Humans of AR

An interview with an AR student.

By Jackson B. from Academy of the Redwoods in California

“Oh, I have the perfect story. Okay, so, I have this little dog, right? He’s a pomeranian/chihuahua and he has this really bad habit of getting out of the house from our backyard by just, like, wiggling under our fence, and so that on its own is like ‘wow okay, doggie likes running,’, but, to top it off, the bold man, his name is Tosh, the bold man himself decides to do this at, like, 11 at night. He just vanishes, it's like ‘oh we gotta get the dogs, it’s time to go to bed!’ It’s like ‘wait, where’s Tosh?’ Tosh is missing. He comes back like an hour later, and that was reassuring, although scary because he just kind of dipped into town at like midnight. But yeah he normally sleeps with me, so, he gets home, he goes to bed with me, but then like, the next morning, he, like, not normal at all, he’s twitching in the bed and like ‘oh god is he okay?’. So, like, we think he got hit by a car or something and just crawled back home and then just went to bed, and so the whole family was like ‘oh no we gotta say goodbye, this is so sad,’ and the whole family is so sad, crying, we’re about to lose a dog. They take him to the emergency vet. He comes back. It turns out he just got into someone’s edibles.”

“I would say impact would probably be honestly just my mother and father because they, you know, teach good morals. Sometimes the strictness is annoying, but it definitely helps in, I guess, development.”

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