Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-five
\*\*\* That was the end of discussion about talking to humans. It was also the end of Fatty's dreams of nightly dumpster runs. The leanest dog left in the pack now was Terrier-face and he was nearly double Spinner's weight. He admitted freely that...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-Four
\*\*\* It happened fast, so fast that I cannot clearly remember what happened. Instead, I recall a series of snapshots, like bolts of lightning in my memory. The opening of the gate, its metallic whine cutting through a thick haze of sleep and...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-four
\*\*\* It happened fast, so fast that I cannot clearly remember what happened. Instead, I recall a series of snapshots, like bolts of lightning in my memory. The opening of the gate, its metallic whine cutting through a thick haze of sleep and...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-three
Several days passed and I still did not return to the other tribe of dogs. Pink Nose still returned with the content of his lessons, however, after a single night's peace, the chocolate lab returned bearing more questions from the opposite pack....
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-two
As I watched the behemoth canine toil ahead of me under the weight of his own body, I had to admit to myself that there was not a lack of some pleasure to be had in seeing that flesh wobble about when it was usually so inert. It was the grey twilight...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-one
\*\*\* I put my plan into motion immediately. I saw no reason for delay. Again, the road between decision and action was short for a dog. I closed the gate behind Dizzy and re-latched the lock, making sure to snap it into place. The other group had...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty
Summer was definitely over now and the sky remained permanently overcast with light rain coming on and off without warning. It was sometimes miserable sitting on the other side of the fence outside the other pack, but I stuck with my self-assigned...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-nine
I spent the better part of a week assisting Lopside in great leaps of verbal cognizance and vocalization, although to my doggish sense of time, the long daily efforts felt more like months. As I mentioned before, Lopside seemed suddenly possessed by a...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-eight
I spent most of the day worrying about possible discovery by humans of our transgressions; minor though they might have been. To me the signs were obvious, naturally, and after receiving my brief physical, I felt for sure that it was only a matter of...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-seven
He didn't mention the fact that i was getting to be 2/3 taller than a golden retriever had any right to be, and that spoke highly of where his priorities were. "i picked on you for a long time because i saw him in you.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-six
Lopside stared down at the scribbles on the slip of paper on the ground. We were all amazed at the unmistakable similarity between the symbol on the paper and one of three that Lopside has scribed in front of us, but he was looking at the scrap as if...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-five
There was, naturally, a lot to talk about and all of us speaking dogs gathered together for a big Talkie, including Dizzy and Spinner who were relieved to see me calmer after our return to the yard. The five of us who'd gone out all had ourselves a...