[ WP ] A dog 's psychology session .

`` Woof, woof woof woof woof?'' he said, curling up on the chair next to the couch. 
 
 Stretched out on the couch but far from relaxed, she closed her eyes for a few moments, collecting herself. 
 
 `` Wo..wo... woof woof woof. Woof woof woof, woof, woof woof woof.'' 
 
 A tear trickled down her left cheek, tracing its way slowly through the sleek white fur to the corner of her mouth. She licked it away apologetically. 
 
 He could see she wanted to let it out, wanted to be heard so he held his silence, wagging his tail almost imperceptibly. She noticed this and started again, her voice stronger. 
 
 `` Woof woof woof woof, woof woof woof woof. Woof woof! Woof woof woof! WOOF!'' 
 
 And there it was. After months of her coming in, the denials, the crying and the whining. There it was. He quivered slightly in excitement as he'd been praying for this moment, this break through. 
 
 But he could n't let her know that, she might clam up again and disappear into her kennel like she had done many times before. So he nonchalantly lifted his leg and started licking his balls. 
 
 `` Woof woof woof woof woof?'' he enquired, pretending to be more interested in the cleanliness of his genitals. `` Woof woof woof wo... hmmm... woof.'' 
 
 `` Woof!'' she said leaping to her feet, bristling. `` Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof. Woof. Woof. WOOF!'' 
 
 `` Woof woof'', he said realising she was so close to realising what he already knew. `` Woof woof woofwoofwoof?'' 
 
 `` Wo...'' she started then stopped, her eyes widening. She sat down in a heap staring at him in wonder. `` Woof woof woof woof?'' 
 
 `` Woof.'' It was n't a maybe, or a could be. `` Woof'' he said again knowing that this was the knife edge. She was teetering and would either run out spraying piss on the floor in fear or she'd embrace the strength within her she'd just glimpsed. 
 
 `` Woof? ``, she rolled the idea over on her tongue, savouring it like a wiener. `` Woof woof woof woof. Woof.'' Her back steeled and he could see that she was n't going to be pissing on his floor in fear any time soon. She was n't going to be pissing on ANYONE's floor in fear ever again. 
 
 He left the chair for the floor and strode towards her, tongue lolling out and tail wagging and she saw that his eyes were filled with pride and love. She jumped off the couch, nuzzled him and then craned her neck around and sniffed his butt. He sniffed hers and they stood there with the morning sun streaming in bathing them in light, sniffing each others asses. 
 
 `` Woof woof woof woof woof'' he said, `` Woof woof woof. Woof.'' 
 
 She whined but her eyes shone happily. `` Woof woof. Woof woof.'' she said and turned to the door. Before she crossed the threshold and walked out for the last time, she stopped and looked back at him mischievously, lifted her leg and peed on the door frame. 
 
 Her scent filled the room for the rest of the day and long after the last patient had left. As the moon rose, he padded to the door frame and sniffed it, walked to his bowl and took a long swallow shuddering slightly as the cold water coursed down his throat. 
 
 `` Woof woof!'' he said out loud, wishing that they had meet some other time, some other way. He sat, sniffed her scent on the air again and started licking his crotch.
