The Adventures of Lilith, a big, white dog – Katrina Harrison

Lilith was a big, white dog. She knew she was big because people kept saying it, but also because other dogs seemed to think it was fun to stand underneath her.  They’d often bark at humans from that vantage point which she didn’t think was fair.

She’d heard the humans say that “May you live in interesting times” was a kind of curse and she’d never been able to understand why this was so. There were always so many things to be interested in – the sights and smells when she went for a walk, the people who came to visit her humans and the stories they told and her own history.

She wished she could remember what happened to her and where she’d been before she was in that park when she was about 9 months old.  They said she was a purebred, pedigree Pyrennese Mountain Dog who was worth over $1000, so why was she on the streets? Had she run away? Or been dumped? Had she grown too big and no longer fitted with the decor?  Did the family have a new baby or another dog?  The questions were endless but there were no answers.