We've Been Jinxed

Jinx is to the left and Aliaan is to the right in all these photos

We've got a rather large 'puppy' for Aliaan to play with and his name is Jinx (you may have gathered). He's a stray that a woman found in her neighbourhood and had advertised in the paper and on TV which Doortje saw and had Darko (our indispensable 'man of all seasons' at the embassy) ring her and ask what the story was. She told him he was loose around her apartment block for three days and she couldn't bear to see him homeless and took him in, ran adverts in the paper and even got onto a local animal TV show that Doortje watches from time to time (that would be every time it's on). So earlier this week Door and Darko went over to have a look at him, she thought he looked ok, a bit thin but quiet enough and she didn't think he looked like he'd been mistreated. So yesterday we went over together to talk to the person who found him. She said she couldn't keep him in her flat and she was a student so she was usually at school or working (she also named him Jinx). The owner didn't come forward but she had a few calls from people who wanted to pay her for him but she liked the offer Doortje made earlier in the week, that he would have a nice house and a yard and a lot of love. So we brought him home, and he stank! We don't think he's ever had a bath, or had his collar off as his fur looks rubbed off around his neck. So last night it was a 'get to know you' type thing, he couldn't settle down and was always walking down the stairs to the front door. At bed time he did better, he started bringing Doors stuffed animal collection into our bedroom from the sitting room next door, one at a time and placing them on the floor next to Doortje. But I took them away and he settled down and slept ok. This morning we gave him a bath which he didn't appreciate at all and the bugs that were crawling off him, large ones too. He will need another bath but that's going to have to wait for now. As for Aliaan, she is accepting him into her house without a problem, the only reservations we have is that he is huge, I don't think he's a husky but either a malamute or a mix, he would be a super husky if he's a pure. But that's no matter, what is the problem is that he acts very young, and with that he plays like a youngster, but Aliaan is half his weight and when he jumps on her he really flattens her. So we'll have to pay close attention when it's playing time. And that's it for now, I'd better go downstairs and see what's going on. I get nervous when it's quiet for more than a few minutes, 'fraid he's locked Aliaan and Doortje out on the balcony or something.