Whirlwind

Kitsap, that's cute!

We found a dog at the dump on the reservation one year when I was little. He was a little poodle...looked like someone lost him from the nearby vacation resort. He looked so scared and lonely. He tried running away when we called him, but we caught him and took him home.

His name was "Dumpling". The other dogs beat up on him and he lost one of his ears. It got infected and turned into something too horrible to describe on this reply.

We took him to a vet, his ear was amputated, cleaned, and the vet gave us some antibiotic spray that was - I swear - fluorescent orange. So besides having a hole in his head, he had a bright orange bullseye.

He passed away later on, he was ugly, but he was our little Dumpling. He had a hard life, oh yeah. But he didn't know it. He was ugly and used to scare the other kids when he'd run up to them - but he was normal to us. He had a heart of gold.

Funny how, sometimes, the ugliest things can give us such joy and pleasure.

I guess we're all ugly in our own special ways.

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