OK, so I'm officially an idiot. I was looking at the wrong section of the syllabus this week and read the poetry chapter and was reading poetry! Glad I looked before class today.
So, I decided to read A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray. As an animal lover, it appealed to me. When we finally get our house built, we're planning on having at least one dog. In the story, it begins with a prologue entitled Night where Squirrel is thinking back to "puppyhood" and remembering the days of old, so to speak. As the chapters unfold, we discover that Squirrel had a brother named Bone in a shed in Lindenfield on the property of the Merrions, a summer home. The puppies explore the yard and shed, meet a family of cats, and see a fox named Mine, whom Mother is afraid of. When the family returns to the property for the summer, Mother is wary and discovers that the Merrions have killed Mine. Soon after, Mother leaves Squirrel and Bone in the shed never to return.
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