emthroney replied to your post “Whelp. 4000 words of a man turned into a dog and the drama that...”
I hope the moral of the story is that most men are improved by becoming dogs
The life span sucks. There is no moral to this story though, just me suddenly having this idea that it would be fun to do something with. 10 000 words perhaps. Just funny and fluffy.
It could have been any animal really, but dogs and cats are easier to write stories around. And out of the two, dogs are simply funnier. Cats can be amusing, in a cynical ironic way, but as the person in question is anything but, a dog seemed like the obvious choice. One of my colleagues has a Bolognese that’s always with her in the office so I meet this dog every day, and I’m using it for personality and the way it looks and such. It hates the cleaner and will eat almost anything. Not cucumber though.
Also, when it’s a guy who’s 6′1″ it’s amusing to imagine him being turned into a creature that’s not even a foot high and weighs about 8-9 lb.