My name is Alex. I've been living in a shelter for a long time. I was all alone, but one day a nice-seeming lady appeared. "Do you want to come to my house?"
When I got there, she gave me a bath. "Your name is Alex. From now on, we're family. We'll always be together."

In recent years in both New York, where picture book author Mari Takabayashi lives, and in Japan, it has been growing more common to adopt dogs with unfortunate backgrounds rather than buy them at petshops. Meghan Markle even brought a rescue dog to England's royal family. In this book, Alex tells his own story of being adopted.