While we like to think every dog has her day, some have to make the most of just a moment.
For Chloe, that moment came four years ago, when police officers paid a visit to a house in Lyndhurst, Ohio. They found Chloe, among four dogs languishing inside crates, likely spending most of their days there.
The officers would free them all from their crates. But Chloe wasn’t the kind of dog to let even a moment pass her by.
She connected immediately with one of the officers. And he adopted her on the spot.
“He fell in love with the Chloe from the first instant,” the officer’s friend, Jackie Susann, tells iHeartDogs. “He told the owners as the dogs were being removed that he was taking her himself and she would have a good home with his other dogs.”
And for about two years, it was a good home.
But as Chloe matured, the officer’s family, which included four dogs, became a little too bustling for the fully grown Pit Bull/Boxer mix.
Chloe lashed out at one of the smaller dogs. And the officer came to the sad realization that Chloe would be happier in another family.
He asked Susann if she might like to take Chloe, and it turned out the dog had already been laying the groundwork for her next home – her forever home.
“She and I had a connection right away the first time I met her at their house after they rescued her,” Susann says. “She would come sit with me and went wherever I went inside their home. If I was in the pool on a float and she couldn’t get to me she would bark until I came closer to the edge, or she would jump in and swim to me.”
So Chloe pounced on another moment — and joined Susann. Together, they spelled forever.
“She is loved, happy and knows I’m her mama and will always come home to her every day,” Susann says. “I love her and can’t even imagine my life without her in it.”
At four-and-a-half years old, Chloe is a long way from the crate that was once so much of her world. Today, the dog with a gift of connecting with people claims most of Susann’s house as her home – and all of the woman’s heart.
“If I am not home for an hour, she feels slighted,” Susann says.
