Your Dog Stories Written by children like you! Claudius, Age 11, New York, USA I am going to write about me and my dog. My dog's name is Happy. He is a German Shepherd. My mom will get me my dog Happy. I will make sure he has big paws because I want him to be big. Happy can watch the yard when no one is home. You should take your dog to the vet for shots. Make sure you curb your dog. You may let your friends play I must keep Happy on a leash and in the yard. You must make sure your dog gets a clean dish of water. with him or her, just don't let them pull his or her tail. Train your dog to listen to you. Show him to go to the bathroom outside. If your dog doesn't like someone, or other people, don't put him or her around them. It is a great thing to have a dog that can protect you and your family. Brittany, Age 9, North Carolina, USA My dog's name is Gizmo. He is a mixed breed. He is one year old. The story behind how I got him is amazing I think. I had another dog and her name was Prissy. She was Gizmo's mother. Prissy in her lifetime had a few litters of puppies. My mom even had to help her have puppies one time. We thought she was going to die, but she hung in there and made it. We always had to give the puppies away when they were old enough. Prissy had her last litter of puppies in October in 1999 and as she was taking care of her puppies she kicked Gizmo out and wouldn't feed him. Dad always let her stay in his shop out back and that's where she was, but Gizmo was at our back steps. That's how we knew she kicked him out. He wasn't big enough to get there on his own. My mom found him and brought him in. He fit in the palm of her hand. That's how small he was. He had no hair on his tail and his feet were flat. You couldn't even see if there were holes in his ears. It took us about two weeks to name him because we didn't think he was going to live. He reminded me of Gizmo on the movie Gremlins so that's what we named him. He is strong and healthy and very special to me. Oh yeah, about my other dog Prissy, she died of old age. My mom and dad had her before I was born, she was 11 years old. [...] Karilyn, Age 13, North Carolina, USA I have a dog named Charlie. My older sister really wants a puppy, but Dad says the only way she can get a puppy is if I get rid of mine! Then one day we had a tornado at our house. My sister got buried under the rubble. When we got her out, she found out a dog gotten buried with her!!!! Dad said we couldn't keep it, but a week later he forgot that we were going to get rid of it. We kept it and she had 10 puppies with Charlie!!! Now we have 12 dogs, and our parents don't even like dogs! (http://www.loveyourdog.com/stories.html​