The Antelope Wife: Almost Soup perspective

"You hear things you'd never want to know," states the dog of Cally, Almost Soup.
The perspective of the dog is rather odd at first, the purpose is unclear.  The more I read in chapter 8 the more I realize that an animal's perspective gives an outsider's perspective to human reality.  The dog sees and understands things in ways the humans overlook.  Humans are too wrapped up in their own issues that they cannot take a moment to look at their lives thoroughly and reflect.  The dog hears things that are disturbing and "doesn't want to know."  It took me back a bit when an animal didn't even want to know about the lives of humans, that it was too horrid to want to know.