I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

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