Benji - My best friend. Or is he?
It's been over a year since I blogged about how unfair life is according to my children. They had been begging for a puppy. We had refused. They trained their then youngest brother to crawl around panting and barking like a dog.
is now over 2 years old and still crawls around panting and barking like a dog, waiting to be petted and tickled under the chin. He is beyond saving. Joseph, being the present crawling baby, needs protecting from the same fate.
Animagic have brought out a new puppy named Benji. He's white, fluffy, and doesn't make a mess. He plays tug'o'war, barks, sits and lies down. If you tickle him under the chin he even waggles his ears. Oliver doesn't do that, being a boy and all that.
Oliver isn't the biggest animal lover so out of all the children I expected his reaction to Benji's arrival to be understated.
As everyone else edged in for a closer look, Oliver hung back a little.
He left his older brothers to investigate...
And became seemingly more reassured when Eddie wasn't bitten.
A few minutes of watching everyone else have a play and stroke and fuss of the barking creature who wouldn't sit still and...
... a tentative stroke followed by...
The problem then was getting him to allow the others to have a hug too...
... because everybody wanted to be Benji's best friend...
... but it looked like Oliver was the best friend of all.
And Joseph (in the background) counted himself lucky that he was now free from being trained as the puppy his brothers didn't have.
Or is he?
("Benji - My best friend" is part of the Animagic range and available at all good toy retailers for the £69.99 rrp. We were sent one free of charge to review).
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