Sangeetha Kamath

This story is based on a German Shepherd who was abandoned and left to the mercies of a savage world. As requested by my dear friend Narayani, I'm recounting a version of what I can deduce to be closest to the truth of the backstory of the dog who I've named as Lexi in my version....and her encounter with Narayani who rescued her from this plight and did the needful. Here goes the heartbreaking story of Lexi: The pain was searing and it cut through her sleep and her very existence day and night. Limping, she had found a place to crouch in some bushes when the sun bore down harshly on her. Strewn with sharp pebbles and rough grass, she fidgeted to make herself comfortable and closed her stinging eyes. But the pain on her jaw wouldn't subside and that in her heart, sliced her everyday like a fresh wound.  How she missed her soft bed and the cooling interiors of the house. She missed Mika and Nikola the kind and playful kids of the household and she was the third child of the