Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-three
He tired me out quickly and i was soon lying down with him jumping and climbing on top of my shoulders like i was some kind of golden furred hill. "how's fatty?" i asked, meaning how the dog was teaching him.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-two
A week after I'd first started hanging around Lopside, I finally felt like we'd started making progress. He now understood that when I was making noises at him, I was trying to communicate and he was picking up some nouns, like "food" and "water." But...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-one
Lopside was going to be a long-term project. That much was clear almost from the start. It was a struggle to cross that gap as he seemed just as intent to teach me the meaning of his drawings as I did trying to get him to understand my alphabet of...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Nineteen
I awoke several hours later in the middle of the night. The storm was still raging outside and the area around the portal to the house was damp and abandoned. It looked like it was going to go on the rest of the night, but I had to whizz so I braved...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Eighteen
"and also the golden-lab next to him." that particular dog was as big as the yellow lab next to him. both were snoring softly already, intent on sleeping out the storm.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Seventeen
I hadn't meant to speak because i knew he couldn't possibly understand me, but my brother yapped at me, turned a circle then jumped up again with his paws on my shoulder, excitedly waving his golden tail.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Sixteen
And so terrier-face and fatty became my betas. A plus side to dog politics was that once everyone knew who was in charge, people readily accepted the roles assigned to them and there was only very infrequently any bad blood between us. Promoting the...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Fifteen
I went to go lie down in the shade under the canopy over the fountain. Several dogs lay nearby, eager to lick the wounds covering my body. They were already trying to worm their way to better positions in the hierarchy by subservience to the new Alpha....
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirteen
It didn't help that given my gargantuan stature, i stuck out like a great, golden thumb. but my dog brain had a certain way of working. i kept wondering to myself why i was letting such a smaller dog keep bossing me around.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Eleven
I was badly hurt after the fight. When the shepherd-lab finally removed his awesome bulk from my body, he and everyone else ignored me. I didn't dare to move because it hurt so much. My neck and my leg were bleeding freely, but I'd also been crushed...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Ten
I brooded on the thought of my stolen squirrel most of the night. I wasn't hard. I could hear the lab shepherd chewing greedily on the gristle of it like chewing gum on the other side of the yard. The sound of it made my blood boil. So much so that the...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Nine
They were goldens like me, and looking back in memory, they may have even been my litter mates. but it didn't matter to me. i moved forward and left getting out of the way (or not) to them.