The first day I saw Georgia, she was about a six-month-old puppy and she just had these

amazing big pointed ears and her brindle coat and I had never seen anything like her.

This is Motorsports reporter Lorette Nickel.

It was magnetic.

As soon as I saw her, I knew that she was meant for me.

And the exact thought I had in my head is, that's my puppy.

These days the pair are pretty much inseparable.

In fact, Georgia was happily sniffing around Lorette's feet as we talked over Zoom.

Georgia, do you want to come up here?

You want to come up here?

She's being shy all of a sudden.

But it wasn't obvious back when the pair first met that they would even have a chance

to be together.

The first and perhaps most obvious obstacle to their union was the huge chain link fence

that separated them.

Georgia was a street puppy.

A neighbor had found her and was keeping her temporarily pinned up until he could find

a way to get the stray off his hands.

I just kept explaining to him how special I thought that she was and he finally told me

he's like, I'm taking her to the pound because she keeps running away.

Lorette hated the thought of Georgia going off to a shelter and some unknown future.

But she also wasn't feeling ready to adopt a new puppy.

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