Blind pit bull adopted, finds forever home after being abandoned by owners
There's a heartwarming end to the story of a blind pit bull looking for a home. As KUAM reported back in November, Aura has been searching for a loving home after being abandoned in a Mongmong-Toto-Maite neighborhood by her owners. Now named Indy, she’s finally found a forever home with a Yigo resident.
The search has ended for a canine witout sight looking for her furever home, finding one with Yigo resident Nicole Clingan. "She’s doing really well. She fits in great with our family. She does really well in our home and has everything memorized," she explained.
As KUAM reported in November, GAIN volunteer and Boonie Flight Project co-founder Kelsey Graupner has been fostering Aura since her owners abandoned her in a MTM neighborhood. Last we spoke, she needed surgery to remove her eyes.
And recovery hasn’t been easy, as Graupner told KUAM News,"She gets very excited so she runs into things. We had to take her back [to the clinic] quite a few times, like three times, to get her eyes cleaned out because she would hit them and it would just swell."
But Graupner is grateful this sweet dog, now named Indy, found a loving home with Clingan and her family. "As soon as I saw her, I said, ‘oh my gosh.’ She was just so sweet. We have always had pitbulls so immediately she just stole my heart," she said.
It’s not her first rodeo being a dog mom. She lost her pit bull, Moose, to cancer before making the move to Guam. Her other 14-year-old pit bull, Cali, was too old to make the flight and resides with family in Indiana.
So finding Indy in Guam was truly love at first sight. Clingan said, "We wanted to foster her for a little bit and see, but it was immediate. Even my husband just in a couple of days said, ‘so how do we adopt her.’ so it was immediate for all of us, we just fell in love with her."
And though Indy may have lost her vision, that’s not stopping her from playing just like any other dog.