Sometimes, kids approach Jamie Hulit with brutal honesty and ask, “Why does your dog look so weird?”

Jamie never gets upset. She just smiles and replies, “He doesn’t look weird. He just has a little extra beauty. He wears it differently.”

The dog she’s talking about is Beaux Tox—a yellow Labrador with a permanently wrinkled, droopy face that makes him look like he’s always deep in thought. But beneath those unusual features lives a heart that refused to give up, even when life gave him every reason to stop believing.

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Born Into a World That Didn’t Want Him

Beaux didn’t look the way he did because of an accident. He was simply born that way.

He was one of seven puppies packed tightly inside his mother’s womb, and the pressure caused his skull to develop differently. To a breeder obsessed with appearances, Beaux wasn’t “sellable.” He was labeled a loss.

So he was given away for free.

Eventually, Beaux ended up in a home where he was treated like an afterthought—sentenced to live in the backyard for five long years. No bed. No toys. No warmth. No love. Just dirt, loneliness, and the slow realization that he wasn’t wanted.

He became the dog nobody cared about.

When Two Forgotten Hearts Met

When Jamie Hulit first saw Beaux’s photo on Facebook, she didn’t see an “ugly” dog.

She saw herself.

Jamie had spent two years in the foster care system before being adopted at nine years old. She knew the pain of being moved around, of never knowing if a place was truly home.

So when she looked into Beaux’s tired eyes, she understood him.

“I didn’t care how sick he was,” Jamie said. “I just didn’t want him to ever be returned again. I wanted him to finally be a dog.”

The Battle for Beaux’s Life

When Jamie rescued him, Beaux was barely hanging on.

He was dangerously thin. Covered in fleas. Weak from neglect. And worst of all—he had severe heartworm.

The vet was honest: his odds of survival were about 50%.

Heartworm treatment is brutal even for healthy dogs. Beaux was anything but healthy.

Jamie visited him every single day. Sometimes twice a day. There were late-night calls from the clinic telling her to prepare for the worst.

But Beaux refused to quit.

He spent a month in an oxygen chamber, slowly rebuilding the strength he had lost in that cold backyard.

And somehow… he made it.

Jamie decided to rename him Beaux Tox—because, as she joked, “his medical bills cost about the same as Botox.”

To her, he was worth every penny.

Learning How to Be a House Dog

For a dog who had lived outside his entire life, the inside of a home was confusing.

On his very first day, Beaux lifted his leg on Jamie’s couch.

She didn’t yell.

She realized something heartbreaking—he simply didn’t know any better. No one had ever taught him.

Thankfully, he wasn’t alone.

Jamie’s other dog, Riley, became his guide. Riley showed him how to use the doggy door, how to sleep on a bed, and how to just… relax.

Today, they’re inseparable.

Beaux, now six, still acts like a goofy puppy. His energy is so contagious that even 13-year-old Riley seems to feel young again around him.

A Dog Who Teaches Forgiveness

Beaux Tox is now healthy, though he remains deaf in one ear and partially blind in one eye.

But he doesn’t dwell on the past.

“He teaches me so much about forgiveness,” Jamie says. “This dog almost didn’t get another day on this earth. So he lives every day like it matters.”

And it shows.

What Beaux’s Story Reminds Us

Beaux’s life proves a few powerful truths:

• Real beauty isn’t about looks—it’s about spirit.

• The ‘unwanted’ often love the hardest.

• Stability can heal wounds we don’t even see.

Today, Beaux isn’t just a survivor.

He helps foster kittens. He welcomes other rescue dogs. And he spreads the kindness he was once denied.

He is living proof that even if the world pushes you aside… the right person will see your “extra beauty” and never let go.