Schlappi.me – me, Schlappi.

Never before anything was about me. I was born in Dubai but I don’t know my mummy and daddy and I don’t know my siblings. The first months of my life I spent in a rabbit cage. The only attention I got was beatings. One day I was brought to a bigger cage. A safe place where I was nursed back to health and which I shared with Rita, my kennel mate. Many other dogs lived there too. We were all fed, we could play with each other and learned how to use the treadmill. Still, we all waited for someone to take us out, someone who would cuddle us and who we would protect in return. Bipeds came almost every weekend to look for additions to their families. While us big ones slowly lost our cute features, the bipeds lost their interest in us. Fortunately many of our little friends made it. They would enjoy the first months of their lives in a snug and warm environment. Luckily I am a very patient dog. I waited for weeks and months and years for my future mum and dad to get married, for their arrival in Dubai, for the burglary in their villa, their decision to adopt a real grown-up and brave watchdog: Me, Schlappi. I was perfect for them, and they were perfect for me. For more than a year, we’ve been living as a pack now. We are a real gang, and because of me looking and howling a bit like a wolf, mummy calls the three of us the “Wolfgang”. And me? I am Schlappi.