Maggie Bunting (she/her)

ALT an enormous brown dog with thick, brown fur stands proudly on a yellow dotted ramp on a sidewalk near a parking garage. two soulful brown eyes peer out from under a mass of fur, and his smile reveals a pink tongue and lower teeth. he’s wearing a blue and yellow striped tie. this sweet creature would never subject you to a pop quiz.

ALT a black, furry animal stands up on his two hind legs and holds two smaller forelimbs bent up next to his chest. his feet are long, and flat to the ground. you’d expect a long tail extending back for balance on a kangaroo, but as this is a black cocker spaniel, he merely boasts two long ears with black crimped fur.

ALT a golden retriever sits smiling in the front passenger seat of a car. the window is rolled down just a couple of inches. blue skies with puffy clouds and some happy little trees are in the background. it’s a totally normal photo of a golden in a car, minus the fact that the tongue sticking out of her mouth is bright blue.

ALT you’re peering down into a styrofoam cup that was in a car’s cupholder. it is mostly empty but has some blue slushie way down at the bottom with a mysteriously tongue-shaped hole carved through the ice in one spot. the back of a golden retriever’s head is visible in the upper right corner of the photo. the dog may or may not be avoiding eye contact.