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That second martini
Ever since his bone digging championship days in high school, Morris had considered himself socially popular. He’d earned a Masters at Harvard in cat psychology, landed a job in a research lab where he was paid very well to study the tendency of cats to suddenly run away from home. Morris had always been the [...]
The Thinking Dog
Forrest had always enjoyed thinking. He thought about why things break, how steel is made, the lifestyle of ants and bees, why families were often so difficult, and how stupid he’d been when he lost his tail during the war. If his lost tail crossed his mind, he had a hard time getting it out [...]
A Turning Point
Augusta was bored. Recently she realized she’d mainly been seeking satisfaction vicariously. For several years she had always been eager to try a new dog park, a new kennel, new breed, new species to bark with, roll around on the ground with, lie around in the grass with. Lately she’d even befriended an intriguing pack [...]
Enid’s Dilemma
Usually Enid and Fred got along like a house on fire. But recently Enid had read that hard winter weather tended to give dogs a strange new energy that manifested itself in destructive behavior. High on the list of destructive behaviors, the article said, was chasing the cat. When she noticed a curious sinister glow [...]
Cat Chasing
I don’t have a picture of her chasing the cat. We were in Jamaica, VT and had stopped at an inn where my husband was building a timber frame garage. Both dogs were in the car, and when we go out we left the back seat windows down almost half way. A cat came out [...]
