Clinic Notes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Redux

Last year I read the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. The protagonist in the novel is a boy with autism and is one of the best descriptions of the disorder that I have read. In a recent Schaffer Report reporter Jim Maniaci (http://www.gallupindependent.com/
2006/july/071206deaddog.html)
describes another "curious incident" in which a New Mexico woman returned home to find her autistic grandson's dog shot. She put the dog's body in a box by the road and her child frequently visited the temporary grave a number of times. The deputy investigating the case returned several days later and advised the grandmother she would have to bury the dog or call animal control because of the flies