Tom Joyce's chamber of the bizarre

Thanks to my friend Doug for making me aware of this list of two-sentence horror stories. He challenged me to write my own. It’s nowhere near as good as any from the list, but here’s what I came up with:

I smacked him with a rolled-up newspaper and yelled at him when I woke to find that he’d once again slipped his chain and left the torn-up remains of a neighborhood cat on the lawn. “If you don’t like it,” he said, “get a dog.”