There’s just so much a stray, street dog can see. My fur stank like the gutters and maybe that was because it had seen a lot of what was in the gutters. From my experience of living with humans outdoors, they can get a bit too cuddly or shooey. And you never know when they could make their presence noticed, either with a spank or a gentle yank of my ear.
My life as a stray dog has been bittersweet. Even nature seems unforgiving most of the times. In the summers, the extreme heat makes me stick my tongue out but at times during the chilly winters I really forget that I even had a tongue! However let me stop boring you to death with my grumbling. Lets get on with the story.
But today they seemed even worse than the craziest of dogs. And from what I have seen, us doggies, sure are crazy animals when they are desperate for something. Today, the humans were rampaging on the sidewalks as some of their kind sealed off the roads. Really! I wonder what they are up to now. I went further down the street with the sweat beads all around me under the blazing hot sun. I would have really gone for a sundae but I guess dogs just do not have that luxury…
Violent beats erupted around me that was just too much for my doggy ears to take. I wonder if this is what the humans call music. Really, I feel the chickens have impressed me better with their chicken dance. But all the same I would rather have a chicken on my plate to feast on.
The legs of the humans took most of the sidewalk but for a malnutritioned dog like me, walking through the narrow gaps beneath some astonished humans was well a piece of poop, uhh! I mean cake...
I wanted to get to the bottom of this hullabaloo but for that I would have to go to somewhere on the top as the towering humans surely seem to shadow me. I jumped onto one of the tables. Previously, this sort of thing never ended well, but today with the humans too busy with things too much for us doggies to understand, there was no one to disturb me on my perch.
But what I saw on the top was totally out of the blue. It was unbelievable! You really would not have not humans were this smart by just looking at them. At the far end I could see, a orderly line of people all in weird yet flashy clothes. They seemed to be walking or jogging ( I’m not sure which one) in a decent manner, which was a new sight for a stray like me.
There were a lot of mini shops where hordes of people seemed to have gathered for a bite. But what really attracted my easily distractible doggie eyes were the huge birds flying in the sky. Yes they must be those fancy aeroplanes. And my! The colours and the noise they made!! But again for a distractible dog, this was a day to have a feast. And that means a fine lunch along with the fellow street doggies with all the food around. Well there has been a lot of stalls out there so I will be sure to have some fun out there today! What! Don’t judge me!
All of us have to break the shackles of commonness some day. Anyway I wonder what this whole thing is. Well that though keeps bothering my head. Well, have you figured what’s happening here? Please do make sure to share your thoughts in the comments then.
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A Stray Dog’s Wonky Day : Credits
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