Today I welcome my friend, Paulette Forshey and her story about Brandy. Read on!!
Brandy
In our
little town, we have rituals, some might believe they’re a bit odd, but that’s
what makes them habits.
We have
a strip mall with a Chinese Restaurant tucked nicely in the many rows of
stores. People like to go there for the great food and meet up with friends.
After the meal, people travel up two doors to the pet store; I know oriental
food and pet store, there should be a joke in there somewhere. Next stop is the
local Wal-mart and then home.
We
continued this routine for about four months, and each time we went into the
pet store there was a beautiful blonde baby Basset Hound sitting in a cramped
cubicle. She was a twin in color and looks to a female Basset Hound we’d had
years before. We’d go in find her and stand watching this bundle of wiggles and
long floppy years bounce around in the tiny cage. Week after week we went in to
see her and each time the staff would ask if we wanted to hold her. Repeatedly,
my husband would smile and say, “No thank you, we’re just looking”. After all,
at home, were our six year old Basset Hound, Daisy and our three year old Jack
Russell, Belle. We had two dogs, we didn’t need another, right?
The
little Basset Hound was getting bigger and bigger and her cubicle wasn’t. It
was a typical Saturday, Chinese, Pet Store, would you like to see her, and “Yes,
please”.
WHAT?
My
husband said yes. The staff got her out and my husband went to the play area
with her while I followed, dumbfound, behind him.
That now
not so tiny bundle of Bassett bounced, ran around the play area, and kept
jumping into my husband’s arms. Each time she did, her razor sharp baby teeth
grazed hubby’s hands slicing them better than a Ginsue knife in a cheap late
night T.V. commercial.
My
husband laughed, petted her, and repeated over and over what a beautiful good
girl she was. Then he turned to me and said, “Get out the checkbook”. He had to
make the request twice because I wasn’t sure he’d said those words, but he had.
As we
were walking out the door, her in his arms licking his face, wearing her new
collar and leash, one of the staff leaned over and whispered to him. I was busy
trying to listen to the other staff member explain all the paper work she
stuffed in my hands, so I missed the comment.
Outside
in the car hubby handed me the wiggling bundle and started the car. As I arraigned
the little girl across my lap, I asked him what the person had said.
“After
four months the older dogs are sent away. She was no longer a cute cuddly puppy,
she was near to a dog now. People buy puppies, not dogs. Thanks for giving her
a home.”
I hugged
her close to me and told her she was going to our house, her ‘forever home’.
Because she resembled our other Basset Hound from so many years before, she
became Brandy Sniffer II, Brandy Jean for short. That was eight years ago and
she’s still with us at her forever home.
J. Paulette Forshey
Award winning author of Deliciously Sinful Romances
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2 comments:
I love these stories so much
Thanks Debby!
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