Dog no one wanted finds someone who loves him

Oh my God. He had been used as a bait dog and somehow managed to survive that situation and then ended up in the shelter. If I remember correctly, they like busted a dog fighting ring and he was one of the dogs that was pulled out of the house and taken to the shelter. He did have a broken jaw and a broken hip when I adopted him. It was $5 adoption day, the day that I went. And they were like, we don't even want to charge you the $5. Please take him off of our hands because he was in there for like at least two or three months. That's it. They did not have any adoptions for him at all. It was very obvious that he had not had the comforts of life until he came to live with me and then he was very much okay with it. Toby learned very quickly what the good life was. He was all about anything that involved pillows or blankets or just snuggles in general. I would come home from work sometimes and I'd be like where where is he? And I would find that he had taken all of the pillows and the blankets on the couch and made And made himself a fort and he would be inside of it. The only real problem I've ever had. I had with Toby, he is a resource guarder with food. And so that took us some time to get everybody adjusted to because he was not used to getting a regular meal. Yes. Oh. We call him a little potato man. He wants to sit in your lap when you're watching tv or maybe snuggle next to you in bed. He's very very loving when he loves you but he's also really independent. He is the most independent dog I have ever had. Every night he wants to sleep in the kitchen. He wants to be downstairs on this bed because he knows that first thing in the morning is when breakfast is when grandpa comes in and so he doesn't want to be late. He wants to be there. He has such a strange combinations of breeds in him. He's got a lot of terrier. He's got Pomeranian and he's got Chihuahua as well as Laapsa Opsa. And so he has almost like three different kinds of fur going on. And I've never experienced another dog quite like it. He's got these really long wispy ones and then the really short dense stuff. And then this Puffy stuff and it's just it's very unique and it always cracks me up because I can look at his hair and it's like most of it doesn't even look like it's attached to him. It looks like it's just floating around him like a dust cloud all of the time. And he has eyes that are very soulful. They will stare right into your heart. It's been so cool to watch him grow and become healthy again. Honestly, I don't. To this day understand how he survived it because when I got him he was about six and a half pounds totally emaciated with yellow fur and he had a broken jaw and a broken hip because of it. Now he's so happy to be there and just chill with everybody. I'm Em and this is Toby's story for GeoBeats.