The Immortal Dogs

The immortal dogs live across the street. I'm not sure if there is only one or three or six. But they are there. I've seen them. Some days they are cautious and bark from their bunkers behind the house, and other days they run daring missions around my legs. I realized yesterday that the immortal dogs actually 'bark'. I don't mean make annoying barking noises, as in the general dog noise 'bark'. I mean the noise they make is actualy 'bark'. At least one of them is really close. Some dogs say something closer to 'yip', and still others 'ruff'. But the immortal dogs say 'bark'. That's one plus. Although it occured to me on a second pass, that they might actually be saying 'barf' which is quite another thing altogether.