I had nothing to do with this. Brother and I were working in the garage, so Sparky was on a long leash.
Sparky said he used to live in a doghouse just like this. He said it was fun, because he got to chase balls all the time.. A bunch of rejects and a fat kid used to play baseball in the empty lot next door. When a ball would fly over the back fence, Sparky would bark his head off asking for more balls.
When the kids eventually came in the yard, Sparky was mortified to learn that the kids never came to visit because his barking was so scary. Because Sparky likes meeting people more than he likes barking, he vowed to only use his barking powers when it was absolutely necessary.
I called bullshit because Sparky was just describing scenes from The Sandlot.
Sparky changed his story. He said that when he was in the orphanage, the alpha dog lived in a metal crate just like that. Sparky had to live in a bail of hay and catch his own mice.
Sparky only spent one night in the orphanage and that was in the clinic after they cut his nuts off. Besides, he likes catching mice.
I think Sparky went in the crate because he thought there might be mice in there, and he was afraid to come out. Experiments will be conducted to figure out if Sparky has a phobia about stepping over metal bars.
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