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Dylan [2004-2018]
Canus domesticus sapiens
Original title: Schimmen van het bos
The Ghosts of the Forest
as told to me by Dylan our dog
Often I heard strange noises
between the dark trees, during my daily walks
on the hills around my home town.
It gave me a shock every time. There was
no smell and I never saw any creature.
My mother, a believer in the goddog 'Lupus',
used to tell me and my two brothers stories
about dogs with wings, spirits
of evil hounds, holy bitches, and the like.
I clearly remember a story
about a enormous hound with red eyes,
somewhere in a town called Baskerville.
Because of all those stories, I was always afraid
to go outside on my own in the dark
and I had often bad dreams about it.
Is there more in this world than I can see?
Now more than 8 years old,
Thomas, one of my brothers,
and I have a house and garden of our own.
We have two attendants, a human male
and female, who have their rooms upstairs.
They are very intelligent and often have
discussions about all kinds of interesting subjects.
They can talk to each other for hours.
Listening to them, while I'm resting
in my basket, I know now that
my mother's stories were just stories,
because there is no truth to them at all.
She was possibly indoctrinated by her Setteric family
and I think that the humans around her
were not very helpful either.
I heard that our father, a secular Sheeper,
had a kind of a scientific education,
but he had to leave our mother
before we were born, so he could not inform us
about the natural world.
One day, a few months ago,
on a walk with our male attendant,
we heard the noise again
and all three of us looked
in the direction from where it was coming.
'Look over there', our attendant said,
'two jays, what beautiful birds they are!'
You see, now I know what the noise was.
So if you keep your eyes, ears and nose wide open,
than you can learn a lot about the real things.
Other animals than Homo can be sapiens too,
you know!`
