Cheers man! It's based on the fact, partly, that he's no longer around for me to get clarification on the details of what happened, and sort of pieced together from half-remembered stories which were true, and an actual fiction novel he wrote called STOPCOCK which was semi-autobiograhical but also featured a guy called STOPCOCK who believed the dogs were definitely going to take over the world and could communicate sentiently, and were planning their attack, and it was never entirely clear whether it turned out to be true or not, in the novel, that is.
I'm not sure if the manuscript survives any more, actually. I really liked it, though.