Week 13 Story: Dandi in Puppyland

    One day Dandi and Jensen were playing outside in the backyard. They both loved to chase the squirrels but would always get mad when the squirrels would climb up the trees. Jensen was rolling around in the grass while Dandi was digging near the fence. A white rabbit happened to appear and Dandi caught sight of it. The white rabbit began hopping over to the apple tree in the middle of the backyard. Dandi was curious so she slowly followed the rabbit. She did not want to approach it because she didn’t want to scare it away. The white rabbit made one last hop and then vanished. Dandi was very confused and circled the apple tree trying to find where the white rabbit went. She then looked down and saw a rabbit hole. Dandi was a curious weenie dog so she jumped into the rabbit hole, not thinking of how she would get out.

    Dandi was not expecting to fall through the rabbit hole as long she did. The fall was oddly slow, and she felt as if it was going to go on forever. As she was falling there were random things filling up around her such as food bowls, blankets, biscuits, etc. Dandi tried eating the biscuit but she could not reach it. She tried reaching for it again when she suddenly landed on a fluffy dog bed. 

    Dandi looked about the strange place before leaving the dog bed. Various doors filled the room, and she was wondering how she would get out. There was bowl in the middle of the floor that caught Dandi’s eyes. This bowl had a very large dog etched on the side, but inside the bowl were treats. Dandi took one and ate it. All of the sudden Dandi began to grow and grow and grow. 

    She eventually stopped growing and she thought, “I wonder if this is what Clifford feels like?”

    As she was growing, she noticed that there was only one door with a doggy door. Dandi walked over to it and could only put her snout through it. Dandi sat down and began to whimper because she just wanted out of the room. She looked down and saw a bowl beside the treat bowl with a very small dog etched on the side. This bowl was filled with water instead of treats. She took a drink because she had gotten thirsty after all of the growing. That’s when Dandi began to shrink down to her normal size, and then even smaller. She walked over to the doggy door and she was the perfect size to go through it. 

After Dandi walked through the doggy door, she was mesmerized by the things surrounding her. There was a big field of grass with large bones that resembled trees, and treats scattered around the grass that resembled flowers. Dandi began rolling in the grass with not a clue as to where she was or to who she would meet along the way.

Dandi during the 2020 Cotton Bowl

Author's Note: The original story is Down the Rabbit Hole and Down the Rabbit Hole Cont. from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This was a tale about a young girl named Alice who happened to see a white rabbit and followed it down a rabbit hole. The fall she experienced was long and cupboards and bookshelves filled up around her. She landed on a pile of sticks and was in a long hallway filled with doors. All of the doors were locked, but she found a table with a key on it. There was a bottle on the table that said "Drink Me," so she did and she shrank, forgetting to grab the key. She ate the cake that said "Eat Me," and she grew very large. The rest of the chapters were cut from the reading in order to keep the word length down. The story then skipped to when she arrived in wonderland and she was admiring all of the things around her. 

I decided to create a story similar to this using my weenie dog, Dandi. I filled the story with things that I believe dogs think about. Puppyland is Dandi's Wonderland, and it is has all of her favorite things.