I need to be legal until I find me a new family, and Martin will gladly keep me off the street without placing me on the shelter.” Once he was in the system, Martin could not adopt him. King nodded, trying to put a brave face to it, despite this decision was wrenching his heart. Not unless necessary.įox squatted in front of him, paws on shoulders. I’ll go stay to Uncle Martin’s for a while.” There was, as a last resort, the Milton Equal Chance Program, but it meant go living under the same roof of the wolves, and the dog wasn’t exactly sure he wanted to do that. “Thank you for your offer, but this is really the worst moment to help me. King’s thoughts had gone to the same rails. Fox had been living with Bill long enough to know his law. If this meant a raise in the criminality level, it would also mean mandatory leashes again, and much less freedom for all pets. “That dog picked it.” It wasn’t a novelty, dogs had, after all, brains and opposable thumbs…but the lockpickers were a product of city life. “Not to sow salt on the wounds, but hadn’t you locked the door?” King asked to Fox.įox nodded. “I think I was dead.” He entered the room. “Was gonna to ask Uncle Martin to buy me a new one.”īill grunted something but decided to let it go, for now. Right in this moment, Bill’s hate-o-meter for ferals must be off the scale, and he surely didn’t need a pretense to vent against a lawless animal. “I went in the bushes to retrieve a ball and the collar stuck in a branch and snapped!” For a terrible moment he saw himself caged in a pound for the rest of his life. King’s paws went quickly to his neck as if he feared to lose his head. “Boy, where is your collar?” He asked suspiciously to the naked dog. Excuse me, Lucky, now Dad’s off to get a baddy’s butt.”īill went out the room, and only then did he notice King. And Fox, once we’re back home consider yourself grounded for two weeks. “And it is not ‘nothing’: a feral entered my house and attacked my son. “Evidently not.” Bill sounded cold like an iceberg. Lucky tried to say, “Dad, it’s nothing, really. He looked like his housemate had been gutted, instead of lying on his bed without even a bandage on his body.

The poor husky looked like he wanted to bury himself really deep. “The door was supposed to be locked, young man,” Officer Bill was saying to a very demoralized Fox. Haichiko Mercy Care Center, Babylon Gardens

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