Today
is a lucky day for a post about Biscuit (my going on seven Labrador pet for
those of you who are yet not introduced to him!). He is exactly seven days shy
of his seventh birthday which falls on the seventh of July (now how lucky can
it get!).
There
is another story about Labradors getting to be seven which I do not want to
believe and Biscuit surely is not giving any indications of it, they are
expected to get mature at seven. I just hope it is not true and Biscuit does
not grow up, we like him the way he is!
Last
week during our walk, a young man was deferentially walking behind us not
wanting to cross Biscuit’s path. I let him cross us as Biscuit decided to give
a patch of money plant all his remaining urine after subjecting it to intense
sniffing. The man asked if he bites and if he is trained. When he got negatives
for these two, he heaped the ultimate insult that it must be costing the moon
to maintain him! I think the guy got our relation wrong, we do not keep Biscuit
to guard us and we do not count our pennies when bringing up Biscuit!
I
have commented on Biscuit’s pusillanimity earlier, he is just one grade below
the Vitalstatisix who believed that the skies are falling. With Biscuit, his
nemesis is any vessel (or anything which has potential to make noise on falling
down!). To be fair to him, the chances of getting hurt by a hot utensil falling
on you is more than the skies falling! Apart from this, he has his fears of diesel
vehicles.
His
control over his tongue is something which I would very much like to emulate.
He effortlessly switched from packaged food (like Pedigree) to a diet of multi
grain chapatis with lots of curds and milk and finally a vegan diet of rice,
pulses and vegetables (that too salt free!). To top it all he is consuming this
with sweet tasting Ayurvedic medicine said to prevent bone issues later in
life. Compared to his austerities, I feel childish crowing about my Vegan
experiment (with a few slippages in the earlier part!). I have learnt that this
could be because dogs are said to have only a quarter of the number of taste
buds which we humans have, factor in the relative sizes of the tongues, we can
safely say that the fault is in the taste buds and not our stars!
He
used to rush across the tiled floor on hearing the door bell go at around the
time of my return from office. Fearing his hurting himself in the process,
Missus and I decided on a plan. I used to give my wife a call on her mobile
when I reached the lift the idea was for me to come and meet him inside without
his rushing out. To our pleasant surprise, he started rushing to the door on
hearing her mobile ringing in the evening at around the time of my arrival. If
only offices had Biscuit, punctuality would not have been an issue!
He
has become slow in climbing on to the bed and does not show so much enthusiasm
in chasing squirrels and ageing is there for all of us to see, but, the child
like habit of climbing on to your lap shows that the child in him would never
grow up.
The
advance posting about Biscuit is to ensure that all good people should come to
the aid of the party and ensure that their wishes reach him well in time for
his birthday.
On
the running front, last two days have been fruitful and I have been able to put
in my usual quota of run albeit slower and ending with a battered leg. The good
news is that the recovery is getting faster and I am not complaining. The road
rollers have been my nightmare too (just like Biscuit’s) considering that they
leave behind tar coated jelly as instruments of torture for my soles! Today
these instruments of terror were marking the territory around the war-memorial,
forcing me to run two loops to RBI and back.
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