A young boy returned home from a boy scouts retreat. The counselor was derelict in his duties and simply dropped the child off at the walkway, assuming the child would make his way inside safely. Days later police discovered the boy's parents had been killed as part of a gang initiation. The child, found alone in the house for several days with only his dog, was deeply psychologically scared, acting on several distinct separations from reality. His grandmother, who took custody of the orphaned child and his dog, sought assistance from a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist outlined the following examples of disassociation. First, there was an inversion in the perception of color. Secondly there was an interaction with household objects, clocks and tables for instance. This was explained as a coping mechanism for trauma and abandonment and being alone for several days. The third manifestation was more tragic. The boy had found the bodies of the parents by following a trail of bloody paw prints left by the dog. Soon, the boy transferred the parenting role on to his dog Rusty. He insisted that Rusty was guiding him in the way a parent would, what to eat and what to wear, and that a trail of bloodied paw prints guided him all along the way. These prints, of course, were not real. Only the original ones, left by Rusty after the murder of the boy's parents ever actually existed. It took therapists and counselors a while to fully understand the origin of this manifestation of the condition. The child would often draw the paw prints and the places he found them in a notebook while sitting in the chairs of the psychiatrist's office- but they were not red, nor was rusty. Because of the introversion of colors, the paw prints were now blue, and so was the Dog.