I dutifully typed "puppies" into the search window, but no such link appeared. I asked her how she spelled "puppies" in case she was using some kind of unorthodox spelling known only to Chinese mothers. She painstakingly recited the letters P-U-P-P-I-E-S several times, punctuating each attempt with an emphatic "PUPPIES! PUPPIES!" as if that would help. Finally, I just asked her for the url and patiently listened to an even longer spelling from her.
"She looks like Jeanie when Jeanie was a puppy except Jeanie's fur was more golden. Can you see the picture? Her ears are less pointy. The dog's eyes look closed. Oh dear, I hope the little dog isn't not blind."
Despite the adorable squint resembling that of old blind men depicted in Chinese films, I figured the dog was not blind as my mother feared. I did note however that the site was about pedigree puppies who were most certainly not "free puppies." I tried to explain this to my mom, but she was adamant, until she kept reading and realized, "Oh, free advertising for puppies. Not free puppies."Not free, not blind, but worth googling nonetheless.
