t’s been a while since I shared a prominent pet appreciation post.
Time to squeeze in a brief celebration of Nosferatu the dachshund and Otis, a Basset Fauve de Bretagne...the lucky dogs that share a perfectly pink Brighton house with Nick and Susie Cave.
In one of his treasured letters from the simply magical Red Hand Files, Nick Cave shares:
”[…]we have two family dogs.
A gentle moony dog with sad eyes and cancer called Otis and a psychotic little dachshund called Nosferatu, whose one great enterprise in life is to bite me.
I think it is safe to say that I love these dogs considerably more than they love me. They are devoted to my wife and guard her from me with their lives.”
He later adds lovingly:
”A final note on the dogs – my wife, Susie, is devoted to them and it would be fair to say she shows more understanding and empathy for the animal world than she does for the human world.
Susie can look into the berserk eyes of Nosferatu and just melt him. She is a dog-whisper.
She has the same effect on me.
She is a husband-whisperer.”
-RHF issue # 2, September 2018
Hmmm, I think one could say that Nick Cave is a bit of Esther-whisperer, because this just made me melt as well.
xez
* All photography from @susiecaveofficial Instagram, except photo nr. 3, a wonderful picture by @davidtibet_current93 🙏