9-Year-Old Gets New Puppy After Winning No Sugar Bet
Feb 4, 2021, 2:33 PM | Updated: 6:18 pm
(KSL TV)
ST. GEORGE, Utah – The willpower of a 9-year-old St. George girl paid off Thursday when she met her new puppy after winning a bet with her father.
Jenna Bates told her dad last February she could get a new puppy if she avoided sugar for 365 days.
“He thought I couldn’t do it,” Bates said about her dad, Sam Bates.
“Crazy,” he said. “I think as of right now, like, I thought there’s no way. She ate a lot of sugar.”
Jenna Bates is now best friends with a new mini-Goldendoodle puppy that she named Lucy.
“It was pretty hard at the beginning but then it became easier,” she said.
One way Bates made it easier was to develop sugar-free recipes with her mother. Those recipes are on their website, sugarfreemomandme.com.