Leor's draft #1

Doug in Uggs®

Once upon a time in a beautiful city called New York lived a very successful business man who had three sons. When he died, he left a will. His company was left to his eldest son, his mansion to his middle son and only his pet dog, Doug to his youngest son, Josh.

Josh sat under a shady oak tree, feeling very miserable and sorry for himself.

“What will become of us, Doug?” asked Josh in a weary, annoyed tone. To Josh’s complete amazement, Doug answered him. Josh owned a talking dog!

“Please don’t worry master” Doug said in a sure sounding voice, “Just listen to me and do as I say and you will be much richer than both your brothers!”

Now you see, Josh was very poor and had nothing to lose by listening to the dog so he did as Doug commanded him to do (even though he thought of himself as crazy for talking to a dog and letting a dog tell him what to do).

Doug commanded of Josh to get him a fine collar and some nice Uggs to go with his collar.

Later that day after Josh spent all of his remaining money on Doug, Doug set out to the mall to buy a pair of sunglasses, then he set off to the wondrous home of the celebrity to give her his present.

Obviously nobody had ever met a talking dog so Doug was sent to see the celebrity immediately.

Doug was sent into a room with a high ceiling and chairs with soft, velvet covering. The floor was covered with a hard, rough wood covering and as Doug waited for the celebrity to call for him to come in he thought of what he should say to her.

When Doug walked into the big room in which the celebrity was, he was fascinated by her great beauty.

“I heard that you had asked to see me” the celebrity asked

“Yes,” replied Doug “My master, Josh, sent me to bring this gift to you” continued Doug handing the package to the celebrity. Now, everybody knows that you shouldn’t take presents from strangers but the celebrity was so amazed of this talking dog that she just simply replied,

“Tell your master that I thank him and you can go”

The following day Doug bought a purse and once more brought it to the celebrity, with the same message: “This is from my master”

For several days, Doug went on bringing the celebrity very fine gifts.

One day, Doug heard a rumor that the celebrity would be coming into town to perform so he hurried back to Josh (who was barely surviving because he did not have very much food) and asked him to go swimming in the public pool.

“Why should I listen to you?” Josh asked in a disgusted tone, “thanks to you I have barely enough food to survive and every day I have to beg people for money”

Doug was not surprised by this reply so he simply reminded Josh of the promise he had made to him.

While Josh was swimming in the pool, Doug hid all his ripped, torn clothes. When he saw the celebrity’s limousine approaching, he started shouting for help.

“Help!” cried Doug “robbers have stolen my master’s clothes!”

When the celebrity recognized the dog, she immediately called to her maid to bring a fresh pair of clothes from her house.

“It must be made of the best fabric” said the celebrity “and it must be of the best cut, only the best will do for this dog’s master!”

Once Josh was dressed in his new clothes, Josh looked very handsome.

While Josh was getting dressed Doug ran ahead to the nearest mall and saw some open stores

“The celebrity is coming in her limousine and would surely want to come into the mall” Doug explained, “When she asks who this very fine mall belongs to, say it belongs to Josh the master of Doug, or I will send you all to court!”

As you all know Americans do not like to be bossed around, especially by talking dogs, and they very much did not like Doug’s idea so they sent him to the Pound.

When the celebrity passed by the mall she wanted to go in, as Doug had interpreted, and again as he had interpreted she asked who the lovely mall belonged to, obviously the storeowners answered that the mall belonged to the government.

Meanwhile, sitting on a log, was Josh waiting for Doug to come back and tell him what to do, just then the paper boy came with the daily paper, and Josh having nothing better to do took one and started reading.

To his great amazement, on the front page of the paper was the title: “talking dog now in the pound on account of threatening store owners,” and with that Josh completely lost it, he started tearing his hair and his clothes in rage shouting angrily: “that dog! I let a dog tell me what to do! How could I have done such a stupid thing!?!?”

Just then the celebrity drove by in her big stretch limousine. Now, the celebrity had never actually seen Josh, she had only heard about him from a talking dog and when she passed by the clothes she had given him were so torn and ripped that she didn’t recognize them either, so all she saw in Josh was a poor homeless man. Poor Josh watched in horror as the celebrity passed by him without noticing him.

Many years passed after that and the celebrity was becoming very famous. Unlike the celebrity Josh was suffering from many diseases and of starvation until it was his time to leave this world along with Doug who got bitten by a vicious dog very severely and passed away.

As you are probably wondering why Josh listened to Doug in the first place and got himself into that mess, well as a child Josh read many books but one in particular grabbed his attention right from the first page, it was about a poor boy who had a talking cat and because of his cat he was married to the princess, Josh was hoping the same would happen to him and he would live happily ever after, obviously that did not work. THE END