The video is short, very short but of rare intensity and emotion. It’s about a newly adopted dog who doesn’t take his paw off his new owner. Posted on TikTok by Abigail (@abigailada12), immediately garnering an avalanche of views, shares and likes, and is a small part of the journey home, from the shelter, of Loki and his friend. Fourteen seconds in which the tender and nice hound looks at him with a look full of love and gratitude, scrutinizing the car’s cockpit with curiosity.
“I adopted this dog and he held my paw all the way home,” writes Abigail below the video. The hearts of millions of users melted. my life for you”, wrote one. “All this is moving, who knows what and how many emotions they feel during the journey from the kennel to their new family home”, replies another. that he’s safe now,” adds a third. “It’s like he knows he’s been chosen,” echoed others.
In a later video, the woman provided more details about Loki and explained that she works in the shelter where her then adopted four-legged had entered. “He was sick, taking anti-nausea drugs and other medicines – he says – he needed a place to go home because he couldn’t stay in the clinic all the time. He was too sick to be included in the adoption program”. She also explained how her husband agreed that she could adopt him.
Some day the encouraging announcement. “Loki is settling in great and is happy to have a home – wrote Abigail – we have had some blood tests done again and are waiting for the results to make sure everything is fine. We had taken him into temporary foster care, then trusting in a definitive external one. We had taken him back to the shelter, as had been agreed, but – in agreement with my husband – we then returned to pick him up. We must and want to keep him, he deserves it.”
