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>>14467993
yes

>>14467993
It's pretty weird.
The Master and Margarita had a talking cat amongst other oddities though. I'm sure you can make it work if you're skilled enough.

I think the key would probably be to add humour and make the narrator not be too serious, although adding dog puns would ruin it for me.

>>14468011
I intend to include the dog as a somewhat neutral observer who only relays the facts and digressions while the plot moves from one point to another. Almost as if he was there for general commentary. I would include the odd thing that is personal and quirky/funny about the dog, but I basically need someone to do the role of relaying what needs to be relayed as the story moves and I thought it would be funny if the dog who was there during most of the story was the one doing it while also providing the more philosophical digressions and ruminations. I'd make him mostly reliable and neutral but with a few odd quirks and likings and dislikings that are not rational and would only serve to lighten up the thing and give the dog some personality.

>>14468043
Basically I don't want to have a voice without a character. So the voice that would typically be the writer's will be transposed to the dog. I also don't want to introduce a human character whose only point is to be the narrator and force him into the story but I also need that neutral voice. So my solution is to portray it through the eyes of a humanized dog with a few dog-related quirks that make the thing a bit light-hearted. I also like dogs.

>>14467993
Why no - ruff, ruff - why would it be?

>>14468043
>>14468067
I've read Soseki too, dude.

>>14468011
Bulgakov also wrote about talking dogs. Dude was weird

No, but it's kinda trite. Virginia Woolf's novel Flush seems like it beat you by 90 years

>>14467993
what is army dog? what is air bud? dog protagonists/narrators are based and redpilled. fuck cats tho

Make it a telepathic dog. Then you can play with the ambiguity of whether the character communicating with him is slightly mental, or just projecting his own ideas of what a dog might say.

>>14468251
I would just read Garfield instead

>>14468009
All fucking tripfags must fucking hang.

>>14467993
>>14467993
Let him speak once...just once.

That would truly be the most terrifying event i can ever imagine.

Just being alone with ur dog like always, completely sober..And then he looks at you..and says some omnious shit.

And then pretend to be a normal dog never to talk again.

>>14468574
I think that's what happened to David Berkowitz..

>>14468905
That's what he said happened