Dog Eat Dog World: by JBK “The dog kennels were stacked three high, and packed two wide, for a total of six in each stall. The stalls were designed for cows, but nobody raised cows around here anymore, and hadn’t in a long time. My workplace, the barn, had big open doors at each end, running between them there was a cement strip big enough to drive a truck right through the middle. There were food troughs on each side of that, then the stalls, then excrement sloughs on the outside. It was clad in red corrugated aluminum panels that didn't reach all the way down to the ground, so there was always a breeze, but it still smelled worse than anything I have ever encountered, before or since. Where the walls met the roof there was a strip where, instead of aluminum, the corrugated panels were made of a translucent plastic, allowing in enough light, along with what leaked in from the doors, to work between dawn and dusk. The barn was visible from the road, and even from the freeway exit...