Flop

And while on pets, here’s the new addition to our family.


Looks coy and innocent but she's very street-smart, being one of the pups I mentioned in these posts. After the last of her siblings got adopted she was left by herself and the adult dogs in the neighborhood were snapping at her, so we decided to take her in – she spends the days with my mom (who pampers her outrageously) and then sulks when she has to come to our (considerably less exciting) apartment for the night. (It must feel like having to go to a boarding-school hostel each night, as my wife puts it.) She's long-limbed and has magnificent frown lines that remind me of Laurence Olivier playing Heathcliff. The resemblance isn't immediately apparent, but trust me.

We’re still undecided on a name: informally she’s Foxy, because mum believes she’s reincarnated from a recently deceased dog she used to call by that name. I’ve suggested Flopsy because of her ears and because it sounds enough like Foxy for her not to get too confused at this late stage, but my mother objects that we’d then have to nickname her “Flop”, which would be pessimistic. She wants her to be a very successful dog.

(And no, I won't be sending photos of her to unsuspecting people on email. Can't afford to do that after all my rantings about parents who share baby pictures.)

Pupdate

And then there were five.


One of the pups has left the building, so to speak. She was very weak to begin with and had a festering wound, which didn't get many chances to heal what with the huge number of insects in the immediate vicinity. For the last few days we’ve been applying ointment and a spray on a vet’s prescription, but it all came too late for her. The others are doing reasonably well as of now, though I would be very surprised if all of them survived the next couple of months. Tried to get them taken in by Friendicoes but those guys already have far more animals than they can handle (many of which are diseased) and they told us candidly that pups this age wouldn't survive long in their shelter. Still, we’ve got the first round of vaccinations done (the next is due on September 1) and they get a good supply of milk and bread daily.




As mentioned earlier, please circulate this post/my mail ID to anyone who might be interested in adoption.

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Pups require a home

Dog-lovers in Delhi who would like to provide a home to any of six mongrel pups, please send me an email on the ID on the Profile page. The pups are around a month old, “have very good personality”, as the matrimonial ads say, and are currently residing in the lane behind our house in Saket.


They’ve been well cared for by the local security guards, and we’ve been giving them milk and bread daily, but there’s the danger that they’ll start moving onto the main roads soon and get hit by cars. Please get in touch if you’re interested, or if you know of anyone who is. Here's a short clip of two of the little chaps wrestling.