Luna couldn’t accept the fact that her family wasn’t coming back.

During her first few days at the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter, she kept running to the kennel door, hoping it was them? Was it them? The 10-year-old blind Chihuahua finally realized that her owner had abandoned her.

And she was angry.

Not only did Luna stop lifting her head when the door opened, she also started snapping her fingers at anyone who tried to touch her. It got to the point where you could only approach her with her hands wrapped in a towel.

But one day, Luna calmly responded to the fact that a shelter employee was holding a little one in her arms.

“I finally brought her into the office,” said Elaine Seamans of the At-Choo Foundation, a group that works closely with the shelter. “She put her head on my arm and started crying. I swear tears were coming out of my eyes. I didn’t believe dogs could cry before.”

Luna’s family became disillusioned with her when cataracts first started robbing her of her sight. Her second family abandoned her five years later when her sight was completely gone.

But on Tuesday, someone decided Moon had had enough. A volunteer from Hand in Paw Rescue brought her to the home of the group’s founder, Piper Wood.

And here Moon found peace again.

“She sleeps with me all night in bed under the covers,” Wood said.

Now Luna is looking forward to her foster family.

Even if her sight never returns, Moon will know what it feels like to have a real family for the rest of her life. And peace of mind.

And all of this is a good reason for a blind person to smile.