Gus White was driving home from work when he spotted a pair of dogs in the flash of his headlights. It was snowing so hard. What were they doing out here, when it was too 1 for dogs to go outside? Gus parked his truck and approached the animals. He 2 his hands to them, which made no effort to escape. He placed the dogs on the passenger seat and they were snuggled (依偎) together there. Gus took a picture of the pair and 3 it to his wife, Katie White.
Then he called the 4 from the dogs' ID tags. A man answered. "I gave those dogs away," the man said. "Well, do you want them back?" "No. " The man hung up. These dogs were 5 in this world. Gus looked over at them, their large eyes begging. He called Katie. "Bring them home", she said. The Whites prepared a bed for the dogs, also setting out food and water.
As a boy, Gus had dreamed of owning dogs but 6 this pair was out of the question—the Whites already had a family dog. The next day, they took the dogs to a 7 to drop them off—on one condition. "I'm not signing the dogs over to you if you're going to 8 them," Katie said. The shelter workers promised her they'd keep the couple together. In the days following, Katie phoned the shelter 9 to check up on Pepper and Cooper. Soon, the dogs were adopted, as a pair, to a loving family.
It's a simple story but it speaks to the best of our 10 .
