The Antelope Wife: Reality

Windigo Dog visits Klaus in Chapter 12 but is very harsh to him.  It is expressed that the Klaus is only food for the dog.  He is not a human who judges, "Utter animal hunger that did not care whether you were sober or brave or had your hard-won GED certificate let alone a degree.  No matter.  Just food" (166 in large print book).  Although Windigo Dog was not there to judge Klaus he was only visiting for food.  He gives Klaus a sense of reality, begins licking Klaus until he cries hysterically.  At this point the dog breaths into his face and tells him a "dirty dog joke"(166).  Windigo Dog was punishing him for being drunk yet again.