That Damn Dog by Max Papile

In my opinion,he is the best dog ever. In fact, many other people also say this about him. He is loyal, kind, sweet, gentle, and has just the right amount of energy. He is also on his 3rd medical file, each one looking like a stuffed turkey on Thanksgiving. Everyone at the animal hospital knows him like heʼs a celebrity. You could say heʼs popular. One of the crazy receptionists goes, “Hello my sweet baby. Do you want a cookie? Of course you do my sweetie.” He has had everything wrong with him. He ate a plastic bag, he has seizures, his stomach inflated, he had a cancerous tumor right next to his eye, and then his stomach inflated again. Actually, so much has been done to him that my mom has started to call him the $70,000 dollar dog. Oh, and thatʼs not all, heʼs scared of EVERYTHING. Just to name a few: feathers. Men with mustaches, men with deep voices, men, loud noises, trucks, beeping noises, the vacuum, my mom when she yells, and the lawn mower. He is like a skittish old cat. He is also super clingy. When my mom is gone for more than 8 minutes he gets depressed. And all of this started on the day that my parents brought a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy into my living room. The first thing my brother said was “Is it real?”, followed by “Of course itʼs real, his name is Colonel.”
! Then one day everything changed. I was walking to my moms car at my brother and sisterʼs school from my middle school. I walked in the car I could tell something was wrong. Usually the radio was on and it wasnʼt. Usually mom my would ask how my day was, and she didnʼt. So after about five minutes of silence I asked if something waswrong. She said that Colonel was at the hospital and that he might not make it because his liver failed. I was crushed. As my brother and sister walked in the car,my mom told them and we all went quiet. We said nothing until dinner time. My whole family was in shock over what had happened. Then we got a call from the vet. She said that he was doing better and that the liver failure was caused by his seizure medicine. Then as the days went on we visited him and then the vet said we could take him home. He stayed quiet for a few days and then he was back to his normal self. It was amazing. The vet said that most dogs would die from something like this. That damn dog almost died again.