Helper Hounds: Robot Helps Max and Lily Deal with Bullies
I could help I knew all about dealing with bullies Two reasons 1 I’m a Rottweiler That means I’m big and loud Some people think I’m a bully But it also means that I was born and bred to protect My great-great-great-great-great grandparents protected sheep from bully bears and mountain lions in Germany Today I protect Ms Chen and Samuel from the bully brown trucks I’m always on alert for bullies 2 My foster dad and trainer Paul was a bully Well he was a bully Now Paul is the nicest guy ever But once upon a time Paul did some really bad bully things and ended up in prison That’s where I met him For real I’ll tell you all about how we both got there Let me go back to the beginning 5
CHAPTER 2 I don’t remember much before the morning of the raid My brothers sisters and I climbed over one another to get closer to our mom Mama Petunia Not that we were ever far away All seven of us dogs lived in a tiny wire cage at Flowerbrook Kennels It might sound nice but it wasn’t The people at Flowerbrook Kennels kept dogs in cages We ate peed pooped and slept all in the same place At least the puppies got to leave The mom dogs never did They spent their whole lives in cages having puppies and then caring for us The mom dogs never played or put their paws 6
in the grass No one ever pet them or loved them Well except for us puppies And then people from the pet stores would come with big vans and big boxes and move the puppies to their stores The pet stores sold the puppies for lots of money At least that’s what Samuel tells me So it’s true Most of the families who bought the puppies from the pet stores never knew how bad it was at Flowerbrook Kennels The pet stores said puppies came from good breeders That was a lie When Samuel and I visit schools and libraries and hospitals Samuel tells people about the lies pet stores tell Adopt don’t shop he says I hope people listen Anyway my brothers and sisters and I were some of the very last puppies born at Flowerbrook Kennels Turns out one of the pet 7
store workers felt bad about getting puppies from such a terrible place and called the police The police called the humane society And one day police and animal rescue volunteers came rumbling onto the farm with cars and 8
