How Brandy and Nikki Were Given the Gift of Real Love At Last
by Hiroko Nakagawa

(Published in in Japanese in The Fraser Magazine, April 2008: www.thefraser.com)

Among the animals in a pound, it’s generally the younger ones who get adopted, given second chances as family pets. The older ones are mostly left out. Who would want to bring them home, knowing they’d only have a few years together? And what about the medical costs which would surely come with various ailments of old age? What awaits them at pounds is euthanasia in the backroom where executions by injection take place...