Heathcliff in Abu Dhabi
This has nothing to do with art or literature; I've always hoped someone would please write me a novel about the years missing from Wuthering Heights, what Heathcliff was up to all that time out in the world making his fortune. But that is not what you will find behind the lj-cut.



S. and I have temporary housing in Abu Dhabi because our longer-term
housing is under construction. Done October inshallah. So Heathcliff
is staying at a kennel until then.

S. visited and I ~just~ got pictures. I'm so happy!


Here he is, being his rockstar self. This is the courtyard area, kennels to the left.
You don't see any dogs because they are all inside in the air conditioning and do not
care to come out their doggy doors and watch Heathcliff be a rockstar.


Here Heathclif is complaining about how hot the paving stones are. Hot
paving stones are hot.


Let me just admit they are doing a better job keeping him brushed than
I ever have.


Back in the AC. Food and water are off-camera to the left.
Blue thing is his doggy bed.

The kennel staff
seem comfortable with him. They handle him off-leash (only one dog out at
a time) and they point where they need him to go and he goes. Getting him
back in the air-conditioned kennel is never a fight, and he doesn't run up to
the other dog kennels and bark at other dogs.

Heathcliff is also very ingratiating when it is strategic, he puts
thought into trying new things out on people.

He convinced my ~mother~ that he is the Perfect Dog (except for the shedding issue),
and that took some doing as mom is not a dog person and is not charmed by
his standard repertoire of cute poses and adoring gazes.


Here is the front of kennel/clinic--looks deserted, but that's
because dogs don't drive and employees park their cars around the side where
there is more shade.

S. saw really beautiful dogs there--labs and malamutes, a mastiff and
lots of others, as well as various GSDs. I think this is their busy season,
with people vacationing away from the summer heat.