Tobby's story

Hi, my name is Tobby. You think I’m a pretty little boy. But not. I am a dog. A dog who used to live with a love family.

But my owners died. I don’t know why. I loved them so much...

I started to wonder around the world. I was traveling from street to street, from house to house. I looked in the eyes of people, trying to find an answer. But nobody wanted to take me home.

At last one day my dream came true, a couple approached me; Luisa and Marco. Marco wore a uniform, he was a captain, an airplane pilot; Luisa, a teacher, she was pregnant, expecting a baby. As Marco was absent for long periods, they had decided to adopt a dog to make Luisa feel less alone. They finally chose me. They took me to the infirmary and a gentleman in a white coat visited me, everything was fine.

They put a microchip under my skin, in case I got lost, they changed me the name, now my name is Jack, they started writing cards again I was happy, they took me to a beauty center, "BEAUTY-DOG", bathed me, cut my fur, and sprayed me with a pleasant perfume. I beautiful and happy. Everything was quiet, the couple was affectionate and me too to them. I spent most of the day at home with Luisa, I was with her on the sofa and I saw that her belly was growing, it was a girl, they would have called Aurora.

. The days passed and Marco was absent for long periods. One day they decided to go to a doctor for a check up and see if everything was ok for Aurora. The doctor reassured them and said that everything was OK. One day I saw Luisa alone because Marco was at work, I decided to stay close to her; I sniffed Aurora, crouched on the sofa and felt the baby's movements. At a certain point I felt a strange smell, I started at the baby bump, I sniffed it, without realizing it, and I was sure that inside there was another being besides Aurora, I was worried, I didn't know how to communicate it.

Several days went by and I was increasingly convinced that there was something wrong. One morning, Marco came home very early, he was tired, I wasn't moving near Luisa, I was worried about Aurora. I started to get noticed by Marco that I was restless and I wasn't moving from the bed, I constantly sniffed the baby bump.

Marco understood immediately that I wanted to communicate something important to him, he was worried, he had sensed my feeling. He talked to Luisa and they decided to do a new ultrasound in another gynecologist. After making a series of phone calls, they went out to go to the doctor. When they returned home I saw them more relaxed, and affectionate, Aurora was now safe, a virus had generated in Luisa's belly that I had warned that Aurora would have died if it had not been identified and eliminated in time.

A stronger friendship developed between us, after a few months Aurora was born, she was beautiful and I start playing with her too, every time I approached she smiled and Luisa caresses me and gives me a cookie to be grateful for what I had made for them.