“I feel, no, I KNOW my two idiots rescued me.” — Robert Glucksman
His lovable idiots are his dogs, Nala and Bindi. Nala adopted Robert shortly after his old dog died and he was hurting. She took one look at his sad face walking through the animal shelter and decided this human needed to be rescued.
“Every day, it’s another day at the circus with these two clowns,” he laughed. “I think it’s true. We don’t adopt dogs, they adopt us.”
Glucksman is one of nearly 400 people in the San Fernando Valley who responded to a touching poem, “Today, I Adopted a Human,” posted recently by Helga Rodriguez-Brandt of West Hills on the site Nextdoor.
It was written by one of the most prolific writers of all time. Anonymous.
“It broke my heart to see him so alone and confused. I don’t like the smell of sad. I wanted to jump on him so badly. He spoke to me tenderly, and I knew, I had to rescue him. That human needed me.
“So, I barked with all my might, followed him for blocks and blocks. I got closer, I could smell his hands. The human smiled for an instant and when he took me in his arms, I began to feel his cold heart warm.
“I got close to his cheeks and felt a tear roll down them. I looked deeply at him and his response was a bright smile. I promised to behave myself, love him forever, and never leave his side.
“How lucky he was to go through that block, down that street, and I feel lucky, too. There were so many people walking around, but no one was looking at me. All worried, all in their troubles. Glad no one else chose me.
“Today, I saved a life. Today, I adopted a human.”
Those last words should be plastered on the front of every city and private animal shelter in Los Angeles. Come on in. We’ve got hundreds of dogs and cats looking for a human to adopt.
Los Angeles Animal Services has 1,300 dogs in its overcrowded shelters right now with no room for more. It’s so bad they’re asking people who can’t adopt to consider foster…
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