A dog taken in by a foster family has gone viral for an unusual reason—the sheer size of him.
Doug Bishop, 45, lives with his wife and daughter in Virginia where he works as a firefighter and paramedic. The family has been caring for all sorts of animals for years, with Bishop telling Newsweek that they currently have “six rescue dogs, three rescue horses, and a rescue mule” on their 10-acre rural home.
Since 2015, the family has fostered almost 35 dogs from the Richmond Animal League, and the newest addition to their family is beagle foxhound mix, Roscoe.
Roscoe comes from a difficult background after being found alone at home when his owner died, and is, at 103 pounds, “grossly overweight.”
Bishop and his family are working towards slimming him down and determining any extra health issues before he goes to his forever family, but while his story is serious, …