An Aesop's Fable: The Dog and the Wolf

This was sent to me by a . . . friend, a werewolf, in fact.


A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.

"Ah, Cousin," said the Dog.
"I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food regularly given to you?"

"I would have no objection," said the Wolf, "if I could only get a place."

"I will easily arrange that for you," said the Dog; "come with me to my master and you shall share my work."

So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had come about.

"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it."

"Is that all?" said the Wolf. "Then good-bye to you, Master Dog."


The Moral: Better to starve free than be a fat slave.


I disagree, of course. I understand the point, where all you werewolves are coming from. I also find it interesting that I find so many of you moving into man's world, more and more wolf packs moving into cities and towns, even into suburbs, living in houses. How does that trend play with the moral above? Hmmmm? Can you spell "hypocrisy"? Howl once for Yes. Whine twice for No.

As I have said and write before. the lives of dogs and wolves are not as simple as they used to seem to me. The dog and wolf paradigms are shifting. Big time.