A troubled Chihuahua in want of a house is successful the hearts of individuals throughout the web after a hilarious, and brutally sincere, submit written by the lady fostering him went viral.
“OK, I’ve tried,” begins a prolonged Fb submit by Tyfanee Fortuna, who’s fostering Prancer for Second Probability Pet Adoption League in New Jersey. “I’ve tried for the final a number of months to submit this canine for adoption and make him sound…palatable. The issue is, he’s simply not. There’s not a really massive marketplace for neurotic, man hating, animal hating, youngsters hating canines that seem like gremlins.”
Prancer, she wrote, embodies the “Chihuahua meme” that describes the canines as “50% hate and 50% tremble.”
“Each day we stay within the grips of the demonic Chihuahua hellscape he has created in our house,” the submit states.
It’s not Prancer’s fault that he’s how he’s.
“Prancer got here to me overweight, carrying a cashmere sweater, with a bacon egg n cheese stuffed in his crate with him,” the submit states, occurring to clarify that his former proprietor was a lady who “handled him like a human and by no means socialized him.”
Poor Prancer spent his first few days in his foster house fearful and quiet, however in the end that gave strategy to a special sort of character.
“I used to be excited to see him come out of his shell and grow to be an actual canine,” Fortuna wrote. I’m satisfied at this level he isn’t an actual canine, however extra like a vessel for a traumatized Victorian youngster that now haunts our house.”
That stated, Prancer does have some good qualities. He’s “loyal past perception,” housebroken, is aware of some instructions and likes to be with the particular person he’s bonded with ― although that particular person must be a lady or girls. (The submit warns, “You probably have a husband don’t trouble making use of, until you hate him.”)
She concluded by imploring those that have “all the time needed your individual haunted Victorian youngster within the physique of a small canine that hates males and kids” to electronic mail the rescue.
Fortuna’s Pulitzer-worthy writeup has sparked a whole lot of curiosity in Prancer.
“We’re getting a whole lot of inquires from everywhere in the nation however targeted on discovering him the precise proper scenario to set him up for fulfillment,” a Second Probability Pet Adoption League consultant named Stephanie informed HuffPost in an electronic mail.
Solely adopters who stay inside a few hours of New Jersey might be thought-about as a result of “we’d like the adopter to have the ability to meet him in particular person, possibly a few occasions to bond with him and ensure we’re capable of assist assist his adjustment.”
Stephanie echoed the nice and tougher parts of Prancer’s character described within the submit.
“One on one together with his chosen girls he’s an incredible companion, within the fallacious scenario he’s a demon lol,” she wrote.
The rescue group additionally famous on Fb that whereas all the eye proper now could be going to Prancer, there are “MANY different small ‘quirky’ canines” accessible for adoption on its Petfinder web page.
Within the meantime, individuals on Twitter are drooling over Prancer and his distinctive disposition.
By the way, one other canine in Fortuna’s life made viral information in 2017. That canine was Rumpelstilskin, a long-legged chihuahua who needed to take drastic measures after his proprietor died.
“Bonus information: his proprietor was lifeless for a substantial time earlier than anybody seen and he did eat his human to remain alive. +1 for being a survivalist pupper,” Fortuna wrote on Fb on the time.
She additionally astutely famous that his “weirdly lengthy” bow legs made the canine “seem like a flowery desk.”
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