posbleak said

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When I was a kid and still lived in my parents' house, I'd stay up late and sometimes hear clicking like a big dog's toenails on wood floors. We didn't have a dog. Later on, we got a small dog, but I'd hear the clicking sometimes when she was sleeping on the sofa beside me. When my mom dug up the back garden to make way for new landscaping, she found some animal bones, mostly hamster-sized but a few that could've belonged to a large dog. (They live in a pretty old house.)

Years later, I was home from college on break, my folks were visiting friends for the weekend and took our dog with them. I threw a house party and a bunch of people ended up sleeping over in the living room. In the morning when I was making breakfast, a couple of friends woke up and asked me where my dog was, because they hadn't seen it at the party, but a couple of people had been woken up that night by a big black floppy-eared dog walking through the living room.