With National Dog Day being earlier this week, many celebrated the Taylor Swift news , but for people who really knew what was important, they celebrated our fuzzy four-legged family members.

I’ve grown up having a dog, and can’t imagine my life without one.

Whether it was the dogs that lived with my grandparents, or Buster, my first dog at the age of 8, or now in my 40s with little Rusty. My dog is my shadow, my sidekick, my best friend.

Then I see on the Yakima Humane Society’s Facebook page the story of Canelo, and my heart breaks.

Yakima Humane Society’s ‘Meet Canelo’

Canelo is a one-year-old Australian Kelpie and Shepherd mix, medium-sized, roughly 50-pound good boy.

He has been in Yakima Humane Society’s care for over 230 days. 230 days in a kennel, waiting for his foreve

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