My Puppy Sage: A Story of Love and Survival

David Mann
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…

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David Mann

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I’m currently a science & English teacher/tutor, and aspiring writer as well as a U.C. Berkeley grad with an M.S. in Molecular & Cell biology

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