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August is big on family birthday celebrations. Three out of four nieces/nephews are born within a five day timespan. November is obviously a very fruitful month. So today was spent eating cake, playing hide and seek and chasing the two year old around the garden. But the best bit was a quiet dog walk with the soon nine year old (I guess December works too) and our conversation on how to deal with a herd of seventythree Dobermanns and Rottweilers, should we meet one. The discussion started with how two dogs meeting need to be on equal terms, i.e. either on a lead or not. And then we ended up in the herd of seventythree.