The story of "The Scent Script"

Actual name of dog written language is still in discussion.

Dogs originally communicated through scent, not writing.

Long before humans noticed, dogs realized that important scent messages disappeared. Rain washed them away. New scents covered old ones. A magnificent pee-post could lose centuries of history in a single afternoon.

So dogs began creating marks that represented scents.

Not words.

Not sounds.

Scents.

The earliest symbols were scratched into dirt beside important poles. Eventually they became standardized across neighborhoods.

Over time these symbols spread from pole to pole until a complete written system emerged.

Dogs didn't think humans understand their language at all.

Then one day, Cisco noticed a particular human staring at and sniffing a utility pole for a long time. 

This human starts making suspiciously accurate translations.

The dogs become convinced he is some kind of linguistic prodigy.

A council of Morrison Street dogs decide the human is trustworthy enough and create a formal agreement with the human to create a newspaper.

• Dogs provide content

• Dogs retain editorial control

• Human provides typing

The human is now known as Translator to the dog community.

You can ask Translator to translate your own short messages