Ican’t even remember the number of shelter stories I’ve seen, but some just stay with you long after the video ends. And to everyone’s surprise, it’s mostly those quiet ones: about dogs who don’t bark, who don’t beg, and who’ve even stopped believing anyone is coming.

That was Yoda.

This tiny French Bulldog was constantly overlooked in a California shelter. Yet she didn’t make a sound, just watched with tired eyes as other pups got their second chances. Her silence was the kind that breaks you, the kind that makes you wonder if she’d already accepted her turn might never come.

Then rescuer Colby Hartz, from California, walked in, and everything changed for this sweet pup.

Welcome Home, Yoda

When Colby Hartz, ex Marine Corps infantry vet moved to California, he made it his life mission

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