One Good Dog
“The part of the wound that I couldn’t reach with my tongue was swollen and oozing. I was feverish, off my game, and not even hungry. I was in deep trouble for a creature on the street. My reflexes were shot, my nose runny. That’s why, when the men came, I put up very little fight.
As docile as a lamb, I went off in the white van, my street adventure over. I cast a longing look at my nest under the back stairs of what turned out to be a tattoo parlor. I suspected that one of the artists inside, ...who’d come outside for a cigarette or a toke, had spotted me through the metal stair treads and dropped a dime. My sort don’t evoke the “Oooh, I found a puppy. Can I keep him?” reaction from people. So the men showed up in their big white van, blocking off one end of the short, narrow alley with it and filling the other end with themselves. It was only prudent to acquiesce.
Maybe I was just a creature of the cage after all. It was cool and comfortable; the docs fixed up the wound, gently poked me with antibiotic-filled IVs until I felt like a new dog.MoreLess
As docile as a lamb, I went off in the white van, my street adventure over. I cast a longing look at my nest under the back stairs of what turned out to be a tattoo parlor. I suspected that one of the artists inside, ...who’d come outside for a cigarette or a toke, had spotted me through the metal stair treads and dropped a dime. My sort don’t evoke the “Oooh, I found a puppy. Can I keep him?” reaction from people. So the men showed up in their big white van, blocking off one end of the short, narrow alley with it and filling the other end with themselves. It was only prudent to acquiesce.
Maybe I was just a creature of the cage after all. It was cool and comfortable; the docs fixed up the wound, gently poked me with antibiotic-filled IVs until I felt like a new dog.MoreLess
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