“Come on. We need a serious bath”

They playfully took a little shower in the back yard with her clothes still on and then a serious one in the bathroom. She washed and combed his fur. She even cleaned his teeth because she thought and actually said to him that his breath smelled worse than her own. She left him sitting on the couch to take her own bath and when she returned in the living room wiping her hair from the excess water she found him at the exact same spot. 

“You’ re creeping me out mister…. you know that? …………. Are you hungry?………………….Thirsty?………………………………..ok come with me in the kitchen.”

She opened the fridge. “ Umm…. I don’t think I have anything that you’d like… What about some more milk?….. What do you say?” she looked at the dog again truly waiting for an answer. “Of course… you don’t talk. I know that. Stop looking at me like I am some psycho……. I’ m not a psycho ……….. I know that only psychos talk to animals but I don’t normally do it. It’s just … you’re different and maybe you …. you know….. have …special skills or something. But….. you aren’t going to talk to me, are you? .. ok… So, I’m doing it again, aren’t I? I just keep talking to you… like non stop…and if you do have special skills and you chose me of all people in this planet to come to, you’re probably regretting it right now, aren’t you?……..Ok ok Maybe I am a little ……….different…..in a way,…. To tell you the truth in more than one ways. I admit it! ………….Right! ……… What about that milk?”

The dog got his bowl of milk. Dana got a full bottle of orange juice and a glass and sat at the table looking at him. She slowly poured some juice in the glass, took a sip, and put down the glass. 

“So……. Who are you? Don’t tell me you are just a dog? Please….. What are you? Are you an alien transformed into a dog who came down on this little planet to show to a primitive being the light? Please…. Or maybe you are some dead person’s soul that got into this animal’s body to tell me something…. I don’t think I believe in reincarnation or any of this paranormal stuff…………………………(leaning towards the dog and looking into his eyes) Grandma? …………………Nah! So what is it? What’s happening here? I want some answers mister!