In the whirlwind of words and sounds unleashed here, the most beautiful slapstick moments come to life. Moreover, "Hundshirn" shines with a delicately composed choreography of characters, which culminates in a comprehensive family reunion that unfolds into an artistic dance of couples. Franzobel mostly narrates in "dog language" and from a knee-high, or rather, dog-nose perspective, sharing the experiences of a street mutt made of language: interacting with various people, the behavior researcher Dr. Katz, his housekeeper, his assistant, his research project, and all their relatives, as well as everything that is on the table and occasionally falls from it. However, no more will be revealed here, only that Punkti, or Kepler—dogs are given new names by everyone they meet—are among the best-understood literary dogs.