After 600 Days in Foster Care, a Senior Beagle Goes Home

He arrived in foster care at twelve, with a heart murmur, a bad knee and the kind of paperwork that makes people keep scrolling.

Six hundred and four days later, a couple in their seventies came in specifically asking for the oldest dog in the programme.

He sleeps a great deal. He has opinions about the couch. He has, according to his foster, finally stopped watching the door.

Senior dogs are the hardest animals in any shelter to place and, by a distance, the easiest to live with. Most rescues will tell you exactly what a senior needs before you commit — the honest ones would rather you knew.