My Foster Pup Cured My Control Freak

Yiqing Zhao
The Shortform
Published in
Oct 7, 2021
Author and her foster puppy, Lucille
Author’s image of her foster puppy

I was doing yoga when Lucy missed her pee pad again, dipped her paws in her pee, then ran towards me.

“Mom, you promised to play with me after yoga!”

“Lucy, I still have one more minute of savasana! And I have to clean your pee!”

She kept nibbling me with her razor-sharp puppy teeth — I had to stuff a toy in her mouth.

At that moment, I decided to surrender to the mess and the “craziness”, to my sweat and her pee, and to this new life of being a “single puppy mom”.

I decided to accept everything she did,

Then I felt free. Truly, completely free. I had the best savasana in years.

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