“Adopting an older dog can be an amazingly fulfilling experience ” ~ Oahu SPCA.

When a sweet dog named Pirate arrived at the Oahu SPCA in Wahiawa, Hawaii, no one could have imagined she would spend nearly a decade there.

Weeks turned into months, and months into years, yet Pirate remained in her small kennel. The only thing that truly changed was her face, slowly turning white with age.

After seven long years, not a single person had come to ask about her—until one day, everything changed.

Meeting Pirate Marie

“Pirate’s biggest obstacle was the fact that she was an older dog. People don’t want to adopt the older dogs because they think it’s going to be more work,” Amanda Villeme, Executive Director at Oahu SPCA, told The Dodo .

The shelter staff never gave up on her, but after

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