Maybe I used to live on a ship.
I don't remember anything from my earlier life,
the life before I was brought to the animal shelter where my humans found me.
But sometimes I surprise everybody when I appear to be familiar with something.
It started when I showed my humans I knew how to wait at a curb before crossing a street.
They told each other: Joop must have lived in a city, not on a farm.
Next I showed them I could run with a bicycle.
They told each other: Joop’s old humans must have been riding bicycles a lot,
maybe they didn't even own a car
(it took some time before I could ride in a car without getting all nervous).
When I saw this old river freighter I didn't think twice and jumped right on the gangplank.
I crossed the deck and would have gone into the wheelhouse if my human hadn’t called me back.
Somehow it all seemed so familiar.
So now I wonder: can it be that in my old life I was... Joop the Sailor Dog?