MY PET

Uno. That word has come to mean more to me in the last two years than a simple Spanish word. That word is the name that I gave to my very special dog, Uno.

When our dog was pregnant I thought, “There’s no way we are keeping a puppy.” When they were born I thought, “We’ll find them good homes.” And when they opened their eyes and we found that one of the pups had only one eye, I thought “Somebody will love him” Little did I know that we would be keeping this one-eyed pup.

I started calling him Uno when he was three-weeks old. He was always sick as a puppy. His immune system was weak and he was always getting infections. He would often get so sick that he wouldn’t be able to move. Nobody thought he would make it. He proved us wrong. My Uno is a fighter.

Today he is perfectly healthy. He enjoys all things dog including eating worms, swimming in the pond, getting his summer haircut, and listening to my ideas of stories that I want to write. He’s a very unique dog. Uno means one and I think that is a very fitting name for my one-and-only one-eyed dog.