When Alan Moncayo arrives to deliver someone’s lunch, the only thing he might expect to walk away with could be a tip, but when he brought an office lunch out to a Virginia animal shelter, he got so much more than gratuity.

Moncayo arrived with a GrubHub delivery outside the Lorton campus of the Fairfax County Animal Hospital on February 10th.

Walking to the door, he saw a dog staring at him through the window.

“It was love at first sight,” Moncayo, 51, tells PEOPLE Magazine. “He looked at me, and I looked back at him.”

“My daughter’s been asking me for a puppy for the longest time. She was desperate to have a puppy .”

As it happened to be a Saturday, Moncayo had his 5-year-old daughter in the car with him, and while the black and white pit bull mix in the window wasn’t exactly a puppy at 65 pounds, he couldn’t shake the feeling that this pooch was special.

He requested that the two men meet Jihoo and take him outside the kennel for a game of fetch. Jihoo had been at Lorton for 240 days, ten times as long as the average stay for a dog.

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Since the owners gave him up, he has become a hospital mascot, greeting guests, playing with toy animals, taking hikes and jumping on counters wagging its tail.

As it turned out, Moncayo’s visit coincided with the Super Bowl and the shelter tried to encourage adoptions by holding an “Adoption Bowl”, for dogs the size of linebackers.

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Any shelter dog over 45 lbs. Adoption was completely free, which made it easier for Moncayo get his dog. The shelter added a crate, leash, toys, and food, all free of charge.

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