Ye Dogs

The initial plan, when we first conceived of adopting more dogs, was to get Peanut a playmate. We felt guilty leaving him all by himself when we went off to work, and would clean up the chewed up bits of furniture and other items of import without complaint, knowing that his loneliness and frustration that were causing it all.

Enter Kanga (right in above picture). Before she came to be known as Kanga, she was just a little mongrel bitch that we'd noticed in the compound of our apartment complex. She seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, probably abandoned by some yuppie owner, and was mostly by herself and wagged her tail at anyone who passed by. During one of our nightly walks with Peanut, Amit decided that she was coming home with us. And there was born Peanut's new roommate. Finally, we thought, ends the DVD chewing and the paper ripping and the slipper chewing. Finally, Peanut will have someone to play with. Of course, you've probably already realised our joy was shortlived. The addition to the family appeared to give Peanut an accomplice in crime. For now, our furniture is chewed by not one, but two dogs. Twice the destruction to DVDs and other necessities of life (including lingerie) is now caused. And we now have to be bent at the task of housecleaning twice a day thanks to the puddles and poo piles left around by Kanga.

The best laid schemes of men can only be laid to waste by a dog he loves.