A Japanese family go on holiday one summer by the coast. While there they encounter a small, hairy old stray dog, which seems to take a particular liking to them. The children feed it scraps and it follows them around, almost like a pet. When the time came to go home, the children beg to be allowed to keep it. Reluctantly, the parents agree.
They take the little dog home in a cardboard box, give it a bath and brush its fur. They feed it, and that night let it sleep with the kids on the foot of the bed. At first it seems to be the perfect pet.
But a couple of days later the mother, who works from home, notices the animal behaving strangely. To her alarm she sees that it is drooling. Its eyes are wild, and it's turning around in distressed little circles. She scoops it back into its box and drives it to the vet's.
There, the vet gives it a thorough examination. He asks the woman where she got the animal.
"It was a stray," she tells him. "We adopted it. Please tell me what's wrong with him."
The vet looks at her sceptically. "First of all," he says, "it's rabid. It'll have to be put down. And second of all, it's not a dog at all. This, madam, is a sewer rat."
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