This video is from a year ago today. MELIA spent Christmas at the shelter. Let's not let it happen again. Be her miracle 🙏

Hempstead Animal Shelter
Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793

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December 17, 2025 - 01:56 UTC

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I'd adopt Melia tomorrow, but we have a dog.
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What a cutie 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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❄️ Will someone PLEASE help MELIA?❄️ She needs and deserves a Christmas miracle. ✨️🎄✨️ Thank you. 💕🐾
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so many things are broken in your hearts, there's nothing i can say to help you, if i could, i would, but you are way past that

so here: if you can dance, and you can love, then here:

youtu.be/mNQsIHE0W6E?si=hCXi9WZ2DPtgQZr8
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I don't understand why a kind hearted person won't take her. Its heartbreaking.
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She just needs that 1 special person. She does have guarding issues ( food & toys) training is funded to whomever adopts her. They just have to be fully committed to helping her. I know it is heartbreaking 💔.
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💔💔💔❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I am sorry that humans allowed this to happen
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😞🥺
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Please repost! This girl needs a home! ❤️❤️❤️
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Damn! This completely breaks my heart 💔
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I know. Every day I'm praying today's that day!! There has to be at least 1 person out there for her!! 🥺😞
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She's darling! So hard to understand that she is still in a shelter. 💔
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All she needs is that 1 special person to notice her. 🤞🤞🤞
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I wish my backyard was dog-ready but a tree took down our fence recently. I would road trip to NY for this girl. (I’m in MD).
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It's ok. I appreciate you sharing her story. Thank you 🙏
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I got a bunch of comments on my YT videos today but no takers!😓
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I hate this what is going on??? At our wonderful shelter some dogs are not adopted right away but find vetted volunteers that foster and love them until forever family or person comes along. Why cant Melia find a loving home? Stop breeding and find homes for those already born!
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Shared on Facebook 🐾
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Omg thank you so much!! I appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Face it she’s your dog now
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Please if you are the one she's so patiently awaiting, help make MELIA a free, loving dog with a forever home rather than see her looking thru bars. Give a little of your love to her she will return it. America's littlest waif awaits your call.
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Thank you so much for posting this 🙏
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Heartbreaking. Please, please. Prove to this girl that she is going to be wanted and loved for the rest of her life.
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🙏🙏🙏
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She deserves love. Please, someone in the 516 area code, help this poor pup find a loving home. So sad.
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Thank you 🙏
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I’m in Canada and I have another dog but would definitely take her if I could.
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Yes, I know, thank you.
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She needs to be the only dog. I did send you the link to her bio.let me know if you got it.
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I don’t have Facebook but could you send me her details please so I can send on to a nephew in New York.
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Here's a link to my YT video and short!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xdkh4VS-w
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Absolutely. I'm sorry you couldn't watch the video. I don't have Facebook either. Someone sent me the link. And I was able to watch it. Here's her bio. Shelter contact information is in it as well.
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PP3506/51416338
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Why do you post link that cannot be accessed unless you subscribe, direct website link would offer better opportunities.
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It went directly to the shelter’s Facebook post from a year ago, which is what the poster wanted you to see.I still have my FB account, so it wasn’t a problem. If you’re not on FB, I’m not sure you could see it.
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I don't have Facebook. The link was sent to me and I was able to see it.
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I SO wish I was in a position to give her a home. I really do
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I know the feeling. She would've been here with me as well. 💔
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I love your dedication to this and it breaks my heart. If I did not have 3 dogs and 2 cats, I would drive from WV to NY to get her in a heartbeat. 💔
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I pray her forever home comes this 2025. A great home that will take the time to learn and love her and have patience. I hv 4 , 1 rescue or I wud go get her. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I read this as Melania thought the First Lady was in some bomb shelter.
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Well … you never know …
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Maybe giving MELIA some intensive training to smooth out any bad habits and behaviors would help her chances of getting adopted. A foster who is also a dog trainer would be the ideal candidate to help with this. Please step forward. She needs you.
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Someone asked If she gets training at the shelter. I did contact them and asked. I posted their answer. Here it is:
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"We have our trainers here but for a dog with her issues, it is hard to make the type of progress that she needs to make in the shelter setting. Ideally, she would go to a
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If Melia is still there after the holidays how can I arrange to bring my dog to NYC for a meet and greet to see if they would get along? I live in a suburb of Buffalo about 6 1/2 hour drive.
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I'm sorry I just saw this message. MELIA needs to be the only dog in the home.
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Beautiful Melia
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I would take her if I wasn't caring for elderly parents and had three cats that would probably not bond well with a pup. I get tears in my eyes every time I see this post. God send her an angel for Christmas.
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🙏🙏🙏
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Thank you for all you are doing to try and help her!
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Thank you to everyone (you included) for reposting her. You all are heroes!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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It kills me that another day has gone by in the shelter for Melia. I hope she can feel all of the love and effort from everyone, especially you, Sandy, to find her forever home.
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I'm hoping every day!! 🤞🙏🤞
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Praying for you Melia
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Last Christmas, Roux was at Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary. This year he's eating roast turkey for dinner and sleeping in my bed.
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Best life 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
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God please find her a great home I wish I lived nearby poor baby!! Please people have a HEART she will love you for the rest of her life if you let her❣️❣️🙏🙏
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Thank you 🙏
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Please repost 🙏🙏🙏

