An Animal Bigger than a Big Dog

I made a list of creatures bigger than a dog, thinking the list would spark my imagination about what particular animal to choose to write about. The prompt focused on size, thus so did. I. My list stuck first to typical large creatures, often found in zoos or the wilderness, then to aquatic life, and finally too farmyard animals. When you think about it, there are a lot of really large creatures that share the Earth with us. It is a privilege to see them in their natural habitat, and a danger too—both to us and to them.

My first impulse was to write about the cows at my Grandpa’s dairy farm t...