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Friday, 18 May 2012
'A very short shaggy dog story' by Cath Barton
Maggie – that’s my person – is always saying to people that I’m nothing
but a hound dog. It amuses her and there’s a song to that effect which
she sings around the house when no-one can hear, except that I do hear
it and if I could put my paws over my ears I would because, well, it’s
terrible. Only then she’d think I wanted to play and frankly, I just
want to rest. I’m old. In my day I dreamt of being a dragon dog, roaming
the forests and eating people. Just as well Maggie can’t read my mind. I
think it would have frightened her, even though it was a harmless
fantasy. We dogs have rich internal lives. Did you know that, you
writers?
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