Initially, Schelkopf was only planning on fostering Odin — but it soon became clear that Odin had found his forever home, and he wasn’t going anywhere.

“The second night I had brought him home, he was brave enough to come to bed with me,” Schelkopf said. “He climbed onto the bed and just threw his bony body on me, looked up at me with such heartfelt eyes and sighed in such a loving embrace. I knew Odin had finally found where he needed to be.”

Once Odin officially became a foster fail, there was still the matter of getting his health in order. He was such a mess when he first arrived at his new home, but with a whole lot of care and love, Odin slowly began to transform …