My Humble (or Horrible) beginnings

So, I wasn't born here, but this is where I ended up and boy O boy am I grateful. Where I was born was a very different place with a very different sort of people. The house was completely different from the one I live in now. First, I was the only one of my breed there. Don't get me wrong, there were others, but none like me. All of my siblings were sent away with other people to live, but I stayed. I spent most of those early days outside in my pen. I wasn't with the other dogs because they were bigger than me and liked to fight with each other, and quite frankly I was just has happy to be in my own place away from them. I really didn't like them very much. I didn't have a back yard to run in, but it was my home and I didn't know any better.

Like I said, outside was where I lived. Never in the house Even when it snowed or rained, I would be left outside just a small shelter to protect me. When the weather would come, I would stand outside, looking at the house hoping she would let me in, but then I would be wet and dirty making my chances of going inside almost non existent. So. there I would be, standing out in the weather cold, wet and lonely. But again, I didn't know any better.

Maybe this was when I became afraid of the thunderstorms. When they would come, I would look for the woman hoping that she would bring me in, which she never did and so I would go into the shelter trying to get away but never really able to The pounding and the flashing would really get to me, but I had no other options.

And then it all changed one day. A real nice lady came to the house and took me in her car. We drove to her house. There she had many dogs, but all of them were just like me. I now had friends that I could play with and run in the backyard with. There were no pens outside, we all lived inside the house with the family. I really didn't know how to do that, but I learned quickly from the others. When I would have an accident in the house, she would not get mad but showed me where to go and when I did go outside there would be lots of praise. I wanted to stay here so bad. I did nothing wrong, No barking, no chewing. I just wanted to become invisible so she would never send me back. I wanted her to love me because you see.. Now I knew better.