For shame, fellow Mudcatters!
I searched high and low for a thread with this title,
and until this instant,
there was none.

I have just come from someplace called mutually dot com,
one of those shameless sites
where a tug-at-the-heart
(or embarrassingly salacious)
story gets told in a series of ten or fifteen pages, click click.

I went there to follow the story
of an animal shelter with a pit bull terrier
whose former owner had to move and couldn't bring the dog,
so the dog was left at the shelter
with his plush toy stuffed elephant.
Darling photographs.

Padding the story out, the later pages
went from the pit bull terrier in question
to other dogs at the same shelter.
This story is now at several removes,
as it was taken from social media online
and from other websites.
So it goes on to say:

"One of the cuties [shelter dogs] available is
. . . a dead dog that is learning sign language."

I have nothing further to say.
Comments welcome, indeed, encouraged.