Yeah, well, Toby ends up liking it, and he feels bad for those of his siblings who weren't captured, like his sister. We mean, how would you feel if someone took you away from where you were born and put you in a pen with a bunch of people you didn't know? Now we don't have to call him "dog" anymore.īecause the book is narrated in human English, it's difficult not to think of the dog as a little person. She said it to me every time she saw me: Toby, Toby, Toby" (2.36).
She names the dog, and it's a monumental moment for the little furball: "My name, she told me, was Toby. The Yard's owner is known only as Senora. Destiny implies that a person's-or a dog's-fate is out of his control, and in fact, our dog is totally cool with his fate being in human hands.įirst, he is taken by a group of people who believe they are helping stray dogs by removing them from the wild and putting them in a big pen, which the dog calls the Yard. Like a furry orphan out of Dickens, the pup has no idea that he's destined for greatness. When we first meet our dog, he's a nameless mutt born in a ditch. And we'll usually say "he," because three lives out of four involve him getting neutered instead of spayed. Each time he's reborn, he retains the memories of his previous life. The Dog (Toby, Fella, Bailey, Elleya, Bear, Buddy) The Brief Wondrous Lives of Oscar Bow-Wow-WowĬats are supposed to be the ones with nine lives, not dogs, but our main pooch in A Dog's Purpose has four-that we know of.
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