


I love dogs, and I love stories about dogs and stories that have dog narrators. The fifteen dogs are chosen at random, they are ones at a nearby veterinarian’s clinic, and the story follows the exploits of the dogs as they begin to cope with having human consciousness. I’ll wager a year’s servitude, said Apollo, that animals – any animal you choose – would be even more unhappy than humans are if they had human intelligence.Īn earth year? I’ll take that bet, said Hermes, but on condition that if, at the end of its life, even one of the creatures is happy, I win. I wonder if they’d be as unhappy as humans, Apollo answered. I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.
