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    Why Chasing Rabbits is a Bad Idea
    Why Chasing Rabbits is a Bad Idea
    Why Chasing Rabbits is a Bad Idea
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    Why Chasing Rabbits is a Bad Idea

    By Otto Vernon

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    Even for a puppy, Noodle was a delinquent. He chewed everything he encountered, he socialised like a maniac, and he loved a good game of chase, especially with rabbits.

    Even in puppy training classes the labradoodle's exuberance all but ruined the classes for other trainees. But just as Pete was getting used to having holes in his lawn, his biros eaten and newspapers desiccated about the sitting room, and as Pauline was making friends with other dog walkers in the woods, Noodle frantically followed a rabbit one day and ran out of his owners' lives. Find out what exactly happened to the young pup, why he was given a new name and whether he ever saw his owners again in this, the fifth, of Otto Vernon’s quirky dog tails.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtto Vernon
    Release dateNov 15, 2019
    ISBN9781916244047
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      Why Chasing Rabbits is a Bad Idea - Otto Vernon

      The ruined holiday

      Pete was secretly proud of being boring. After all, his partner, Pauline, didn’t seem to mind. In fact, she would have described him as steady and risk-averse rather than boring. He’d decided to retire as the van needed yet more repairs and it seemed uneconomic to buy a new one. On top of that, he was 68. He had also had enough of people pressing him to meet deadlines and taking on apprentices who seemed to have cotton wool between their ears. Yes, he thought, he’d sell his Pete the Plumber van for spares, then spend his retirement doing a bit of volunteering and a lot of reading – there was a pile of historical biographies that he’d been given at Christmas by relatives who didn’t really have a clue what he liked. He also intended to do something about his beer belly, which Pauline was always so rude about.

      This vision was a tad rosy, because it failed to take into account what his partner thought he should do once he retired. This oversight resulted in the vision more or less falling to bits at the outset. To be precise it unravelled the moment Pete had the temerity to tell his partner that they didn’t want a puppy. No longer steady and risk-averse, he became, in her eyes, tedious and over-cautious. Conflict did not enter their home as such because they were on their way to take a holiday at the time, but it crept into their relationship. For Pete, not only was the dream of a quiet retirement under threat, it marred a perfectly nice stay in Turkey, where they were having a vacation before the prices went shooting up at the beginning of the school holidays.

      It had all started with a chance remark from Mr Khan, damn his eyes, as he drove them to the airport. Pete knew perfectly well that Mr Khan didn’t particularly like dogs. On one occasion he had been aggressive towards a young mum who was struggling with a buggy and an animal on a lead, bringing his taxi to a sudden stop in front of her to show her how inconvenienced he was. Why then did he have to say, as they were settling into the back of his cab, with Turkey beckoning:

      ‘The lady next door, she just had puppies.’

      Pete dismissed the remark with a non-committal grunt, it hadn’t even crossed his mind to point out that it would be impossible for the lady next door to give birth to puppies. And he failed to spot the danger when Pauline chose to chip in with a question.

      ‘Mongrels are they? Your neighbour’s puppies?’

      ‘I don’t know,’ explained Mr Khan. ‘Mrs Khan and I, we say there’s plenty of dogs already in shelter.’

      ‘Yes, I suppose.’ Pauline held a common misconception that dogs in shelters were unsafe, and would never have dreamt of going to one.

      ‘When we live in Brighton we have very nice girls next door,’ Mr Khan continued. ‘Very nice dog, Molly, she is from shelter, very gentle, Mrs Khan and I, we are getting quite fond of her.’

      ‘I expect your neighbour is keen to get those pups off her hands,’ Pauline said, not showing any interest

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