This 14-Year-Old Pittie Is Aging Backwards

The Dodo

This 14-year-old pittie loves to howl at fire trucks — watch when he finally gets to ride in one! We talked to his mom about the magical thing everyone should know about senior dogs  ❤️

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00:00We were just in the street and a firetruck went past.

00:03I don't think we would have even noticed him doing it if we didn't look at him

00:06because he was wooing but there was no sound.

00:09The next time we saw a firetruck, same thing happened.

00:12We were grabbing each other's arms like,

00:14oh my god, look how cute he is!

00:19So he just found the voice and then he just got more and more vocal

00:25in very cute ways.

00:27He wouldn't do anything before he had his breakfast.

00:29He wouldn't go out and pee.

00:30He was like, no, I have to have my breakfast now.

00:34So the toe taps went hand in hand with the breakfast woos.

00:37So if he did the toe tap, then he did the woo.

00:39They came together.

00:42Oh my god, stop.

00:44So cute.

00:46Jessica from I Stand With My Pack,

00:49she reached out to me about this old boy in the shelter.

00:54The rescue thought he could be a pospis foster.

00:56His back legs didn't really work very well.

00:58We weren't sure how sort of fragile he was going to be.

01:03Our initial reactions about Larry were that he was just the sweetest

01:08and he just had this attitude of like, hey, it's all good.

01:11He just looks like he's really having a hard time standing up,

01:14but it was kind of crazy how quickly he changed.

01:19We were really surprised by how sparky he was after a couple of days.

01:25He just had this attitude of like, hey, I can do it.

01:30You could just see he was loving life.

01:32He was very much there.

01:34My goal is to find them an even better home than I could give them.

01:38We could all see that he was probably adoptable,

01:40so we wanted to showcase that he just isn't fazed by anything.

01:46What surprised you about him?

01:49Just how quickly we fell in love with him, I suppose.

01:52We had many, many conversations.

01:53Shall we keep him?

01:55Shall we keep him?

01:56He really got to our hearts for sure.

02:05It felt like he was aging backwards.

02:08But you know, it had been months of no interest.

02:12As charming and sweet as he is, he's a senior and he's a cropped hippo.

02:18And then I got a text from Tara and she said,

02:20OK, me and my husband, we talked about it.

02:23We want to adopt Larry.

02:24My heart exploded because to me, this is the dream for Larry.

02:28Did you bring my Christmas present?

02:30I wasn't looking to adopt.

02:32We had seven dogs.

02:34I almost feel like I'm on like dog Tinder.

02:37You brought my Christmas present!

02:38You're like, swipe.

02:39Was it swipe left or right?

02:42Oh, my gosh!

02:50He's such a good boy.

02:50He's a cute boy.

02:52He's my creepy secret.

02:54That's where the party started.

02:59It was so hilarious.

03:00These dogs were just like ready to go.

03:06Opening Christmas presents, eating cake.

03:08Oh, sure, sure.

03:11It was the cutest thing ever.

03:14So then we just had a dog party for the rest of the night.

03:19We drove the four hours back to Arizona

03:22and at that point, it was Christmas Eve.

03:25He immediately just fit right in.

03:27The dogs opened a bunch of gifts.

03:31We went to the fire station.

03:34And Larry got a ride in the fire truck.

03:37He looked like he was on the job.

03:39Like, finally, they picked me up for my shift.

03:44Oh, my God, I love him so much.

03:45He really looks so much like my dog.

03:47He does.

03:48They have the same facial essence or something.

03:50Yeah.

03:51When talking to people about seniors,

03:52it seems that they're really focused on the heartache

03:55that you're guaranteed to have.

03:57They miss out on what's in between.

04:02He freaking loves everything.

04:04He loves to go anywhere.

04:06There's only been a couple of dogs over the years

04:08that when you take them out into public,

04:10that they actually do cause a scene just by existing.

04:13People come running.

04:15They have ramblings.

04:17They have grandpa swag.

04:19And he's definitely got it.

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