The workers at Wake County Animal Hospital were left scratching their heads when a dog named Felix arrived at their doorstep with a goat named Cinnamon.
Dropped off by animal control who had taken them from a house whose owner had been hospitalized and had no one else who could look after them, they recognized pretty early these two were a special situation when they first tried to separate them.
“Cinnamon was very upset—she was bleating and calling out to the dog,” Jennifer Federico, director of animal services, told the Washington Post. “She was so stressed and frantic that we realized this pair had to be kept together.”
Generally, the shelter doesn’t take in farm animals, and after 10 days they served notice to the previous owner that it was time to come take his animals back. He never did.
At that point, the shelter assumed ownership and needed to print up a very strange adoption notice.
Felix and Cinnamon spent every hour together at the shelter except for when they ate. Cinnamon hates being apart from Felix, but if they ate side by side, the big American bulldog mix would eat all her food.
Cinnamon likes nothing more, says Federico, than cuddling with Felix or romping around in the dog yard even though it’s just astroturf. Felix is capable of spending time away from his goat pal, but when he returns always begins to give Cinnamon a bath with his giant bulldog tongue.
“It’s a weird duo, but it works for them,” Federico said. “Who are we to judge? They obviously love each other.”
The shelter wrote up a Facebook post in an attempt to find a home for the pair, which attracted so much attention they had to pause the comments while they worked with several rescue offers who had farm and facility to provide a good home to what the shelter billed as a “bonded pair.”
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The Facebook thread was updated on March 25th to inform that a home had been found for Cinnamon and Felix.
The shelter knew they had to stay together, and fortunately, they found someone who agreed. Federico and her team wished them many happy years of friendship.
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