SAT . Adorable Chihuahua finds forever home after foster mom realizes he only responds to Spanish
Nacho was discovered wandering around an adoption center.
November 13, 2025, 4:03 AM
It seems one good boy just needed a translator to find his forever home.
Nacho the Chihuahua appeared shy and untrained and wouldn’t respond to his foster mom’s spoken commands, until she made an unexpected discovery: he didn’t speak English.
In a viral TikTok video, Monica Matute, Nacho’s foster mom, can be seen speaking to Nacho in both English and Spanish, but it’s only when she begins speaking Spanish that Nacho shows any reaction.
“I had not thought of asking him anything in Spanish, which is ironic since he’s a Chihuahua,” Matute told ABC News. “I started talking to him in Spanish, and it was the most energetic we had seen him.”
In one moment in the video, which has over three million views on TikTok, Matute tells Nacho “let’s go outside” in Spanish, and then “vamos,” meaning “come on,” causing Nacho to immediately leap off of her bed, tail wagging in excitement.
Matute had been chronicling Nacho’s adoption journey online, where she sang his praises.
“He’s the kind of dog that will follow you everywhere, and is just perfectly content just being your shadow. He loves to burrow into blankets, and he’s happy to nap with whoever’s closest,” she said in an Instagram video.
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Nacho had been living with Matute as a foster dog, after he was found roaming around the Wags and Walks adoption center in Los Angeles, California, for multiple days in September. He was eventually transferred to another shelter in Portland, Oregon, where he was adopted by Nancy Garza-Harris and her husband, Rick, who live in Seattle and drove three hours south to adopt Nacho.
“Rick sat on a bench, and he jumped up into Rick’s lap, and it was like, ‘Okay, well, that’s that” Nancy Garza-Harris told ABC News.
Garza-Harris told ABC News that she’s now changed Nacho’s name to Rogelio Montoya, in homage to the character Inigo Montoya from the film “The Princess Bride.” But she said she mainly calls him “mi hijo” — Spanish for “my son.”
