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Chalies view of the world......

How my life was changed by a little girl.

When I was a young'n around 2 or 3 my first family lost me, we were on vacation in Reno, NV and some how I got seperated from them. I looked and looked for them day and night and never even found a whiff of 'em. I wandered aimlessly in downtown Reno looking in dumpsters hopeing to find some scraps, it was a dark time for me. I was cold, hungrey and all alone for rhe first time in my life. I longed for the loving arms of a family, the playful giggles of a child when I licked there face.
I clung to those dreams on those feezing nights when the snow came down all around me.
Then one night as I riffled through a dumpster behind Harrah's a lady came out and offerd me a steak...steak, I had not had a real meal in ages. At that time I didn't even rember how long I had been on the streets of good 'ol Reno. Anyway, I took the steak and as I was eating it she put a rope around my neck and made me come inside...she let me keep the steak. The next morning some people came and put me int he back of there big truck, they drove me to a place that was the most terrible, awful, scary place in the world. They had cages all over hte place and there were dogs, SO MANY dogs howelling and crying out.
I shrunk back into the cornner of my cage refusing to eat.
I watched as people came in and out of the place the refered to as "The Pound" looking at the dogs some even got to leave with the people that came in. Others left with the people who had put me in the truck.......I don't know where they took those dogs but they never came back and rumor was they took 'em some place very, very scary.
Then one day this lady came in she looked at all the dogs and as she passed my cage she looked at me out of the cornner of her eye and stoped. She knelt dow and talked to me very softly. She told me about a girl she had at hoem who really wanted to find a best friend but she was having some trouble finding one at school , sometimes kids can be real mean she said.
As i coward int he back of my cell and listened to her soft voice I felt my heart start to warm and I ever so slowly inched toward her...on my belly mind you. Eventually I was right up against the chain link looking her in the eye and she said "that's it" then she left.
Two days latter she came back with a pretty red leash and a collar to match. The collar had a tag on it that read "Charlie the Wonderdog". It was for me!
She siad she hated that she had to leave me int he pound the day we met but she had to wait for some paper work to go through....WHATEVER I am just glad she came back!
She took me home and I met my girl....Cassy. She cired when her mom brought me in and I have loved her every momoent of every day since the second we met. The best part is she loves me just as much back!
Now I have a warm bed and a wonderful meal every night, and as much petting and loving as I can handle.
I am the luckiest dog in the world!