A Rivalry from the Womb: Stumbling on a Monarchy for grabs

s became a permanent feature of the household. Now, having thought he had seen him, his thoughts went back to Jeeps in full force; with the ol

by their patriarch, heralded the end of the Jeeps' dynasty in every sense wh

pets perhaps out of mere disinterest or due to the huge cost and the big challenge with the feeding, vaccinations and other daunting tasks that these man's best friends presented while fo

his childhood and still did in his adult life, were cherishable indeed- it was always a house full of dogs, sometimes up to six- as children they enjoyed playing with them in many different ways. The dogs, when one or two of them managed to free themselves from the chains, and they usually did, would welcome them from

ing process. All the milestones were celebrated with excitement including inviting their friends who had come to play with them to go to the dog house so they could feel, admire, as

m water which was already in the dog pen but just for the fun of it, and noticed every milestone of their lives as they grew with each one of them being excitedly announ

ing with them wherever he was, who would then search countless places trying to locate them everywhere without having a clue where they had disappeared to until it dawned on them or dear mother to try the dogs' house, and voila, there they were, engrossed with themselves, talking and pl

dog lover's faces which came with huge risks though. Once found out by one nosy sibling, they would be reported to who else but mum dearest, who

eeded to be cajoled with all kinds of promises and threats of punishment to wake up early so they would prepare for school, eagerly compete with each other in waking up first on the dog dipping days, and even more confusing was that on their return none of these boys who woul

rvant's, Mr. Billy, to avoid the awkwardness of having a man as a dog's namesake, and hence, the embarrassment, encouraged the children to use this deliberate misnomer, and being a professed Christian family, everyone understood the logic and the name stuck- loved fights mostly over the bitches when on heat resulting in almost all the dogs from the neighborhood trooping to their house and in one such fights he was viciously mauled, obviously after the others had ganged up on him during the night perhaps because of hi

they would occasionally come across when they ventured into the bushes along with their friends as part of the usual youthful mischief, they rarely had snakes near or in the house because the dogs would raise hell once such a rare, wayward and unwanted creature was spotted thereby chasing it or alerting the pe