Australian Shepherd Chance Joins the Butter Boys After a Two-Week Trial

McKenzie crouched on a sunny sidewalk for her last day with Chance, kissing the top of his head while the on-screen line named him plainly: her "once terrified foster dog."

She had three months with him. In one clip from his early days, Chance peeks out from behind a door; by the end, McKenzie wrote on screen, he had gone "from the most shut down dog I have ever fostered to a dog who inspired so many with his bravery." His new mom had felt a pull toward him the first time she saw his listing, and the family waited, patiently and anxiously, for him to be ready for adoption. At the meet-and-greet, she started crying right away.

The adoption stayed unofficial a little longer. Chance needed a dental first, and the family kept a two-week trial. "I knew the second I met them that they were going to be his family," McKenzie wrote on @dogsandadream.

At home he met his Aussie brother Felix. The pair are already a unit: backyard play, Felix showing him how to properly beg for mac and cheese, and—as her on-screen text puts it—both have eaten full sticks of butter off the counter. "I'm obsessed with The Butter Boys," she wrote.

"Chance's story is one that will forever impact me," she added. "He is one extraordinary dog." Updates from his new home keep landing in her stories. Near the end of the reel, she puts what Chance taught her plainly: "You have not met all the people who will love you yet."