Dear Great Sky Dog,
Its me. I'm the black one with white hair on my shoulders. It makes a sort of a Z. What have you done to me? First strange people came and took me away from mom. To tell the truth, she wasn't at all upset about it. She scraped me off her teat and tried to beat my brothers to the door outside. Then a sweet warm person held me for for about three years in a bouncing running box. When it stopped I was carried around to people boxes and cooed at. I'm 7 and a half weeks old and alreadly I'm tired of the cooing. In my Marguerite box things were pretty cool. Room to run and cats. I like the big girl cat. She sat with me on my Marguerite's lap and let me chew her bum. The boy wasn't so friendly.
I do have my own bed and that's rather more like it. Sharing with all those brothers and sisters was a drag and I didn't have a teat all my own. NOW I haven't a teat at all and when I try to suck the humans' hands they squeek and pull away. Yesterday I learned to climb stairs. Today, before it was even light, my Marguerite attached me to a thick string I'm not supposed to chew, put me in the bouncy box again and delivered me to a house box with two big dogs and another human.
One of the dogs is almost my size and black and white like me. I keep trying to be friendly but he hates me chewing his bum. He gets very cross and barks at me. The big brown dog is a mommy dog but she won't let me suckle her. She doesn't even smell of milk. When I tried to chew her she looked like she'd bite me in two.
The human is good at giving me food but she told me that I weigh twenty five pounds and she's not going to carry me down the outside stairs. She mutters a lot. Anyway, after she shoved me down the stairs twice, I decided to do it my self. She was very proud of me. She also gets excited when I excrete. She shouts in a high voice "Good dog!" I'm not too excited about going on the ground and she has started muttering again about cleaning her bricks. I figure, enough already? How much can one small dog do?
I am quickly learning everything I can but I have a feeling there's a lot to learn.Why won't the big dogs play with me?
The Road to Zimbabwe - memories of travel & romamce by John & Nancy Blignaut
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