A Family for Spike

The dog’s name is Spike and he has friends at the park. He doesn’t like cats. He barked at the cats and porcupines. In South Dakota he found a porcupine and he ran into the porcupine and got stuck by a few quills. He cried and tried to pull them out. The people from the vet clinic removed the quills and placed him in the shelter in South Dakota. He stayed there for ten days for his owner to come for him. There were so many other animals there that Spike was placed in the Humane Society shelter in Fairmont, Minnesota.

Spike noticed that there were cats at the shelter. He was not happy. Every time there’s a new cat he barks to the cats to get out of there. Spike growled at them to let them know that he doesn’t like them. He chased them whenever he could.

Billy, the stinky cat at the shelter, didn’t like Spike at all. When Spike smelled Billy he told him, “You need to take a shower.”

“Ok I will do that,” Billy answered, but he never did.

Billy smelled like poop today. Billy didn’t like the smell of poop on him. The humans wanted him to take a shower, but he didn’t want to. The humans grabbed Billy and washed him, which made Spike happy.

“Billy, you don’t smell like poop anymore. You smell like flowers.”

A boy named Landon saw Spike the dog on the Facebook site to adopt dogs. He showed his brother, Bob the picture. They wanted Spike to be the dog for their family. Bob, the older brother, saw Spike on Facebook. He ran to his parents’ room to show them the picture of Spike.

Bob said. “Can we get a dog?”

His dad said, “If we can train him first then we can get the dog.”

They all got in the car and drove to Fairmont to see him. They drove a long way to see Spike. When they went there, Spike was happy to see the family. He had hoped and waited just a short time to be adopted but he was excited.

The family filled out the forms for the dog. They were approved and they took him home. Then Bob and his dad went to the store to buy a leash, toys, food and a bed. Spike went into the house to lie on the couch. Bob got home from shopping with Dad and hugged his new dog. The kids were excited to play with Spike. The dog was excited too. 

Dad drove them to the park and they played frisbee all afternoon. Dad joined in to the play too. He took out a ball and decided to play catch with Spike.

“Spike, give me the ball,” Dad said. Spike dropped the ball.

Landon’s brother, Bob, came over to play too. “I want to play,” he said. 

Dad said, “Sure, you can join us.” 

They ran around in the park until Mom called and said, “It’s supper time and you need to come home.”

Bob helped pick up the dog toys and got into the car. Spike jumped in too. When they all got home Mom had the food on the table. At supper they all talked about how happy they were with the new dog. Having Spike in their family was happy for them all. Spike had a family of his own and he was happy too.