Daisy the Dumpster Dog - a Sordid Tale of Dystopian Hubris and Convenient Canine Rationalizations (But Not a Supreme Court Satire or Parody) by Blade Cort; Book 8 of 8 in the Predictable Paths series.
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Daisy is enjoying a great day, eagerly awaiting the arrival of dumpster Delights. But before she can set her paws on any goodies, Rat Dog gimps-in from nowhere and mocks her oversized ears and stubby tail, then treats her friends with equal impertinence.
The sniveling, half-breed chihuahua also has the audacity to demand his fair share of dumpster Delights, angering the high-born purebreds who claim first dibs over lowly mongrels like himself.
Daisy and friends tentatively take the Rat into their lair but are soon sorry they did so. Seeking justice, he picks fights with the snootiest snouts in the land, from the lowliest pack bosses to the Fidoish Club, GogMadDog, and Swatter Bowl Mangi.
Who dares bark against the most-high Mangi when they regularly commune with the pretty dead demidog founders and purveyors of the Canistution? Who dares mock their pedigreed interpretations that are divined after wriggling and wraggling on their backs in prescient visions of the founders' musty and most holy intentions?
Rat Dog does, in his own words (sic): "Will you ever speak on your own behalf, or will you always follow the stinky scent to a predictable and dreary bowl of chow that someone else put out for you? If so, then roll over and be a good boy while your trainers pull at your leash and chain and bark commands at you from behind the dark doggie door."
Given his limited peanut brain, the Rat fears nothing. Can he bring about equity in dogdom and obtain his fair share of dumpster Delights, or will he get ingloriously popped like the troublesome tick that he is?
<><><> "Three stale biscuits for the dogged attempt at sticking a nose into unsniffable places while whining grievously at obedient originalism." Saz Nowon, Da Howl
PREDICTABLE PATHS episodes, in sequential order:
#1. AGENESS - A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on Our Imminent Ageless Dystopia ; Six Acts, Episodes -22 to -17
#2. CLIMATIC - A Climate and Genetic Engineering Science Fiction Novel; Episodes -16 to -2
#3. AMYGDALA HIJACK - A Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novel of Impending Dystopia (a Trilogy)
3.1 - Amygdala Hijack - The Waening, Part 1 of 3; Episodes 1 - 9
3.2 - Amygdala Hijack - The Warning, Part 2 of 3; Episodes 10 - 18
3.3 - Amygdala Hijack - The Wasting, Part 3 of 3; Episodes 19 - 28
#4. THREE GUYS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC BAR - A Longevity / Age Engineering and Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novella ; Episodes 47 - 54
#5. INFINITY CURVE - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space ; Episodes 56 - 78
#6. PATH TO ENTROPY - An Apocalyptic Climax ; Episodes 79 - 93
#7. SORD IN PROSPERITY - Hope Beyond the Apocalypse ; Episodes 118 - 159
#8. DAISY THE DUMPSTER DOG - A Sordid Tale of Dystopian Hubris and Convenient Canine Rationalizations (But Not a Supreme Court Satire or Parody) ; Episodes 311 - 337
