I LOVE WRITING ABOUT SNIFFING & EATING

Woof!

When you are a dog, the hard thing with writing for humans is to find some common ground. How do I make this story sound interesting for a human? Do they really care what I write?

Humans are a lot more complex than dogs so I have to stretch my brain so that my story make sense to you. Dad says I have to build a back story but I don't know anything about physiotherapy.

Humans also have bigger brains than dogs and can even make television shows about other humans who are really fat and have to lose weight. Incredible!

If I was writing for dogs then "I got up this morning and had dog pellets and then I went for a sniff" would be a best seller.

If my readers were kelpies or labradors, especially Labs because whenever you mention food you've got them hooked, they would be glued to their dog beds waiting for what happened next.

Their minds would be racing with questions like were the pellets good even though they were fat-reduced? Had any other dog done a wee on your smells and if so, did you wee on them again? I could string that opening out for ever.

I know dogs love a good mystery so I could say something like "I had never been to this place and the smells were like nothing I'd ever smelt before". They would be beside themselves with excitement, especially the sniffers like dachshunds or beagles.

But with humans I wouldn't be able to say 'smell' twice in one sentence like I just did. I have to find another word for it. Dogs couldn't care less if every second word was smell because you can't get enough smells even when they are just words on a page.

Anyway. We are off today. I am now Tommie the Road Dog. I've got my new coat and I need it. I've got my Dad and he needs me. I met a new friend called Frieda at Centennial Park the other day and she promised to write to me. I have photos of her with her mum, Sally. I met a lot of other dogs too and crashed a dog walkers group and played in the mud with Frieda.

A woman emailed me the other day - well she really emailed Dad because he still won't give me the email password - to say that she always reads me first. Another woman said the same thing and she is a psychologist. So I can't be doing too much wrong.

Sometimes I think that humans might be more like dogs than they think.

Woof woof

Tommie xx