trois flaneurs

Kenzie is staying at the moment. Charlie pissed on his head while he was sniffing a bush. I think he liked it. He then pissed on her front paws. She didn't seem to notice. Barry is happy to have Kenzie around as he is the best double-faceted friend: he is older and wiser than Barry but Barry is about twice his size now.

three terrors

Charlie, Barry and Kenzie at Altona dog beach today



We went to Altona Ice but it was closed!!! Till Tuesday, bastards.

monsters

Barry is already matching Kenzie in size and aggression. Charlie: 'I really need a drink'

scenes from a dog walk

Guest star: Kenzie

kenzie's staying over

I feel like Hugo Weaving's character in Proof. After I uploaded this picture I thought, 'god that stupid  broken chair is still there!' Our garden is littered with broken chairs (and my half-finished projects, but that's another issue). Oh, and dog shit. 

goodnight mr kenzie

Kenzie is staying for a few days which of course Charlie loves particularly because she can be a complete drama queen about it. Here she is staring him down in her inimitable style. He takes it on the chin.

(Note Millie on the right, asleep and generally not giving a loose root)

So Kenzie and Charlie's eyes are kind of locked, and Charlie will occasionally whine conversationally, though frankly he's not an innocent and will provoke situations with Charlie particularly in cases of getting pats from the humans, which normally wouldn't be top of Charlie's priorities but suddenly becomes very important.

cops all over the trains tonight

Who knows what that's about. I've more or less completely lost my voice but they have yet to take away my mind - or is it? Anyway, I was able to do a lecture today, kind of, and I was also able to have long conversations with colleagues where it all seemed to work OK, but I did say at the end of the day, if it gets any worse I'm not coming in tomorrow, which I think I can do.

In fact most of the day was entering marks for students, which takes a long time - one of those things you'd think wouldn't, and then, you see, it does.

Kenzie is staying with us I wonder what he expects to have for dinner.

Here's a funny thing a girl said on the train tonight to her friends, 'I was in Sunshine with Jack watching... Stepford something and I was going to go home and I didn't and I called my dad and just left a message and the next day he called me and said [Name, whatever, can't remember] did you come home last night? and I was 'Nuh!' (Laughter).

well, actually...

I think he has been made aware that he is, in fact a dog not my mother's youngest baby, so that's probably a good thing, in the sense that disillusionment is probably when all's said and done at the end of the day, a good thing. No amount of rehabilitation/ surgery/ skilled lying by those around will make him less of a dog and more of a person.

I do note an interesting degree of factionalism. As I mentioned, yesterday it was Kenzie and Charlie on patrol. Last night it was Kenzie and Millie guarding the house (from us) when we came home. This morning it was also Kenzie and Millie at the back door, with Charlie in her crows' nest position at Mia's alpine yert (stop me if I am being ridiculously obtuse with this detail). I am not sure whether these divides are real or whether it's just Kenzie does what he does, Millie doesn't care what he does, and Charlie does, so when she gets pissed off she pisses off; or whether perhaps Kenzie is up to some politicking.

Whatever, as you can see, it fascinates me like so many things with no possible solution.

or maybe

it was a 'let me in, i'm not a dog like them' dance, but he does it every morning anyway.

bizarre resolution (dogs)

I am so used to dogs being unmanageable in a barely bearable way, that I am astonished to report that it has all more or less resolved nicely. Kenzie has become Charlie's lieutenant in patrolling the grounds. Millie has become some kind of Queen Victoria figure, only occasionally (and I reckon tokenistically) expressing dominance over Charlie who will in turn express it over Kenzie (in a 'naughty dolly' way). Yesterday morning the sight of Charlie and Millie's silly sleepy heads watching from their beds as Kenzie did a morning dance was nothing short of hilarious. They looked like the archetypal exhausted parents.