Browny the dog and Geeta the brat.

Browny was never a poodle. We thought she was one. She was a furbaby with an attitide. I later on discovered that she was a sheep dog.
She was an extremely arrogant pet (I heard that sheep dogs are very aggressive!) but her appearance was a contra entry to her attitude.
Her fur was not wiry like the pomeranian Ceaser (Seezu for all of us) that lived at the end of our street. She had extremely soft fUr that tangled at the drop of a hat. Amma used to periodically cut her fur to keep it managable and trim her hair around the eyes to make her vision clear.
Browny never let anyone pat her unless she wanted them to and she never wanted anyone to look at her, let alone pat!
Browny was extremely finiky about what she ate. She loved idlis and got restless at the smell of them. She did crazy things for a dog. She ate raw cabbage with great relish and she begged for coconut. The cutest thing she did was ate corn on the cob with perfect precision. ( I hope animal activists dont sue me for mentiong all the things she ate, but in my country this is the way pets eat, thought they do not eat all what Browny ate, they do eat food that the household cooks and not some pet food packaged by pedigree)
My friend Avi thought Browny would have an identity crisis as she is a "she" and she has a boy name. Well, I'll talk about Avi again.

For now I have to talk about the brat. When I look back now, Geeta and Browny had a lot of things in common. Geeta had the same naive appearance and the same not so friendly attitude. She was extremely finiky about what she ate. She was small and cute just like browny and both of them were brats.
Browny used to get into a sumo wrestling kind of fight with the pillows. I never figured whether it was some kind of a passtime for her or she was just venting out her frustrations:-)
Geeta always meddled with people, always forced people to react to what she did. She never let any one ignore her. She was first to get on to every one's nerves. Browny bit people all the time, she barked uncontrolably at people and kids who were scared of her, she lived her life like a lion though she was just a little doggie that looked like a lively stuff toy.
Geeta and Browny came to mind when I saw Sea biscuit and Toby McGuire on screen the other day. Art immitates life, and sometimes you find striking similarities between humans and animals-)