“Come dear its time to eat. Hurry before your brother and sister eat it all.”
“Mother?” you ask questionably looking around and only seeing darkness. Panic begins to build as you run one way then another. “Mom where are you?”
“No time to play. Come eat.”
“Where?” but as you say this you suddenly find yourself in a park. Your mother wearing her Sunday best sits on a picnic blanket taking things out of a basket as she calls to you and gives sandwiches to your brother and sister.
“Come.” She calls and you find yourself at her side. But now instead of getting a sandwich you find yourself nursing from a teat with other puppies around you all trying to get your share of milk. “Hurry before your brothers and sisters eat it all.”
No this is not right you think even as you enjoy the warmth of the milk as it travels down your throat. You struggle trying to let go of the teat only to feel yourself lightly brushed by a cold nose. “No time to play. Eat.” Your mother tells you and you do along with the other puppies she is nursing. Then blackness once more greetings you.
“Hey! Hey you in there?”
As if hearing these words from a long tunnel you blink a feeling of weightlessness leaves you as your once more aware of your body. Opening your eyes you find a dog looking at you threw your cage bars.
“I do not have much time so just listen. They say you can join us but it must be of your free will. Other wise they plan to leave you as a dog. And I am having trouble giving this doctor reasons to not spay you.” Ruth mutters slightly as her ears pan back in clear disdain. “He says it’s the city law and my pack will only be bothered with one of our own. So hurry up and decide.”
You stare at this dog for a long moment then lean forward to try getting more of her scent. Sitting up you knock over your water dish and simply stare at the pooling water. “What’s wrong with me?” you ask thinking maybe this other bitch knows.
“Is just the drugs he gave you. Sleep it off. I will come back tomorrow.” The bitch informs you then pauses looking over her shoulder towards the door.
You too can hear someone walking down the doorway. Your tail beginning to wag as you watch the door and give a woof just because you can. But when you look back to talk with the nice other female you see a human where that dog once sat. “What?” you ask leaning forward to sniff thinking to find where your friend went as the human says something to you in their strange barking and yapping.
“Sorry forgot you might not be able to understand human. They said that could happen. I will be back.” A voice in your head tells you as you watch the human slip out another door as the young kennel helper wheels the food cart in and begins scooping out dog food for each of those healing in the kennel. The smell of food causing you to drool slightly as you decide this human is more important as after all the other did not give you food. The part of your mind that resists this thinking is pushed to the back as your cage is opened and your dish filled. The idea of escape never crosses your mind as you put muzzle into bowl greedily gulping down your food so none of these other dogs try to steal it.