6 Little Puppies and a Kiwi Fruit

Adam`s story goes something like this: While walking his bike up a steep hill on his way back to school, he found 6 newborn puppies tossed alongside the road in a garbage heap. Is this normal in inaka Japan, I wonder?

Adam decided that he could not leave the puppies in the dirt, so he packed them gently into his backpack and rode them back to school. Once the teachers and students witnessed what Adam had discovered, a call was immediately made to the nearest animal shelter that would collect the puppies the next day. The teachers then decided it best to each take one puppy home for the night. Adam was one of those teachers.

So when I received a text message that read “I`m not kidding, I found these puppies in a rubbish bin”, I had to see it for myself. Adam gave the puppy, which he has since called Homestar Runner, a bath and some milk administered with a Hello Kitty toy medical kit. The eyedropper from the kit was the only thing that could fit into little Homestar`s mouth. She was barely the size of my palm. She whimpered a lot, sniffed around to make sure I smelled friendly, and then snuggled into my shirt to take a long nap. I definitely had one of those “Aww, Adam can we keep her? PLEASE?!?!” moments.