Our lost world
How we dogs lost Nagaon Beach 'We still go to the beach. But it isn't really there any more. OUR beach. It used to be ours. Vast, empty, stretching away as far as we could see. We remember everything. Our leashes would be taken off, and we would race away, out of the Human World, into Dog World! There was Brownie; and Spotted Girl; and White Dog; and Friend and his brothers; Sasha and his two sisters; and Buffalo Dog; Raja the doberman; and the terrible Brindlebrown; and other dogs with no names! Friends, enemies, acquaintances. All dogs! There were hardly any people there, back then. Just one of our humans, sometimes both our humans, sometimes a couple more here and there. Sometimes a knot of people far far away, who didn't bother us, and we didn't bother them. Everyone was happy. We would just be dogs, in Dog World; where humans stand by and watch. And there we'd stay and sniff and explore and bark and challenge and growl and run and discover and play; until it ...