Dad - found!

"Well, just when I thought that there probably wasn't a Dad, that all that tug-of-war had been a good dream, in the door walks . . DAD! I really couldn't believe it, I thought maybe it was the rubber from the garden - gloves causing halucinations, so I didn't get too excited. But then, Dad found the tug toy and now I'm a believer. Just so you know, no one else on the planet plays toys with me as well as Dad. They try, and they're good, but Dad is the winner. So I had a good ten days of fun and fury, and then today Mom and Dad left and only Mom came back. Dad had whispered to me to take care of Mom, but I didn't think it meant he wasn't coming back. He said maybe in the summer . . . That's an eternity to a dog"