Gaits of Heaven

to me by Barbara Leibowitz, who found it on the Web. Dolfo’s breeder is being sued by irate puppy buyers because she misled them into believing that they were paying high prices for golden Aussie huskapoos, whereas her breeding stock actually consisted of mixed-breeds she had adopted from shelters that lacked the funds to spay and neuter animals before placing them for adoption. She has repeatedly inbred her stock, so her lines do have a certain consistency, but her puppies were not precisely what she said they were.
    Which of us is?
     

Susan Conant is a three-time recipient of the Maxwell Award for Fiction Writing given by the Dog Writers Association of America. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband, two cats, and two Alaskan malamutes.
     
    Visit her Web site at www.ConantPark.com