The two-month-old puppy arrived for what should have been a simple vet check, tail wagging and full of trust. But when the visit ended, his owner never returned.
Alone in the exam room, he kept looking toward the door, waiting for the person he believed would come back. The clinic staff took turns comforting him—holding him, playing with him between appointments, and trying to fill the silence he couldn’t understand.
He didn’t know he had been abandoned. He only knew how to hope.
