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Mitch
-The Hurricane
Then
finnaly he was here, our Finnish Setterboy.
We had wait a long time over a year…
Already
after one day we know what a heroic thing the
two girls have done picking him and his two sisters up
in Abo but
we understand very fast that we have to change his name. We
give him the name Mitch after the wild hurricane that did
go on in
The
first night, I was intended to have him on a thick cover below
my bed. Our other setters lives in their own house right next to ours,
there he would have move in as soon he had start to knowing us. A
bowl with food and a big bowl with water stood right beside his bed, that
would be nice for a tired dog who has travel several days and presumably
miss his dear sisters a lot.
Late
in the dark winter night he arrive, jumping easily
out of the car
starting to inspect his new home. Tired
and worn out, He wasn´t . He
looks like a little gangster with his black patch
over the eye, I had read
somewhere that the English setter was a true “Gentlemen
By Nature”. It
seems that Mitch obviously had not read that, because there was no gentlemanlike
in his behaviour that night.
He
was also interested of Art,
because he started to pick down the paintings from
the wall. Then he steal my bra and quick as a flash he drop it in the water
bowl. After that he took a quickly mouthful of the curtains and use them
as a swinger until the curtain rod fall down.
He
follow me to the rest room , and when I brusch my teeth
he started to drink
from the toilet. Do you have
any idea how much toilet paper
there is on
one single roll ? I do have ! that’s
how our night proceed, sleeping was
not in Mitch mind.
I had enough I took him and went out to the “Setterhouse” I open the door and
Early
next morning I sneak to the window and look in, not with out a bad conscience, there
was Mitch, in the middle of the settergirls sleeping with little By: Inger Ivarsson Translated
by: Siw Lindelöf
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