Love at First Sight! Puppy With a Cleft Lip Adopted by a Boy With a Cleft Lip

14th September, 2020

18 September 2020, Cleft Lip, Feel Good, Newsletter, SLP

[Source: Washington Post]

A rescued puppy with a cleft lip had been at an animal shelter in Jackson, Mich., for almost a week, and staff worried that the dog wouldn’t be adopted.

Then a man walked into the shelter who has a 2-year-old son with a cleft lip.

Brandon Boyers wasn’t planning on adopting a puppy when he visited Jackson County Animal Shelter last week. In fact, he was hoping to adopt rescued chickens to expand his family’s small farm.

During his visit to the shelter, Boyers, 27, spotted a small black-and-white dog whose cleft lip reminded him of his son Bentley. His thoughts quickly shifted from poultry to puppies.

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