The Lankston family traveled from Washington to California to pick up Harvey the husky after he was overlooked by potential adopters
In a remarkable turn of events, a family dog, a beagle, has been reunited its family in Kansas after it went missing eight years ago. Here’s the amazing story.
A funny-faced Husky named Harvey — who some people called “ugly” — was adopted last month by a family who drove 2,600 miles roundtrip over six days to pick him up.
When he arrived “thin and dirty” and with a “facial deformity” at the San Diego Department of Animal Services shelter in Carlsbad, California, last September, Harvey was named after the DC Comics character Harvey Dent or “Two Face” – one of Batman’s arch nemeses.
“He has a crooked smile,” Joy Ollinger, 44, a lieutenant with the San Diego Department of Animal Services, told Fox News Digital.
“Our vets examined him and they think his facial deformity is possibly from being bitten when he was a very young puppy. He doesn’t know any different and it doesn’t bother him.”
Harvey the husky has been adopted after the San Diego Department of Animal Services shared a post on Facebook. (Joy Ollinger)
It did however seem to bother potential adopters, Ollinger said.
“People would walk by him and just not even give him a second look,” Ollinger told Fox News Digital.
“I actually heard people saying he was ugly because of his facial deformity. And then the whole time he was there, no one requested to take him out for an interaction or possible adoption. Not once in the whole time.”
She and her family drove from Seattle to California to pick up their newest family member. Harvey is now living the good life with 6 other pets (1 dog and 4 cats and a snail). She says some people have told her she was “crazy” to drive so far to get a homeless dog. But she says Harvey is worth it.