This piece is for my long-suffering wife, the one who has to up-with put my perpetual witterings, which I labelled as C.E.V. in the story.

The idea for this story came from our friend Mana who has Millie, who is ‘a rescue dog with problems’.

Mana did consider getting a special collar for Millie to help control her from a distance, to modify her behaviour. I think it works by emitting a high-pitched sound, above the range of the human ear but still audible to the dog.

Another friend Mary, (I once met a girl called Maria), was kind enough to say that it is not just men like Gianni who suffer from this C.E.V.problem, and that some women she knew should also be given this new “Special Treatment”.