Gluten-Free Dennis and The Great Maydini

No. 2 from the Peak Notions Archive: On the weird and embarrassing bond we share with our pets

Mabel demanding that I paint her like one of my French girls in 2018

I recently talked with a woman in the vet’s waiting room while I was waiting to collect my cat Mabel, who was there to get her annual vaccination booster. The woman told me that her dog – whose name, it turned out, was Dennis – has coeliac disease. ‘What- he can’t eat gluten?’ I replied…