Scruffy waited and waited and waited at the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter for a family to take him home. Despite their best efforts, the shelter could not get him adopted so they turned to Have a Heart for help. Have a Heart took on the challenge and ran an ad in Newsday to advertise Scruffy for adoption. At last, a family saw the ad in the paper and after meeting Scruffy at the shelter decided to give him a permanent home.