The puppy
The boy picked up the abandoned animal. It didn’t seem to weight much. With a few high pitch barks and a lick on his cheek, the puppy showed the boy just how happy he was to have finally caught someone’s attention. The boy fell in love immediately and took the small animal home.
Once he got home, he gave his parents a real shock. “You can’t just take a dog home?!” they said. “What if the owner was just doing groceries?” The boy calmed them down by telling them how he had found the puppy. The poor creature had clearly been purposefully left behind in the alley.
The boy asked his parents if he could keep the animal…