So life has been pretty standard lately, nothing safariesque
to report. But yesterday was a pretty eventful day to say the least. Casey,
Alie, and I were desperate for exercise yesterday so we decided to run around
Cato. Several unexpected and somewhat traumatizing
events interrupted our lame attempt at fitness.
First, as Casey and I were running to pick up Alie, we stumbled upon 2
puppies that a family was considering adopting.
At first it was sweet and adorable, until we realized that one of the
tiny puppies was so sick and shaking and none of the kids knew how to play with
it gently. It was so sad to watch and
the poor little baby dog looked so helpless.
We ended up coming to terms with the fact that there was nothing we
could do and proceeded on to Alie’s house with troubling thoughts. After we picked up Alie we ended up
running around trying to get a better view of several fires we saw around the
hills of Cato. We eventually gave up
when the twists and turns led us in circles so we just deemed them as
controlled fires because nobody was panicking.
Ok, so our
run was coming to an end, and just as were about to reach the field we noticed
a small crowd around two dogs. As one
can guess, these two dogs were doing it. But it was the weirdest thing ever
they were connected but back-to-back.
And just standing there. Nothing
was going on. People were taking
pictures and laughing and throwing water at them (which led all of us to yell
the few zulu words we know at them). The
poor, tiny female
dog stood only on her front two legs, her rear legs shaking as they hung freely
in the air. We soon realized that this was not natural and as more people
gathered around the dogs became more distressed and in a way angry. This was when we realized that they were not
doing it anymore; they were stuck. The
male dog tried to lick the area of insertion, as Alie calls it, attempting to break
free, but failing.
This was when I started to get real
nervous. This male dog was panicking and
as more and more people came over he became more and more nervous. Barking at people and making sudden jolts
while dragging the poor female dog wherever he went. I just need those not fully envisioning this
to really have empathy for this female dog.
She was in a permanent wheel barrow position, backwards, being dragged
by her vagina…..I’m shocked she is still alive.
Soon the
male dog got so upset he ran across the street behind a gate in someone’s front
yard and attempted to lay down and deal with the situation with a little more
peace and quiet.
This was when we decided it was time
to intervene. A man came out of the
house and asked us how on the earth the dogs were connected and we had to
awkwardly explain the situation and he decided this was not his cup of tea. His statement sounded a little more like,
“ohh shit I’m not dealing with that”.
So, we asked him to get us some vegetable oil and we were going to take
matters into our own hands. He laughed
nervously as he went to fetch us oil. In
the mean time we figured we needed to calm down the male dog if anything was
going to progress, so we sat on the ground and used calm voices while Alie got
up and personal with his face, and was trying to get him to lay down and give
his partner a bit of a rest (WHEELBARROW). At first he seemed to be ok, but then
when Alie attempted to push on his back to tell him she wanted him to sit he
FREAKED OUT and tried to bite her arm off!!! Ok that was dramatic, but he
definitely snapped at her and jumped in the air out of fear thus releasing the
female dog! The male dog was still freaked out and was going nuts and the
little female dog was sadly running in fear while unidentified liquids poured
out of her (I’m so sorry you had to read that, but we had to witness it so
don’t even give me that). After Alie
heroically put her life in danger to save these sexually active dogs, we were
congratulated by several hugs and arm grabbing from little children
everywhere. We decided to run over to
the field to try to shake off some of the trauma we had acquired throughout our
exercise and ended up joining the soccer team.
Casey and I are awful, and although Alie isn’t, it wasn’t entirely fair that
we joined this very skilled boy’s soccer team, but they were all so nice to us
anyway and still passed me the ball when I would completely miss it or pass to
the wrong team. I also feel its
necessary to share that I have horrible anxiety while playing contact sports
and cannot mentally handle someone running towards me at full speed with no
feelings of love present. But we even did
the cool down run and stretch circle with them! They were so inviting.
And that
was my Thursday. It was exciting, which
was much needed after a really stressful work week that hasn’t been relieved by
yoga nor mediation.
I’ll be
heading over to Impendle and Umtwalume villages next week so I’ll be sure to
blog after that.
Thanks
for reading :)
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