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and down and running around
in circles with excitement.  Everyone’s laughing and giving him a high
five, Maria too.
    The race over, we go back to Miss
Lili’s, Mom and Dad, too.  She’d left a roast with all the fixin’s in the
roaster for dinner.  We have dinner after we clean up from the race. 
We sit and talk for a while after dinner and the kitchen is cleaned. 
Shay’s full of stories and sound effects from the race and entertains us all.
 We all leave when it’s Shay’s bed time.
    Maria calls me later and we laugh
as we talk about the race and Shay.  Of course, the subject of Bob and his
interaction with Shay comes up.  I tell Maria’s going to be seeing a lot
of Bob.  Shay and Bob have formed a hard and fast friendship, with mutual
interests.  Steve and I talked some but, I think, we’ll just be friends.
    Monday is our busiest day. 
This week the guys are on nights, but they come by before they go on
shift.  We got smart and called everyone to ask them for their schedules
two weeks in advance.  The newsletter starting next week is ready, so they
work on the poster for the events this weekend.  It takes a few days, but
they’re out Thursday morning and the little collapsible billboards look great
sitting along the main street on the sidewalk and at the park.
    Friday, Maria brings Shay to work,
her mother has a doctor’s appointment.  Bob and Steve come in about one
and the guys are glad to see Shay.  They keep him entertained while Maria
and I work on the clinic.  Tonight’s the guys last night on duty and they
ask us out to a dance Saturday night.  We accept since we’re all more
comfortable together now.  They go to work and we clean the office and go
home.
    At two in the morning I get a call
from the Highway Patrol.  There’s been an accident that involved a trailer
full of dogs.  They suspect it’s a puppy mill’s animals.  They want
to put the dogs in my care and kennels at the clinic.  I get dressed,
drive in and open the office.  I call Maria and Dad, explain what’s
happened and ask for some help.  They both come over and Bob, Steve and
the firemen come in with the dogs.  They’d been called out because of the
nature of the accident and the possibility of a fire.
    We get the dogs settled and Maria
and I start examining them.  Some are injured so we put them in the front,
upper kennels.  They all need a bath.  We leave the female dogs out
so the puppies can locate their mothers and we can kennel them properly. 
Then we start washing them.  At seven Lili arrives and starts drying the
dogs with my dryer.  Maria and I are through with the injured dogs, a few
sprains and one broken leg.  The guys take over washing the dogs after we
wash the injured ones take them back to put bandages, splints and a cast
them.  It’s a long night.
    By noon we’re satisfied the dogs
are settled, fed and watered.  Miss Lili insists I come to her place for
some rest since I have to be back in about four hours to check on the
injured.  I take her up on it.  I tell Maria I’ll call her if I need
her, otherwise, she should get some sleep.  Dad’s going to stay on the cot
I have in the office for such an occasion, ‘til he’s had a nap, then he’s going
home.
    I get a shower and a nightgown at
Miss Lili’s and some sleep.  Steve knocks on the door but I don’t hear
him, I’m so tired, so he comes in to wake me.  I wake to his face and his
shaking my shoulders, rather roughly.  He smiles at me and starts to say
something, but I drift back to sleep.  He shakes me again and I open my
eyes to his face and his smile, again.  “Mmmmm, nice.”  I start back
to sleep when he shakes me, telling me to “rise and shine, I’m needed at the
office.”
    “Sher, they found another dog, in
serious condition.  They’re bringing him in on a back board.”  That
gets my attention and I sit up.  “He must’ve been in the cab of the truck,
looks like he was thrown out the window.