Rednecks: A Short Story

“First we need to go to the store for gloves, water, football and hand warmers.”

“Thank you Chief, we very much appreciate that. I’ll go call my team and let you know when we will start.” I walk out of the room to go call Moretti.

When he arrived home and opened the gate, the dog met him and stared as if to ask. “Are

The Georgia police department responded to a wrong burglary call and shot the homeowner and killed his dog. The officers did not have the address of the home but just the description of it. One of the neighbors was out walking as she heard the homeowner, Chris, screaming that they shot him and killed his dog. He kept on saying, “why did they shoot me? Why did the shoot my dog?”

Perking up his ears the dog listened. “I didn’t mention it, but the other day, I had a close call, I started to cross the street and saw her coming towards me. Thinking, I had time to get to the other side; I pushed my cart off the curb. Would you believe she sped up, and roared by me in her shiny BMW, the wind dumped my cart over in the street? While I was picking up the cans and bottles, she came back, stopped and watched me. Someday, she’ll get what’s coming to her.” Sticking his head up, he barked. “Claude, you’re right, she doesn’t like us and right now she’s not one of my favorite people,” he said and smiled as the dog covered his head with his paws. “That’s okay, one day she’ll be good to me, if not it’s her loss.” Snickering, he patted him on the head, “What do we do today?” He asked, and Claude barked. “You want to take a drive. First, I need to do a few errands.” After struggling to get off the sofa, Claude went to the front door to wait. “Oh no, you can’t go, someone needs to watch the house,” he said, pointing his finger and watched the hound go out the back door. Going to the liquor cabinet,

Mr. Barkley the dog had a very important decision to make. Today was the day, the day that he had to hire someone new to the office. The role of the job was extremely important, and required a lot of skill. That’s when the door to the meeting room opened.

I drove up to the field just in time to watch the boys organizing themselves in two parallel lines to warm-up their arms. Coach Tim gathered the parents and introduced us to the team’s new assistant coach Gary Peters whose son Scott just joined the team. Tim also handed out the practice and game schedules then the two coaches joined the team on the field for infield and outfield

A man in a navy blue collared shirt walks by with a women and a child. “ This one is a new arrival.” the owner said pointing straight at me. The woman looks at me but the child ignores me and moves on to the next dog pointing and screeching “ I want that one! I want THAT ONE!” The woman walks over and kindly said “ We will take this one.” Then she took

It turns out he never came in so my dog wouldn’t attack him. “That’s Michael,” I thought. We continued driving down the road, I looking at my phone, when Michael slams on his breaks in the middle of the road. I look around to see what could have caused him to stop so suddenly.

“Well, you haven’t met my brother. Think army guy, but with this hidden soft side that just makes all the ladies swoon. He probably has more books on adoption than you have in this whole store.” Gilbert let out a groan.

“Yeah! That’s him!” We spent the rest of the time talking about what we were gonna do. We got to the house. We saw about five cages outside. We were too cared to go inside. I didn’t feel the safest here. But we had to stop the puppy mill from continuing. We got inside, there wasn’t anything in the main house. But we went down to the basement to find that there were all the puppies they were whining. Where he was holding them was disgusting. The puppies were all dirty and have never taking a bath before. We drove all the way back to the shelter, we called the vet because we wanted to make sure that all the puppies were okay. When we got the shelter the vet took a look at all the puppies and cleared them for

He responds with, “it was very scary my kids were scared and we weren't able to take our dog rosco with us. I just hope he will find something to eat.” After

Billy pleaded for 2 coonhounds but his parent said they didn’t have money at the time, his talk with his parents, his want for a coonhound grew even more. The next day Billy’s father got him traps to distract Billy from getting the dog. However, Billy got bored of the traps and was more desperate for a dog. While farming Billy saw a fishing camp and decided to look through it, while he was looking through the camp, he saw a sportsman magazine. When flipping through the pages he saw a “for sale” ad, in the ad he saw coonhounds for $25 dollars each. Billy decided he should earn $50 dollars to buy 2 redbone coonhounds. he was farming and trapping. He did that for 3 years straight and finally obtained $50 dollars, he could get coonhounds! Billy ran to his grandfather’s store and asked him to help buy the hounds. Billy finally arrived at the pickup depot and

“I thought that he’d at least be prepared for the people coming for dogs today. Everyone had to call in advance.” I contemplated. There wasn’t any sort of prepared look about this guy. How was I supposed to know if this guy even had and puppies left here for us in the first place? But my Mom had always told me not to assume (even though that’s all she did), and for once she was right.

While riding his bike down the gravel road, Justin noticed his friends gathered in a grassy field, and rode over to join them.