As a story-teller, I am especially fascinated by the stories of dogs. We often put our stories into their heads, but what are their stories like. I imagine that with their noses – they collect their stories by nose, I think – they get the stories of coyotes, birds, rabbits and mice, turkeys, bugs, birds, moles and raccoons. They get the story of the earth, of life, birth and death, fear and danger. Scents, droppings, old human discarded things. They put their noses to all of them and collect the stories of their world.