Tim Dowling: the airline lost our luggage, but never mind we are getting a puppy | Tim Dowling

But then it was fine, the middle one says, the day after we get back. Stupid cat, I say. How was Spain? he says. Great, I say. I wish I was still there, like my luggage. Have they not found it? he says. No, my wife says. But I now have a Property Irregularity Report number.

Their labrador was on heat, so they had it shut in the kitchen, she says. But then some kind of terrier got in through the cat flap. It's a story as old as time, I say. I'm just going to look,' my wife says. I've heard this before and know what it means. It means we're getting a puppy.

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