In December of 2017, a small brown-and-white dog resisted entry into a pet adoption meet-and-greet at a large pet supplies store in the Dallas area. Abandoned by her original owners, she’d found comfort with her foster mom. She wanted no part of gambling with yet another set of humans. She’d been abandoned because her first family “didn’t have time for her.” Her forever family would someday lament they didn’t have enough time with her.