Miko yelped in surprise. He had seen the most amazing thing and when he went over to investigate, he had a muzzle full of quills. Miko wasn't the one to get in trouble, but this really hurt him. He ran over to his brother and sister, Mika and Milo. "Whoa. Miko what happened?" Mika yelped excited. She ran over to her brother and licked his bloody snout.

Miko explained, "There was this really interesting scent and I went over to investigate and there was a weird thing, full of these quilly spikey things. It wacked me with its tail and suddenly, a muzzle full of quills." He looked at his brother who sat licking his paw like a cat. Miko shook his head and then ran home, hoping his mother could help him get the quills out. True, Miko was old enough to live on his own and he did. He just went to his mother's house to get her to help him.

After awhile, Miko wiggled his nose. It felt much better. His mother got all the quills out and he was VERY happy. He trotted outside when he heard a horn. At first, he thought it was nothing, but then he heard it again. He walked out onto the street in time to see a dog sled run into the town. Miko seemed interested. He walked over to the front of the sled and saw an orange dog. She had yellow eyes and sort of pinkish over top. He immediatly liked her.

The musher unhooked the team and the orange dog bounded away. Miko ran after her. "Hello." He said to her. "Hello." She answered him, smiling. "The name's Miko." He held out a paw. She laughed. "My name's Foxie." She said smiling. Miko knew he loved her. "Wanna go for a walk?" He asked her as she glanced at her team. "Sure." She replied as she and Miko started to leave. Miko, however kept glancing at Foxie.  

Suddenly a storm began to brew. Then the winds picked up. The closest shelter there was, was the boiler room. Miko pushed Foxie inside and quickly shut the door. The winds howled and Miko pushed open the door to the boiler room and the wind shut it it was so hard. Miko cast a glance at Foxie and said, "Looks like we are stuck here."

Foxie looked scared and cuddled up next to Miko. He licked her ear to comfort her and she nuzzled him.

The next day, Miko went to the door. He pushed open the door and seen that they were blocked in from a bunch of snow! "Uh...Foxie. You should take a look at this." Foxie got up and went over to him. She saw the snow blocked them in and she screamed. "Miko!" She cried. She nuzzled him and looked at him, fear in her yellow eyes. Miko told her everything would be okay. He nuzzled her back and she turned around, embarrased. When she turned to look at him agian, the two found themselves touching noses.

"It is going to be okay." Miko told her as they lay beside eachother. Foxie hoped he was right. He licked her ear as if to comfort her. She looked at him and licked his forehead. Without knowing it, Miko was edging behind her and they both stood up.

Miko stood on his hind legs and started to mate with Foxie. Foxie enjoyed it and when she knew what she was allowing him to do, she was shocked. She pulled away from Miko. Miko gave her a look of dismay. Foxie re-thought her decision and said to Miko, "I love you." Miko replied, "I love you too."

Foxie went back over to Miko and Miko started to mate with her again. Before either dog knew it, they were laying side by side, breathing heavily. They nuzzled then Miko's ears perked up. Foxie looked at him. "What was that?" Miko looked at her. "A rescue siren." Foxie jumped up and the two barked and barked.

Finally, after two hours, 3 humans were hugging the dogs. A bulldozer was parked nearby. "Foxie! Foxie! Foxie! We are glad you are safe!" The three people said. There was two big people and one little. They glanced at Miko and looked back at Foxie. "It this the doggy that took care of you Fox?" The little girl patted Foxie than edged towards Miko. "C'mere boy." Miko went over to the girl and licked her hand.

"Mommy? Can we keep him?" She asked the older girl. "Well..." The older girl glanced at the older boy. He nodded. "Alright." The girl hugged Miko and brought him over to Foxie. The two nuzzled happily.

Miko had been living with Foxie and her family for almost 3 months now. Foxie was bigger and Miko knew why. Then what surprised him was that, that very night, Foxie howled in pain. The girls and the boy ran to her. Miko watched surprised as she gave birth to 6 beautiful pups. Miko immediatly named three. When the humans left Foxie and Miko, Miko said, "Foxie. I named these three." He pointed to a full orange one, a black one with orange on his snout, and an orange one with black on one ear and snout. "Pumpkin, Orange, and Runner" He pointed to the three.

Foxie nodded. "Good names." She said. She pointed to the three that she would name. "This one could be Buster." She pointed to an unusually large black husky pup. "Lilly" She pointed to a pretty orange and brown puppy. "And this one could be Duke." She pointed to the last pup that was a light brown. "I like those names" Miko looked at Foxie than at his pups.

Miko nuzzled her and they lived happily together with their pups.

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