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In the doghouse
They were just in from the dog park when Kurt, making tea, noticed blood dripping from the tip of Rocky’s tail.
“Rocky, ol’ mate. What’ve ya done?”
Hearing his name, the dog looked up, tilted his head and wagged his tail – spraying blood this way and that.
“Rocky!” Kurt shouted.
Noting Kurt’s excitement, Rocky’s tail-wagging intensified.
As Kurt rushed him, Rocky, delighted with the turn of events, gambolled down the hallway, “Jackson Pollocking the shit out of the place”, as Kurt would later describe it.
Kurt had never liked abstract art; his long afternoon cleaning up didn’t change his mind.
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