Dogs and I have never gotten along, whether it was a goofy labrador or a ferocious German shepherd. Even so, I had to vow to take my husband – and his 10-year-old Beagle – in sickness and in health, until death do us part.
So I trod forth with caution, taking it one date at a time. But soon came the day when I was walking up the stairs to his home, to come face-to-face with one of my greatest fears. To my relief, the tiny little “Veenie”, as everyone affectionately calls her, was one of the most docile and calm dogs I’d ever met. She just circled me, took a few sniffs, and on confirming I wasn’t here to rob or murder her entire family, walked back to her bed to finish her nap.
Love does make you do things you hadn’t imagined doing before. People give up careers, some move across countries and even continents, some change food habits, and some, like me, have to learn the difference between how a dog sits when she’s peeing and when she’s defecating. My family and friends were shocked when they learnt that I’d be Venus’ primary caregiver, because my husband and I live by ourselves and don’t have full-time help.
In the last two-and-a-half months, I’ve had to learn how to make Venus swallow medicines without getting my hand bitten off, clean her paws and privates every time we return from a walk, measure an appropriate amount of food for each meal so as to not have turn her into a dog-Hulk, take her for vet visits and keep her calm enough so she doesn’t jump off the doctor’s table, train her to sleep on her own bed because there isn’t place for three on ours, and figure which bark means “feed me now,...
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