Wednesday 29th January, 2014              0000

I feel good.

Just took my dog for her walk and on the way out I could hear pups yapping. Across the road a mum has three babies which may be three or four weeks old and she has nested under the ground floor stairwell. I saw the supervisor the other day close the steel grid shutter (the pups could get through if they were older but mum couldn’t) and tried to get across that she had to leave it open enough for the mother to come in and out. Now I realise all she understood was that I should take the whole family to my home.

I did ask Cinny before she left on holiday about it and said if the mother was locked in or out with nobody there what should I do but with no satisfactory answer other than she had heard about the little family, I said no matter I would break the shutter. I meant it.

Anyway, thinking mum was in with the pups, Pepsi and I went on our usual route which sees us pass the offending block just before we come home. Bear in mind that tonight the only lights on in ANY home on campus are mine.

Stone me, once we neared the block I saw Mum, who had no way of getting to her babies. Ok, let’s try my old key for the other shutter in my old building in case one size fits all. No joy. What to do? Go back to my flat and get a screwdriver to try and prize it open? Or see if I still have some strength left at my age?

Just call me Hercules the Aged. I ripped it open with my bare hands because I was too lazy to go to get tools if I didn’t need to. Mum and babies are now together, I just hope they keep quiet if the dog catchers turn up.

If there is CCTV I don’t care. I have already reported myself to the school and if necessary will pay for any repairs. I couldn’t live with myself if I had knowingly let those little puppies die because I did nothing.

I wonder if they take mitigating circumstances into account in the courts here…..