A Silent Bond

Matt Eich

Ohio University

Kacey Sellers, 4, kicks Hercules, the family German shepherd. She and her identical twin sister, Lacey, were born deaf and they take out a lot of the angst that comes from being misunderstood on the family animals. “He’s already attacked three people, but I saved them,” their father, Jesse, said of Hercules. “I guess he smelled some bad in them.” “That’s what we got him for,” added his fiancee, Tracey.

Matt Eich, "A Silent Bond," in POYi Archive, Item #45730, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45730 (accessed June 1, 2025).