(S10) - PT 3 - Memories

[Titan127]

The day that Zach Skinner discovered his first dog was one that ensured he'd have a friend no matter what the situation was. When the now professional defensive lineman was but six years old, he was hanging around in the back yard of his house when a small, pointy-eared little critter decided to approach him. Unsure of what it was, but finding it absolutely adorable, he cautiously stepped forward, only for his new found pal to skitter away in surprise. For the better part of the next hour, the two of them played that game of cat and mouse until the pup finally decided to take a chance and approach, at which point Skinner brought her to his mother and asked, immediately, if he could keep it.

Of course, he hadn't noticed the flees crawling all over the poor thing, and his mother frantically shooed him out of the house and urged him to put the stray down as to prevent the flees getting onto him, as well. But, in the end, despite having to keep her on a leash for a month just to ensure that no pests spread through the house, Skinner had his first dog, whom he named Daphne.