Lost Doghood
At last the big and barren graveyard was decided to be the best and safe place for the decisive
session of noble dogs. It was a unique event of dog-history that they were united and strongly
convinced that everything in the human world was rotten, false and disgusting. Experience
brought them to the conclusion that it was better to live in hell than in the human world. Now
they all wanted to leave this brutish human society, but where to go? It was to be settled and they
needed suggestions of great brains of sensible dogs. But alas! Many noble dogs failed to give
practical suggestions - their brains had been wasted in other great philosophical issues like the
absurdity of life and the meaninglessness of existence. They had disappointed the highest hopes
of common dogs. But the positive point was that it was revealed to Tom, Heck and Herry that
most of the philosopher dogs had just put on the mask of wisdom, otherwise they were not
different from them, having the same stupid complexes and fears.
That night special arrangements were made to have a full-fledged meeting. Many of them were
still frightened because the night before they had come across police, and many dogs were killed
by brutish crossfire when they had just started their meeting in the open barren plain out of the
city. The plain was normally a safe place but unfortunately that night police had brought some
criminals to kill in police encounter. Next day when the dead bodies of those criminals appeared
on newspapers, nobody thought about the dead dogs lying in the background. Not even a single
human brain thought about the extra-judicial murder of innocent dogs. It happened many times
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