Family's Dog Hoards Shoes When She Gets Lonely and Breaks Hearts
Luna has found a very specific way to cope when her favorite people are not around, and it is equal parts sweet and heartbreaking. The 3-year-old miniature bull terrier does not chew up the house or make a mess, she quietly gathers shoes and carries them to her bed so she can stay close to the scent of her family.
Her owner, Justin Grosjean, says Luna is loving, gentle, and especially attached to the people she lives with, including the family’s baby. But when separation anxiety kicks in, those shoes become her comfort blanket, and the result is a scene that is hard not to feel for.
One lonely dog, a pile of stolen shoes, and a family that cannot help but melt a little. Read on.
She will go around the house and gently pick up as many of the family's shoes as possible and take them back to her bed so she can be comforted by the scent of her beloved humans.
Luckily for Luna, she is rarely completely alone. The family has a young baby, and the mother is generally home caring for her.
That makes Luna's little shoe collection feel even more like a habit of comfort than mischief.
This is similar to the brother-sister showdown, where a sister demanded the dog her brother raised as his own.
“When I leave the house, my dog takes one of my shoes and lays with it (she never chews them),” Grosjean wrote on Reddit. “Well, this weekend my wife and kids were out of town, and I went to Home Depot for 30 minutes and came home to this. I think she panicked and thought we all left. It broke my heart.”
Reddit user Schnoodledoodledo was so touched by the story that they wrote a little poem for the occasion -
“When daddy leaves the house, I have to go and find a shoe
It’s not like I destroy it, but it’s what I like to do
To go and find a special one and bring it to my bed
It comforts me and makes me think that he is here instead
But once when mommy took the kids, daddy went out, too
I did my thing and found a shoe, but then I wanted two,
And then I got another, and another made it four
And soon I was surrounded by my dad’s shoes on the floor…
The smell of him surrounded me - I finally could rest
And then I heard his FOOTSTEPS - that’s the sound I like the best!
You see, I truly love this guy, much more than you’d believe…
(Tonight I’m taking ALL his shoes - so he can *never* leave! ;)
That poem pretty much says it all.
Want more heartbreak and hope, read how dogs remember previous owners for years in these fur-ever memory stories.
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