Watch her age in reverse. Sheba's mom and dad told us about her reaction when people sent hundreds of toys from all over the world!
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00:00She kind of looked like an old, neglected dog.
00:03Look at her lip all curled up!
00:05She was super shaky and unsteady on her feet.
00:09I talked to my partner, Adam, and said,
00:13well, what do you think if we just foster her?
00:16My response was, well, we'll probably only have her for a few weeks or a month.
00:21So we got her home. She kind of sniffed everything.
00:24We set up her own apartment in our house. It was her safe space.
00:28She jumped on this bed, and she did not want to get up.
00:31Do you know you're perfect?
00:35Hi!
00:36She very quickly let us know that she had no interest in ever being outside again.
00:42Pretty girl!
00:43Once we introduced her to the luxuries of being a couch potato,
00:48she just immediately fell into it.
00:50From day one, she's always liked to snuggle and get breeded up.
00:54Is this my job now? Do I just hold her head up?
00:57Very quickly, though, we did realize that she had queen expectations.
01:02She wanted to be waited on. She doesn't want to have to lift a finger.
01:06She had very high standards for lots of things.
01:11I wound up setting up a wish list.
01:13So the whole idea was, well, let's give her a toy stash for the first time to make up for 15 years.
01:18We had five bins of delivery boxes and a few hundred toys.
01:25People send stuff from all over the world.
01:27This is insane.
01:28Look what everyone sent to you!
01:31What's out here?
01:32We set her up in our den and opened them one by one with her,
01:36and she had the biggest grin on her face the entire time.
01:41She just loved it.
01:42Hi! Are you so happy?
01:46A few months after we took her in as a foster, she actually went into heart failure,
01:50and her abdomen started filling with fluid.
01:55Hi, I love you.
01:57When we looked at her, there was just something that said she wasn't done yet.
02:00So we chose to go the more aggressive heartworm treatment route.
02:04She not only made it through that treatment, but then did like a complete 180 and rebounded
02:10and has been aging in reverse since.
02:15I caught you!
02:16She got that pep in her step again and a twinkle in her eye.
02:19That was around the time we decided we were going to adopt her.
02:22I am absolutely the third wheel.
02:25Sheba and Adam are a love story of their own.
02:29I mean, yeah, she locks eyes with you and it's kind of all over.
02:33She's like a real-life Benjamin Button to me.
02:36When I look at the past 16 months with her, it's been so cool to watch her quite literally age in reverse.
02:43And I feel like she just has this kind of new zest for life
02:49that we just really weren't expecting.