Last weekend, I thought I lost my son.
It all started with a dog. My son, Andy, had been begging for one for months. Every day, same request: “Dad, can we please, please get a dog?” He was relentless, and I was getting close to caving in.
But he also had to convince Kelly, my wife.
Finally, after a lot of talking, my wife agreed.
She looked me dead in the eye and said, “Fine, but only if it’s small and presentable. We’re not getting some big, sloppy mutt.”
I tried not to laugh.
That was just her way. She grew up in a house where everything had its place, where pets were clean, polite little additions to a picture-perfect life.
A poodle or a Yorkie?
Sure. But a scrappy, muddy dog? Definitely not.
Our son, though?
He wanted a friend.
The shelter was noisy, full of barking and howling.
My son’s eyes lit up as we walked down the rows of kennels. He bounced from one to the next, barely even looking at the little fluffy dogs we were supposed to be considering.
Then, he stopped in his tracks.
In front of us was a kennel with the scruffiest dog I’d ever seen. She was a mess of tangled fur, with big brown eyes and a tail that looked like it had been broken and never quite healed straight.
She didn’t bark, just stared back at us, her head tilted like she was curious.
I squatted down next to Andy.
“She’s not exactly what your mom wanted, buddy.”
“She needs us,” he insisted, looking up at me with that stubborn glint he got from his mother. “Just look at her. She’s… sad.
We could make her happy.”
“All right,” I said, ruffling his hair.
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