22/08/2026
☕️ Grab a cuppa and settle in for Brian’s Happily Ever After…🏡🤍
" DEAR BRIAN ❤️
Today is your 6 Month Gotcha Day.
I honestly cannot believe how quickly those six months have gone by. And yet, somehow, it feels as though you have been with us forever.
When I joined the DMT DRSG, I knew I would be tempted by all the lovely dogs. But we had our beautiful Violet, who was getting elderly, and we were understandably worried about how she might react to a younger boy coming into our home. We didn't want to upset her at such a precious stage of her life. So, instead, I found joy in supporting other people through their adoption journeys and told myself that our “someday” would come.
Then, one fateful day last September, you appeared. This floofy red boy with the biggest, warmest eyes. And Brian, I was done for. I watched your videos for months. I watched you in South Korea and saw a gentle, sweet boy who seemed as though he might be the perfect loving brother for our two girls. Little by little, I fell completely in love with you without ever having met you.
And somehow, our “someday” became now.
Being on the adoption team and explaining the process to potential adopters many times, it was surreal to suddenly go through it myself.
The excitement. The anticipation. The apprehension. And the happiness.
Then came the day we finally met you at the collection point. After months of photographs and videos, after watching you from thousands of miles away, there you were. Our sweet boy. It was truly love at first sight.
Brian, you have been everything we hoped for and so much more.
You are gentle, sweet, silly, enthusiastic, playful, clever and incredibly patient. You are so well behaved that sometimes we simply cannot believe how lucky we are. We had prepared ourselves for all sorts of issues, but they haven't appeared. Instead, we have discovered you.
Our boy who prefers lounging on the floor to using a perfectly good dog bed. Our boy who has strong opinions about where you like to walk — apparently busy roads are far more interesting than quiet ones. Our boy who finds dragged bins and cement mixers scary. Who hogs too much room on the bed. Who spins for his food. Who absolutely loves being glued to your people. All those funny, adorable, brilliant things that make you Brian.
Every day you teach us something new. Sometimes it's something funny, and sometimes it's something that gives us the tiniest glimpse into a past life we know almost nothing about.
But mostly, you remind us of the simplest things: To love unconditionally. To stay in the moment. To appreciate your people. And to keep your sunny side up. ☀️
And then there was Violet. This was the thing we had worried about most.
But you took to her immediately.
The two of you cuddled together as though you had always been brother and sister. We are certain that somehow you understood that she needed gentleness and support, and you were more than happy to give it.
She found comfort in you.
And seeing you together was one of the most heartwarming things we could have hoped for. It allayed our fears that she might be overwhelmed by this big, floofy boy who had suddenly arrived in her world.
Sadly, we lost our beautiful Violet at 18 ½ on 1st July. For five precious months, she had a loving brother beside her. You helped smooth some of the bumps for her, and in your own gentle way, you helped us through those last months with her too. You gave her companionship and comfort. And you gave us something to smile about when our hearts were hurting.
So Brian, your story will always be Violet's story too. I will always be grateful that she got to know you. And that you got to know her.
You and your sister Daphne are finding your way together a little more cautiously. You are both learning to find your feet without your matriarch, and it is taking time. But you are wonderfully respectful of her space, and slowly, you are discovering how to be brother and sister.
We will never know much about the life you had before us. We don't know what you experienced, what you saw or what you had to endure. But we do know that you travelled thousands of miles from your homeland to find your forever home. And somehow, through all the people, all the places and all the twists and turns of your journey, you ended up here. Six months ago, you were a rescue dog thousands of miles away. Today, you are with us. Home.
We will be eternally grateful to Yousachen Karamom for rescuing you from an unimaginable fate.
We will always be grateful to this amazing charity for giving us the chance to become your parents.
But most of all, Brian, we are grateful to you.
Thank you for finding your way to us.
Thank you for loving us.
Thank you for loving Violet.
Thank you for being patient, funny, gentle and completely, gloriously yourself.
Six months ago, we hoped you might be the boy for us.
Six months later, we cannot imagine our family without you.
You were worth every mile.
You were worth the wait.
And you are loved more than you could ever know.
Happy 6 Month Gotcha Day, our precious boy. ❤️ " - Brian's Pawrents
