There were two of them. Two very big moose, right there in our backyard!
Slowly, silently, they stepped over the low fence into the garden. They were huge. Pepe started yapping at them. One moose stepped forward and crushed Pepe under its gigantic foot. It then bowed down and started with ripping Pepe’s hind leg from his body. It was a rather bloody affair, and Pepe, still conscious, cried as he used to do when Alison cut his nails, but then louder.
From the porch I watched the things unfold in absolute shock and horror but at the same time I couldn’t stop looking. I just stood there, frozen. Didn’t, couldn’t interfere and totally forgot to take pictures. Strange thoughts went through my mind like “at least he won’t pee on the floors anymore” and “finally I’ll get uninterrupted nights sleep”. Both guilt for my horrible thoughts and relief over Pepe’s sudden demise filled my mind. In the meantime the moose had finished eating the final bits of Pepe, and he and his mate slowly stepped away, back into the lane-way. A bloody patch in the snow was all that was left of the dog.
Poupoune, when asked for comments, thought it was an excellent dream.
7 December, 2007 at 01:14
You have interesting dreams.
7 December, 2007 at 05:38
Hmmm, what would dr. S. Freud think of such a bloody subconcious fantasy…?
7 December, 2007 at 06:34
haha leuke droom! :D
7 December, 2007 at 08:16
So mooses are carnivors in our dreams? I thought you had mistaken Great Danes for mooses.
7 December, 2007 at 09:20
It’s not that mysterious: the evening before I had this dream I heard a story about two moose that swam over to the St. Lawrence from Kanewake to the West-Island of Montréal, and that night Pepe didn’t want to fall asleep and kept whining because he wanted into our bed. When he and I finally fell asleep, my brain thought it could hit two flies in one blow. And since I have really cinematic dreams (in wide screen with complicated crane shots) I told it to alison in the middle of the night and thus could remember it the next morning when I wrote it down.