Dog As Narrator?

[Kumquatqueen]

The puppet sitcom Mongrels had an episode about paedophilia and under-age sex - all the characters are animals in a London back yard, so it's a scandal when the cat has a new girlfriend who turns out to be under the eight-week age of consent for kittens.
Cue a musical number full of pathos: "my love is only six weeks old".

It's a brilliant series - I still have no idea how the BBC were persuaded to use taxpayers' money making it. It starts with two cats eating the corpse of their deceased owner and gets more tasteless from there...

 

[Voboy]

No, but seeing dogs age one year to seven human years make sure the dog is 3(21) so you don't get banned for under age.

I'm kind of joking....kind of thinking it could happen cause....lit.

This is precisely one of the issues I'm going to be spoofing. At the end, when the werewolf fucks the woman, the dog is going to look on disapprovingly because he guesses her age in dog years. He'll be offended because she doesn't look a day over 200.

I'll PM Laurel.

 

[Voboy]

Update: I PMed her.

Yay! Dogs can fuck other dogs!!!!

 

[NotWise]

I keep seeing the title on this thread as "God as Narrator." That would be first person omnipotent, right?

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, or maybe just having a senior moment, but I'm sure I caught a snippet of a recent movie about a dog narrating its own multiple lives as it's continually reborn as different dogs working its way across America and back to its original owner. Someone, anyone?

 

[Comentarista82]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, or maybe just having a senior moment, but I'm sure I caught a snippet of a recent movie about a dog narrating its own multiple lives as it's continually reborn as different dogs working its way across America and back to its original owner. Someone, anyone?

Twice: "A Dog's Purpose" and "A Dog's Journey."

 

[Bramblethorn]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, or maybe just having a senior moment, but I'm sure I caught a snippet of a recent movie about a dog narrating its own multiple lives as it's continually reborn as different dogs working its way across America and back to its original owner. Someone, anyone?

Not the one you're talking about, but for those who like tearjerkers about dogs and reincarnation, I can recommend "Dean Spanley".

 

[Bramblethorn]

Update: I PMed her.

Yay! Dogs can fuck other dogs!!!!

We really need a sticky to keep track of this sort of thing.

 

[Voboy]

We really need a sticky to keep track of this sort of thing.

These are the truly important things in life.

 

[gordo12]

Update: I PMed her.

Yay! Dogs can fuck other dogs!!!!

You know I should have known that. Fido's ending had Rufus fucking Ann his poodle girlfriend. There was a couple of paragraphs.

 

[BillandKate]

I'm shocked no one suggested "The Art of Racing in the Rain," which is the perfect movie and a great example of how well someone can pull off a dog narrating the entire story.

I'm not a dog person, but 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' is one of the best book's I've read in the past ten years. Kate and I have even given a few copies to friends as gifts.

 

[Comentarista82]

I'm not a dog person, but 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' is one of the best book's I've read in the past ten years. Kate and I have even given a few copies to friends as gifts.

It really is something very special.

I thought I wouldn't like the movie as much, but it's the first movie I've seen based on a book that removed just the right things from the book (for the most part) to keep the same flavor and flow from the book without compromising detail.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Twice: "A Dog's Purpose" and "A Dog's Journey."

A Dog's purpose' - thank you, going to find it and watch it now.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

OK, watched 'A Dog's Purpose' on Amazon Prime Video, lovely movie, I blackmailed himself to watch it with me, because he's a big-time dog lover, he likes anything even vaguely dog-adjacent, so when it finished absolute silence, suspiciously immobile face, so I put on 'Hachi - A Dog's Tale' while I had him captive. When it finished he found he had to leave the room in a hurry and do a shit-load of throat clearing and secretive nose-blowing, while I went through a box of Kleenex and cried like a spoiled 4 year-old and hugged my Golden Spanador, Benny, for all he's worth. We have 4 dogs, the Spanador and 3 black Labs, and I had to go and give each one of them a whole grilled chicken breast just for being my fur-babies. Hubby tried to look disapproving, reminding me they're working dogs, not pets, but I didn't see him kicking them out of the room...

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

OK, watched 'A Dog's Purpose' on Amazon Prime Video, lovely movie, I blackmailed himself to watch it with me, because he's a big-time dog lover, he likes anything even vaguely dog-adjacent, so when it finished absolute silence, suspiciously immobile face, so I put on 'Hachi - A Dog's Tale' while I had him captive. When it finished he found he had to leave the room in a hurry and do a shit-load of throat clearing and secretive nose-blowing, while I went through a box of Kleenex and cried like a spoiled 4 year-old and hugged my Golden Spanador, Benny, for all he's worth. We have 4 dogs, the Spanador and 3 black Labs, and I had to go and give each one of them a whole grilled chicken breast just for being my fur-babies. Hubby tried to look disapproving, reminding me they're working dogs, not pets, but I didn't see him kicking them out of the room...

You're a good mom.

 

[green117]

Dogs ain't cats...

But for a cat centered, and cat narrated, book series, I found the "Feline Wizards" books of Diane Duane to be very good.

They are a bit cute, but also work to present a non-anthropocentric vision of the world. Very strong on cat body language.

"Book of Night with Moon" I believe to be the first.

 

[Voboy]

Update:

It's written. I need to sit on it a bit longer and decide whether I like how it came out. It's short (c. 8k words or so), largely because I found myself running out of things for the narrator to think about.

We shall see.

 

[Voboy]

Update!

Alrighty! Submitted.

It's funny, at least. Short, but.

 

[NoJo]

I read this book as a teen and never forgot it - and never saw dogs the same way again:

Sirius by Olaf Stapeldon (1944)

 

[Voboy]

Update: I PMed her.

Yay! Dogs can fuck other dogs!!!!

Umm, guess not. It just got booted back.

Sometimes this place slays me.

 

[Arthur_Guy]

"Cujo" by Stephen King is a good example of how to write from the perspective of the dog -although that story is a lot different from you idea. Also, there is a film called "Bad Moon" (a werewolf movie) that is partially from the point-of-view of the family dog, and his quest to protect his family from the werewolf. These might give you some aid in writing from the dog's POV.

Love the idea, BTW!!!

 

[Voboy]

"Cujo" by Stephen King is a good example of how to write from the perspective of the dog -although that story is a lot different from you idea. Also, there is a film called "Bad Moon" (a werewolf movie) that is partially from the point-of-view of the family dog, and his quest to protect his family from the werewolf. These might give you some aid in writing from the dog's POV.

Love the idea, BTW!!!

Thanks!

Still pending, in its second go-round...

 

[Voboy]

Woohoo.

Should go live tomorrow. So, for anyone wondering where Lit draws the line: it's fine for two dogs to have "just finished up." It's not fine to describe them "in flagrante delicto."