Sammy’s owners came to drop him off.

A Turn Of Fate

When Elder looked into Sammy’s gray-muzzled face and kind, tired eyes, she knew she couldn’t let him live out his days in a kennel .

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