[joe-frank-list] shooting the dogs

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	In 'Rent-a-family, part 2' (1987) Johnny (Nick Ullett) tells
of a sexual encounter with a Spanish-speaking woman which ends with
her pulling out a gun to shoot a dog howling outside the window.
	'On the edge' (1991) begins with Joe's account of a neighbor's
dog whose barking keeps Joe from working; the neighbor is
unsympathetic; Joe imagines shooting the dog.
	In 'In the dark, part 1' (1992) John (the guy happy he bought
a 9mm pistol) (Ryan Cutrona) shoots his dog, Ollie, because he barks
too much, setting off a fight with his wife, Angie.  (Joe re-used this
segment in 'Problems' (1993)).  (Skip and Carly's dog is named Ollie;
he dies of natural causes; they save his testicles in hope of having
him cloned. ('Insomnia')) (Joe lists his 'old companion Ollie',
followed by the sound of a barking dog, as one of the comforts of his
New Year's celebration ('Tomorrow'))
	35 minutes into 'The best' (1992) we hear a dog barking, then
a gunshot.  (No one had mentioned a dog.)
	In 'Karma crash' (2000) Joe tells of driving in rural upstate
New York, stopping because an injured dog is howling in pain in the
middle of the road.  Someone shoots the dog.  The experience haunts
Joe for years (at least in this story).
	(Ernst throws Helga's dog overboard in 'The river'.)

russell bell