My Dog Blocked The Door And Refused To Let Me Inside Until I Discovered The Truth

of what his vocabulary allows, trying to say something he does not have the words for.

I pushed him down. I found the lock with the key.

He barked.

Not his regular bark — not the short attention-seeking bark he used when he wanted something, or the excited bark when he saw a familiar person, or the alarm bark he gave at strange sounds in the night, which continue reading …