When my workmate at the animal shelter called me to meet a dog that had just been brought in, I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. I ___1___ if I was on Candid Camera (《隐藏摄像机》一档恶作剧综艺节目). I’d ___2___ at the shelter for 20 years, and had seen thousands of animals, but I had ___3___ seen anything like this. Quasi Modo, as I later ___4___ her, was around a year old and had a birth defect: She couldn’t move her ___5___.
Everyone at work knows I like the ___6___ animal. I quickly adopted her when ___7___ claimed her. She often gets unkind comments about her ___8___. People see her and say, “Oh, what’s that?” I tell them it’s a dog, and they are ___9___. But she’s very confident. She’ll go over and tap her foot on theirs — it’s her ___10___ of saying, “Hi” because she can’t ___11___ her head.
Last summer, my husband, Quasi and I ___12___ the World’s Ugliest Dog contest in California. There were 26 other dogs. They were all ___13___. Quasi wasn’t the ugliest, ___14___ she was definitely the most different-looking. A lot of the little dogs were afraid of ___15___, while Quasi was tapping everyone’s foot. When it came to judging, almost all people were ___16___ her name. That night we ___17___! Entering her in the contest wasn’t about ___18___ her. It was about celebrating our ___19___. Working at the shelter, I could adopt all the ___20___ animals if I wanted to, but Quasi shows that you don’t need to be the most perfect-looking animal to be a loving pet.
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