When Mindy was 10, she asked Daisy for a dog. Well, more accurately she created a presentation to ask Daisy for a dog. After very careful research on the benefits of dog ownership, how to best go about adopting a dog (adopt don't shop) a 3D PowerPoint and a well-rehearsed speech, where she even wore the blazer her Aunt Jemma bought her for her birthday for school presentations, Daisy said yes.

Despite her misgivings, Daisy found she couldn't say no to the effort her daughter had put into the presentation and that's how she found herself at the pound one rainy Saturday afternoon.

To say she wanted to take home all the dogs and give them a loving home would be and understatement, probably because of her own childhood of being passed over. Still, she knew they could only take one, and her daughter was spending her time finding just the right dog to bring into their family.

After wandering the whole shelter up and down for over an hour no one dog made the right connection and Mindy was starting to feel hopeless.

Just before Daisy was going to suggest coming back a different day something caught her daughter's eye.

Coming out of one of the exam rooms with one of the Techs was the fluffiest, ball of fur Daisy and Mindy had ever seen. He was shyly licking the Tech's hand and trying to hide behind her legs.

The Tech noticed Mindy looking at the dog and walked it over to her.

"Hi, are you looking for a friend?" The Tech asked

"I am! I gave a presentation to my mom about why we should get a dog and she said yes!" Mindy said proudly.

The Tech smiled at Daisy, who nodded in agreement.

The Tech turned back to Mindy, who was currently reaching out to the ball of fur. The dog was cautious at first but once he sniffed Mindy's hand, his ears went up and his tail started wagging uncontrollably.

"Well this little guy just came to the shelter this week, he was found wandering with no tags and no chip and very dehydrated and hungry, we had to patch him up a bit. Today is the first day we are introducing him to families and he seems to like you!" The Tech said.

"Does he have a name?" Mindy asked ruffling the dog's hair.

"Well, I think that's up to his new family you can name him anything you want" The Tech answered.

"Cool! Does he have any toys?" Mindy asked.

The Tech laughed "His family will have to get him some more but he's been pretty partial to this guy," the Tech said pulling something out of her coat and handing it to Mindy.

Mindy took the object and saw it was a bright yellow Pikachu toy. The dog happily barked at it.

At that, Mindy's head shot up to look at her mom . Daisy took a deep breath and smiled a bit at her daughter.

"Well then, I think we found you a puppy."