my dog
my dog... one day in late may, early june 1998 i was in my basement practicing with my band when in walks an old friend with a job offer for me. hed somehow lined up work as a firework tent dude, and needed a partner. i obviousely jumped at the opportunity because... well if you have to ask, you dont know me. we started a few days later... after setting up the tent and organizing the fireworks how we thought they belonged my friend found the instruction sheet with the placements of all the products that we didnt know existed... at some point as we were late in the midst of our frustration a scrawny little rat terrior wanders our direction... her tail had been docked with a rubber band, she was starved for food and attention, love and shelter. she was neglected, terrified of us, filthy and abused, and we lured her over with beef jerky i believe. even though while hostile out of fear at times, she was a very kind hearted dog despite her past. one night while sleeping on a cot in the tent (we had to sleep in the tent at night to gaurd the product) her tail fell off next to me. i woke up and was kind of in horror for about a minute but she was in less pain for the proccess finally being over. one night a friend came by and thought it would be funny to put fake ads for a church of satan (complete with pictures of a horned messiah) in all the newspapers in the paper stand at the gas station we shared a parking lot with. the next day we were fired. we had named the dog "stupid" because it was funny at the time and we thought some kind of owner previous or new would present themself, but now we were stuck with a dog named stupid who had no where to go. my friend couldnt take her so i convinced my mother to let me bring her home. i dont know of the hardships that poor puppy endured before she came into my life, but i know that she, despite her past has grown to trust me, to love me, and in 8 years shes never run away and never forgets about me when i go on tour or move to cities hundred of miles away for years at a time. even though im gone more than im around she decided shes my dog because ive given her love and a home when she would never have known otherwise.