| Have you ever felt compelled to do something, and | | | | She pleaded to go see the puppies. In the end I |
| not known why? Yet you have just done it, followed | | | | perversely promised her we would walk over after |
| the urge, and found yourself in an amazing situation to | | | | supper and see them. I had no intention of buying. I felt |
| do good, and do something almost heroic, and yet | | | | it was something I must do. Just go there. |
| known, why you ever had that urge in the first place? | | | | We went to the house that had the puppies for sale |
| One of my ideas in life is that everything happens for | | | | and knocked on the door. You could hear dogs barking |
| a reason. I do not always see that at the time it is | | | | and a baby crying but no one came to the door. We |
| occurring, however upon reflection I can make the links. | | | | rang the bell several times and then knocked on the |
| A near tragedy, which changed my daughter's life | | | | door. |
| forever, can be linked to a fateful day when she saw | | | | I was concerned because the child crying sounded |
| a puppies for sale sign in a yard two blocks from our | | | | frantic. I looked in the side window by the door and |
| home. Many times before we had gone past and | | | | saw a woman lying on the floor. I tried the door and it |
| many times she had asked for a puppy from that | | | | was open. |
| house with the a puppies for sale sign, and I had said | | | | Then immediately I could see that the woman was |
| no! | | | | obviously very pregnant and unconscious. The |
| I was resolved that a puppy, lovely as it might be was | | | | telephone was lying on the floor next to her. In a |
| impractical at that time in our busy household. I had no | | | | playpen was her 12 month old son crying. |
| intention of changing my mind. | | | | In another playpen was a mother dog with seven |
| My daughter has always loved dogs. We had a gun | | | | puppies. I moved gently rolled her on to her side for her |
| dog that was in his senior years. My husband and I | | | | safety and called 911. |
| knew that we were not going to have him as part of | | | | Within minutes the paramedics arrived and there was |
| the family for much longer, but we did not know how | | | | nothing they could do but deliver her baby in front of |
| we were going to break this news to our daughter. | | | | us, and soon a Doctor arrived as well. |
| She was ten years old at the time and much attached | | | | My daughter was awestruck. The mother recovered |
| to the dog that was eleven years old. She came | | | | and the shock eased. The lovely puppies, watched us. |
| home from school one day very excited because she | | | | The 12 month old kid who we fed and bathed, and |
| said a friend had been allowed to have a puppy. A | | | | then the crying, but that came from a perfectly healthy |
| lovely puppy for sale at the place we passed so often, | | | | baby being born, and all this happening in the house |
| and also there were more in the litter still for sale. Her | | | | with us. |
| friend had seen the sign from the school bus. | | | | The woman's husband has been out of town on |
| So my daughter wanted to know if we could go see | | | | business and had not been due back until the next day. |
| the puppies. I told her that her father only bought dogs | | | | She had tripped and fallen, striking her head as she fell. |
| that were registered and that we had not idea what | | | | The doctor told her that if we had not come over at |
| kind of puppies the neighbors had for sale. The people | | | | that moment she and the baby might have died. |
| that had the puppies for sale were fairly new to the | | | | The puppies for sale sign saved her life. Did my |
| neighborhood so we did not know them or what breed | | | | daughter get her puppy? What do you think? |
| of dog they owned. | | | | |