The Story of Sasha Part II

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Guest writer:Chitra Sherman

I was jittery. Sasha was coming home today….

One more item on my busy schedule… feeding, training this new member of the family…. I had to juggle my schedules again… Would I be able to do it efficiently?.

Not that the others would not contribute. However, housebreaking is something only I had shown success in the past!! (I have been labeled a tyrant because I am quite strict about dog behavior/training)

Our Dalmatian arrived pre christened in her erstwhile home as Sasha wrapped in the blanket. We live on a quiet road.  However, just as Sasha arrived, a bike roared past, and little Sasha literally jumped out of her skin and was shivering!

 We later came to know that the noise gave her a jolt because she had spent the first 75 days of her life in a farm tucked away in the quiet suburbs of the city.  The outcome of this incident?  She never let us take her for a walk! Toilet training was confined to my garden which had just begun to look lovely!  For Sasha, I shelved my gardening projects temporarily.

Slowly we realized that Sasha had an identity crisis!!

We thought she was a dog and she thought she was human!! You may ask how?? You should observe how she sits…she is the only dog that I have seen who sits on her backside as humans do. She loves bananas, ice creams, cakes, chocolates you name the junk food and she loves it.

She can be quite cunning too!! When I am around alone she rarely begs at the table.  However, when guests arrive, she changes her attitude…She is, in fact, in her worst behavior. She is all around the place looking for scraps.

To reach the tasty tidbits she will do anything …push her self between chairs tables, sprawl at my husband’s feet… or sit in a classic begging posture and make eye contact with the guests. Naturally they fall for her charm and feed her generously and our Sasha sits back later happy and satisfied about a job well done!

(To be continued)

About the writer:   

Chitra Sherman had a successful marketing career.  Right now she runs a music school and loves to nurture young talent.  She is also a freelance writer.  She has written several e-books on dogs and has edited children’s books too.  The present writeup is on her pet Dalmatian, a dog that she and her family adore.