Day 1 - Hi, my name is Baxter.

[February 4, 2012]
Hi, my name is Baxter.  I watched my other 7 siblings be taken by various people until my brother and I were the only two of 9 left.  As long as I was with my momma, I was happy.

On February 4th, 2012, a lady stopped and knocked on the door to the house where the people would come out to feed us.  I introduced myself to the lady by sitting on her foot.  She and the people she was with were out encouraging people to read the Bible.  She talked to the woman on cruches for a bit.  When she and the people she was with tried to leave, we followed them to the thing with four wheels.  They kept getting in and then getting out to walk us back to the house.  What a game!

Later in the day, this same lady, her sister and a bunch of kids came to play again.  Then they put a brand new blue colar on me and attached a thing they call a leash.  I'm not too big of a fan of the leash thing.  The colar was stylish, though.  They began tugging on the leash to take me toward the thing with four wheels I had seen early.  I didn't like this new game.

Can I get out now?

Eventually, they gave up trying to drag me.  They picked me up and stuffed me in a basket with towels.  I cried and cried with my head on the shoulder of the lady.  She tried to calm me, but I couldn't see my momma!  Is this what happened to my other brothers and sisters?

The lady's sister said that she shouldn't show me to her mom and dad until I had a bath.  A what?!

Oh it was warm water ... but they took away my familiar smell.  They said I stunk.  I liked the rub down with what they called a towel.  All the attention was fun.  But ... Then they took a thing to me that blew hot hair.  WOA!

Clean and smelling like a thing called shampoo, we finally got some play time in.