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Wrong-Way Maggie
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Dog
By Deb Penfold Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog.
~Gene Hill Six days before Christmas, the phone rang. “Maggie ran off, and I can’t find her,” Jerry said in an anxious voice. He’d driven to the town park with our Puggle, Maggie, and Toy Poodle, Polly. “Why’d she run away?” “A smaller dog scared her, and she took off over the footbridge.” I shook my head. Maggie was eleven years old, overweight, and afraid of her own shadow. “You’d better find her before she roams too far.” (Keep reading) | 