Humans know everything, not just how to take car rides or where to find bacon but also when dogs are good or bad and where dogs should sleep and what… - W. Bruce Cameron

She taught me that it was a good thing to love more than just my boy, Ethan, opening my eyes to the fact that I’d actually loved many people in my lives, that loving humans was my ultimate purpose.

The way he was speaking to me reminded me of the first time Senora called me Toby. I instantly understood what was happening — just as the men had pulled my first family from the culvert, this man had taken me from the grass. And now my life would be what he decided it would be.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we’re ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.