| Have you ever felt compelled to do something, and | | | | so we did not know them or what breed of dog |
| not known why? Yet you have just done it, followed | | | | they owned. She pleaded to go see the puppies. In |
| the urge, and found yourself in an amazing situation | | | | the end I perversely promised her we would walk |
| to do good, and do something almost heroic, and yet | | | | over after supper and see them. I had no intention |
| known, why you ever had that urge in the first | | | | of buying. I felt it was something I must do. Just go |
| place? One of my ideas in life is that everything | | | | there. We went to the house that had the puppies |
| happens for a reason. I do not always see that at | | | | for sale and knocked on the door. You could hear |
| the time it is occurring, however upon reflection I can | | | | dogs barking and a baby crying but no one came to |
| make the links. A near tragedy, which changed my | | | | the door. We rang the bell several times and then |
| daughter's life forever, can be linked to a fateful day | | | | knocked on the door. I was concerned because the |
| when she saw a puppies for sale sign in a yard two | | | | child crying sounded frantic. I looked in the side |
| blocks from our home. Many times before we had | | | | window by the door and saw a woman lying on the |
| gone past and many times she had asked for a | | | | floor. I tried the door and it was open. Then |
| puppy from that house with the a puppies for sale | | | | immediately I could see that the woman was |
| sign, and I had said no! I was resolved that a puppy, | | | | obviously very pregnant and unconscious. The |
| lovely as it might be was impractical at that time in | | | | telephone was lying on the floor next to her. In a |
| our busy household. I had no intention of changing | | | | playpen was her 12 month old son crying. In another |
| my mind. My daughter has always loved dogs. We | | | | playpen was a mother dog with seven puppies. I |
| had a gun dog that was in his senior years. My | | | | moved gently rolled her on to her side for her safety |
| husband and I knew that we were not going to have | | | | and called 911. Within minutes the paramedics arrived |
| him as part of the family for much longer, but we did | | | | and there was nothing they could do but deliver her |
| not know how we were going to break this news to | | | | baby in front of us, and soon a Doctor arrived as |
| our daughter. She was ten years old at the time and | | | | well. My daughter was awestruck. The mother |
| much attached to the dog that was eleven years old. | | | | recovered and the shock eased. The lovely puppies, |
| She came home from school one day very excited | | | | watched us. The 12 month old kid who we fed and |
| because she said a friend had been allowed to have | | | | bathed, and then the crying, but that came from a |
| a puppy. A lovely puppy for sale at the place we | | | | perfectly healthy baby being born, and all this |
| passed so often, and also there were more in the | | | | happening in the house with us. The woman's |
| litter still for sale. Her friend had seen the sign from | | | | husband has been out of town on business and had |
| the school bus. So my daughter wanted to know if | | | | not been due back until the next day. She had |
| we could go see the puppies. I told her that her | | | | tripped and fallen, striking her head as she fell. The |
| father only bought dogs that were registered and | | | | doctor told her that if we had not come over at that |
| that we had not idea what kind of puppies the | | | | moment she and the baby might have died. The |
| neighbors had for sale. The people that had the | | | | puppies for sale sign saved her life. Did my daughter |
| puppies for sale were fairly new to the neighborhood | | | | get her puppy? What do you think? |