Keepin’ It Together – Out of the Ashes….Bria’s Wild Ride – Chapter 3
Chapter three: Each morning, a person comes into the shelter and brings all of us fresh bowls filled with food and water. Then they clean our cages, turn out the lights in the shelter and leave. I take a nap then and every nap fills me with dreams of Alana, my kids and Mom and Dad. I wake up wondering what might happen next. And then I find out. After the week, I’m taken from my cage to a very strange-smelling room with very bright lights. A nice lady puts me on a table and shaves the fur off part of my arm while another lady plays with lots of strange looking metal toys. I feel a pinch in the back of my neck and then I get soooooo sleeeeeeepppppppyyyyyy!
When I wake up my stomach feels funny. I move a little and feel sore inside and out. I decide to go back to sleep for awhile. The next time I wake up, I feel a little better. I take a nice drink of water and just sleep the rest of the night away.
When morning came, all the people in the shelter were smiling at me. They hustled around filling out papers and putting a new collar on me. I wondered, Am I being adopted? A man hooked his leash to me and walked me out of our shelter room and into another room where….I….saw…..ALANA! And Mom!
My BFF and my Mom came back for me! I danced all around and jumped for joy and almost knocked Alana over with all my hugs and sloppy kisses. Alana and I took a walk outside while Mom and another lady signed some papers and then, just like that, Alana put me into a strange car. It smelled like dogs, too. She shut the door on me and the lady who had been signing papers with Mom got into the front seat. I watched Alana and Mom get into our family car and drive away! Wait, I cried. I don’t want to be adopted! I have a family and there they go, driving away!
As my family drove out of sight, I settled into the back seat of the car I was in. I watched out the window as we drove to the country. The air smelled sweet and I saw cows and horses standing in their yards. Soon we pulled up to a building and I could hear dogs barking inside. The lady who drove the car put a leash on me and brought me into the house. It had cages all along the walls and in each cage was a dog. So, I must be in another shelter, I thought. I stayed at that house for a few days until the lady who drove came back and put me into her car again. When we got a little farther into the country, she pulled up to a cage that had its own little roof and walls, surrounded by a bigger cage. We went into the central cage and I was unleashed. At the time it was raining really hard and it was cold. I was SO afraid and SO tired of all the changes that had been happening since the big fire. I just wanted to go back to my home with my family! READ MORE
