A hairless shelter dog needs a home – and yes, his name is Harry.
The “naked” puppy has strands of hair on his face but not on his stiff 8-pound body, according to photos from the Humane Society of Wichita County in Texas.
“It will definitely stand out wherever the new adopter takes it, whether it’s to Petco or a coffee shop,” Cheryl Heineken, director of the humane society, told McClatchy News in a May 1 phone interview. “I think people will come and ask them questions and tell them about their strange little dog.”
Harry is a Chinese crested dog that Heineken says is not often found in shelters.
“With their spotted pink skin, spiky crest hairstyle, furry socks and feathery tail, you can’t go wrong. Chinese soft-crested and slender for any other breed,” the American Kennel Club wrote on its website.
The shelter hopes that Harry’s next owners will know how to take precautions for his skin, since he only has hair on his head. Chinese crested dogs sometimes get sunburned, although the shelter believes their black fur may offer some protection.
Harry, thought to be wandering at one point, has arrived to the humanitarian society at the end of April, after being transferred from another establishment. The 6-year-old puppy is known as a “cuddle bug,” according to the shelter and an online adoption profile.
“He’s really nice,” Heineken said. “He’d rather sit on someone’s lap all day, but he’ll play too.”
The shelter took a lighthearted approach in featuring Harry on social media. While some people made jokes about Harry’s so-called nudity, another said the dog “looks like how I feel after a week at work Looooooonnnnnggg.”
“I have about 10 funny articles floating around in my head about this naked dog, but they are all inappropriate and I’m left in enough hot water,” the shelter wrote April 29 on Facebook. “So just publish the basics and let your imagination run wild. This is Harry (we haven’t named him).
As of May 1, Harry was still up for adoption at the Wichita Falls shelter, about 120 miles northwest of Fort Worth. More details about the animal organization’s adoption process can be found at humanesocietyofwichitacounty.org.
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