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“Sheeee-it!” said Magena. “I’ve never seen anyone do that to Mombo (in my case, Mordechi) before. Ha! And did you see the way my lion (dog) is such a clever boy? He went straight for the weakest link,” he said turning to me. “How do you like that? He sensed you were the wee-wee in the group and you were going to be snuffed (killed),” and he laughed. I attached myself as closely as I could to K (Jessica) and we negotiated the rest of the journey to the house. The lion (dog) tried again and again to insinuate his way past K’s legs (Jessica’s legs) and launch himself on me, but K (Jessica) roared at him and gave him a hefty kick in the chest and the lion backed down (actually Jessica took off her flip flop and beat the dog over the head several times).
Mrs. Mink tried using a shock collar to teach Mordechi to leave me alone. She called me into the pen and he quickly charged me and chased me out the gate. Conjure up the most frightening satanic growl you can muster and that is what Mordechi sounds like when he is in kill mode. Mrs. Mink chuckled to her amazement that it took cranking the shock collar to 12 (it only goes up to 15) before the dog would back down. I was not chuckling – he’s actually gotten worse since then toward me – hmmm I wonder why. I really did try to suck it up – the kids kept saying “don’t act scared” – ya right okay I’ll try that. How do you not act scared? Beating him into submission is the only way the others have gotten him to leave them alone. I don’t have one ounce of the kind of back bone it would take to do that. One night Jessica and I were walking over to the main house for dinner and Mordichi came charging at me. Jessica pulled off her flip flop and went swinging to no avail. She grabbed his collar and he pulled her through the sand – she yelled “Tina run! I can’t hold him!” It was just like in the movies – I ran as fast as feet in soft sand can and when I reached the gate, I fumbled with the gate lock for what seemed like eternity before getting to the other side and pushing it shut against Mordechi’s mouth. I didn’t have time to relock the gate – I had to stand and push against the gate to keep him in. Jess got to the gate and locked it, freeing me from the struggle. I was so glad Jessica witnessed his behavior – he is chained up most of the day now – freeing me to walk about in safety. He broods as I walk by – I just know he’ll have a piece of me before I leave.