It was a rainy night. A little stuffed dog lay in a fireplace in a public campground. The poor little dog didn't know what to do so he waited and waited and waited until morning broke and still he waited. It had stopped raining by then and he thought he heard shouts.
Two children were skipping towards him. The little girl picked him up by one of his long muddy ears. "Oh, it's a teddy bear," she said, but after looking closer she decided it was a little dog. "Lets take him back to the tent," she said, talking to her older brother.
"No," he said, "He's gross and has probably been in there for a week."
"Please stop fighting and take me somewhere warm and dry," thought the doggy.
And that's just what the little girl did, with her brother tromping behind them. She was telling the dog all that he needed to know. "Don't worry about my brother, Jorgan, he's just mean sometimes. And by the way my name is Krysta and I'll name you ...........Catch! If you like to catch things, do you?"
As a matter of fact "Catch" only caught one thing in his life and that was a cold, so no, he did not like the name Catch. Finally they got to the tent and Krysta showed Catch to her daddy. She explained where she found him and asked if she could keep him.
"Well, I suppose so," he said, "but we'll have to wash him." So Krysta spent a little while dunking the dog up and down in an ice cream bucket of water. Then her mommy washed him in the washer and tumbled him in the drier. He turned out to be the cutest, fluffiest, cleanest puppy you've ever seen. It was worth it all. Krysta and Catch became fast friends and had many adventures together.
2 comments:
Aha! So much for stuffed animals not having feelings.
Yes! =) I wonder what this puppy thought when it was stuffed into a tote and stored for how many years? and now he has been rescued again . . .
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