Hero Puppy Pepper Saves Grampa

Hero Puppy Pepper Saves Grampa

Nancy Mereska Submitted

Hello, my name is Pepper. Gramma and Grampa (G&G) adopted me when I was very little.

This is a picture of me working very hard as a carpenter’s apprentice for my Grampa.

I want to tell you what made me an extra special puppy. If I was asleep in the house and G&G were both outside, they would put a shoe in the door so I could push it open. But, I was stubborn.

I would cry and howl until one of them came to open the door for me.

One day, not too long ago, Gramma was out in the garden and Grampa had gone out by the barn to work on his shed. Gramma heard me start to bark. She could not see me from the garden because it is on the opposite side of the yard by the barn. She thought I was being a little stinker. She wanted me to push the door open and come outside.

I kept barking and then I started crying and making a little woof howl. Gramma came running. I was not in the door or the house. I kept crying. Gramma ran down the yard beside the trees and there I was standing over Grampa’s head crying out with all my little might.

When I saw Gramma, I went running like a little racehorse to her. She ran with me back to Grampa who was unconscious on the ground. He had fallen off a ladder. I ran beside Gramma back to the house and the phone. The ambulance came and took my grampa to the hospital.

Grampa is home and I am learning how not to expect him to play with me right now. He will get better in a while and we can go back to normal. I love being with him and being his apprentice.