Dog is man's best friend, they
say. And this is usually taken to mean best friend to the dog's owner. But is this always so?
Some time ago I had a friend who
kept four or five dogs for protection since she lived alone. The dogs were
mixed breeds, fierce looking, and they would bark up a storm. None of her
friends could just push her gate and enter as we pleased. We had to wait for
her to control the dogs, while we walked quickly into the safety of her enclosed
verandah.
She also had some large mango
trees; bombay and julie, and those trees usually bore abundantly.
In Jamaica, mango season is
fraught with the danger of casual thieves just walking in and stripping the
trees. But, the dogs, we all thought would prevent anyone troubling my friend's
trees.
Until one day, hearing sounds, she looked through her window
and couldn’t believe her eyes.. There was a man with a bag collecting her
mangoes, and all the dogs around him wagging their tails. She said the dogs
looked as if they were helping the man. As if they were saying, 'This tree, not
so sweet, try this one over here.'
The man, of course, ignored her
when she called out to him and just continued collecting her mangoes, sure that
a call to the police would not be answered. anytime soon.
Man's best friend!
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