On the Poetics of Canine Narration

They tread a landscape existentially threatened by human wreckage yet are drawn to their fellow species, intriguing and strangely self-destructive. They decipher human scents, collaborate with people to survive, protectively sleep at their bedside and sometimes attack. But above all, as the keenly self-aware canines narrate their journeys through a torn world, they stand apart as reflective witnesses of human pathos.