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    Little Red Chevy
    Little Red Chevy
    Little Red Chevy
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    Little Red Chevy

    By Charles Andrew Bailey

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    The runt of the litter travels the life journey similar to the journeys traveled by millions of dogs throughout the United States. Will Little Red Chevy find a forever home, and what will he have to go through to reach his destination?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Andrew Bailey
    Release dateDec 25, 2018
    ISBN9781386873792
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      Little Red Chevy - Charles Andrew Bailey

      All of the revenue generated from sales of this eBook will be donated to Furry Friends Refuge located in Des Moines and West Des Moines, IA.

      I

      The Irish setter came into the world on a cold, moonless night in late December. Unlike baby Jesus, the newborn puppy did not have three wise men to surround his manger. Instead, a litter that included four sisters and five brothers surrounded him inside a cavernous barn. When he approached his mother, the Irish Setter's brothers and sisters pushed the runt of the litter way from the fountain of nourishment. By the time the runt nestled up to his mother for sustenance, the fountain had run dry. The Irish Setter often went to sleep hungry, far away from the warmth and comfort of his mother’s long, thick coat.

      Occasionally, an old man clad in faded blue overalls and a red-checkered denim shirt came by with some gruel for the myriad mothers who did not have enough milk to feed their babies. There were dozens of babies inside the small barn and the little Irish Setter heard them throughout many sleepless nights, while he shivered on the cold, straw matted ground. The only daylight the pup saw filtered in through dusty, cracked windows located on the other side of the large barn.

      A few weeks passed and the Irish Setter grew a little bigger, yet he remained the runt of the litter. His mother nursed his brothers and sisters to health, but the tiny pup never consumed enough milk to gain the strength and endurance enjoyed by his siblings. His tummy ached from hunger and he began to develop an illness that caused him to vomit. No one came to treat the Irish Setter’s health problems, nor did anyone come to make sure the puppy had enough food to eat. The only people who came always left with one of the other puppies that lived in the barn. The Irish Setter did not know where they took the puppies, because the puppies never returned to the barn.

      One afternoon, as light snow fell and a heavy chill filled the air, the old man in the faded overalls came by the stall where the Irish Setter and his siblings lived. He stood over the Irish Setter’s mother, before reaching down and picking up one of the runt's brothers. The Irish Setter’s brother kicked his legs with tremendous ferocity, while looking longingly back at his family. Later that day, a woman came by the stall and picked up one of the Irish Setter’s sisters. The female Irish Setter threw a tantrum similar in intensity to the tantrum thrown by her brother, but she also added a shallow bite mark on the woman's left forearm. The malnourished puppy never saw his brother or sister again.

      As winter deepened, the little Irish Setter became an orphan. All his brothers and sisters were gone. Two men came in the barn one morning and took away a bunch of mothers, including the highly distraught Irish Setter’s mother. The puppy was the last member of his family left inside the rickety barn. Eventually, all the mothers and all the puppies disappeared. The Irish Setter puppy woke one morning from a restless night’s sleep to find the barn vacant. Days went by and the puppy had only the straw on the barn floor to eat. The wind howled through the barn on most nights, scaring the lonely pup.

      One day, as sunlight beamed into the barn, the barn door swung wide open. The Irish Setter heard a loud noise and he ran as hard as his four tiny paws could take him to an open stall located dozens of feet from the entrance. A man walked into the barn and approached the area where the puppy had hidden. He picked up the quivering puppy by the scruff of his neck and put him in a small crate that sat on the back of a black truck. The man slammed the barn door shut and with his muddy boots pressed hard against the truck’s gas pedal, he sped off down an unmarked country road.

      When the truck finally stopped, the Irish Setter began to shake with unbridled fear. He did not know where he was going, but he knew he was going to a bad place. The man got out of the truck and picked up the crate that held the tremulous dog. He walked briskly to a white shed, opened the shed door, and placed the crate on the ground. As the Irish Setter began to cry, the man opened the crate and shoved a small, metallic food bowl and a larger black plastic water bowl against the puppy's emaciated body. The man slammed the crate door shut and walked out of the shed.

      The little Irish Setter looked in the bowl and sniffed the contents. He had a little gruel to eat and a small amount of water to drink. The wind blew stronger, as daylight slowly turned to deep darkness. The puppy heard coyotes howling near the shed and he saw two large rats scamper across the shed floor. He tried to eat the gruel, but it tasted so bad, he spit it out. Alone, cold, and scared for his future, the terrified puppy sat down in the cold, steel crate. Stretching his legs, he rested his head on his two aching front paws and began to whimper.

      He whimpered throughout the lonely night.

      II

      The Irish Setter woke the next morning, shuddering from the damp, heavy air that hung over his crate. Throughout the frigid night, coyotes howled their fur raising cries at the full, bright orange moon. The wind also howled, with much more vigor than the howling that came from the forlorn coyotes. Throughout the night, wind gusts rushing through the open windows that lined the north wall of the barn slammed the shed door against the rusty steel frame. Tired and cold, the puppy noticed his tummy ached, for he had not eaten anything of substance for the past three days.

      The puppy raised his throbbing body and moved slowly to the back of the small crate, next to the metallic food bowl and small black plastic water bowl. He lowered his back and stretched his paws to relieve himself of the little amount of liquid that had accumulated within his body. After he finished, the Irish Setter lowered himself to the cold steel crate floor. Desperation overcame the little puppy and he began to gnaw on the solid bars that kept him inside his prison.

      Just as the puppy began to gnaw on the crate bars, the shed door wildly swung open. The puppy did not see anyone in the bright sunlight that briefly illuminated the interior of the shed. As the door began to close, a bluebird flew into the shed, landing on the handle of a lawnmower that sat a few feet from the puppy’s cage. The puppy cocked his head slightly to the right, as he often did whenever someone or something perplexed him.

      I heard you last night, said the bluebird. You were yelpin’ pretty good.

      As the Irish Setter rose from the steel crate floor, the bluebird flapped its wings just enough to propel it to within a few inches of the crate, landing between the crate and a bag of dog food. The bluebird had tiny yellow specs on its wings in a pattern that appeared as if a painter had flung his brush toward the bird. Suddenly, the bluebird ascended from the ground and entered the open bag of dog food. After a few seconds of furiously digging in the bag, the bluebird raced back to the crate, using only its left wing to fly. The bluebird held small morsels of dog food under his right wing.

      Here, said the bluebird, as it released the dog food into the cage.

      The bluebird made the trip to and from the dog food bag several times, until the puppy had enough to eat for three full meals.

      Thank you, I’m hungry,

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