No sooner had Bjørn the French bulldog arrived than he was peeing all over our lovely boy Bowler. As for what he got up to on our bed …
Photograph: damedeeso/Getty Images/iStockphotoPhotograph: damedeeso/Getty Images/iStockphotoe have a dog – Bowler – and he is a saint. He’s affectionate, a quick learner and has a primordial understanding of why he should pee on the pads we bought for that purpose, rather than our floors. At the age of one, he went completely blind . We decided to get him a pal – same breed, obviously, because Bowler deserved that same level of wonderfulness. So we got Bjørn.
Bjørn ate his pee-pads , secretly desecrated our beds and his go-to act of defiance was not barking or running away but auto-pooping and then eating it, his beautiful greenish eyes locked into mine, brimming with triumph . Oh, and he peed on Bowler whenever he could . While I wasn’t cleaning dog shit off my bed I was wondering if Bowler hated us or, worse, his entire life now .not the monster here – but to a friend.
So we had to “reframe” our approach to Bjørn: we adjusted our expectations , and invested in one of those mesh boxes that dog owners call crates . Most of all, we stopped wishing that he would “be like Bowler”. Then, something shifted. One night, as Bjørn lay farting on my lap , I realised days had passed without aggravated poop ingestion or GBH to Bowler. We’d even hadsitting when told to “Sit!” . Still very much not Bowler – but very Bjørn, our Bjørn. And that was enough.to the Edinburgh festival fringe this August.
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