The boy with the melancholic look. Maybe it's the shape of his eyes. Maybe their color. Maybe something else.
O'Neill came to the shelter when he was a baby, together with his sister. She was adopted immediately, and he waited, and waited, until years passed. Years and years. We try to see in his eyes if there is something more from that sweet puppy we once knew, and sometimes as if we see it, sometimes not.
Last year he left the shelter for a while. We would call it adoption if he hadn't been returned, so it wasn't an adoption, it was a break from the only life he knew until then. Since he returned it's not that he looks more melancholic than he was, but maybe we're a little more melancholic when we think about how different the life of that cute puppy we once knew could have been.
O'Neill is a dog that you don't fall in love with at first sight, nor does he fall in love with you. It is the dog that will need some time to trust you, but that will try to cooperate with you, will try to listen to you, to look at you, to understand you. All he will ask in return is that you understand him. And to understand him you have to give him some time.
Dogs with his appearance do not have many opportunities. Dogs with his appearance AND his character have very few. But there have been such dogs that have been adopted and loved as much as anything, we have seen it happen, and as has happened to so many other dogs, it can happen to him as well.
