My mum and dad eventually realised I was happy being a little freak. And so is Basil
Rescue greyhound Basil. ‘Initially I was just relieved that Basil hadn’t murdered one of the other attenders of the daycare.’Rescue greyhound Basil. ‘Initially I was just relieved that Basil hadn’t murdered one of the other attenders of the daycare.’fter his first day of daycare, my long, stinky son Basil came home with a report card that said he’d been well-behaved but also needed to work on “appropriate play”. As a parent, I decided to take this constructive criticism normally.
Basil is a dog, a rescue greyhound, trained to chase things for entertainment, and the fear that he might see a small, white, fluffy dog running and tear it to pieces is unfortunately real. Obviously I’d done my due diligence, training and testing him with other dogs in controlled environments before getting to this stage, but the fear persists.
My parents did their best to help me, my dad spending a night teaching me how to “walk normally”, or my mother giving a speech about standing up to bullies, which resulted in me hiding up a tree and throwing a cooked fish at a girl named Lauren. When they suggested I share my interests with the class, I somehow ended up with a regular teaching slot where I would lecture everyone on ancient Egypt while the teacher had a smoke, which was obviously very cool.
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