Prancer, The 'Haunted Victorian Child' Dog From Viral Ad, Has Been Adopted

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991376581/prancer-the-haunted-victorian-child-dog-from-viral-ad-has-been-adopted?utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr


Good news: Prancer has been adopted.

The 2-year-old, 13-pound Chihuahua mutt not so charitably described as "a chucky doll in a dog's body" was listed for adoption this month in an unusually honest ad that charmed hundreds of thousands of people on social media.

Now, Prancer — the "haunted Victorian child in the body of a small dog that hates men and children" — has found a home with Ariel Davis, a 36-year-old resident of New Haven, Conn. She brought Prancer home last week, according to his newly created Instagram account.

"I read the article, I connected to it, and I was like, 'You know what? Why not? I'll just send them an email. What's the worst that could happen?' " Davis said in an interview with Today.

While rescue dog ads can be notorious for euphemisms about problematic behaviors, Prancer's viral listing did not sugarcoat his shortcomings, of which there are many: He hates men. He hates children. He hates dogs. He hates cats. He is nervous and fearful and poorly socialized.

"I've tried for the last several months to post this dog for adoption and make him sound...palatable. The problem is, he's just not," the ad read. "There's not a very big market for neurotic, man hating, animal hating, children hating dogs that look like gremlins."

The ad was written by Tyfanee Fortuna, a 25-year-old volunteer with the New Jersey-based rescue Second Chance Pet Adoption League, who posted the ad to Facebook in early April.

"We do miss Prancer, and he was loved here despite his quirks. I have a lot of experience with toxic men, so it was easy for me to overlook his malicious tendencies and love him anyway," she wrote. "However, being relieved of the constant haunting of a Victorian child has me sleeping easier."

The story is just wrong.

Too funny!

"We do miss Prancer, and he was loved here despite his quirks. I have a lot of experience with toxic men, so it was easy for me to overlook his malicious tendencies and love him anyway," she wrote. "However, being relieved of the constant haunting of a Victorian child has me sleeping easier."

Looks fucken evil,

I laugh every time I look at that image. I imagine him trembling at the thought of biting your ankle.

"Ooo I just want to chew on you s-o-o bad ..." You can see it in his beady eyes. LOL.