In a heartwarming viral video, a grieving rescue dog owner shares the journey of her late dog and how fate intervened by sending a sibling dog for adoption. The video reached over 35,000 viewers on Instagram, with the owner getting candid about grief and finding hope in its wake.
After putting down Amos, her late rescue dog, the owner found a new adoption dog whom she considered Amos’s sibling. Hence, she experienced the quiet after loss and a new beginning in the most unexpected way.
Owner adopts rescue dog after late dog’s passing in moving viral video
The viral video features the late rescue dog Amos’s owner opening up about her grief and eventually finding hope through Quokka Amos Pearce’s — the late rescue dog’s sworn sibling’s — adoption. Amos was adopted from RSPCA QLD in March 2013 and remained a loyal companion for eleven years. Fate’s twisted tale declared him sick with a sudden diagnosis of metastatic lung cancer and internal bleeding on February 15, 2025.
The family decided to say a compassionate goodbye to Amos, which the owner described as “the hardest goodbye.” Naturally, the owner expressed how losing Amos left the house heartbreakingly quiet. Confessing her feelings in the caption, she wrote, “My routine totally gone. Getting out of bed was hard. And it was soooo quiet!”
She added, “Gosh I must have talked a lot to him as well as him making the noise.” Sharing how losing Amos on a Saturday made weekends especially difficult, she vulnerably wrote: “Sunday I always go to the markets and come home to see him and he’s not there…”
Three days in the throes of grief, a little female dog was returned to RSPCA QLD. The dog struggled at the shelter, leading to the owner fostering and adopting her. Writing candidly, the owner confessed, “I wasn’t ready… but she needed me. And maybe I needed her too.” She introduced the dog in the video as Quokka Amos Pearce, proving that Amos’s legacy lives on through her.
The message in the video rings clear with its closing: “His [Amos’s] chapter ends whilst Quokka’s begins. And I cry each time I have gone to do it. I finally finished it and I am proud of it.” Besides the message, the owner announced a fundraiser in Amos’s honor, with all funds going to the RSPCA. Through Quokka and the fundraiser, Amos’s impact thus remains powerful, and his memory is immortalized.