Melia is a sweetheart
She is playful, sweet, smart, calm and loving
She has guarding issues pertaining to food and toys
The shelter is providing training
She has been caged for far too long - noisy, uncomfortable and isolated
She needs her hero
Go see her!
Take her home!
Now!
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Thank you so much 🙏
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The shelter is honest to disclose
I took in a dog with resource guarding issues a few years ago. I later ended up with another dog. I was feeding them both on two sides of garden glass doors. This training plus having plenty of food worked. A dog with resource guarding issues is a viable dog.
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If you can get her to Iowa, I'll take her forever
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Someone please help
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🙏🙏🙏
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I can’t see her particulars, as I am not on FaceBook.
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I'm sorry. I don't have Facebook either. Someone had sent me the link. I clicked on it and was able to watch it. I thought everyone could watch it as well. Here's her bio.
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PP3506/51416338
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She’ll be so grateful when she’s adopted by a loving home & family. 💚🐾
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Absolutely 💯💯💯💯
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@nycmayorofficial.bsky.social
Help her find a home.
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I will do my best but this really isn’t my area of expertise
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My heart breaks for these beautiful souls.
God bless them all.
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Oh my gosh, look at her beautiful face, her sad eyes. Are you the one who will be her Christmas angel? I know you're out there. Please, let's rescue her. 🙏🙏
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Thank you so much 🙏
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Her person is reading Sandy’s post right now. She’s waiting for you. Your heart is melting a little every time. You see this girl and think of her waiting patiently for someone to rescue her so she can rescue them right back. Is it you? 🩷
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This is beautiful. Thank you 💗
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😫😫😫
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Why can’t this sweet girl find a home????????????????? Too many people have other pets and such I guess.
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Please share
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I truly wish I could
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It's ok. I appreciate you sharing her story. It definitely helps 🙏
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I have two dogs and a cat. Sorry I cannot help her.
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It's ok. I appreciate you sharing her story. It definitely helps 🙏
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This poor doggy girl.

I just know she’d be the love of your life.

If she gets the chance

Someone give her a chance!

❤️❤️❤️

(I have a little 12 pound baby man boss dog so I can’t 😢)
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Thank you so much 🙏
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Sandy…have they run Melia’s DNA through Embark? I would think that knowledge might help. She’s obviously pit bull, but maybe other genetics would be appealing to someone. I have pit bull mixes…one 47%, the other 24%. Sweethearts and both rescues. The rest of their makeup helps make sense of actions.
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I also have a mix-shepherd/hound/pit. With love, patience, and consistency, he has become a wonderful boy. Everyone in my town knows and loves him.
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I'm not sure. In her bio it just says terrier mix.
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Poor baby, I hope someone can rescue her.
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🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Sorry but this is a terrible photo. Dog, cat, or pig? I can’t tell what she is from this photo.
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It's a video. Not a photo. You'll need to click on it to watch it. If not interested to watch it you can just skip it. And scroll along.
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🙏😞🙏
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🙏❤️
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Adopt, foster, volunteer 🐶🐰🐱
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Awwwww. Someone pick this girl. 🖤🖤🖤
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Why has she been there so long? What's wrong that no one is picking her to adopt? She's beautiful.
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At this point, I think you should throw in a flat-screen TV to get someone to adopt this sweet dog. Kidding aside, maybe you can offer 6-mos. of dog food delivered from Chewy, or her initial vet visit, or membership in a dog park. We've got to get this angel adopted! Time to think outside the box.
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I don't work for the shelter. I know we'll find her forever home. it's taking a long time. The shelter also shares her on Facebook, X, Instagram and I believe TikTok. It's under "Adopt Melia & friends"
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