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EDITOR’S NOTE: Author Claire M. is a fifth-grade student at Vogelweh Elementary School in Germany. Click here to find out how students can submit their own story for publication.
The dogs always ran away, but never for this long. It was a Thursday night, and Claire was just putting away her dinner plate, when she heard the front door open and claws skidding across the floor. Then she realized what had happened. The dogs had escaped.
“Mom!” she called out, and her mom came running over.
Claire explained what happened, and by the time she was done, the whole family was crowded around to listen. So, they came up with a plan. Claire and her mom would drive around the village while the rest of the family stayed at home and waited for the dogs. Then Claire and her mom piled into the car and started driving around.
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After what seemed like a year, they still had no luck. Then Claire’s mom got an idea. They would wait at where they always walked the dogs to wait for them to turn up there.
Then Claire caught a glimpse of something furry and tan. She was just about to say, “There’s Miles!” when she realized that it was just another dog. After waiting for about thirty minutes, they decided to drive around another part of the neighborhood to look. Then they saw something.
Murphy was running around in the neighbor’s backyard.
dogs Playing in backyard (Von Justlight - Adobe Stock)
So, they rang the doorbell and explained what happened, and soon enough Murphy had settled in the back seat sleeping peacefully.
Claire and her mom decided to drive back to the house to drop him off before doing the exact same thing again for Miles. Once they got back in the car, a conversation struck.
“Hopefully he’s around here somewhere,” Claire mentioned.
“I thought we’d find Miles before Murphy,” Claire’s mom replied. “He’s a little less crazy.”
“We’ll find him eventually”, Claire said, although she wasn’t fully convinced of the idea herself.
When they pulled up to the house, they noticed that the rest of the family weren’t in the backyard like they had decided. But when they walked into the house, there was Miles, acting normal and happy as ever. Claire’s dad explained that Miles had come back to the house a few minutes after Claire and her mom had left.
After the night’s events, the family was tired, so they got ready to bed and went to sleep.
Family with their pet (Von klyaksun - Adobe stock)
