How to Have the Happiest Dog in the World

No, your “Good morning my handsome boy” coos will not do

Kele Mogotsi
4 min readMar 6, 2023

My mom and I are the easiest things to please. But you guys overcomplicate it. Somehow in a household of six humans, seven if you include our housekeeper, you can’t hack it.

Seven humans. That’s nine university degrees between you, including a Ph.D., an Ambassador, and a class valedictorian. Yet none of you have cracked the code of how to have the happiest dogs in the world, as defined and required by us, a couple of four-legged canines.

So much education and very little brain.

Humans are unbelievable.

Having the happiest dogs in the universe would be your biggest achievement. Your life’s purpose would be fulfilled. It’s not a difficult feat to accomplish but you make it so hard.

You spend the whole day running away from the warm, delicious comfort and privilege to be curled up next to me and you confine yourselves to an ugly brick building called ‘school’ or the overly air-conditioned, super tall, shiny, glass monstrosity you term ‘work’.

By choice!

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Kele Mogotsi

An introverted attention-seeker and chronic continent-hopper. Rhymes with jelly.