Meet the Garashir family pets: Obby the riding hound and Caesar the Vompat. Caesar is Eotel’s which he got when he was 8, and he named it after Julius Caesar as he’d been deep in Earth’s history at that point. (Future historian and teacher that he is.)
Obby…they got Obby the year before Mila left for training in the Bajoran militia academy. Julian named him, and often speaks puppy-talk to it. Garak is horrified, because normally that would just piss off a riding hound to the point where it’d bite you. Their bites being extremely venomous ala-komodo dragon like. (In fact, their scales/skin is very much like a komodo dragon with night-shine eyes like a crocodile’s.) Thankfully, Obby loves chin scratches, which Julian always gives, so he puts up with the demeaning tone.
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