dog pound

While I was driving through the country this weekend I drove past a sign with a very official looking law enforcement star and large san-serif letters spelling 'Dog Pound.' It could easily have been a sign for a state penitentiary. I imagined the rough and scrubby looking dogs, and what sorts of laws they would have broken. One was playing a harmonica, as a few others planned an escape while smoking cigarettes. I'm sure that at some point during the escape, one of the dogs would have bitten a hole out of a bumbling overweight guard's uniform pants to reveal his polka-dotted boxer shorts.