Loyalty. That's another Canadian virtue, W. says. He recalls the dog they had to leave behind when his family left Canada for England. She was half-wolf, he says. Half wild! She starved herself to death, she missed them so much. She let herself die! She died for want of love. It's tragic.
Dogs are bred for love, W. says. They're bred for loyalty, over thousands and thousand of generations.
His political visions always involve dogs, W. says. Oh, he knows how much I dislike them. It’s a bad sign of me, he says. The dog-despiser is also a life-despiser. He knows it must be some Hindu thing.