{"id":33,"date":"2007-02-13T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/s-a-dogs-life\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:07:29","slug":"s-a-dogs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/s-a-dogs-life\/","title":{"rendered":"‘S a Dog’s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visitors to our abode have to be vetted by The Dog<\/b>, a mongrel big of heart, if not stature. (There’s The Cat<\/b> somewhere on the property as well, whom, should The Dog fail, be our insurgency force.)<\/p>\n

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Summer – summer-proper, rather than the summer-in-name-only<\/a> we had earlier – has arrived. As I hunch over the keyboard in the study, The Dog roams the house and surrounds, cycling through: the kids’ rooms where she moults furiously; the lounge where various breezes meet and cool her down; and the deck where she slow-bakes herself.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I look up from the inevitably blank screen and envy her simple Dog Life. Of course, it’s not that simple, really – she has her responsibilities: she protects both home and family from visitors, strangers and hedgehogs; she’s a great receptacle for dinner scraps; and she gets us out of the house for exercise or play.<\/p>\n

Sure, The Dog needs regular exercise (or she’ll be overzealous in her protection of home and hearth [which is not good<\/strong> in Auckland]) and is a social animal through and through (it’s us owners who suffer separation anxiety when we leave her alone for more than a few hours). But when the children are at school and The Goddess is out doing Godly Work, it’s nice to have her around – panting in the heat, spread out on the floor for heat dissipation, or sitting and hoping that I’ve forgotten that I’ve already fed her.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Good dog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visitors to our abode have to be vetted by The Dog, a mongrel big of heart, if not stature. (There’s The Cat somewhere on the property as well, whom, should The Dog fail, be our insurgency force.) Summer – summer-proper, rather than the summer-in-name-only we had earlier – has arrived. As I hunch over the … <\/p>\n

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