I love dogs, but I’m not very fond of them. This might sound confusing because if you see me walking down a street, you could hear me squeak in joy looking at any dog “aww chota sa doggy!”. However, I am extremely scared of dogs. Funny how I found a partner just like me, he loves dogs with the same intensity that he is scared of them.

I was bit by my best friend’s best dog

We find dogs to be extremely unpredictable and wild. They can bark at you despite knowing you for years and that is disappointing to see. This is what happened with me and my best friend’s dogs, I got bitten when I didn’t see it coming. She would probably get mad at me for calling her three children “dogs” but let’s be honest; I am human, they are dogs and flying machines are aeroplanes. Everything has a name to it.



Who knew a chill session at bestie’s could end in a tormenting little episode

It all started one summer afternoon when I was ‘chilling’ at my best friend’s house (I choose not to name her here). She has two extremely lovable Lhasa Apsos, Coco and Muffin, whom I love to cuddle and one ferocious Lhasa Apso, Macy, who cannot stop barking and charging at me. Despite knowing my bestie for years I have not been able to build a bond with the ferocious one. She even assures me that Muffin has bit more people than Macy but I refuse to believe it.

At one point in the afternoon, my friend lets in all her dogs at once. For some reason Macy is not barking. She takes a spot on the cold floor and relaxes with Coco and Muffin on her side. I am on the bed feeling proud that I have come a long way and am comfortably chilling with the doggo family.



That bi*** caught me off guard and it hurts!

Just when I am getting ready to leave, putting my things back in my bag, finger combing my hair, I without a care in the world step down from the bed. One foot on the floor and Macy gets up and starts wildly barking. It all happens within a jiffy-- Macy is barking, Coco and Muffin become alert and Muffin charges at me and bites me on my shin.

I shout and fall back on the bed. My friend acts as fast as possible and gathers her three dogs and takes them out of the room. I can hear her shout at them and scold them, as if they understood anything. While I still reel from the shock.

She comes back in, asks me how I am and I remember telling her, “feeling betrayed”. I did not expect Muffin to break my trust and years of love like that, but men are those people who break your heart. She lifts my summer dress to see scratch marks. Just then our eyes fall on the bite wound and she rushes me to a clinic to get injections.



“Keep your dogs under control”

Fast Forward to the next day, where I’m working from home and have gotten all the attention possible from my friend, her parents, my parents and my boyfriend. I get a call from my bestie and she's angry. She asks me to keep my boyfriend in check because he’s ättacking” her dog children on social media. I go on Instagram and check, my lovable boyfriend has commented on my friend’s dog picture saying, “Apne kutton ko meri girlfriend se door rakh (Keep your dogs away from my girlfriend).”

A background on my boyfriend-- he loves to get on people’s nerves and get a reaction out of them. If you react, he pokes more. He is annoying that way.

I try to explain to my friend that he’s kidding and she goes on a rant about how her dogs mean more to her than my boy can ever mean to me. She asks me to keep him in check and tells me she is going to block him. I am indifferent till this point because I don’t understand what happened to provoke her to this extent. So I stepped out of this equation after conveying the minute details of my conversation with her to my boyfriend.



It came down to my relationship with my boyfriend and her relationship with her dogs...what?!

One would imagine the problem to end there, but it did not. As you might remember, readers, I mentioned how my boyfriend loves to drag fights for fun-- those two kept engaging on social media over her dog babies. I received several angry texts from my by then ex-bestie (because she broke up with me saying that my boyfriend was a piece of shit and did not get a reaction out of me) every afternoon for a whole week.

I asked my boyfriend to back off after a week of this drama trying to explain to him that the bite marks look scary but they don’t hurt and he has nothing to worry about. He stopped but my best friend was harder to rationalise with. She had gone on a hate trip towards me and my boyfriend because our “love wouldn’t last as long as her relationship with her dogs”. I made a mental note to never meddle with her dogs if we ever fixed this. I don’t know how this blew up, but I gave her all the space possible on earth!



The slippery slope of boyfriend vs best friend is fueled by such people (eg. my boyfriend and my best friend)

A month later she finally came around, still holding the grudge but choosing to never talk about it for the heck of our friendship. The most hectic time of my life! It is hard to balance best friend and boyfriend, especially when there are dog babies involved.

Just more articles to understand the complex dynamic of the trio situation:

My Best Friend Is The Best Replacement For A Boyfriend & I’m Not Complaining

Help! My Best Friend And My Boyfriend Hate Each Other



Lead courtesy: Entertainment, Ramesh Taurani

