No place to go Bringing the story home - Animal Humane Society

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Meanwhile back at the Token Media office…
Each time Josh left for the Comcast shoot at AHS, Matt Hunstad, a project
manager at Token, would ask him to keep his eyes open for a young,
female chocolate Lab mix. Last June, Josh came back with photos of
Sophia. “He had a good feeling about her and told me to get there as
soon as possible.”
After work that day, Matt and his girlfriend, Niki, went to meet Sophia.
“While the other dogs were barking and crying, she just sat there calmly
with an inquisitive look on her face,” Matt says. “We took her outside to
play and loved her energy.” Immediately they had a “she’s coming home
with us” feeling and took the card off her kennel and placed her on hold.
Sophia went home with Matt and Niki the next day and they have continued
to fall for her. They’ve taught her all the basic commands from sit to
heel. They hope to adopt another dog within the next year.
Having a second animal in the home was what drove Mariah Heck, another
Token employee, to look at the AHS website—that and the fact
that she’d already been on the website with Jessica and Josh as they
pointed out the pets they met during the Comcast shoot. She wanted a
companion for her Netherland dwarf rabbit, Esteban.
“One afternoon I checked the site and found Frida, a pretty female
bunny with a jet black coat and cute, goofy antennae ears.”
Mariah and her boyfriend, Louis, went to meet Frida and immediately
set up a “bunny date” for her and Esteban with the help of AHS partner,
the Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society. After two dates, Frida
went home with the couple.
Now it could be said that Frida is a token reminder of how anyone,
even a bunny, can take the good with the bad. She is a great companion
for Esteban, but at the same time can be quite a handful for him. Mariah
explains: “Frida is quite fond of… lettuce leaves she can steal from Esteban
when he is not looking. She moves his toys and just takes over. He
doesn’t complain too much, because if he did, Frida might sit on him
for a little bit.”
Tracie Jacobson is on staff at the Animal Humane Society. She lives
in Minneapolis and is the proud owner of Moose the cat and Kate,
a boxer mix adopted from AHS’s Coon Rapids facility.
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Niki and Matt with Sophia
Mariah and Louis with Frida and Esteban