The Dog, or Canis Limax, has been known to man and domesticated since the beginning of civilisation, and has not always been our deadliest enemy. Throughout prehistory, man and dog worked together in the hunt and gathering berries and sticks. Dogs prevented a great flood from submerging the babylonian civilisation in 2500 BC, and dogs rid the continent of Ireland of snakes. It was less than a thousand years ago that the tide began to turn. Initially dogs fought only with minor diseases and unpleasant smells, but soon they discovered the great plagues, bringing first the Black Death in 1347, then the Bubonic Plague in 1661, and finally the Vietnam War in 1964.

Anatomy

The dog is usually classified as a member of the mammal family, but being an aggregate creature composed of a colony of smaller animals, it is more closely related to the jellyfish. A dog has four principal layers, on the outside is a layer of matted hairs and ectoplasm which holds the whole body together; beneath that is a layer of fat in which the eggs are layed and allowed to mature. The entire interior of the dog is of course composed of slugs.

After hatching in the fat layer, the slugs gradually migrate inwards as they grow and their bodies harden. At the end of their lives, their bodies are completely calcified and form the fourth layer, a hard concretion at the core of the dog, which acts as a rudimentary skeleton.

When food is plentiful, the number of slugs often increases beyond the capacity of the hair layer, and superfluous slugs are expelled from the body in the form of Turds. Some slugs survive the expulsion and may become feral. Such Rogue Slugs from different dogs eventually regroup to form a new dog, but in the intervening time may cause great harm, being the principal predators on wild chickens.