No humans can know that dogs are aliens. This is all the two alien races agree on. Otherwise, the big dogs and the little dogs are rivals. They have been here on Earth thousands of years, bickering over a resource unknown to humans.
_____________________________________________

Humans often think a little dog (Nique) is trying to pick a fight with a big dog (Kaxian). In actual fact, the Niques always just try to annoy us Kaxians enough so we will get in trouble with the humans and get sent to the animal shelter. Annoying Kaxians is what the Niques do. It's their purpose in life. Well, that, and stealing our jex.

Half to annoy us, and half to make trouble for us with the humans, the Niques started shouting out lies in the wolf language that everyone but the humans understood:

"Humans!"
"Come help us, humans!"
"These big dogs are going to hurt us!"

Three humans were walking down the sidewalk on the edge of civilization. They were all young males: past puberty, but not by much.

"Great," I thought, "school must be out for the day. It's getting late. My human will be home soon, and I need to be in the yard, or he will find the hole I dug under the fence."

Our defense leader, Heg, once again kept us focused on the task at hand.
"Turn around and look like you're hunting something inside the tunnel."

Oddly, when Heg said that, I thought I saw a picture of all of us looking like wolves and hunting some prey that was digging into the tunnel. It must have been my imagination, but it was pretty vivid, and showed me exactly where to fit into the tunnel mouth between Skil and Crash. The Niques were in the picture, too, only they also looked like wolves, baby wolves who were also hunting the prey that was tunneling. The picture flashed in my mind for only a second, and then it was gone.

I decided to think about the picture later, to figure out what it meant and why I had seen it. Right now, I was in a big hurry to get to this empty spot I noticed, between Skil and Crash. I thought it would be a good spot for me to add to the blockade and help prevent the Niques from getting into our mine.