Alberta canine adored for 'wonky face' to be united with his doppelgänger dog
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An Alberta dog adored for his decidedly unusual looks is set to be united with his canine doppelgänger.
Brodie, a German shepherd-border collie mix whose unique face has earned him social media fame, will soon have a new playmate at his home in Red Deer, Alta. — a rescue dog from Houston, Texas, with similar facial deformities.
Brodie — who has close to 600,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 3,000 more on Facebook — has what his owner Amanda Richter describes as a "wonky face."
His snout curves wildly. One eye bulges from its socket. His tongue lolls lazily from his crooked jaw.
Brodie was bitten on the head by his mother as a puppy, leaving him with facial injuries and a partially blind eye.
"He looks a little like Quasimodo from The Hunchback mixed with the hyena from The Lion King," Richter said.
"I always say he looks like a Picasso masterpiece."
Ritcher figured Brodie was one of a kind. So she couldn't believe it when she stumbled across his look-alike a few weeks ago on the Facebook page for an animal shelter in Houston.
Raven, a female German shepherd mix with a curved snout, crooked smile and loose tongue, just like Brodie, had been put up for adoption.
Ritcher is adopting the dog and now working to bring the animal to her new home in Alberta.
She is keen to give a good life to Raven, who was likely born with her unusual facial features.
"I believe everything happens for a reason," she said. "This dog was meant to cross my path and cross my screen."
Brodie has been Richter's "best boy" for more than three years.
She and her partner, Brad Ames, adopted him from a shelter in Ponoka, Alta., in September, 2019.
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