A rescue dog named Bailey is back home safe after figuring out how to ring the doorbell of the Texas shelter where she went up for adoption.
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Bailey journeyed about ten miles to return to the shelter and has now been reunited with her family, according to the station.
Bailey "slept so hard the whole night" after she returned to the shelter.
Bailey "slept so hard the whole night" after she returned to the shelter.
Bailey first came to the Animal Rescue League of El Paso more than a year ago. After housing her for a few months, another shelter transferred her to the rescue league in the hopes that its higher foot traffic would lead to her adoption.
Despite the boost, Bailey languished at the rescue league for more than a year because of “some quirks that were not easy for people to overcome,” including being hyper, untrained and a bit of an “escape artist”.
“She lived at the shelter for soooo long this was home to her,” the shelter wrote one Facebook announcing that Bailey had been found. “She felt safe here. When she got loose she was on a mission to get home.”
Dogs also have “affective empathy” — which is defined as the ability to understand someone else’s feelings — toward people who are important to them.
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