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Humans Can Lick Too

 

The following are variations of the same basic legend. (Also see Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn On The Light )

 

A young lady is alone in her apartment. She goes to bed with her dog on the floor beside her. In the middle of the night, she is woken up by a strange sound. She is alarmed, but reaches down to the dog, who licks her hand. She is reassured and goes back to sleep.

In the morning, she finds the dog hung in the shower. Where the dog slept, she picks up a note which reads "Humans can lick too."

There was a girl who had a dog that would lie under her bed.  Whenever she wanted to know if everything was okay, she would put her hand under the bed. If the dog licked her hand, that meant everything was all right.

One night the girl was home alone, and she was in bed.  She heard a noise like a dog panting.  She put her hand under the bed and the dog licked it.  Later that night she wanted to get something to eat.  She went down to the kitchen.  WHen she got to the kitchen she heard, "drip, drip, drip."  She went over to the sink, but the tap wasn't dripping.  In the sink, though, there was a bloody knife.

After she saw the knife, she backed up and backed into the fridge.  Again she heard, "drip, drip, drip."   She opened the fridge door, and out swung her butchered dog.  On the dog there was a note that said, "Humans can lick too."

"...But Brooks best example of the [Jersey] Devil infiltrating an urban legen, is a story about a girl staying in her house during a fierce storm.  She is alone except for her dog.

Several times during the night she wakes, and her dog licks her hand.  At dawn she finds that her dog has been slashed to death, and written on the wall in it's blood are the words, 'Jersey Devils lick hands too.'"