Shortly after Hurricane Beryl hit, a stray dog showed up in the parking lot of a Hyatt hotel in Texas. The hotel workers and guests had no idea where he’d come from.

The next day, he showed up again. Pretty soon, he started visiting the hotel every night.

Everyone at the Hyatt adored him. They all had different names for him and brought him food every night. And they didn’t just bring him scraps, they went above and beyond to give him delicious things to munch on.

“They were all coming back from their restaurants with — I’m not lying to you — gourmet meals, like steak … a whole pork chop and fajitas,” Jodi Leslie, director of community outreach at Three Little Pitties Rescue told The Dodo.

One day, a guest at the hotel noticed the dog hanging around the parking lot and realized he didn’t belong to anyone. She posted about him on Facebook, which got the attention of Three Little Pitties Rescue.

When the staff and volunteers at Three Little Pitties learned he’d been living there for two months, they knew they had to do something to help. They were able to trap him and take him home with one of the shelter staff members.

Since the dog had been a stray for so long, possibly his entire life, he didn’t feel completely at ease, at first. So after spending just one night with the shelter staff member, he escaped.

“He was gone three days,” Leslie said. “She couldn’t find him anywhere. He was nowhere to be seen.”

Just when his rescuers were starting to lose hope, they spotted him back in the hotel parking lot — which was 8 miles away. They had no idea how he’d managed to find his way back and to travel that far in three days, but they were relieved to have found him again.

They brought in professional trappers, who were able to catch him once again. This time, Leslie took him in as a foster. She decided to name him Hyatt, after the place he’d been rescued from.

The dog had become such a beloved fixture of the parking lot that everyone at the hotel was sad to see him go, even though it was for the best.

Hyatt felt nervous and uneasy when he first arrived at Leslie’s home.

“I don’t think he ever had a human that loved on him or a couch that he had laid on,” Leslie said. 

But over the past two months that Leslie has been fostering him, he’s been slowly opening up and getting more comfortable. Leslie’s other dogs have been playing a huge role in helping him learn how to be a pet.

“The pack has really been teaching him how to be a dog,” Leslie said. “If all the other dogs went outside, he would follow. And when all the other dogs went inside, he would follow.”

Now, he’s comfortable hopping on the couch and jumping up onto Leslie’s bed for pets. He’s still extremely shy, but coming out of his shell a little bit more every day. 

As much as Leslie loves fostering Hyatt, Three Little Pitties Rescue is looking for a permanent home for him. He would do best with patient parents and in a household with other dogs. Now that Hyatt has been rescued, all he needs is a permanent family.

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Source: CNN