It's about the belief that dogs can talk/communicate with us. A guys wife dies and the only witness is the dog. A group of people think that you can teach dogs to put together words, even going so far as to surgically alter their jaws to make them more human like and make speech easier(ICK!). This is the part that haunts me, the description of the scene where they bring in the poor animal that's had surgery was horrifying to me. |