“Nope, I’m not drunk! I promise!”

What an adorable little puppy. Wiggles is a bulldog mix whose tongue is always sticking out, and who keeps tumbling over – whoops, wonk! – every time he walks.

He was picked up by an animal control officer when he was just wandering the streets aimlessly. The folks at the shelter noticed he stumbles a lot, and were afraid he wouldn’t find a home. Since it wasn’t a no-kill shelter, they wanted to get him to safety. So he came to Best Friends where the doctors discovered it was a neurological disorder that made him keep toppling over (and also made him occasionally lose control of when he went to the bathroom.)

But his mind was always functioning just fine – it was just a coordination problem. So all he needed was a family who didn’t mind a little walk-walk-wonk! And a teeny bit of incontinence. Best Friends members have always been the best adopters in the world for animals with special needs like that, so there