My Puppy Sage: A Story of Love and Survival
Nov 3 · 6 min read

My wife and I were so excited to be taking home our 8 week old German Shepherd puppy, we named Sage. We had driven nearly two hours out to the home of a backyard dog breeder in semi-rural Merced, CA to pick her up, after we chose her about 4 weeks earlier from among a litter of 6 pups. Sage had the calmest temperament of all of them, was very affectionate, and was the only one to display her mom’s black and tan…

