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Like many people, Reddit user daisyintheair had thought for a long time about getting a dog. After all, having a dog is fantastic!


But it’s also a serious responsibility. Daisyintheair knew that because of her full-time job, she wouldn’t be able to properly care for a young puppy, and thus decided that an older dog would be a better option.

She visited a number of shelters looking for the right companion, but she says, “I never felt that elusive ‘instant connection’ I assumed I’d have with the dog that was meant to be mine.”

Little did she know that her canine soul mate really was out there, but in the last place she would ever expect: On the other side of the planet!


She soon found out that when you love someone, distance doesn’t mean anything.

Daisyintheair didn’t know it, but she was about to stumble upon the dog she’d been looking for all along, and she never would have imagined the circumstances that her future dog had lived under.

It all started when her sister alerted her to the activities of Humane Society International (HSI), who had just freed a number of dogs from a meat farm in South Korea and were preparing to ship them to the U.S. for adoption.

Read on to see the amazing story of how a golden retriever found her forever home 7,000 miles away.

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