Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Kellie Nock during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.
We walk in to the house and are immediately greeted by a flurry of tail wags and wiggles. In front of us is a small black-and-white mutt named Mikey—short for Michael. There’s some pit bull in him, giving him that signature square head, but owners Nate and Kaitie Conrad aren’t really sure all of what makes up the genetics of young Mikey. On his papers he is listed as a “pocket pittie,” a Pit Bull mixed with perhaps a Beagle.