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| MM.A.X. (Mary Alyce Xavier) |
| Yip, yip, how are you? Woof? Woof? This is my first baby picture. I think I am a year old. My adopted mommy said I should tell you a story about why I am so happy. I once had a doggy mama and daddy and brothers and sisters. We lived together and it was warm and nice. I had lots to eat and lots of other dogs to play with. One day a big person put my shiny collar and blue and white checkered leash on and said we were going to walk. Walking is my next favorite thing to eating...and chewing on stuff...anyway, it's a big thing I like to do. We went out the door and I got to lead. I walked along and sniffed the ground and ate a few bugs. It was a beautiful spring day. I walked a long ways and my tummy growled a little. I stopped to wait for the big person. No one was behind me. I was all alone. It was getting dark. I always get to eat when my tummy growls and it is dark. Where is everybody? "Mommy, where are you?" I don't like the dark. There are lots of loud noises. Something big on wheels tried to hit me. My stomach hurts and I want some water. I found a place in a ditch and went to sleep, it was cold and wet. I don't like the place I am in -- where is everybody?? I have walked a long time. The leash drags behind me, but I can't get it off. I don't know where I am and I don't think I know how to get home. Mama always says to find a big person when you are lost. Most of the big people run away from me when I try to tell them my tummy hurts. They scream and throw things at me and yell "bad dog". I don't know if that is my name. ************************************************************************************************************** A big person talked to me today. He said I was a nice doggy. I was scared. He took me inside a fence with another dog. The other dog couldn't play...he had to go inside. The nice man gave me a pan and it had a drink of water in it. I was so thirsty....my tummy really hurt now. The nice man put another pan on the ground. I sniffed it. It didn't smell like anything to eat, but I tried it cuz I was hungry. I chewed real fast. It made me sick, but my tummy kind of quit hurting. I got to sleep in a room with a roof. It was warmer then the ditch, and I had a piece of cloth...I think he called it a towel...to sleep on. I like this place, but I want to go home where no one is scared of me and I get to eat when my tummy growls. We got in a big machine, I think the nice man called it a "Dodge". He said I had to go some place because he already had a dog. It is warm in here and I am sleepy.... We have stopped. Everyone gets out, so I do too. There are a lot of people here. They pet me and gave me a rope to chew on. They tell me it is mine and I don't have to give it to anyone. The people talk. I get to stay here. The nice man tells me goodbye and gives my leash to the people at this house. I get to sit beside one or the other, and they rub my head and scratch my belly. I hope I don't have to leave this place. I really like the yard and the birds. They have food for me. They tell me I am a good dog and I get a treat. I like it here. NOTE FROM MAMA: I can imagine a large, intelligent dog like a Rottweiler, who has out grown the cute, cuddly stage, will have these same impressions when it is foresaken for getting too big and being too playful. M.A.X. has been with us for almost 7 years. She likes to be hugged and loved on. She is big and intelligent and loving, a most special creature. She is happy and smiles a lot. She loves belly rubs and ear rubs and begging for bananas and carrots. We love our M.A.X. and she loves us. |
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