Lot 145 : I Don’t Let My Dog Inside Anymore // Don’t Point. Don’t Whistle. Not At Night
September 3, 2026
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5 min readA Well-Worn Dog Collar and a Wooden Bench
The narrator of "I Don't Let My Dog Inside Anymore" begins with something ordinary: standing at the kitchen sink, filling a glass of water, watching his dog Winston in the backyard. Then he sees his dog walking on its hind legs. Not hopping or begging—walking, balanced and casual, like it was the most natural thing in the world. The water overflows the glass and runs cold over his fingers. He freezes. "Like I walked in on something I wasn't supposed to see."
What follows is a 121-day journal of a man unraveling. The next day, Winston acts completely normal. His wife Brandy doesn't believe him. When he reflexively kicks the dog—hard, in the ribs—she stops speaking to him. By day ten, he installs cameras in every room, desperate for proof. He reviews three days of footage. Nothing unusual. Then he notices something: Winston walks in wide arcs through the blind spots where the camera lens distorts. "He knows where the fucking cameras are. That bastard knows what they see."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:35) **Welcome and Introduction of Two Acquisitions** - The host introduces two seemingly unrelated items that arrived together: a worn dog collar and an old wooden bench, hinting they may be connected.
- 2 (06:13) **I Don’t Let My Dog Inside Anymore — Day One: The First Anomaly** - The narrator sees his dog Winston standing on hind legs, walking casually across the patio with his jaw slack, an unnatural and terrifying sight.
- 3 (08:25) **Day Two: The Fallout Begins** - Winston acts normal the next day, but the narrator kicks him out of fear, causing his wife Brandy to accuse him of being the monster.
- 4 (09:39) **Day Three: Descent into Research** - The narrator stays up late researching canine behavior and folklore, finding patterns in stories about animals that behave “too correctly.”
- 5 (11:23) **Day Ten: Cameras and Realization** - The narrator installs cameras to catch Winston in the act, but after reviewing footage, realizes the dog is deliberately moving through camera blind spots.
- 6 (12:44) **Day Forty-Seven: Collapse** - The narrator has lost his job, is drinking heavily, and feels everything slipping away, haunted by the image of Winston standing with his mouth open.
- 7 (14:23) **Day Eighty-Two: The Warning Call** - The narrator calls Brandy from a payphone to warn her not to let Winston inside, but she is too calm, speaking as if reading from a cue card.
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Show Notes
Lot 145 : I Don’t Let My Dog Inside Anymore // Don’t Point. Don’t Whistle. Not At Night
I Don’t Let My Dog Inside Anymore
Consigned by Morbid Mims
Starring Trevor Shand
Chloe Mei-Lei Bundt
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Don’t Point. Don’t Whistle. Not At Night
Consigned by Hydrojamerz
Starring Chloe Mei-Lei Bundt
Fiona Thraille
Jade Shand
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