Animal Shelter Flooded With Inquiries After Sharing Photo of Dog Who Has Waited Four Years for Her Forever Home

October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. If you're looking to add a furry new member to your family, a shelter in Maine wants you to consider one of its long-time residents. Ginger the Staffordshire bull terrier has lived at Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills for nearly four years, WESH 2 reports, and now the adoption center is using social media to find her a forever home.

On Thursday, October 18, Responsible Pet Care shared a photo of Ginger on its Facebook page. According to the shelter, she arrived as a stray in 2014, and she's since won over the hearts of staff members. "Ginger has been here 1,456 days," the post reads. "She needs the perfect home, not just any home. She is an amazing dog."

Ginger is an adult, 61 to 100-pound female who is spayed, house-trained, and up-to-date on all her shots. Responsible Pet Care warns that she does have some resource guarding issues, so she would need to be placed in a home without other pets or small children. The perfect adoptive parents may be an "older couple, single person, or someone who has an empty couch space needing to be filled," the shelter writes.

The post has since been shared 1700 times, and Responsible Pet Care has been flooded with messages from people looking to give Ginger a home. But she hasn't been adopted yet, so if you're able to visit the shelter in Maine to meet her in person, you can add your name to the list of interested adopters.

[h/t WESH 2]