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“It’s going to be alright, you know. I know we didn’t have the
best start, but we’ll get to know one another, we’ll take good
care of you and we’ll make sure your life with our family will be
as happy as it can be. We lost our beautiful Teddy recently and
we really want to give another little dog the same kind of
wonderful life that Teddy had.”
“Come on, let’s go and find you some food, you can have a drink
and then we’ll go for a little walk in the sunshine to our lovely
park down the road. You’ll love it!”
That night at bedtime, the Dogmother put Sophie’s bed down
next to her bed. She tucked her in with a warm, soft snuggly
blanket and everybody slept soundly. “Well, that was better,
wasn’t it”, the Dogmother said to Sophie the next morning!
