Very cute/sweet story. I agree with other comments that the dialogue was really hard to follow at parts and seemed incongruent, but I think that's probably the translation. Japanese is spoken with a LOT of implied context, and sometimes when that context is missed, the translation ends up getting misdirected in all kinds of directions. The way the story read felt like that was probably what happened. But regarding the story itself, you can still feel the characters and their gentleness, so I still really enjoyed it and would recommend it. =)
Metro Dog