Colt’s as pretty as a picture. And like a painting he has sat and waited, almost motionless, day after day, for almost 13 years, for someone to save him.

The savior has not yet appeared, but Colt seems determined to keep hoping. The wait for this quiet, loving dog will only last longer if that rescuer continues to delay. And it will end tragically, as in so many hundreds of other cases that we know only personally, if Colt dies believing that all his hope was in vain.

Adopt Colt from afar, please. At the very least.