A couple months ago, our neighbor started having three puppies in their back yard. Since their house is located on the street, on the way to the bus stop, all the children started petting them. My daughter and I are one of them.
All the three puppies are friendly. They are always happily wagging their tails and come to us. All of them look like always smiling.
The three puppies are two Miniature Pinscher, a black one and a brown one, and one white Golden Retriever. My favorite is the Golden Retriever. I cannot tell the exact reason, but I am drawn to this puppy.
Every time when I see their golden retriever puppy, it looks glowing to me. It is like one movie scene where a boy meets his ideal girl whose hair blowing in the wind.
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This evening while I was taking a walk with my family, we run into the neighbor with the puppies. We started chatting on the street.
The neighbor started talking about the puppies. The two miniature pinschers belong to his daughter. She got them for her birthday gifts. As for the golden retriever, he got it from his friend for free of charge. According to him, the friend still has some more puppies at home and is looking for somebody who can raise them.
The neighbor knows I love the golden retriever puppy, because I always pet him on the way to the bus stop everyday. He turned to me, and asked me “you want him?”
I knew he was not teasing me. I knew he was seriously asking me if I want to take him.
My heart started pounding. I thought to myself, “Of course I want him!!!”
I looked at my husband and my daughter. I knew they also wanted to have the puppy as much as I do.
But we are still renting a house. The lease contract says “no pets”. Besides, once we have a dog, it will restricts our vacation. We are still a young family and want to go to vacation freely. For a long vacation, especially a vacation with an airplane, we will need to find somebody to take care of our dog. I know it will be sad from my experience. We had our dog for 11 years in Japan. Every summer when we went for a family vacation, we needed to bring our dog to the pet hotel. It was sad for everybody.
These thoughts run through my mind. I answered to the neighbor that I would love to, but we can’t have him at this moment. I mentioned him the reasons. He understood.
Just thinking about having a dog made me happy, even though it was just a thought. We will eventually have our dogs once we bought our house. Later years in my life. I look forward to it.
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