A puppy saying her final goodbye to a shelter volunteer has melted hearts across the internet.

Bella, a border collie mix who's 10 months old, was surrendered to the Benton Franklin Humane Society on October 25 after her family moved away. A video of her journey, shared by volunteer Julie Saraceno ( @jsaraceno ), has garnered 4,500 likes and thousands of views on Instagram.

Once a timid, frightened pup, Saraceno told Newsweek that she initially mistook Bella’s kennel for being empty. “I kept walking by her kennel thinking it was empty, but what I didn’t know was she was hiding under the bed,” she said.

She explained that after asking staff which dog might benefit from an outing, she was told Bella could use a break. “That was when I went to look for her and saw her hiding under he

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