“Sometimes I don’t think that I have a lot of power. I am only a small dog after all.”
My name is Ton. Or at least that is what my human parents call me. I don’t know why they call me that but it doesn’t matter for that is what they call me. They trained me to turn to them when they call my name so that is what I do.
I am a small dog, much smaller than other dogs. I sometimes hear that they call me a teckel. I don’t understand that, but that is the type of dog that I am.
Sometimes I get to play with other dogs. Many of the other dogs are much bigger than I am and sometimes I don’t like that. I have to look up at them. They bark and people and other animals listen to them and react to them and are sometimes scared of them. I am just there, near the ground and no one notices me.
But then one day, my humans were taking me on a walk in a space with many other humans walking very quickly. I trotted in front of my humans on my cord as far as they would let me, but I didn’t want to go too far anyway because I didn’t want any of the humans to step on me, because I am small they might not notice me.