To keep her pups happy, Keeva crooned sweet songs and was always cheerful and kind, but every time he snuggled up against her body to go to sleep, Furgul could sense the hidden fear pounding inside her heart. 'There is no justice here,' they whispered in the dark. 'We haven't done anything wrong!'Įvery night he heard the murmurs of dogs who were hungry, frightened and sad.

'In! Out! Here! There! Everywhere!'Įvery day he heard the squeals as greyhounds were beaten down. Yet as Furgul learned how to walk and talk, and as his eyes, nose and ears grew keen, he realized that Dedbone's Hole was ruled by boots and teeth and chains.Įvery dawn he heard the voices of the masters, harsh and angry and mean. And for the first few weeks of their lives, the pups were happy. Furgul was born in one of the whelping cages, whose floor was hard and cold and damp, but Furgul and his three sisters kept one another warm.

And she knew that when the masters discovered his secret, they would take him away.ĭedbone's Hole was a greyhound farm, where the -masters made the rules and where no dog was free. Furgul had been born with a terrible secret. The blue greyhound's name was Keeva and she named her firstborn Furgul, which in dog tongue means 'the brave.' Keeva loved Furgul from the moment she saw him, but as she licked his newborn body clean and gave him her milk to drink, her heart was filled with fear. Once upon a time in the Doglands, a blue greyhound gave birth to four pups in a prison camp that the dogs called Dedbone's Hole.

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