We dogs feel a lot of pressure to live up to the Superdogs our human families have once known and loved. In our case, that would be Daisy Mae, the bichon frise, damn her.
We pass reminders of Daisy in almost every room of the house. There she sits, center stage on the side table gloating in a silver frame engraved with her initials. Her old collar dangles meaningfully from a hook in the hallway. And who’s that again in the photo wedged into the corner of the mirror? By now the photo’s finally fading. (Thank God.)
It’s very touching that Daisy was so beloved. But we get it, already. If we must suffer from sibling rivalry,let it at least be with someone who's still alive.
We’ve noticed that humans have a penchant for exaggeration, or maybe it’s just our Mother. So the current story she spins about Daisy, six years after her demise, is that Daisy was trilingual in Latin based languages, with an extensive vocabulary and understanding of sophisticated sentence structure that, Mother says, no other dog known to man, has ever had the capacity to master.
Apparently Daisy was also telepathic, not only accurately sensing when Mother was sad or worried, but anticipating her divorce years before she even considered having one.
I’m sure history will continue to be rewritten and soon we’ll hear about how Daisy rescued stranded motorists in a snowstorm, as if she were a modern day Lassie. (Although everybody knows that even Lassie wasn’t Lassie, and in fact had a body double.)
Well, I suppose we should be happy. At least our family hasn’t erected some kind of public monument in Daisy’s honor, like other people did in St. Petersburg. Rumor has it that there's a permanent art glasswork exhibition in that city, at a place called, if we're not mistaken, the Chihuahua Museum. Is that not excessive?
Pity the poor poodle or pug that wound up in that family afterwards.
Editor's note: D & D mistakenly refer to St. Petersburg, Florida's Chihuly Collection (featuring Dale Chihuly's glass art ) as the Chihuahua Museum. They are rather single minded.
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