Elderly Nuns Adopt Aging Pitbull

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It’s not every day that three women in their 70s and 80s walk into an animal shelter and say they’d like to see a dog that nobody wants. But to Sisters Veronica Mendez, Virginia Johnson and Alice Goldsmith, nuns who live together in Nyack, N.Y., the request made perfect sense. Why not adopt an animal most in need? That mindset led them to Remy, a 9-year-old pit bull that had been overlooked by shelter visitors for more than three months. “As soon as I saw the sign that said ‘9 years,’ I said, ‘This is the one,’” recalled Sister Veronica, 71. “‘No one is going to want this one.’” In thousands of shelters across the United States, it’s common for senior dogs and pit bulls to languish, unwanted, before being euthanized. Justin Scally, national director of emergency services for the American Humane Association, said both populations of dogs face stigmas for different reasons.

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