My First Love

My first loss

Photo by Vladimir Dudukalov on Unsplash

I’ve always been an animal lover and have had pets of some sort since I was a little kid. My first pet was Pepper, a tiny black chihuahua. Despite her five-pound size, Pepper managed to scare the crap out of grown adults and would back them up into the corner.

My parents got her when I was two years old. I had three other siblings, and Pepper loved us all, but she followed me around and slept with…