Week 5: Chapter 7: My Kid's Dog

Though this story is about the death of a family dog, it is done in a humorous way. I can see the hate for the dog  in the things the father says and how he keeps calling it different names. It reminds me of how my husband feels about our dog,which sadly went to live with my brother for an undecided amount of time. I like in the story how the father has this mental struggle with keeping the dog buried and has to end up lugging it's dead body in a suitcase to the vet to be examined. My favorite part of the story s when the main character runs into a person in town who offers to help with his burden and he has to lie about the contents of the suitcase. I think the dog got the last laugh.