Boss and Slave
Sue Varteg
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Synopsis
Anyone can train a dog, or so I was told when we brought The Boss home. Unfortunately, I'm not anyone, and by the time The Boss had finished with me, I wasn't even sure I was someone!
He was a forty-kilogram German shepherd with a mind of his own, who only ever wanted to go where he wanted. As I didn't weigh much, I had no choice but to go along with him. We had never owned a dog before so this was new territory for all of us, and of course, the job of turning our hairy monster into something we could manage, fell to me.
Joining a dog club was obviously the way to go, even allowing for the costs involved, which were a small price to pay when compared to the embarrassment I suffered at his paws. We were the despair of every trainer who had the misfortune of trying to teach us, but we persevered together, and in the end, we shared a remarkable bond that only a dog owner could understand.
About The Author
Sue Varteg was born in England, emigrated to Australia with her husband, and after leaving the workforce, wrote The Boss and I, which was broadcast as a radio serial. She was commissioned later to write a children's book, Mitch 'n Mate, but the book, though accepted, was never published.
Sue has previously published Danielle in the Lion's Den and Twist of Fate, both as eBooks; Infinity is a Big Place, a printed collection of her short fiction; Ye Gods, a tongue-in-cheek fantasy, and most recently, the romance novel, Beating The System.
From The Book
I was obviously not the ideal person to take to a Dogs' Home.
As we were leaving, I spotted the dog, the one I could not resist. He was standing silently in his enclosure, ignoring the frantic barking of his peers, all of which seemingly wanted to leave with us.
He was nothing like the dog to which Tom had practically committed us. To begin with he was not a female, nor was he a puppy in the truest sense of the word, for at ten months he was fully-grown and already (as I discovered later), weighed forty kilos. How big he'd be when he filled out properly was anybody's guess.
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