Dog Talk: When this family adopted the dog, they changed her life and their own


ReRe really lucked out with her adopted family, the Teos. Photo: Teo Yi Qi

Shelters are full of adult dogs because so many people want puppies. Luckily for ReRe, life took an unexpected turn.

“When my sister Yi Lin and I went to university, we thought my little brother might miss us,” Teo Yi Qi, a student in Seremban, Negri Sembilan, shares. “So we thought we would adopt a dog as a companion.”

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