Samson's Story

Samson’s Story (Now Bo).

Samson was a young pup, originally in a shelter somewhere outside of Washington. As most young pups he was eager to get out of the shelter and go home with a family. Samson was picked to go to bomb training school and start as a working dog. Unfortunately, he failed the intake exam.
He then went home with the trainer in order to calm down and get used to being out of a shelter environment and try again. He started going to work with her in order to learn the ropes and hopefully pass or show some aptitude for bomb sniffing. Samson wasn’t great at finding trouble though, he’d be better suited to eat it if anything haha.

In the end he wasn’t happy with the idea of being a working dog, and the examiner wasn’t interested in Samson as a house dog and felt he was too much work. They didn’t want to work with Samson anymore and had too much on their plate to deal with a barely 1 year old, 75lb black lab puppy. So off to Melt My Heart he was sent.

Upon arrival we knew instantly he was an absolute love. Samson showed immediately that all he wanted to do was play, whether it be cat, dog, person, bird – sometimes he wanted to play too much but he’s a puppy and that was expected. He was a model pup and even when he was hyper was eager to fit in with everyone. Samson quickly learned about potty training, and crate training. He was tested with all types of other dogs and taken out on trips. He did amazing on car rides and showing off how cute he was. It didn’t take long before he was off to his final vet visit to and to meet a special family.

His final vet visit got him up to date on shots, microchip, a health check-up, some routine de-wormer, and some prescription food to go home since all the changes had his tummy in butterflies. When he met his family, he was all smiles, tail wags and kisses!

It was pretty evident right away that the ENTIRE family was willing to participate in Samson’s care, training, exercise and managing his transition. His new life started with a brand new name, Bo. They also had a great local support system that was already involved and ready to assist with training, play dates and puppy sitting. When we popped the question of adoption and they accepted immediately we knew Bo had found the perfect family. We love the updates and hope he has a happy forever life with his 2 human siblings, 2 cat siblings (who are still warming up to a big ol hyper boy) and his older pup sister (another lab).

​Thank you for giving Bo (Was Samson) the dream home he was begging for!