Higgins came to the Humane Society of Preble County as a puppy on September 23, 2012. The shelter workers watched Higgins grow through puppyhood and into his teenage-like years. The sweet boy was actually adopted once as a puppy but he came back to the shelter as a stray about a year later. Nobody came looking for him.
As Higgins approached six years old, the shelter began to accept that he was becoming a senior dog and would, therefore, be much harder to adopt. The shelter adopted out about 30 dogs per month, or 2,340 dogs, during the six and a half years that Higgins was there. Unsure why he was being passed up day after day, Higgins took to a lonely corner in his kennel. His once playful puppy demeanor now became glum and sad. He had been in the shelter longer than any other dog in the shelter’s history.
Betters Days On the Horizon
Higgins’ life turnaround when he met 22-year-old Brandon Reed. Reed had just bought his own house nearby and wanted to complete his family with a fur baby of his own. On April 30, 2019, Higgins finally went home.
“I wanted him to get out of there and have a home for himself. I wanted to give him a chance to live out the rest of his life in his own home,” Reed told Dayton.com.
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