MUTATION OR METAMORPHOSIS

Howdy y'all, I had to have my dog put down yesterday. For a week or two, he had been looking at me in a way that I didn't understand. At first I thought it was the kind of erotic flatulence that haunted my grandpappy until he died. How wrong I was: my dog wasn't farting seductively; he knew something that I didn't know. Do you have any idea how unsettling that is? I can cope with most people knowing things that I don't (not at all true; I am in fact a twisted and misunderstood genius, and I have the badge to prove it), but when my dog could potentially possess the kind of knowledge that would see my glorious power base fucked in the ass, well, something must be done. Kill the fucker.

Being a poor starving anorexic, I have no money - certainly not the kind of money to waste on paying a vet to kill my dangerously knowledgeable dog. Vets charge too much. A few years back, my house became infested with rats (I can't think of any funny reason why this would be so). The vet charged over £800 (which is nearly $___) to have them all put down. And I no longer like my dog as much as I did the rats.

Killing a dog is not easy. Scratch that. Killing a large dog, like mine, is not easy. Killing a small dog IS easy. Cover the small dog with a towel to prevent splashback, then take a run-up and jump. In retrospect, I'm quite glad my dog was large: the fucker knew something I didn't know; what do I care if he suffers long and needlessly? ...So there I am standing outside in an old coat, and a pair of sunglasses (to protect against splashback) holding my ostensibly nameless dog by the tail, swinging him into the wall of my house. After about five minutes he stopped yelping quite so much, and after a further five minutes, he seemed almost resigned to the fact that his death was approaching. A few further swings and his eyes took on an epiphanical nature. With the final swing his head finally popped.

I'd expected him to talk before he died, but he took his secret to the grave with him. Now my dead dog knows something I don't know, and there's nothing I can do about it.