New York Nuns Open Their Doors To Give Undesired Senior Pit Bull A New Home

Oct 27, 2020

In 2014, three nuns from Nyack, New York, adopted a nine-year-old pit bull named Remy who’d been at an animal shelter for four months.

Three nuns from Nyack, New York, visited Hi Tor Animal Care Center with one goal in mind: to adopt a dog that no one else would want. When the women met Remy, an elderly pit bull who’d been at the shelter in Pomona, New York, since October 2014, they knew she was the dog for them.

“I purposely wanted a dog that nobody else wanted. I wanted to bring a dog home that might get euthanized if we didn’t take her,” Sister Veronica Mendez told News 12. “And when I noticed the sign said ‘nine years,’ I said, ‘Virginia, we want this one because nobody else is going to want her.’”

West Artope, executive director at Hi Tor, told The Huffington Post as reported by the Daily Mail, that he was pleasantly surprised that the sisters weren’t at all put off by the thought of owning a pit bull, a breed who gets a bad rap for being aggressive.

“Most people have a pretty bad understanding of pits,” he said. “But Remy was sensitive to the sisters, especially to Sister Virginia, who walks with a cane. She kept up with her and was so attentive.”

Remy now lives with the nuns at Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine. As if this story isn't touching enough, the sisters didn't have to fork out a single cent in adopting Remy. Pauline Jarney, a Hi Tor volunteer, and Roberta Bangs, a Hi Tor board member, were so moved by the nuns’ actions that they footed the bill for them.

What did you think of the sisters' loving gesture to adopt nine-year-old Remy? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to pass this along to your friends and family and maybe they will consider giving a home to an animal in need, too.