The Puppy Had a Note Tied to Her Paw-and Someone Promised to Call at Noon

said. “I would crawl under there with her. If I touched her without warning, she got scared. So I tapped on the floor two times first. Then she knew it was me.”

I looked at the sleeping puppy. The signal had not been a trick or a command taught for entertainment. It had been created in the dark beneath a table by a child trying to make one small corner continue reading …