Five short stories. <br />- Inu wo Kau (Raising a Dog)<br />- Soshite Neko wo Kau (And Then, Caring for a Cat)<br />- Niwa no Nagame (View of the Backyard)<br />- Sannin no Hibi (Three People's Days)<br />- Yakusoku no Chi (Promised Land)<br /><br />The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.<br /><br />Inu wo Kau won the Shogakukan Manga Award (examination committee special) in 1992.