Meet Zidane and Meninha, my two Mistakes as I’ve christened them.
Meninha and Zidane
Zidane is the black male and Meninha is the beige female.
Zidane was an impulse buy for which I blame Justine entirely ; she saw me playing with him and said “ I had no idea you liked puppies this much, just go ahead and buy him.” So I did. But I left him with the owner for a week cause I was going to be in Lome for Take Our Daughters to Work Week. Lo and behold, on my return, there were TWO puppies at my house. I was sitting on my porch cradling my head in my hands, whimpering “Two dogs? Two dogs? I cannot have two dogs.” Justine explained that Zidane’s owner had refused to give her the correct amount of change back so she took the second dog as collateral, so to speak, in order to guarantee her money. “But now,” she said, looking at me hopefully, “we can’t separate them. They’ll cry too much. They should stay together.” “Justine. We. Cannot. Have. Two. Dogs. One was a terrible enough mistake as it was. I’m leaving in three months.”
But, being a sucker, both dogs have stayed and are wreaking havoc on my life…. Justine’s family has been very cooperative, letting me bring them over to Justine’s workshop if I want to hang out … Adjo thinks they are living dolls and carries them around like babies….
A bunch more photos of the pups can be found at the normal site, as well as another album of photos from Take Our Daughters to Work Week (sept 28 – oct 2)
