Dawn: Unfortunately yes...
Vernon: It's mostly from religious folks, granted we already got our fair share of hate mail from them about havin' an 'unholy union' and what not, but there has been an uptick in the letters since Paige was born.
Dawn: Yes, some of them are....really reprehensible. The..names especially hurt. I mean down get me wrong, Vernon and I...we're sort of....insulated to most of it by now.
Vernon: We've heard it all before, and we kinda expect it. We had gotten to the point where we we're pretty much just laughin' at 'em.
Dawn: But what some have said about Paige, about our adopted pups as well...it's so...it was impossible not to let it get to us in some way.
Vernon: 'Abomination', 'monster', 'creature'...Readin' words like that...I mean, it's like a punch in the gut, y'know. And makes us that much more worried fer Paige as she grows up...
Dawn: We have also had to...well...we do have security now. I mean...more than before.
Vernon: Sback at the ol' apartment we got by with a simple lock and baseball bat, although no one ever really tried anythin' as far as we could tell. Once we relocated to the South Meadowlands fer the sake of the pups, we had a proper security system installed with cameras and motion detectors and such.
Dawn; So far we've only really had issues with a few of the, more daring paparazzi and journalist types trying to get clear photos of Paige and the other pups, but the ZPD has been pretty on top of that.
Vernon: They weren't lookin' fer proof she existed. Most of society I think came to terms with it after the the pawful of pictures we consented to went to print. But y'know, she's a growin' pup so...every picture they can get has value.
Dawn: I can't think of a single mammal, at least that I've heard about, who legitimately believed we made up Paige's existence. Usually I'd want to say Ulric but...
Vernon: He believed it from the start. *Chuckles* Once again, the broken clock is right twice a day.
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