THE GO-HOME PACK
The folder you hand over with the dog.
For the day he comes home and the week after: the first night, the first morning, who does what and in what order.
Breeders and rescues both do this. Papers, a feeding sheet, a phone number — and a family in the car park who stopped listening about four minutes ago.
What they will actually read is whatever is short enough to read tonight, and whatever has a blank line on it asking them to write something down.
Six pages for the first twenty-four hours: the page they fill in before anything else happens, the phone tree before anyone needs it, the first night, and the five words the whole house uses from day one.
Inside
- this dog belongs to — a page to fill in
- the emergency phone tree
- the first night
- the five family words
- where he can be and where he cannot
- the day you have nothing left
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