One-Eyed Lily
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Dog
By Susan Kimmel Wright

Fun fact: Many dogs lift their legs to pee higher because urine scent sprayed above the ground, such as on a fire hydrant or pole, carries farther, better marking their territory.

I arrived one morning at the Humane Society where I volunteered as a dog walker. An old black German Shepherd lay on the office floor, curled up on an old blanket. She'd been brought in as a stray and put in the office to spare her the stress of the chaos of the kennels.

Her information sheet really didn't say much, other than the name they'd given her, Lily; her age, just "senior"; and her status "stray." Only she knew where she'd come from, but she looked like it had been a long, hard road.
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