PAWS & CLAWS THANK HEAVEN FOR 7-11

That’s what pet parent Romlee Stoughton of Lake Highlands’ Woodbridge neighborhood says, because that is where, on separate occasions, both of these cuties were found searching for a home. “My late father, who adored all animals, found the schnoodle. He stopped his car and opened the door, upon which she jumped right in and began licking his face. He named her Foresta, borrowing from her location.” The junior Stoughton found the chocolate Labrador mix four years later at the same 7-11. He watched her “eagerly follow people to their car, and they would simply step over her,” he says. That was 7 years ago. And no, he did not name her Skillma. He calls her Brownie.