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June 05, 2004
Yellowdog
Dear Dog-Loving Mother,
Please allow me the time to express my sincerest apologies to you and your family. Since my dog bit your daughter only a couple of hours ago I’ve not been able to remove from my mind the image of your daughter stoically fighting back her tears. She is obviously a strong, assertive young lady who is full of light and curiosity. I hope that she does not become fearful of or apprehensive about dogs in general for dogs are usually not nearly as problematic as owners. As you pointed out, dogs are not are often not as predictable as we would like. This is usually what makes them so interesting to have around, but I really regret instances like tonight’s. The note below is for her; please forgive me for having not asked her name and thank you for your kindness and understanding.
To the amazingly strong young woman I met tonight,
I have two dogs in my family. Sometimes people ask me, “what kind of dogs are those?” Usually I say to them “Black and Yellow,” because they are both mutts. My wife and I don’t have any human children but we like to think that the puppies are our children. We try very hard to take really good care of them and teach them how we think they should behave. But no matter how person-like they seem, they are not people and they don’t always act like we want them to. Yellow-Dog has never been mean to anyone before and I wish I could explain why he was tonight. By now, he probably doesn’t even remember what happened. I hope in the future you will still love dogs and want to pet them because dogs don’t want to be mean, sometimes they just can’t help it. I promise that my wife and I will work really hard to try to teach both of the dogs to be nice to neighbors and I am really really really really really sorry about what happened.
Sincerely,
Jamesy
Posted by james at June 5, 2004 10:02 PM