Taking The Animals Along…

摘要

It's 6 a.m. and raining... yep... cats 'n dogs. I've escaped from the starboard hull in a brief respite to crawl into the wheel-house - or doghouse in this case Assuming the comfiest position on the big, red beanbag is Stella - our 13 1/2-year-old, snoring, garbage-breathed, fetid-coated Miniature Pinscher. It's not that we don't love her, it's just that old age has transformed her from a cute, prancing delight to a strangely shaped, smelly and slothy cockroach type of thing. When not just laughing or trying to ignore her, people have described her in various ways, "keg on toothpicks" being one of the more common.