~Lucky

On Sunday afternoon Brian came up to me and said he was going to go lay out and get some Sun, and I was thinking how Otto (the Dog) would like to see him outside and I said, “Nathan would like that” I caught myself.. I Periodically call Otto, Nathan. I guess cause they were such Good Buddies. We almost felt that Otto was a wee connection of Nathan.

Let me share a Story that Nathan wrote at School in his English Class on February 12, 1996.(his errors included)
“This morning I went downstairs to let my puppy out of his kennel before I got their I smelled something really bad so I looked in his kennel, and boy was I surprized and discusted there was dierea all over him and his kennel. I didn’t want to clean it up so I went back upstairs and sat their on my bed till my mom came down so she had to clean it up.”

Otto was 3 months old. We gave him too much of something and it caused him a MAJOR accident in the night. The Rule had been made prior that whoever finds the dog and see he’s been sick in one way or another or had an accident, that if you saw it first, you had to clean it up. I found this writing of Nathan’s after he was gone so I had no idea that, that morning he had been the one to reach the Puppy first. As far as I knew, I was the *lucky* one.

Thanks Nathan!