Do you have a dog? I don’t – but I am completely obsessed with my grand puppy, Hudson Schess.  I learned last week that we share a last name, well at least for day care, and I am even his emergency contact.

Bill and I were on our way back from a fun afternoon at the Tanger Outlets in Deer Park (well, fun for me – I’m not sure how much for Bill) when my phone rang.  It was a DC number and somewhere in the name it said “Pups”.

I was completely confused but answered in the call to be asked “is this Hudson Schess’s parent?”  And there it was, right there.  There was a question about what time my grand puppy was to be picked up and so apparently, they reached out to his emergency contact.  I had literally nothing to add to the conversation.  We were on Long Island and Hudson’s real parents were in DC.

But I did stop to think how good I felt being in that emergency zone for him.  And then I tracked down Hudson’s real parent.

Maybe we really should have our own furry animal.