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Dogs are another lockdown victim. Why, after all these centuries, don't we know how to raise them?
Over time, the instinctive friendship between man and mutt has evolved into an indulgent romance
18 January 2021 • 7:00am
I’m getting a puppy! You can tell the breeder is reputable because she asked more questions than I did. Garden? Check. No cat, no carpet, plenty of spare time. “I think you’ll want a male,” she said at the end of the interview. “If you’re a single man," she seemed to suggest, "a girl will wrap you around her finger”.
Quite right. When I was a boy, I was the personal servant to a fat beagle. She had the body of Hattie Jacques but the eyes of Sophia Loren, and when she was peckish, she shared her present mood by standing on my chest and looking deep into my soul. I was putty in her hands.