--- title: Lucky Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Foster Dog description: Fate conspired to bring the two back together in a series of lucky coincidences. canonical: https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-15T17:03:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T21:08:53.000Z og:title: Lucky Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Foster Dog og:description: Fate conspired to bring this woman and her former foster dog back together again og:url: https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8cb48d9bdc7adcf/698a044fdb2987cb97264502/pitbull-puppy.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: PITBULL 12/02/03 TORONTO, Ontario, Pitbull puppy age 12 weeks at Toronto Humane Society og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lucky Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Foster Dog twitter:description: Fate conspired to bring this woman and her former foster dog back together again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8cb48d9bdc7adcf/698a044fdb2987cb97264502/pitbull-puppy.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Truly Blessed Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Dog and You Might Need a Moment > Sponsored content. 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Michael Stuparyk—Toronto Star via Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Updated: Dec 12, 2023 9:08 PM UTCPublished: Oct 15, 2019 5:03 PM UTC Fate conspired in the favor of this dog-loving Good Samaritan: after [fostering a puppy](https://time.com/5130863/puppy-bowl-2018/) and returning it to the shelter last year, Kentucky-based journalist [Kate Howard](https://kycir.org/author/katehoward/) was reunited with sweet dog Winnie by a chance circumstance and her own intuition. As Howard shared in a series of now-viral tweets, she was spending a day off from work after attending a memorial service, sitting on her porch and “enjoying the sunshine,” when a woman and dog happened to stop at her yard, with the dog seeming to want to linger in her particular patch. “All [dogs are perfect](https://time.com/5699722/dog-ceiling-fan/) but she was particularly charming,” Howard noted, appropriately. But when the owner called her by her distinctive name — Winnie — it gave Howard pause. That was the same name she had bestowed upon a foster puppy last year, one she had felt particularly attached to. The name Winnie was a suggestion from Howard’s mom, thanks to Howard’s love for Winnie the Pooh as a child, she explained to TIME. And it quickly became clear that it wasn’t just a naming coincidence. In fact, this was the same exact dog Howard had fostered. Even though she had only recently moved into the new house in her new neighborhood, some force was at play to reunite the pair again. “She was a really sweet, perfect puppy who I would have been extremely tempted to foster-fail and keep if I had a yard when I fostered her,” Howard told TIME. “But I was in an apartment and she was too rowdy for old Foxy.” (Foxy is Howard’s “permanent pup” who she’s owned for 13 years.) To top it all off, Winnie’s owner agreed to come by in future. The story is sweet — and it’s tugged many heartstrings online, which Howard can appreciate. > [](https://twitter.com/MsButterflyyy/status/1184165499573288960) “Dogs (and cats, for that matter) can be the most comforting presence. They know when you’re sad or sick and they really help. So that added an extra layer to the beauty of her showing up on my lawn,” Howard said. “I didn’t even know I needed her and there she was.” Scroll through the Twitter thread below. > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907267231518720) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907274831679488) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907326337654792) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907339977609218) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907344486424578) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907348051611649) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907351432237056) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1183907366347169793) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1184120114897211392) > [](https://twitter.com/JournoKateH/status/1184121165767434240) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] MUSIC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/"},"headline":"Truly Blessed Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Dog and You Might Need a Moment","datePublished":"2019-10-15T17:03:27.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T21:08:53.000Z","description":"Some relationships stand the test of time","url":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8cb48d9bdc7adcf/698a044fdb2987cb97264502/pitbull-puppy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8cb48d9bdc7adcf/698a044fdb2987cb97264502/pitbull-puppy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"PITBULL 12/02/03 TORONTO, Ontario, Pitbull puppy age 12 weeks at Toronto Humane Society","caption":"PITBULL 12/02/03 TORONTO, Ontario, Pitbull puppy age 12 weeks at Toronto Humane Society","creditText":"Michael Stuparyk—Toronto Star via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/","name":"Truly Blessed Woman Has a Heartwarming Reunion With Her Dog and You Might Need a Moment"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"More Evidence That Owning a Dog is Really Good for You","description":"Dogs are more than just cuddly companions — research continues to show that pets bring real health benefits to their owners","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vTXboqxE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-07-25T15:38:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vTXboqxE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/","duration":"PT1M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5701070/foster-dog-reunion/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```