bring animals, that's why she did it. The dog thing keeps licking her face while she's cuddling with it. Then there's this old guy looking at her weirdly. The couple ask if they recognize the dog, or know what the breed is. He tells her that its not a dog she is cuddling with, but it is actually a huge Mexican rat."
             After my friend told me her version of the story, I asked her if she knew that it wasn't a true story, but simply an urban legend. She claimed that it was definitely true, and that it really did happen. The story was told to her years ago, and she "swears" that she read it in the paper, which I find hard to believe.
             Another version told to me was from a family friend, who heard a quite different version of the story. Although the motif is still the same, pieces here and there have been changed. When asked where he heard the story, he claimed he heard it from his ex-wife when they started dating, which was about 15 years ago. Unlike my previous storyteller, he did not believe this to be true, but an extensive exaggeration of something that "may have actually happened somewhere, but definitely not to this extent."
             "A friend of my wife's was walking on the beach with her boyfriend, and this dog came out of the water. It was a very small dog, like the size of a large chihuahua or a terrier. They went up to the dog to see if it had tags, and presumed it was lost, so they decided to "save" it and take it home with them. The next day when they came home from work, as they walked into their apartment, they saw a trail of blood. They followed the trail to their bedroom closet and saw the new dog they had just found eating on the carcass of their two- or three-year-old German shepherd. To be sure of rabies, they took this new dog to the vet but learned that the new dog wasn't a dog at all. It was a huge Japanese RAT that had stowed away on a cargo sh...