“I just don’t know why they dumb down the poodle by mixing it with something else!” Alisha Brunetti exclaims, throwing her hands up in the air as she turns to look at Braxton, the poodle and schnauzer mix on her grooming table. The schnoodle stares back at her, eyes blinking. He whines, and Alisha turns to him, cooing. “You’re such a sweetheart but you’re being such a butt.” Scolded, Braxton shuts up for a moment, his ears perking up in a perfect semblance of confusion and faked innocence. Braxton’s patience is wearing thin, as he has been at BYOD (bring your own dog) for about an hour. Located in Newton Centre, the store invites dog owners to bathe and shop for their dog themselves, while Alisha is tasked with the grooming. Decked with a …show more content…
“She’s just too nice,” Sam puts it simply, and then prompts Alisha to launch into her tales of customer service, which she calls the “single biggest challenge of my job.” Despite only working at BYOD for six months, Alisha has an arsenal of horror stories, mostly about the dog’s owners. As she recounts them, her voice drops to a whisper, as if spilling a nasty piece of gossip at a high school lunch table. Her stories range from the tale of one woman who booked eight separate appointments, each lasting several hours, to demat her dog because she didn’t want him shaved, to the multiple clients who use human shampoo on their dogs, drying out their skin. Alisha shudders at the last one, evidently feeling for the poor dogs. “And most clients are ambiguous– people don’t even know what they want,” she adds. Laughing, she mimics them. “‘I trust you– make them look good.’ Or ‘leave it long but not too long,’” she says in a high-pitched voice. “And recently I had ‘make them look sporty.’ What does that even mean?! Sporty?!” Alisha takes a sharp intake of breath as she recounts the “strangest comment I’ve ever had.” Giggling, Alisha lowers her voice. “Ready for this one? One lady told me ‘Wow!! He looks really grooooomed!!!’” She stretches out the “oo” sound in the word “groomed” to last several seconds and then throws her head back, cracking herself up. “Okayyyy… I think that’s a good thing??” “One hazard of this job– loss of one’s mind!” Alisha shouts, mostly laughing, but also with a slight frown on her face as she recalls these stories. Sam nods along to her tales, reiterating her point about Alisha being “too nice.” Sam continues, “I mean, who else would agree to demat one dog over eight different appointments? She helps the customer before she helps
For example, one of their dogs, Boris, was able to push Flea around in his wheelchair. The widow asked how Flea had taught him to do that and he claimed “ I didn’t” (27). She felt very unhappy about this because it was her job as the wife to take care of her husband. She felt as if the dogs had taken over the role of caregiver and she was not happy about it at all.
As the novel How to Steal a Dog continues, Georgina, Toby and their mother are now living in a moldy, broken-down house with no water or electricity. This is a slight improvement to their living conditions and was overlooked by the misfortunate events regarding their mother's employment. This motivates Georgina to initiate a plan of stealing a dog to save their financial problems. Moreover, the section of this novel where Georgina's mother got fired really shows how relatable and real the protagonist's situation is. It reminds me of when my father got laid off of his job after working for a company for over 15 years. Not everyone has money and not everyone lives a happy, perfect life. Additionally, Georgina and Toby's relationship is like every
Faye is fighting to re-home animals that have been abandoned and abused. Since 2012 she has re-homed more than 60 dogs, and about 20 kittens. Faye says, “I would do anything no matter what to save one animal.” It’s as if her whole entire life revolves around saving animals. Faye thinks just by adopting an animal you can help animal abandonment. Also, Faye has her own book on why animal abandonment isn’t good. Although Faye thinks her job is stressful, she thinks it’s easy because she enjoys doing her job and helping animals find a home.
“The school bus comes at eight. You will get up at six. Go to the hen house and bring back the eggs. While I prepare breakfast, you will wash the eggs. After breakfast, you will do the dishes. After school, you’ll have more chores to do, then you will help me prepare the supper. After you do the supper fishes, you will go to your room and stay there. You’ll also keep yourself and the room clean. I know you half breeds, you love to wallow in filth, “the boys” Ricky” said to Mrs. DeRosier, ‘Is that the new half-breed girl we’re getting? She doesn’t look like the last squaw we
Miss Brill is without any relatives or close friends. She has no acquaintances to converse with. Therefore, she treats her fur as if it were a pet. Her fur is a “dear little thing” (98) with eyes and a tail. She sometimes feels like “stroking” it (98).
