Anyway, when he got to about four years old, my wife suggested it would be nice to get him a little friend. To be honest, I wasn’t keen on the idea, but she started looking at a website where people advertise dogs for sale. Every so often she’d say, “Oh look, isn’t he cute”, and I’d say, “He’s too expensive”, or “He’s too far away” etc...
Then one day she saw these two Llasa Apsos called Teddy and Tilly and I had to admit they did look nice. Over the next few days, she kept going back to the website and so, one evening, when she was out, and I’d had a couple of glasses of vino collapso, I rung up the woman who was advertising Teddy and Tilly for sale.
“Sorry,” she said. “Teddy is already spoken for. Someone is coming to pick him up on Sunday.”
That was the point when I should have said, “Okay. Sorry to have bothered you. Goodbye.” What I actually said was, “If you can persuade this other person that they would be better off if they weren’t separated, I’ll have them both.”
I left her my name and phone number. Ten minutes later, she called back to say the other buyer quite understood and it would be so much better if they weren’t separated, and so if I wanted them and didn’t mind driving three hours to get them and three hours back, I could have them.
Two dogs? To add to one we already had and who might not get along with them? Three hours drive away? I should have said no way. What I said was, “See you Saturday.”
And this is Teddy and Tilly…
They all get on fine and I really don’t know how anyone would ever want just the one dog. Mind you, taking three for a walk at the same time is a bit of a do. You remember maypole dancing, the way kids used to dance around a pole holding ribbons, in and out of each other so that the ribbons made a pattern? Well, think of it like that, but with leads instead of ribbons and with a dog on the end of each one.
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