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在一场车祸中，走失的狗狗牵动着主人万分焦急的心，它能找到回家的路吗?抑或被好心人救助?令人意外惊喜的是，训练狗狗服从命令的课程在关键时刻发挥了至关重要的作用…… I glanced in the rearview mirror just in time to realize a distracted driver in a pickup truck was barreling down the hill behind me.[1] I braced for[2] impact. The dramatic sounds of metal twisting and glass shattering shook me, but I was more stunned than hurt. My dog, Bailey, and I had been on our way to the park, to practice the commands he had recently mastered in beginning obedience class[3]: “sit,” “stay,” and “heel”. It took me a few minutes to realize that Bailey, who had been riding in the back of my station wagon, had jumped through the broken back window and run off into the woods, trailing his leash.[4] Declining medical assistance, I headed off to find my dog in my battered[5] car. Increasingly distraught, I drove slowly in concentric circles around the accident site, wailing “Bay-leeee” out the driver’s side window until darkness fell.[6] When I couldn’t see the landscape any longer I dashed home and left phone messages at the police and fire departments, animal control offices, and shelters. “Please be on the lookout,” I implored, “for a lost dog of medium size, shiny black coat, four white paws, soulful brown eyes, curly tail, and one ear that points up and one down.”[7] | 
