I read the story and found the writing can really reproduce the way a dog concentrates immensely on something for a long (or short) while, and then suddenly changes and starts going after another thing. It also gives you the impression of the dog being a bit "superficial" because he reduces his life to some non-important things such as running, leading the pack and eating and because the way the dog in the story loses the thread of what he is saying and starts jumping from one idea to the other.
Well, a dog is exactly like that… so the story flows naturally. And dogs remember things that happened to them in a certain moment. This causes them to dream and sometimes move and whimper when they are asleep. This dog remembered his past life and could talk about it; he dies and then goes to heaven. I think the end of the story maybe a little simplistic. It makes the story turn into something you see in a cartoon or something similar. One may think that the author was trying so hard to be original that he went past his opportunity to get a gripping end and used something similar to one Disney movie I saw a long time ago.
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