Another month has passed already. It's mid-October, already. How time passes by so quickly is honestly beyond me. Today is mine and Grace's turn to run the animal sanctuary. It's finally our first turn around at doing this.

Grace's chinchilla, Doreoito, and my little rabbit, Hopper, have become best buds. Just like Grace and I.

We are both getting ready to go, when I hear a scuffling sound.  I follow the sound and find a pet that I have never seen before. It's a tiny ferret and he's holding a Super Mario game case in his mouth.

A little while later, after doing some double checking about this new little guy, Grace & I have found ourselves another new pet. A ferret who we have named Mario. Pretty appropriate. And Caleb Grimm would totally approve.

~Later~

As we are tending to the puppies and kittens the bell sounds that lets us know that someone has just entered the sanctuary. We rush to meet them, and we both stop in our tracks. It's Joey Stamper. With him is a girl just a bit shorter than him, brown-blonde hair, and blue eyes framed by her subtle leopard print glasses. We've heard talk of his girlfriend, so this must really be her.

I finally find courage to speak, "Hi, I'm Carrie."

"And I'm Grace." She adds in.

Then in unison, but totally not on purpose, we say. "We're students here at Talent." We both look at each other and laugh.

"We heard something about an animal sanctuary where people can adopt animals?" Joey's girlfriend questioned.

"Yeah, right this way. Anything for Joey Stamper and his girlfriend." Carrie said, wearing a Cheshire Cat grin. They both blushed when I said that, I have to admit it was pretty cute.

Grace laughed, "What kind of animal are you interested in? Sorry, Joey, we don't have any fish?"

"Such stereotypes, and all from just one little live stream. Ahh, you fans." Joey cracked a joke and smiled at all of us.

His girlfriend, who turned out to be named Susanna was the one to break the silence. "What about dogs? Do you have any dogs?"

"Of course." We answered, and led them to a nice fenced off area, with lots of room and dog toys everywhere.

"Would you like to go check them out?" Carrie asked.

Susanna looked just like a little kid. "Yes! So very much so!"

We opened the gate, and she stepped inside. She was giggling as dogs and puppies of a wide variety of sizes pounced, yipped, and rolled all around her. She gazed at each one a wide smile on her face. Then her eyes grew wide and soft at the same time. Over at the edge of the fence was a little dog hiding under a bush. Susanna carefully stood up and made her way over to the bush, hunkering down and started clicking her tongue.

About a minute later, a small white dog crawled out. It's eyes met Susanna's and it immediately started wagging it's brown and white striped tail back and forth. It's tiny ears were brown and its feet were stripped with brown too.

Carrie gasped, "You got him to come out! He hasn't let ANYONE touch him since he came in."

"Does he have a name?" Susanna said, her eyes never leaving the puppy.

"No. We let the rightful owner name them." Grace said with a smile, "That little guy just found his. Follow us and we'll show you to the adoption office."