When one would say “it’s a dog’s life” it would apparently not be seen as an easy one, but rather a miserably unhappy existence. It certainly seems that the phrase has become more ambiguous than it once was. I’ve come across many examples myself of its use as a description of a pampered existence, and in this case it would be Macky. For he has discovered that it becomes quite hot when he’s on lifeguard duty, and a nice dip in the pool and going around in the pool on the float with me is what he considers “a dog’s life”.
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