If you’re going to do something nice you best do it standing like a titan.
After helping the doggos earlier on this year with my walk around my flat, which sounds about as strenuous as a trip to Waitrose, I have decided to further the cause and lend a paw to someone who needs my help.
This is Sunshine and he is a star in waiting.
For a blind breed of unknown origin, he has a whole lot of charisma at his disposal. Sunshine or “the Moose” as he has affectionately come to be known (nobody can remember who gave him the nickname although I am still adamant that it was me) claims to not be able to see out of either eye, a fact that still has not been proven. I have asked him several times and he refuses to answer the question.
With all this potential it seemed like a waste to let him hide in the shadows of obscurity so despite handing the task to Reuben over the summer holidays, the task of raising his social media profile has been passed to me. I have begun this with his own Twitter account for “hilarious” posts about doggo things and photos of him looking like a dog, something the internet goes CRAZY for I am reliably informed.
Comments such as, “you really need to get a girlfriend, Ian” and, “what are you doing with photos of my dog?” have been ignored because currently only I can see the greatness that has been under everyone’s noses.
I also feel obliged because, in a way, the Moose is my spirit animal in that he eats just as fast as I do and is forever looking for more things to eat. Who am I to ignore a fellow gluttonous brother? I have promised to myself not to let any of my horrendous toxic masculinity leak into his cheery disposition, nor any of the wonderful photos of his viso/volto. Trying to keep it under wraps has been very difficult especially with the sheer volume of packets of sugar that I keep downing all at the same time.
I gave him a swish Twitter handle and Twitter responded by giving us a pretty generic name. You can follow Sunshine at @TheMoos90645566 for all the moosing around you (that’s YOU) can handle.
7 comments on “Lending a Paw”
I don’t understand… Do you have a dog? Have you stolen a dog? Why have you created a twitter account for a stolen dog?
Is 90645566 the dog’s phone number? Can I call the dog?
I haven’t stolen a dog, I’ve stolen a dog’s identity and I am parading around Twitter with it like a boss I should say.
Yes, that’s the dog’s number. Call that for happy dog-based phone conversations at £1.99 a minute.
I phoned it but all I got was some ruff treatment. I called the police. Hopefully they’ll collar the offender. I heard they’re on his tail.
DING!
In the space of one comment I either won or lost.
Great days. We won’t see the likes of those again.
In these hazy mazey lazy days of 2020, without a care in the world, does it really matter?