TulsaPets Magazine March 2023

March /April 2023 • TulsaPets 15 PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE Happily Ever After French Bulldog Finds Peace at Home by Jennie Lloyd | Photo courtesy of Amber and Zach Litwack W hen Zach met Amber in 1997, they were both undergraduates at the University of Tulsa. The two were walking out of their classes for the day when suddenly a thunderstorm hit. “We ducked under the same overhang to wait out the rain,” Amber says. “We started chatting and hit it off immediately. We realized we had a lot in common.” The two dated for a year and a half and then went their separate ways. “Zach spent a decade in Chicago and returned to Tulsa in December of 2011,” Amber says. “We reconnected soon after and have been inseparable ever since.” After one fateful downpour and a meet cute, separation, and reunion, Amber and Zach Litwack are now happily married and celebrated their eighth wedding anni- versary on October 4, 2022. Enter Lola Lola the French Bulldog joined the happy couple in their happily-ever-after home in October 2015. She was a young rescue dog dealing with a difficult past when the Litwacks brought her home. “From what we understand,” Amber says, “before she came to us, she was in two different homes with other dogs who bullied and picked on her. She’s very uneasy around other dogs, especially larger Amber and Zach Litwack share their happy home with their dog, Lola.