DOG SITS IN SHELTER BEGGING TO HOLD HANDS WITH ANYONE WHO PASSES BY

Speck has sat unnoticed in a small kennel in the Alabama shelter for a year and a half waiting for a family to choose him. He always reached out and tried to touch everyone who walked by. Amazingly, there were no takers. And while he’s fine around other animals, it’s people’s attention he really craves.

“You could put anything else around him — another giant dog, a cat, but he is just so fixated on getting love from people that he doesn’t care about anything else,” Wilder said.

Speck wants nothing other than to have a human of his own to cuddle with and give him some much-needed affection. “He just wants you to touch him,” she added. “If you sit down, he’s laying on you, if you hold his hand, he’ll hold your hand, if you scratch his belly, he’ll roll over.”

Early in April, Wilder couldn’t take it anymore — she needed to find a home for this worthy boy (she has dozens of foster animals herself but still makes time to play with Speck). Hoping to drum up some interest in Speck, she posted the video on her Facebook page, and the clip quickly went viral, gaining 96,000 views in just a few days.

Speck’s video caught the attention of Allie’s Hope For Paws Dog Rescue, who helped connect the shelter dog with an amazing adopter.