Urban Myth

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Ralph Roque Year 11

Urban Myth

"The Choking Doberman"

Rewritten by: Ralph Roque

It was a bright sunny Sunday afternoon in an American suburb, a woman named Melissa Auburn was going home after buying the groceries. She was a single Caucasian woman in her mid-twenties. She was walking home from a nearby grocery store, with no sign of a single worry in her mind; even receiving adoring and friendly greetings as text messages on her mobile phone. As she came to her doorstep, everything was peaceful in her part of the neighbourhood. With Birds chirping and the wind blowing, all was going perfect and the day had no room for worries until she heard her pet Doberman, Fufu, which what sounds like choking.

As she dropped her grocers in the kitchen counter, she exits to the back yard to assist her ailing dog, Fufu. She tried everything an unwitting pet lover will do, from rubbing the dog's back to performing the Heimlich Manoeuvre to the dog. All was lost until she decides to take her dog to the vet. By car, she rushed to the nearest veterinarian clinic with her dog in the passenger's seat.

While on the way to the vet's clinic, she realized that, as she exited from kitchen to the backyard to approach her dog, the back door was open. She didn't care since her dog was an even more important matter than an opened back door, besides, the crime rate in her area were extremely low and security was always tight.
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As she approached the vet with her dog, Doctor Sullivan, who was the vet on duty, advised Melissa to calm down since this is just a minor disturbance in the dog's esophagus. Doctor Sullivan was a man in his late twenties who was dedicated to his job and passionate among animals. Even though a minor case, he could not pinpoint exactly the cause of the dog's dilemma. Doctor Sullivan now decided to examine the dog even further by checking the dog in the clinic's sick bay. He advised Melissa to go home and wait for further notices on ...

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