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You’re with your dog in the vet’s crowded waiting room. And you get the quick impression of the bar scene in “Star Wars.” All those humanoids carousing. This came to mind because you imagine this room through your dog’s eyes.
Your springer spaniel sees a bug-eyed boxer, then a chow with its black tongue, a lumbering St. Bernard, drooling and panting. In a box on a lady’s lap, there’s a cat with wide yellow eyes. Your dog accepts this universe the way Obi Wan and Luke accepted happy-hour aliens.
You snap out of your dog’s point of view and realize how uninteresting our world of people is. Dogs have canine-oids. Any differences humans might have are trivial by comparison, if we even bother to notice them.
