Dalton Mark

Dog Fight

The smaller dog was trying his damnedest: teeth bared, scrawny legs spring-loaded and ready to pounce, and voice raised with the most ferocious barks he could muster. The bigger dog was unperturbed and uninterested. As their human caretakers passed each other, the little mutt snapped his teeth at the great dane. The towering hound barely glanced at the yappy pup, gave one apathetic boof, and continued down the sidewalk. The smaller dog was reluctantly pulled along, but as he trotted away, he seemed content to have put this altercation behind him. Who knows what he thought he had been defending. I’m sure the bigger dog wouldn’t even remember this disturbance to his afternoon walk. The humans certainly wouldn’t remember, and the various other passersby on the sidewalk hadn’t really noticed the scrap to begin with.