An Update On My Little Heartbreaker

Saturday evening, Farmer H said, 

"Oh, the guy I gave Scarlett to came by my shop today."

"No! Don't tell me if it's something bad. I can't take it. I'm going to cry already."

"It ain't bad. He said he's decided to keep Scarlett. Said they like her better than their other dog. That it was a male, and kept humping Scarlett, and she'd snap at him."

"Well. She's fixed. But that's how she treated Jack, and he'd stop. So what about their other dog? What kind was it. Are they keeping them separate?"

"I don't know what kind, but he gave the other dog away, I think!"

"NO! More sadness. But I guess it's good for Scarlett. How old is the boy?"

"About five, I think."

"I hope she doesn't knock him down. Are they keeping her in the house?"

"When they're home. At night she sleeps under the porch on a heated dog mat."

"She would be wild in the house, but she was an inside dog before she came here. So she won't poop or pee inside."

"Yeah. Even when she got trapped in the garage [Hick said, as if he wasn't the one responsible for that, numerous times] she would wait until I let her out to pee."

"Does his wife work?"

"There ain't no wife. He had a girlfriend, and he has full custody of the boy. The boy goes to school. This guy and his twin brother are living there."

"Where is it? In town? Or in the country?"

"I don't know."

"YOU TOOK SCARLETT THERE TO HIM, and you don't know?"

"I actually took her to the brother's house."

"I thought you said they live together!"

"No. His brother has his own house. But they work different shifts, and he helps take care of the boy. This guy works at Lowe's, and his brother works for some kind of state agency."

"Okay. Your stories change a lot. At first you said the boy was ten when you dropped off Scarlett. Do they keep her tied up when she's outside?"

"Yeah. But he said she was gone the other day. He stood in the front yard, cussing her and calling her. And then in about five minutes she showed up."

"That's lucky! You had to drive around and look for her."

"Heh, heh! She was probably afraid she'd get taken for another ride somewhere else if she didn't come back! He said she went with his other dog down the road."

"I hope everything works out for them. Scarlett really does like her people. She'll crawl into your lap and not get up if you let her. Even that day I was sitting outside to watch the eclipse, she kept her front paws in my lap the whole time."

"Well, he seems to really like her. He could still end up giving her to his sister at the farm, but it sounds like right now he wants her at his house."

WHEW! Such good news that was. I need to call The Pony and share.