In the short story “Dog,” Russo paints the picture of a strong willed boy who is amongst parents who don’t understand what the real problem which is his lack of parents attention and bad parenting when dealing with his extreme obsessions over getting a dog.
Have you ever wondered what your pets are thinking? Personally, I wonder all the time. I purposely mess with my dog to see how he reacts. Well, now you can at least get an idea of what they are thinking. The humorous short story, ¨A Conversation With My Dogs,¨ by Merrill Markoe is about a dog owner who is having a conversation with her dogs Bob and Stan about how they follow her around everywhere. The author is attempting to portray the thoughts of dogs when communicating with them. In this instance, the owner is confused about why they want to follow her everywhere. This short story is a high comedy that uses witty humor and situational irony to make the audience laugh while giving the lesson.
...her. The attendants are helping the students gather up the animals and reassure the patients. When all the animal are loaded, the students all say their good-byes and pile into the van. "See you next week," they shout. As the van pulls away from the curb, a plummy, shaggy-haired puppy sadly barks his good-bye through the back window.
Jared Wagman picked up to a very mad Brendon Sischy. Jared Wagman calmly assured him that most man-eating capybaras grimace before mating, yet legless puppies usually wildly yawn *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Brendon Sischy. Why was Jared Wagman trying to distract Brendon Sischy? Because he had snuck out from Brendon Sischy's with the Phone only two days prior. It was a sassy little Phone... how could he resist?
She didn’t know if the dog had diseases, problems, anger, or anything, yet her first reaction to the dog was to bring it inside. On page 17 the text says, “Doris trudged through the yard, went up the shoveled drive, and met the dog. ‘Come on, Pooch.’” She went up to the dog, and let it inside without caring about diseases, problems, anger, or anything wrong with it. She did not know where the pup came from, and never thought twice about leaving it in the street, and that proves that she is a sweet person because she doesn’t care where you come from, she gives love to anyone in
When I first arrived “Lisa” The girl that I shadowed told me that there was an emergency with one of the animals. It ended up that a one-year-old beagle ate an entire thing of metabolite, and then slowly started to die. The liver had shut down, and the heart rate was up to 300. Lisa told me that taking a thing of metabolite was like taking 50 cups of coffee at once. The owners of the beagle were there and bowling. The beagle’s name was Murry. Murry's body slowly was shutting down one thing after another. The owners made the decision the dog was going to be put to sleep. We got the dog ready to be taken out. They undid all the cords from the dog so they could take it to another room. I said goodbye to the dog, and then they took it into the other room so that the owners could be there when they put him to sleep. After that happened they then had to put a sleep a little hedgehog that had cancer on its mouth. We then did two regular checkups with one cat and with one dog. Those when great. After that we had a dog come in and it ended up having an affection that might end up killing it. I never heard the end result. The last thing that I did there was that a black lab had been bitten by another dog, and that dog ripped a hole in the neck of the black lab. The doctors had to perform surgery on the dog to close up the holes in the neck. They first had to clean it out with qutips. And blood stated to come out right then I was a little dizzy and I thought I was going to faint. But thank god I didn’t. I saw a cat get dental work on it. And a cat get a bath and they had to blow dry it and brush the hair while it was a sleep.
I have never considered that a book about a dog could be so appealing and full of deep thoughts. But I changed my viewpoint after reading the autobiographical novel “Marley & Me” written by John Grogan which depicts an astonishing story about the neurotic and loyal, clumsy and loving dog named Marley. In fact, as the author mentioned in some interviews, he intended to write the “dog story”, but soon after he realized that it was impossible to do so without including the family life [2]. That is why the title “Marley & Me” encapsulates the main topic of the book such as the relationship between a human and a pet. To start with let me introduce main characters: John, Jenny, and Marley.
makes references back to the animals she cares for and comes in contact with on
“That dog is so futile! All he does is sniff, bark, and whine! I can’t tolerate with such a dog!” I sighed to myself as my beagle, Puddles, circumnavigated around me, twitching his tail. I pushed him away and perambulated off to my room. I am not friends with animals, and even though I live on an old farm with my grandfather and grandmother, animals are not one of my interests. Puddles, was an old dog but with much energy. He was constantly jumping up and down on people with his muddy, and feculent paws.
This is a story of Max, who went to sleep an ordinary boy and woke up with an unordinary ability. The ability to with his dog Comet.