'I've been waiting five years': Dog FINALLY adopted after Facebook picture goes viral
A DOG who waited for five years to find a loving home has finally been adopted – after a tear-jerking picture of him went VIRAL on Facebook.
Chester, a six-year-old pit bull, was found as a stray and had been living in shelters for the past five years.
But his long search for the perfect home finally came to an end when Gabby Stroup, the manager of the North Fork Animal Welfare League shelter in Southold, New York State, decided to take matters into her own hands.
Using the power of social media, she took a picture of the poor pooch and posted it onto a Facebook page.
Staring with his sad puppy dog eyes into the camera, Chester sat with a paw draped over a sign which read: "Why doesn’t anybody want me?
"I’ve been waiting 5 years. Everyone at the shelter tells me what a good boy I am. So why has no one adopted me?
"I promised to be good and love my new family. Please maybe you are my new family. I sit and wait for you to come."
After just a few hours, the photo of Chester had been shared over 6,000 times.
Ms Stroup was also flooded with inquiries, including some 300 emails and countless phone calls from animal lovers who wanted to adopt Chester.
She said: "There were more phone calls then I can count; the phone just never stopped.
"People called from Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Michigan, Oregon, New Jersey Wisconsin, Nova Scotia, Australia and more — people tearing up as they called," she said.
Before long, Chester had found his perfect match in the Dor family and was soon taken for a new life at their Lake Ronkonkoma home.
Ms Stroup said: "They came and met him and it is just a perfect match."
Chester's new owner Adi Dor said: “We saw him and we felt connected. It was meant to be."
