Guardians of the food chain

As said before, we were not this bad always. When exactly we graduated from ‘animal lovers’ to… is difficult to pinpoint. When I got married I was a dog lover (PLEASE note just dogs) and my husband a nature lover – all into plants and birds, the sky, etc. Unfortunately my dogs won the day. They dug up his plants with such gusto that he had no option but to give in and switch camps. (At times, I wonder wistfully, what would have happened if he had a more dominating personality? Perhaps we would have had a beautiful rose garden instead of our circus.) My daughters took after both of us and carried this love to a different level altogether. Often I feel trapped in a web that was started off by me to a great extent.

I remember R weeping quietly because we were just feeding a dog which…