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A Dog's Purpose

  • Toby is Born

    Toby is Born
    Toby is born in a culvert with his two brothers, Hungry and Fast, and his Sister, His mother is not owned by anyone and they are strays.
  • Toby, Fast, and Mother are Taken by Humans

    Toby, Fast, and Mother are taken by humans to a place called the Yard. A lot of other dogs live in the Yard. The Yard is owned by a woman named Senora. Senora has a strong passion for dogs and she rescues strays and puts them in the Yard. Sister gets away when Senora tries to rescue her. Hungry, being the runt of the litter, dies because he was too weak. A few days later Mother escapes the Yard leaving Toby and Fast. Sister laters joins her brothers at the Yard.
  • Spike Enters the Yard

    Spike Enters the Yard
    Spike is an old fighting pitbull. He is a very mean dog. As soon as he gets to the Yard he immediately challenges Top Dog for Alpha. Spike wins and becomes Alpha Dog of the Yard. A few days later Fast gets tired of Spike messing with Sister and being mean to all the other dogs. So, Fast challenges Spike. Toby joins in and Spike ends up biting Toby's leg.
  • The Dogs are Taken to the Pound

    According to State Laws Senora has violated a law stating the reguulations for owning pets. Even though Senora takes amazing care of all the dogs, there was too many of them. So therefore, all the dogs were taken to the pound. When the dogs get to the pound a man takes Toby, Spike, and a few other dogs into a room. The room turns out to be the place where the pound 'puts down' dogs. Therefore, Toby, Spike, and a few other dogs were killed.
  • Fella is Born

    Fella is Born
    Fella is a Golden Retriver and he is born in a puppy mill. He is very confused on why he is back to being a puppy. A few days after he is born Fella escpaes the Puppy Mill.
  • Fella is Left in A Car

    Fella is Left in A Car
    After Fella escapes the Puppy Mill he is picked up by a man. The man stops at a bar and forgets about Fella. After an hour or so Fella is dying from dehidrtation. He is almost dead until Ethan's Mom rescues him. He is taken to Ethan's house and right at the moment Fella sees Ethan he is absolutely in love.
  • First Day of School

    First Day of School
    Fella's name turned to Bailey once he started spending a lot of time with Ethan. Bailey is used to spending every day with Bailey, but on September 13 that all changes. It's the first day of school. Bailey thinks that Ethan abandoned him so naturally he goes crazy. Bailey tears up the whole entire garage and once Ethan and Mom get home they are definetety not happy.
  • Ethan Starts Playing With Todd

    A new kid moves on the block. His name is Todd. Bailey sees something dark inside of Todd. Todd enjoys doing stupid things. Like playing with firecrackers and fire. He is quite the deliquent. When Todd blows up a friecracker one day it comes very close to hitting Bailey and that is when Ethan decided that Todd wasn't the friend for him.
  • Todd Brings Bailey Into his House

    A few days after Ethan stops hanging out with Todd Bailey escapes the fence and goes on his dailey afternoon stroll. That day Bailey wandered off father than he normally does and when he started going back home he saw Todd. Todd called Bailey over to him and Bailey, not knowing what to do, came over to Todd. Todd then took Bailey to his house and started dong bad things to Bailey. When Todd's mom called him Todd went to her then Todd's little sister helped Bailey get out of the house.
  • First Year on the Farm

    First Year on the Farm
    Ethan's grandparents live on a farm in Michigan. Bailey isn't used to the countryside so when he gets there he thinks its the best thing ever. Ethan and Bailey both love the farm because there is a lot of things to do there. They can go fishing, play tag, and even play with the ducks!
  • Flare Leaves Bailey and Ethan

    Flare Leaves Bailey and Ethan
    One weekend Ethan's grandparents leave him on the farm all by himself. Ethan, thinking he is old enough, takes the horse out for a ride. They end up getting lost and a snake spooks Flare. Flare runs off leaving Ethan and Bailey all by thereselves.
  • Bailey Finds Humans

    After a few days of walking Bailey finally tracks human scent. That leads him to humans!
  • Ethan and Bailey Go Back Home

    Sadly Bialy and Ethan have to leave the farm.
  • Back to School

    Back to School
    Ethan and Bailey go back into their school routine.
  • Go-Kart Race

    Ethan's neighborhood has a go-kart race. Todd and Ethan are neck to neck twoards the end of the race and then Bailey jumps on Ethans Go-Kart and that pushes Ethan into the lead. At the end of the race Todd goes off on Ethan even though Drake, Todd's brother, gave him a push at the beginning of the race. Ethan and Todd end up getting into a fight and that night Todd throws a rock at Ethan's window.
  • Marshmallow Goes Missing

    Marshmallow, Chealsea's dog, goes missing. eberyone in the neighborhood helps in trying to look for her. One day Bailey runs into Todd and Bailey can smell Marshmallow's scent all over Todd. So Bailey expects that Todd had to do with Marshmallow's dissapering.
  • Back to the Farm

    Ethan and Bailey return to the farm and he meets a girl named Hannah. They were friends when they were younger but no they are really shy around eachother.
  • Ethan Starts Working

    This is the first year Ethan has ever skipped out on the farm. he didn't go to the farm because he and some of his friends mow yards for money.
  • Ethan Starts Growing Up

    Ethan Starts Growing Up
    As Ethan grows older he turns into quite the athlete. He starts playing football and that leaves less time to hang out with Bailey.
  • Ethan Goes Back to the Farm

