The Dog Who Thought His Mother Was A Doll by Joanne Okano

     When I was a little girl and was living in England, we had a dog named Randy, after Randy Mantooth who starred in the show called "The Virginian".  Randy the dog was a mongrel.  His mother was a Golden Labrador who was a t.v. star on the show "Blue Peter" and his father was an Alsatian or German Shepherd.
     We brought Randy home when he was a puppy.  He lived in the kitchen at first, until it was found that he was not suited to living indoors and so he lived outside in the garden, having his own kennel which Dad built him.
     We felt Randy needed a friend, so we donated him a giant stuffie toy dog.  At first Randy seemed to find this comforting and slept beside the giant stuffie (it was bigger than he was) and seemed to think it was his mother, he treated her with such devotion.
     But one day this came to an end.  We awoke to find toy dog all over the garden.  Randy had become angry.  The moral of this story is, I suppose, don't give your dog a toy dog or the same thing may happen.

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