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A viral TikTok shows a North Carolina family meeting and adopting a shy pit bull named Max

Yenny Hebert tells PEOPLE the decision came after a failed fostering experience, and this time, it “felt right”

Max, now the “baby of the house,” is settling in sweetly in his new home

On an ordinary afternoon in North Carolina, a TikTok showing a family meeting a timid shelter dog stole the hearts of millions.

The moment is simple: a sweet-faced pit bull emerges shyly as two young girls shower him with affection under the caption, "POV: you fell in love with the shy dog at the shelter."

For Yenny Hebert, the visit wasn’t meant to end in adoption — but something about that day, and that dog, changed everything. “I was just, you know what? I'm just going to go to the shelter and s

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