Video captured a dog climbing over a shelter wall to reunite with her best friend. Now they've been adopted together.
- Two dogs, Brenda and Linda, were dropped off at a Minneapolis shelter and put in separate kennels.
- So Brenda found a way back to her friend — she climbed over the wall separating them.
When staff at Minneapolis Animal Care and Control were handing out treats to the shelter's dogs recently, they were confused to find two pit bulls together in one kennel.
Next to it, another kennel was empty.
Intrigued to see what had happened, they watched back footage taken from a video camera in the room and saw one of the dogs, Brenda, had climbed over the wall separating her from her friend, Linda.
The shelter shared the video on Facebook, dubbing the escape "Mission Impawsible."
Staff realized that the dogs, who had come to the shelter together as strays on May 22, could not be separated. Brenda and Linda were housed together in a different, larger kennel while they awaited a new family.
"You can just see them frolicking together, so we were like, 'Alright, they're so happy and we can't separate them,'" Madison Weissenborn, volunteer coordinator at the shelter, told USA Today.
Then on Tuesday came the good news: 7-year-old Linda and 4-year-old Brenda had found a new home — together.
They were adopted by a local couple, and it was "truly like love at first sight," Weissenborn said. A TikTok video shows the introduction.
"Pitties are notorious for having the zoomies and being active and sweet little things, so we just were worried that somebody might not be able to commit to two," she told USA Today, but "the first thing on Tuesday morning, somebody was here for them."
The shelter shared the adoption update with its Facebook followers on Tuesday.
"Thank you for Linda and Brenda's new parents for stopping by to adopt these sweet girls and to the other people in line who also wanted to adopt them today," Friends of Minneapolis Animal Care and Control wrote in the update.