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Local resident Kelly Connelly already adopted the pup she took home to spend with her family during Thanksgiving.

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PHOTO: Rosie was adopted by Kelly Connelly after the dog spent the holidays with her through the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center sleepover program.
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\"We were hoping to find a dog, we had plans not to do it [until] 2019,\" Connelly told \"Good Morning America.\" \"But Rosie had other plans for us.\"

Connelly described Rosie as a \"little sweetheart\" who is a big fan of \"belly rubs.\"

Rosie \"demands them a little bit, but we love her nonetheless,\" Connelly quipped.

The shelter's program to take four-legged friends home for the holidays \"gives the dogs just a taste of normalcy and it prepares them for being long-term fosters or even long-term adopted,\" according to Connelly.

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PHOTO: Kelly Connelly adopted her dog, Rosie, after participating in the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center sleepover program.
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\"She was just a perfect fit, cuddled up next to us in bed,\" Connelly said of Rosie. \"We grew on each other, you could tell she was trying to figure us out and we were trying to figure her out.\"

\"She's been through a lot,\" she added. \"And we are glad that she is ours now.\"

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PHOTO: Rosie was adopted by Kelly Connelly after the dog spent the holidays with her through the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center sleepover program.
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