Aesop

The Dog’s House

Summary

This story highlights the theme of perception and adaptability through the behavior of a Dog across different seasons. In winter, the Dog curls up tightly due to the cold, contemplating the need for a small house, reflecting his perceived need for shelter. As summer arrives, the Dog sprawls at full length, feeling larger and realizing the impracticality of creating a house to suit this new perception. The tale uses the changing seasons to illustrate how environment and circumstances can alter one's perceptions and needs, offering a lesson on the importance of adaptability and resourcefulness in response to changing conditions.

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In the wintertime, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house. However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size. Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.

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