Sheriff the Dog…

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

I thought I’d participate in a few of these January prompts for fun. So when I was little my dad won three stuffed animals at a carnival for me and both my sisters. I think he won the seal for me. Don’t quote me on that though.

My sister was given this dog with a cowboy hat on, a vest, and a sheriff’s badge. I really wanted that one and since I was the baby she gave it to me. I carried it everywhere, and slept with it every night. I named him sheriff and he was my bestie.

As I was getting older, and he was wearing out and losing stuffing, my mother kept attempting to throw him away and I kept pulling him out of the trash. At some point she won this game. I can picture her and my dad driving to the next town to bury him somewhere as I was always looking for him.

I never forgot about him. He got me through some hard times as I was a child who had health issues and needing many surgeries.

After talking about sheriff one night with my sisters over dinner, my sister went on a quest! As sheriff was a carnival stuffed animal it wasn’t an easy quest but she did it, she found him!

My sister called me up and told me a package was arriving one day and to call her back on FaceTime to open it. I literally couldn’t believe it, my sheriff was back home! My family is crazy I admit we do things like this all the time, but she went above and beyond to find him. And he sits on my bed yet again keeping me safe from all my monsters…