The DA took the bait, “Accident?” 
     “I was the first one on the scene,
and I believe, because of his love of  
animals, he became distracted and      
didn’t see the car slow down  until it 
was too late,” Johnson said, lying his 
ass off.                               
     “He has a love for animals, that  
I’ve never seen before,” Johnson con-  
tinued, “and because of it, animals    
will do almost anything for him, and I 
can prove it.”                         
     That’s when he let the dog go.    
     As I’m dictating this now, I re-  
member having this thought back then,  
that Johnson was sure laying it on a   
little thick here, but that got blotted
out by this big-ass fucking animal     
lunging at me, snarling and snapping   
its jaws.                              
*      The DA was smiling too.             
     I don’t know why I didn’t try to  
protect myself. At least cover the im- 
portant parts, but instead I opened my 
arms out to it, to her as it turns out.
     Come to me baby, I thought, and it
landed hard in my lap and started lick-
ing my face, and I started scratching  
it in the one place that almost all    
dogs love.                             
     For some reason, most dog owners  
don’t know about this place. Cat owners
either, and that’s right under the col-
lar. All the  way  around, especially  
under the chin.                        
     Dogs and cats love that shit. They
love it a lot, and so would you, if you
had to wear a collar 24/7.             
     The guy who’d brought the dog     
couldn’t believe it, Johnson  just     
smiled, and the DA’s mouth was open in 
shock.                                 



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