Peaches a, a pit bull mix, was abandoned by her family at Pines West Animal Hospital 6 months ago. Her family boarded her there and never came back. She's been living at the hospital... until now.
"I feel very lucky," said adopter Ramon Gordillo. "I think she knew that she was going to have the best house here."
When the story first aired on NBC6, the hospital got lots of applications to adopt Peaches. But, fate intervened.
Gordillo and his wife Lourdes are animal lovers. They've always had dogs, especially pit bulls. And they had just lost their last one to cancer less than a month ago.
"When I saw her picture it just reminded me of a young Pitucas," Gordillo said.
The Gordillo family never thought they would have another dog so soon, only 4 days after losing their beloved Pitucas.
"I kept thinking about it that night and then the next morning I called the vet and said where is Peaches, that I would like to see her," Gordillo said.
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It was love at first sight...for both of them.
"They brought her into a room and she started playing with me and I said I'm taking her," Gordillo said. "She'll be here forever."
