You wake up the next morning feeling just wonderfully relaxed and pleasant. You turn on your TV and see that your favorite show is on. You listen to the theme song, delighted, and a big smile spreads across your face. You think you hear a faint swishing sound in the room, but you ignore it.
The commercials come on for a while--some infomercial about a cleaning spray from Pleasure Island Products. After several minutes the show returns. "Excellent," you think. That swishing sound returns, and suddenly you are startled by a thumping sound like something thwacking against the bed right behind you! Jumping up and turning around, you examine the bed carefully--nothing there.
When you finally feel assured again, you sit back down but listen carefully for a moment for anymore sounds behind you. After a few moments you are completely relaxed and just watching your show. You even begin laughing at the funny parts. That's when you start hearing those sounds again! The swishing, the thumping: you can even feel the thumps vibrating across the sheets and mattress. Strangely, you also have a pounding feeling in your back, as though something was slapping against your backbone. What's even harder to describe is that the pounding feeling seems to extend *beyond* your spine in a weird way.
This time, instead of jumping off the bed, you just gradually turn your head around, feeling a bit sly as you do. The thumping stops, but a light swishing continues. Looking across the bed and down your back, you immediately see what's moving. Your eyes widen.
There's a long, brown, furry tail waving back and forth across the bedsheets. Following it with your eyes, you find it attached to your own spine! You instantly snatch it up in your hands, feeling the warm hands on the new addition to your body. The show forgotten for a moment, you just cuddle your tail in your hands, feeling at the soft brown fur. It feels kind of nice, and your tail swishes again as you set it free.
You start to wonder whether you're really awake and realize that you are.
"So that's what I heard," you say to yourself. "I've been wagging my tail this whole time. Wagging my tail like a dog!"
It's not very hard to tell you've got a dog's tail, but identifying what kind is a little trickier. It isn't bushy like a husky's tail, nor white and spotted like a Dalmation's. It's just a very long tail with short brown fur. It kind of reminds you of the bloodhounds you've seen on TV.