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we buried him in a shallow grave.” Dr. Waddoups was becoming more perplexed at this bizarre story, and asked how the dog got home. The woman answered, “An hour ago the phone rang, and my husband’s boss said, ‘Your dog is out here, and he doesn’t look very good. You better come and get him.’ We tried to explain that it could not be our dog, that he had been dead for a week. But he said he was sure it was our dog, and that we had better come down. It was Cholo, and so here we are.” Dr. Waddoups was still not sure what they wanted, and asked, “So you want us to put him to sleep?” The mother became anxious, and began to shake her head. “No! No! Cholo is a good dog! After all of this, he came home to us! We want you to fix him.” Dr. Waddoups said that Cholo truly had had a bad day. In fact, Cholo set a new standard for bad days. He had been hit by a car, had his skull fractured, and his eyeball popped out of its socket. He had been taken out into the desert, away from his family, and shot five 27