Celeb Dogs

tHURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010

Celeb dogs

One of my duties is minding the family dog. We share Gabe, our dogwalker with a famous TV news anchor.  She has two small, spoilt dogs. Anyway, Gabe the dogwalker just turned up this afty to collect ours with only one dog. "Where's the Bossman?" I asked, referring to the news lady's absent bossy boy-dog. "Oh, he didn't want to come" says Gabe. Because let me tell ya people,  dogs in New York City have OPTIONS.

Not ours. She is big and hairy with a B.O problem. Keeping her off the soft furnishings is a running battle. Dogs and mattresses don't go together. They create a two-way stink guaranteed to result in the departure of one or the other from a home within weeks. What then, must a doggy pushchair smell like? Only asking because I've seen about 5  near my West Side Home. It's just not on. I don't care how poorly the dog or the owner is, everyone involved looks tragic and smelly. End dogs in pushchairs now!!

By the way,  NYC dog owners don't train their dogs. They apologise wearily for their pet's savagery/barking and cling on to their leashes for LIFE. In the UK I reckon most dogs are trained and off the leash, they certainly were in our bit of North London. Brits love their pets but they are not ga-ga over them. We may be a nation of dog lovers but New Yorkers call themselves 'pet parents' and go to 'pet parenting' classes.
Bluddy ludicrous.