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Today’s story in our Pets Make Us Human contest was sent in by Jeje.

Eight years ago I was finishing my college thesis so I bunked with my groupmates in their townhouse in Las Pinas. We worked till the wee hours of the morning on weekends. I remember it was 3 am and I was making coffee for everyone when all of a sudden my friends came rushing into the kitchen, shutting down windows and closing the doors.

This was all explained to me by my friend while she was lining the window sills with cloves of garlic. The next day, we found a puppy by the doorstep who indeed had a black face. He was awfully quiet and preferred watching us. I’m not sure if he had an owner but he stayed with us often and we fed him regularly. We named him Poochie. When it was time to go back to Manila, I was afraid to leave him roaming around the village since there were always cars around. I brought him home with me and we have been together for 8 years. He means the world to my family and has paved the way for us to keep adopting stray dogs. We now have five beautiful, adopted strays.

Poochie gets a gift pack from the Purina-PAWS Homeless, Not Worthless campaign.