    Ethan hasn't been to the farm in several years and when he goes back this year he ees Hannah all grown up. Well naturally they fall in love and all that mushy gushy stuff.
  • Back to School

    When Ethan leaves the farm this time it is a lot more depressing for him. He has to leave Hannah. He and Hannah still have a long distant relationship, though. This is Ethan's last year of high school and last year of high school football.
  • Hannah Visits Ethan

    When Hannah comes down to visit Ethan he is very, very happy. It is like a part of him is back. Hannah goes to one of Ethan's football games and meets Todd. UH OH. Todd trys to convince Hannah to go to a party with him. He also trys to lie and tell her that Ethan cheats on her. Which is not true at all. That night when Ethan and Bailey get home there is a piece of rotten meat left in their backyard. When Bailey smelt it all he could smell was Todd..
  • Todd Burns Down the House

    Todd Burns Down the House
    When Hannah visits again around the holidays, her and Ethan go sledding. While they are sledding they run into Todd. The whole story about Ethan cheating on Hannah came up and Ethan whent off on Todd. That night Todd goes to Ethan's house and sets fire to it. Bailey being a good dog jumped on Todd and started biting him. Everyone made it out alright except for Ethan. He had to jump out of his window and that resulted into him breaking his leg.
  • The Family Moves Into an Apartment.

    For the time being Ethan's family had to move into an apartment. Ethan was in the hospital for about a week before he came home and he was still very weak. He stays at home for about a month and then returns to school.
  • Back to the Farm

    Ethan returns to the Farm and he and his mom live there with his grandparents. That spring Ethan's parents got divorced. They stay there that whole summer and no one returns to the old neighborhood.
  • Ethan Goes to College

    After Ethan is flly recovered and his family raised enough money, he goes to college. Bailey isn't too hype about that. When Ethan leaves Baliey chases after him untill he is out of smelling range. And then Bailey mops around until his boy comes back on the holidays.
  • Bailey Dies

    When Ethan is back to college Bailey starts getting weaker and weaker until finally Granpa takes him to the vet. The vet says that it is Bailey's time. Mom calls Ethan and tells him and Ethan immediatly gets down there. After an hour or so, Ethan fianlly gets there and Bailey can die peacefully.
  • Ellie is Born

    Ellie is Born
    When Bailey dies he again comes back as a new dog. But, this time he is a female German Sheperd. Ellie is born into a Police Acadamy.
  • Jakob Takes Ellie

    Jakob, a Kanine Policemen, goes into a room and picks out a puppy. He does a number of tests to see if that puppy has the qualities of the dog he wants. The only dog that did was Ellie.
  • Jakob Starts Training Ellie

    Ellie needs to start training at a young age if she wants to be an excellent police dog. Jakob teaches her comands such as: stay, come, sit, and many more. A few months Ellie starts a game called 'Find Wally'. Find Wally is when Jokob's friend, Wally, runs off and Ellie has to find him. She does great at that.
  • Ellie Goes On Her First Search

    Jakob is alerted that a girl wandered off from her home and he and Ellie need to Find her. Ellie goes straight into work mode and finds the girl, no problem!
  • Jakob's Wife

    Jakob's Wife
    Jakob's wife past away a few years ago from cancer. He has never been the same. One day Jakob takes Ellie to his wife's grave and Ellie can sense how much Jakob misses his wife.
  • Jakob Gets Shot

    On a search, Ellie has to find a man who kidnapped a girl. Ellie finds the man and the girl before anything bad happend to the girl. But, then the man runs. Ellie cathes up to the man and bites him. Jakob then comes and gets Ellie off the man. When Jakob trys to arrest him, the man shoots Jokob in the shoulder. Then the other policemen take him down. That is the second tme Jacob has been shot and now he has to go to a facility.
  • Maya Takes Ellie

    Since Ellie is such an amazing police dog, another Kanine Policemen has to take her. That policemen is Maya. Maya is two weeks away from being registered and she is very passioniate about her work, even if she isn't as fit as she should be.
  • Maya Gets Registered

    With a lot of hard work Maya gets registered and her and Ellie start their daily routine of running and FInd Wally.
  • El Savadoran Earthquake

    In El Savador there was a HUGE earthquake and Maya and Ellie go down there to help out. Ellie goes in broken down buildings and trys to find any survivors.
  • Ellie Gets Hurt

    Ellie senses that they missed a person so she goes back and searches for the person. Ellie is right, there was a survivor. When Ellie gets the person, acid hits her nose. When the vet expects it, she says everything will be fine. But, that was a false statement. When her nose was suppposed to be healed Maya tried Find Wally and Ellie couldn't Find him. That's when Ellie retired from the squad.
  • Maya Gets Married

    Maya gets married to her next door neighbor, Albert. And, they are both happy as can be.
  • Ellie Starts Going to School

    Ellie Starts Going to School
    Maya starts taking Ellie to different school to teach people about safety and police dogs. Ellie likes this because the cildren give the same kind of attention that Ethan gave her when she was Bailey.
  • Elie Rescues a Child

    One day at school a child goes missing. Maya, wanting to help, commands Ellie to Find. Ellie hasn't done this is a few years so Maya is very nervous. Lucky enough, Ellie finds the boy in the sewer! The kid slips from the pipe he is holding onto a he falls into the water! Ellie jumps in after him and ends up saving the boy's life.
  • Ellie Sees Jakob's Family

    When Ellie sees Jakob and his family, she is overjoyed. Jakob finally found someone who made him happy again.
  • Ellie Dies

    After a long and eventful life, Ellie gets put down.