Lessons From a Dog Bite

Ian Belknap
7 min readDec 16, 2020

Yesterday, Jerry Bit Me. Here Are My Findings.

Photo by Gary Sandoz This is not the dog who bit me. Whose name is not Jerry.

One of the things I am is a dog walker. In many ways this is an ideal job for me: no people, no office, a boss who is a dog.

Yesterday, I was walking a smallish dog I’ll call Jerry. Jerry is not his name, but on the off chance he reads this, I’d hate for him to suffer any embarrassment or self-consciousness of any sort. The actual dog I’m basing…

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com