A year ago, Edison, who had lost his home in the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, was featured in the Adopt Me! section looking for a new family. Well, he finally caught a break.
Edison now lives in Chiba Prefecture with his new family: Anne and Masato Makino, and their children Yuta and Leah.
“Eddie, who is now 16, was perfect from the moment we met him,” says Anne, originally from the United States. “We did consider his advanced age quite a lot before making the decision to adopt, and in the end decided we wanted him in our lives because he is so sweet and gentle.”
The dog was somewhat nervous at first, and the Makinos were told that he might not even be able to relax during the car ride home.
“But the day we took him home, both kids fell asleep on either side of him in the back seat,” says Anne. “When we turned around, Eddie was lying down with his chin on one of them. We were so relieved.” Indeed, Eddie fit right in — “as if he had lived with us his whole life.”
A gorgeous white dog, Eddie turns heads wherever he goes. “Last year, we stopped at a roadside station and within an hour he had four different people approach him to comment on how beautiful he was,” says Anne. “Humble as he is beautiful, he took all the attention in stride, while we stood alongside him beaming with pride.”
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