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A Dog’s Life

September 23, 2021 by Lesley Truffle

  A Dog’s Life   During our city’s pandemic Shutdown restrictions, I’ve been getting to know my neighbours.  By that I mean the local dogs and their owners. Subsequently, I’ve come to the conclusion that only the dogs are living their best lives. Cats are a different matter. My neighbour’s cat has taken to the … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Australia, Melbourne, Social Comment Tagged: Australia, café, cafes, Casanova, Cat, Cats, coffee, dog, dogs, Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life, Lesley Truffle, Lesley Truffle Writer, Melbourne, Melbourne Shutdown, neighbourhood dogs, street dogs

There Goes the Neighbourhood Dogs

July 25, 2020 by Lesley Truffle
Dogs face and eyes

  There Goes the Neighbourhood Dogs   ‘A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.’ Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) French playwright, actor & poet.   In my bayside suburb dogs are everywhere you go. There may well be a pandemic rampaging across the globe but for our local dogs, it’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Australia, Melbourne, Observations, Social Comment Tagged: Bayside Melbourne, café, cafes, dogs, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne, mongrels, neighbourhood dogs, Pugs, street dogs, Whippets

Beach Dogs

May 9, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  Beach Dogs Bayside Melbourne is dog heaven. During shutdown I’ve been walking the beach promenade every day. It provides a complete brain clean. Many mongrels and pedigree hounds are out there on the beach before first light. I chat to the owners outside the Guilty Moose café, as I pick up my morning takeout … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Australia, Melbourne Tagged: Australian beach, Bayside Melbourne, beach, dogs, Lesley Truffle, Melbourne, mongrels, The Guilty Moose

A Dog’s Best Life

February 22, 2020 by Lesley Truffle

  A Dog’s Best Life     ‘Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story’                                                                              Scott Fitzgerald from The Crack-Up   The modern dog has one hell of a good life. With the proviso that the dog lives in a pet orientated country like Australia … [Read more…]

Posted in: animals, Fashion, Melbourne, Social Comment Tagged: Australia, Dog food, dogs, pets, Tiffany's dog bowl, Tiffany's dog collar

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