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When he entered his living room on Christmas morning, Tommy Harrison found that the urine-leaking box under his tree did not, in fact, contain a puppy.<\/p>\n
Tommy, 9, explained that when he entered the room, the stench of urine immediately struck him. Upon further examination Tommy found the source of the smell: a slowly growing puddle of pee leaking from a cardboard box underneath the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first thought was: PUPPY!\u201d Tommy said. \u201cBut when I opened the box, there was no puppy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tommy expressed his bewilderment to his parents, James and Catherine Harrison, who confirmed to The Dealer <\/em>that there was indeed no puppy in a box that was leaking what was unquestionably the urinary liquid of an animal.<\/p>\n Mr. Harrison elaborated, \u201cWe knew that Tommy wanted a pet of some sort but a puppy just wasn\u2019t going to work with our current living situation.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Harrison also said that he did not want to have to be the one who walked the dog every morning.<\/p>\n When asked to say why they decided to go with this gift for their son, Catherine was coy. \u201cWe felt that this was a beautiful expression of holiday spirit. Puppies are rather traditional\u2014something that every body has done\u2014 but this is new and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n Given his disappointment with the gift, Tommy had a very positive outlook on the situation.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will teach me valuable life skills,\u201d Tommy said. \u201cDad says I need to be prepared for whatever curveball life or Santa throws at me.\u201d<\/p>\n As of press time, the box in question had pooped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Matthew Goldenberg Dec. 26, 2014 When he entered his living room on Christmas morning, Tommy Harrison found that the urine-leaking box under his tree did not, in fact, contain a puppy. Tommy, 9, explained that when he entered the room, the stench of urine immediately struck him. Upon further examination Tommy found the source of the smell: a slowly growing puddle of pee leaking from a cardboard box underneath the Christmas tree. \u201cMy first thought was: PUPPY!\u201d Tommy said. \u201cBut when I opened the box, there was no puppy.\u201d Tommy expressed his bewilderment to his parents, James and Catherine Harrison, who confirmed to The Dealer that there was indeed no puppy in a box that was leaking what was unquestionably the urinary liquid of an animal. Mr. Harrison elaborated, \u201cWe knew that Tommy wanted a pet of some sort but a puppy just wasn\u2019t going to work with our current living situation.\u201d Mr. Harrison also said that he did not want to have to be the one who walked the dog every morning. When asked to say why they decided to go with this gift for their son, Catherine was coy. \u201cWe felt that this was a beautiful expression of holiday spirit. Puppies are rather traditional\u2014something that every body has done\u2014 but this is new and exciting.\u201d Given his disappointment with the gift, Tommy had a very positive outlook on the situation. \u201cThis will teach me valuable life skills,\u201d Tommy said. \u201cDad says I need to be prepared for whatever curveball life or Santa throws at me.\u201d As of press time, the box in question had pooped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}