Mystery dog kept showing up at nursing home. So naturally they did this.
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00:00 He was found by one of our midnight nurses laying on one of the couches.
00:03 He had found his way in through the automatic doors.
00:06 I am Stephanie and this is Scout Story for GeoBeats.
00:10 We're a nursing home.
00:11 I'm a clinical care coordinator.
00:13 The animal control is across the highway from Meadowbrook.
00:16 When she found him laying there, she called the animal shelter and they got him.
00:20 And two more times within that same week, he was found laying on that same couch in
00:24 our lobby.
00:25 We scaled a couple of fences over at the animal shelter, crossed that highway, and then found
00:30 his way around our building and through our automatic doors.
00:34 And he did that more than once, so he was pretty relentless in his pursuit to be here
00:39 with us at Meadowbrook.
00:40 Our administrator, who has a special place in her heart for animals, decided that clearly
00:45 this was where he wanted to be and he needed a home.
00:48 And so we decided to adopt him.
00:51 When Scout came to us, he was pretty timid.
00:53 It was found by the vet that he had some BBs that were lodged in his face that were still
00:58 there, though they don't seem to give him any kind of trouble at all.
01:01 He still is a little bit timid around men when they are visitors to our facility, but
01:06 not with any of the residents.
01:08 It's like he absolutely knows 100% who's supposed to be here and who is not.
01:13 One of our residents put it perfectly when she said that having a dog in this facility
01:17 makes it feel more like home than it does an institution.
01:21 So it just gives more of a homey feel to people who are away from their own home and have
01:26 to settle in here, especially those who had dogs in the past.
01:29 He is very loving.
01:31 He's very social.
01:32 He hates thunderstorms, so he is always in a safe place during a thunderstorm.
01:38 When you feel bad, he's there.
01:40 He seemed very intuitive in the aspect that if somebody's sick or not feeling well or
01:45 kind of down, he'll spend just a little bit more time with that person.
01:48 He's just a good all-around friend.
01:51 We've had people whose rooms he'll go in and refuse to leave if he knows that they're getting
01:56 ready to pass.
01:57 Just very, very comforting.
01:58 We have absolutely zero backstory on him.
02:01 There is a little bit of speculation that maybe at one time he belonged to a resident
02:06 who might have been here, and maybe that was what drew him to us in the first place.
02:11 The shelter didn't know anything about him.
02:13 There was no vet papers.
02:14 There was no chip when they found him.
02:16 They had no idea.
02:17 That's part of the mystery of Scout, but he knows where his home is.
02:20 He does not try to leave here at all.
02:22 Even when I take him for a walk out in the hall, we do not leash him.
02:25 We still have those automatic doors that he could get through any time that he wanted
02:28 to, and he doesn't even approach them.
02:30 [Music]