Dog named Buster is ‘a little weird,’ but SC shelter knows a family will love him

Buster, a retriever mix who’s one of a South Carolina shelter’s longest residents, is “a little bit weird.”

But “aren’t we all?”

The Greenville Humane Society is hosting “Buster Appreciation Week” to attempt to get him adopted after he’s spent 215 days at the shelter, according to a June 5 post on the organization’s Facebook page.

Buster, who’s 2 1/2 years old, knows a few commands, like “sit, down, touch and leave it,” but doesn’t have good table manners.

“He may or may not have eaten an entire Kong,” the organization said in the post.

His eyes “stare into your soul,” the post says. But, shelter staff guess he’s probably just waiting for you to “roll his food up into a ball and hand feed him.”

The shelter said they’d love to keep him forever but know he’d be happier with a family that will “love his weird self forever.”

Buster loves to be hand fed and to rest in his therapeutic bed that helps ease back pain, according to his adoption post.

“I’ve become rather spoiled here at the shelter, and I would love to go home with someone who is willing to continue giving me the royal treatment,” the post says.

Staff at the humane society know that there’s a family out there that would be a perfect match for this “special guy.”

Greenville is about 105 miles northwest of Columbia.

This story was originally published June 9, 2023 at 6:31 PM with the headline "Dog named Buster is ‘a little weird,’ but SC shelter knows a family will love him."