Up For Adoption

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The excitement of welcoming an animal into the fold can quickly turn into despair if the decision is made in a moment of weakness.
With the move from an inner-city home with a courtyard out the back to a house in the Adelaide Hills surrounded by leafy acreage came the return of my animal urges. But forget dogs and cats - on the urban fringe, things are very different.

Over one fence our neighbour dabbles in alpacas and sheep. Over the other there are miniature horses. Every day I drive past paddocks dotted with Belted Galloways and tiny Herefordshires (farmers are downslzing, too, it seems). And then there are deers, goats and camels - nothing is out of the question.

We start with Charlie Girl, a puppy from the pound. She’s a sweet thing but prone to gnawing on anything in sight. She ate two beds (including an expensive dog futon), shoes,garden hoses and my sons’ shirts (including the shirts’ contents). Charlie Girl also attempted to eat the peacocks, which were the second addition to our menagerie. We adored Thomas, Sophie and Tallulah, but the neighbours didn’t. The peacocks roamed far and wide eating vegetables and flowers and, at night, producing a bloodcurdling lament.

Then along came Tiffany Pancetta, a Babe-like piglet who, for a very short while, lived quietly beneath the kitchen table. But like Jack’s beanstalk, she grew and grew - into a swine of gigantic proportions, trashing the garden, savaging the washing and almost killing the dog.

Continued on Up For Adoption Part 2

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