I should know better

Allegra`s puppies are thriving. They have at last found names - Blanche and Velvet - and discovered how well tiny teeth fit into my ankles. They are at the perennially underfoot stage, and when I walk I have to adopt a strange gait known as "the puppy shuffle" to avoid squashed Papillon.

Allegra doesn`t so much believe in playing with them as in giving them a good strenuous workout, and I think very healthy puppies will be the result, probably with muscles like Arnie.