Hotel For Dogs by Lois Duncan

Author:Lois Duncan [Duncan, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-28371-7
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The day the puppies ate a whole can of dog food and whined for more, Bruce pronounced them old enough to leave their mother.

“You’d better line up some homes for them fast, before they start eating the wallpaper,” he told Andi.

Although she had known all along that such a time was inevitable, Andi was heartbroken.

“It’s too soon,” she mourned to Debbie as they walked to school together. “I never should have taught them to eat out of a dish. If they couldn’t do that, Bruce wouldn’t make us get rid of them.”

“I wish I could take one,” Debbie said wistfully. She was spending much of her spare time at the hotel and had become very fond of the puppies.

“That little Hairy is such a darling. I’d much rather have him than Mom’s stupid cat.”

“It’s not fair,” Andi said. “If we have to send somebody away, why couldn’t it be Red Rover? He eats ten times as much as those tiny puppies. But, no, Red is special, because Bruce and Tim are boys and they like big dogs better than little ones.”

Despite her feelings, she kept her promise and posted a notice about the puppies on the school bulletin board. She printed it in the tiniest letters possible in the hope that no one would notice it crammed in among all the other announcements. She soon realized, however, that this had been a bad mistake. The fact that the writing was so small that it could not be read easily made everyone who saw it curious about what it said.

A small group gathered around the board, and other passersby pushed their way in to see what was so interesting. Before long, the hallway in front of the bulletin board was jammed with students struggling to make out the message:

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