Dog is God backwards..or is it the other way round?

DOGS are always around people, and doesn’t the good book say we were made in God’s image. So its not too far a stretch when a joke asks you to imagine a time when God was chilling with their dog.

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Back then dogs could talk, and had pretty strong feelings about things. Being an opinionated animal, the dog quickly irritated God with criticism of creation, so God took away dog’s ability for speech, and to rub it in, made chocolate deadly for the creature. Or so the joke goes.

I've always had dogs. I grew up with them, and they had great names like Rusty, Pluto, and Ringo, and Tiger who was stolen as a puppy and left me heartbroken. When I settled down with a family there was Apollo, a staffie I fetched from my brother-in-law in Newcastle as security after a home invasion in Joburg. We got him a pal called Saffo, named after the Greek poet from the island of Lesbos whose work celebrated love and desire between women. And then we got Scratch, a labrador who travelled to Swaziland with us when we moved there for a while.