River dogs

Nose to the pavement, sniffing up and down streets, into alleyways, door stoops, heads down as they and their wet fur make their way around town. People who live near rivers with a strong current, they call them river dogs. Roaming aimlessly, trying to recover their scent, but unable to. This sniffing blindly, this act, is the beginning. Whether it leads to pound, new family, or the streets, this is their beginning.

Their end took place over the river. Only one of two ways. On a bridge where a car stopped abruptly, a man and a dog got out, and a dog howled as it fell towards the river. The other way, the other way was a dog who jumped of it's own volition.