Our beautiful teckel dog, Kiki, passed away today at 15:20. She gave us eleven years of companionship, many beautiful souvenirs and a lot of fun.
She came to our house in 2013 as a gift for Anya who had succeeded in her primary school final exams. Kiki grew up, as an important member of our family, while Anya and Kyan were growing up too. After many years, Anya and Kyan left Mauritius for their higher studies and Christina and I have been taking care of Kiki since (or it is the other way around?).
Being a dachshund (teckel), Kiki was an energetic and very territorial small dog. When she was little, I had so many issues with her. She barked and barked and barked at everything: birds, lizards and, of course, her arch-nemesis, cats. Sometimes, I had to bring her in the house at midnight as we was keeping barking and people could not sleep.
I also was the one who bought her food, cooked it and gave it to her every day. I suppose that, for her, I was the giant thing, compared to her size, which magically could give her something good to eat and drink every day.
And, because of Kiki, I woke up at 6:00 in the morning every single Monday for eleven years to put her in our kitchen while the Municipality of Quatre-Bornes scavenging team came home to collect garbage. Kiki would have prevented them to enter the yard. For the past two years or so, I had to wake up at 5:00 because, well, the Municipality has changed its schedule.
I do have one regret too. Kiki did not socialise too much with other dogs. In hindsight, Christina and I agreed that we should have purchased two dogs and they would have grown up together…
Kiki will be missed a lot.
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