About this Dog
HURRY BEFORE I'M GONE!!!Okay… okay… I’m trying to be brave.Hi. My name is Norman. I’m only ten months old — still just a 32 lb Dutch Shepherd pup (my ears stood up basically overnight!) — but somehow I ended up in this place where the walls echo with barks and the lights never really go out. I try to wag my tail when people walk by, even when I’m scared, because maybe if I wag just right… they’ll stop and see me. Someone recently said they were going to come adopt me. I was SO happy! But then they never showed up. They never even bothered to meet me. I was ghosted. I’m a good boy. I am. I love people, especially kids. I like other doggies too. I don’t growl or snap, even when I’m nervous. I just want someone to sit with me for a while. To scratch behind my ears and tell me everything’s going to be okay. I’ve never had my own family, never had a cozy couch to nap on or a favorite toy that’s mine. I don’t even really know what it means to belong — but I want to. I want that more than anything.I’m trying to learn the things puppies are supposed to learn. Walking on a leash? I’m giving it my best shot. Kennels? I don’t love them. I get confused. But I’m willing to try, especially if it means getting to be part of something... bigger than me. Something like a home. A forever one.They say I’m "on the list" this time. I don’t fully understand what that means, but everyone’s been a little quieter around my kennel. Some of my friends are gone now. I heard their names once or twice, then nothing. I keep waiting for someone to call my name the way families do — sweet and proud, like it matters.Because I matter. Don’t I?I just want a chance. A chance to know what it feels like to run free in a backyard, to fall asleep in someone’s lap after a long day of being loved. To be told, “You’re safe now, Norman.”Please… if you can hear me — wherever you are — I’m here. I’m waiting. Don’t let my story end in a cage. I’ve barely begun it.With hope,Norman *Guest Posting**You can foster to adopt, foster or adopt!*If you would like to meet your new best friend, contact the Adoption Coordinator at [email protected] or 865-236-0830. To fill out an application, go to www.almosthometn.org. If you cannot get it to work, let us know and we will email it to you in a different format.
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About this Dog
HURRY BEFORE I'M GONE!!!Okay… okay… I’m trying to be brave.Hi. My name is Norman. I’m only ten months old — still just a 32 lb Dutch Shepherd pup (my ears stood up basically overnight!) — but somehow I ended up in this place where the walls echo with barks and the lights never really go out. I try to wag my tail when people walk by, even when I’m scared, because maybe if I wag just right… they’ll stop and see me. Someone recently said they were going to come adopt me. I was SO happy! But then they never showed up. They never even bothered to meet me. I was ghosted. I’m a good boy. I am. I love people, especially kids. I like other doggies too. I don’t growl or snap, even when I’m nervous. I just want someone to sit with me for a while. To scratch behind my ears and tell me everything’s going to be okay. I’ve never had my own family, never had a cozy couch to nap on or a favorite toy that’s mine. I don’t even really know what it means to belong — but I want to. I want that more than anything.I’m trying to learn the things puppies are supposed to learn. Walking on a leash? I’m giving it my best shot. Kennels? I don’t love them. I get confused. But I’m willing to try, especially if it means getting to be part of something... bigger than me. Something like a home. A forever one.They say I’m "on the list" this time. I don’t fully understand what that means, but everyone’s been a little quieter around my kennel. Some of my friends are gone now. I heard their names once or twice, then nothing. I keep waiting for someone to call my name the way families do — sweet and proud, like it matters.Because I matter. Don’t I?I just want a chance. A chance to know what it feels like to run free in a backyard, to fall asleep in someone’s lap after a long day of being loved. To be told, “You’re safe now, Norman.”Please… if you can hear me — wherever you are — I’m here. I’m waiting. Don’t let my story end in a cage. I’ve barely begun it.With hope,Norman *Guest Posting**You can foster to adopt, foster or adopt!*If you would like to meet your new best friend, contact the Adoption Coordinator at [email protected] or 865-236-0830. To fill out an application, go to www.almosthometn.org. If you cannot get it to work, let us know and we will email it to you in a different format.
