A dog’s dinner!

Have you ever found yourself having a meal with dogs? Well, as odd as this may sound, I have.

I was working as a Live In Nanny looking after two children and a few months after I started working there, I was invited to take the children to the Grandmother’s house for lunch. It was a Sunday and the children’s parents were out of the country.

When we got to the Grandma’s house, I had not been invited to her house yet so was not sure what to expect, there was a huge round table. I counted, there were 8 places set, I knew there were three of us (the children and I), Grandma and Uncle, so who else was joining us for lunch?

The children I was looking after weren’t too fond of formal lunches so I had had a little chat with them before we had gotten there: “ We will have lunch with Grandma and we will spend some time at her house, we will chat with her for a while and then we will go home and relax”, they had all agreed. For once we were all in agreement!

The children and I were engaged in activities before lunch, I was reading to two of the children when Grandma called us to the table. As we were walking towards the table the children were arguing about who would sit next to me. When we got to the table I asked child number 1 to sit to my left and child number 2 to sit to my right but as I was arranging them around the table, I was told that the children could NOT sit where I had asked them to sit as those seats were taken.

We all sat down where we were told to sit and the children looked at me wondering what was happening, I was looking back at them with the same expression on my face, I had no idea what was going on.

As lunch started, the kitchen door opened and in came three huge dogs, they proceeded to sit in the empty chairs, they had a napkin tied around their necks and started eating their lunch. Each dog had a plate and funnily enough they had knives and forks laid out too.

The children were petrified of dogs so you can imagine the look on their faces when all of a sudden they had dogs sitting next to them, slurping, licking and burping away. I gave the children “the look” and luckily for me they ate their lunch and we were out of there as fast as you can say WOOF!!!

I learnt so much that lunchtime, I learnt not to be surprised by anything, to be prepared for anything and that it is important to have a laugh!

Woof, Woof!