Life is Good

There I was, minding my own business. Running around the neighborhood, eating garbage, chasing cats and fighting with “home dogs” and “street dogs”. People say I’m a chihuahua with a Rottweiler attitude. Suddenly, there was a guy with a uniform and a badge trying to catch me. I was smart, ran to all my usual places to escape capture but he was persistent and finally managed to get me cornered. He grabbed me, put me in a truck with some other dogs and we drove away. When the truck stopped, some people came out and took me and the other dogs inside. I was scared! These people kept touching me and I did not like it at all. Then they put me in a cell. I was there for a long time, people would come and look through the bars at me, they tried to talk to me and tempt me to come to them with treats but I was to smart for that. I just stayed in the back, ignoring everyone. Then one day this lady came to my cell, I had seen her walking past the other dogs, stopping and scratching an ear here, a chin there. Then she stopped at me. I refused to even look at her. She made noises, tapped on the bars and even tossed a treat towards me. I just pretended she did not exist. Then one of the people that fed me and took me to the yard came in and put a leash on me. He picked me up and carried me to the yard (he had to carry me because I refused to walk on the leash). He closed the gate and put me down. The lady was in the yard too and she was talking to the food giver guy. They both tried to get me to come to them but I pretended not to notice. I sniffed all along the fence trying to find a way out. I peed on everything. I even peed on the food guy when he wasn’t looking! Then the food guy put me back in my cell. I thought that was the end of it, but the next day the lady came back. This time she had a man with her and once again I was taken to the yard. Again I just looked for a way out and peed on everything. I tried to pee on the lady but she moved just as I tried! The lady told the man that I just needed to feel love, to learn to trust and love back. As the food guy was putting me back in my cell, I heard him say I’d have to be neutered so I’d need to stay a few days. The lady had the man that was with her take off his shirt and they put it in my bed in my cell.. The next day, the man came alone. I was put in the yard, and the man stayed with me for a long time. He wouldn’t let me pee on him though. He came every day for a while and every day he put his shirt in my bed and took the old shirt away. Then one day, the food guy took me into the building and I went to sleep, when I woke up I felt funny. Then, the lady and the man came and got me! They put me in a car and took me to a house. The house smelled like the shirt I had been sleeping on in my cell, and there was a soft bed with a shirt just for me to sleep on! I looked every day for a way to escape even thought the man was very nice to me. The lady came over a lot. They both gave me treats and I started to like being touched. The lady knew just where my chest always needed scratched and sometimes I couldn’t stop my leg from kicking while she scratched. The lady and man would say a word and if I came to them, they would give me a treat. Now, when they say that word I come running even if I don’t get a treat. We all moved to a new house, this house smelled like the lady and cats! Now we all live together and I have a brother and a sister. I also have 2 cats. I don’t like cats and I chase them whenever I can even if they are bigger than me. Sometimes they don’t run, they just sit there and look at me,I go in the other room when that happens!! My brother, sister and cats all had rough lives before the lady got them but we are all one big, spoiled, very happy family now. Of course I know I’m the favorite! My name is Reeses because they say I am colored like a peanut butter cup and I’m so sweet. I wish I could tell that man in the uniform thank you for catching me.