Over 400 Days Later, Milton Animal Shelter Still Seeking a Home for Hubert

It has been around 450 days since Hubert was found in the street without a collar or ID. Almost a year since arriving at the Milton Animal Shelter, the three-year-old male pit bull terrier still needs a home despite a popular Facebook page and a fair amount of internet fame.

For Hubert, his story of being an abandoned pit bull terrier is all too familiar for the animal shelter.

“We get a lot of dogs, especially pit bull terriers ... that are just let go,” animal control officer Nancy Bersani told the Boston Globe. “Once they’re in a kennel setting, it becomes very stressful and some dogs just go stir crazy.”

The stress of living in a shelter has become a concern when it comes to Hubert. Once the stress becomes too much, that is when the shelter is forced to euthanize.

“You can’t keep an animal alive when its losing its mind in a small space,” volunteer and league secretary Maura Porter. “So far, we’ve been lucky with Hubert. It’s remarkable, he’s spent this long in the shelter and he’s as sweet as pie.”

Hubert’s story began to go viral when the Milton Animal Shelter posted a photo of Hubert with a sign that said, “I have been waiting at the shelter to be adopted for 373 days!” Soon afterwards, his own Facebook page, “A Home for Hubert,” attracted over 2,800 fans, but finding someone to adopt him has proven to be more difficult.

Inquiries have come from all over the world, but with the shelter unable to transport Hubert a far distance and need for an owner that is around often, does not have small children or cats, a match for the dog has yet to be found.

To read more from the Boston Globe, click here.

Photo Credit: Milton Animal League

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