Luckily, Austin and Stella’s friendship has been blossoming from the moment they met. “I actually wasn’t planning on choosing any dog the day I went to the shelter,” he said. “I just happened to see a post on my Facebook about a German Shepherd mix litter that had been surrendered to a shelter close to my college. So, being the German Shepherd lover that I am, I drove over just to look, for fun. Which was a big ‘mistake.'”