Last fall in Guilford County, N.C., a suitcase left along the side of the road contained four puppies. It must have been a shock to the person who came across the 2-month-old female pups, who were immediately taken to a local animal shelter.

One of those young canines is now in Beach Haven, and is looking for a home. She came by way of Jillian Wells, a Beach Haven summer resident who is a student at High Point University in North Carolina.

Three of them were able to find homes, but the one Wells has, who was initially named Samsonite but is now known as…