There was no question this Gene was doing a good thing. Fuck the puppy mills. Why does my best friend have to be a pure breed? I had to convince Clea because she had her heart set on a pug.
“How superficial do you want to prove you are? If your dog is saving your miserable ass from depression the least you could do is save his life in return.”
There were a kajillion studies proving that owning a pet was beneficial to mental health.
It’s true Gene was a bit of a nut, but he was providing a valuable service training rescued strays. I was warned that I’d have to retrain my pet to respond to a new name. Apparently he had grown up with a cat named Typhoid and each rescue was an homage to his old pet. Clea was pissed with me because she was having a hard time with Syphillus. I got off easy, I didn’t even need to get new tags, I just called him Zac for short. I liked that his tags still said Prozac.
8 min, 3.8.13 @ Lost & Found, Dundas St. W; inspired by conversation snippet at worldSALON
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