Puppy Gets A Splinter

It was the first sunny day since winter and puppy couldn't wait to go
outside and play. Right after breakfast he rushed out the door to go play
in the woods. Puppy loved to play in the woods by his house. Whenever it
was nice outside that's where he was at. He ran into the woods stirring up
the woodland critters as he ran past them. A few birds took to the sky as
puppy trampled through the underbrush. Puppy spotted a lizard scurrying
along a fallen tree trunk. He decided to chase the lizard. Puppy jumped up
onto the tree trunk and raced towards the lizard. Puppy was so busy
watching the lizard that he didn't see the small broken limb in his path.
Puppy stepped on the limb and started crying immediately. A small splinter
from the limb stuck into the bottom of puppy's paw. It hurt so bad and
puppy didn't know what to do. He climbed down from the tree very carefully
so he didn't use his hurt paw. Then he hopped home with his injured paw
raised up in the air. It took a long time to hop all the way home. Once
puppy was home mommy puppy came to find out why puppy was crying. Puppy
told her about the lizard and what had happened. She took a look at his
paw. Then she reached down very carefully and pulled the splinter from his
paw. Mommy puppy made puppy's paw feel a lot better. He was very lucky to
have a mommy puppy with such great splinter extraction skills. After that
puppy tried to pay better attention to his surroundings. He couldn't wait
until tomorrow so he could go outside and play again.

Told on Jan. 18, 2011