I walked in the maze of the supermarket with my two sweet dogs on a leash. I stopped in front of the cookies when I was approached by a couple of boys. He was very shy and not very interested in dogs, she was particularly festive and affectionate and very interested in dogs.
At one point, the girl asks me if it is my intention to have them mate, because one of her biggest wishes has always been to have a dog to make him grow up with her little girl.
I tell her that I do not know yet if I will have them mate, that perhaps it is still very early for my dog, and that I will probably start thinking about it in the spring.
We say goodbye and the engaged couple go away in the direction of detergents.
I look at them out of the corner of my eye and I realize that they are talking to each other in an animated way, I imagine the possibility of welcoming a puppy into their family. When at a certain point the fiance comes back towards me and resolutely exposes his indecent proposal. “I would be interested in a Chihuahua puppy in exchange for an iPhone 12 as good as new.”
At first I thought I did not understand, I was horrified and petrified. Then, slowly, I realized and I realized that for that gentleman, a hypothetical puppy of my dogs was comparable to an object, more precisely to a second-hand iPhone (if it had been new, nothing would have changed!).
According to this negotiation, a life is to an object as love is to violence. The paradox of paradoxes.
Opening the doors of the house and of the heart to an animal is equivalent to promising mutual respect and fidelity.
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