IGH up, or low down, among the things I dislike are dogs, but here again it isn’t the dog itself I dislike, but the principle of dogs. I find myself quite sincerely fondling dogs, scraping their chests with my boot, even talking to the brutes. But why people keep dogs is beyond me. A home with a dog in it is simply a dog with a house round it. When you arrive... it is the dog which first pelts out to meet you, scrapes his filthy claws against the car door before you’ve even got it open, slavers over the children and frightens seven bells out of them.-R. A. Conland in Here’s My Discomfort, an NZBS series.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 23
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