They began with nine puppies in need of homes. Laura King and a friend of hers, both students at Georgia State University rescued the dogs’ mom in East Lake a few months ago after neighbors saw a man in a Mercedes dump her and two other dogs in the street. The students only discovered later that she was pregnant, and by Saturday, they had a litter of six-week-old boxer-lab-beagle mixes ready for new families. So they took to the street, standing on Flat Shoals Avenue in East Atlanta with a sign too tempting for cars not to pull over.
By the end of the day, all nine had found homes.
This little guy was my favorite. In my mind, I called him Flat Shoals, and hoped he would find a nice family. Emily tells me he went with a little three-year-old boy who picked him out. It’s sweet to think of the two boys growing up together.
Emily got to keep a little brown-black girl with white boots whom she named Matilda.