I know I shouldn’t be feeling this, but this is exactly how I felt like when I killed that dog!
Yes a deep sense of closure, an inner peace, on top of the scream of the owner of the dog and my wife sitting behind me. I must sound like a sick sadistic dog killer when my wife told me that its eyeballs got dislodged from its skull! Oh yeah, it sounds bad!
One year ago, I had a bad bite on my foot by a dog back in Sagil. That caused me to walk with a limp for a few months and even when I went to Bangkok later with my wife! Stupid owner of the dog didn’t even bother to own up to his dog and paid me the hospital bills.
Mind you, I wasn’t really planning for any kind of revenge. Let bygones be bygones, I just wanna forget that episode and move on. I was in Sagil to run some errands for my in-laws in their Hilux. It was parked outside the house, so I thought I’d give my girls a ride on top of the open-air carriage at the back. My wife objected to the idea, saying that the girls might jump off the car! Come on, I thought! They are big enough to take care of themselves!
So my wife joined them at the back. And so we went for a short trip around the neighbourhood, with the family dog running alongside us. It was a great feeling, the sight of the dog chasing the pigeons, the breeze in my hair, the kids squealing with delight at the back, what a wonderful family moment!
I was contended with just by following where the dog went, I had no specific road path to go anyway. The dog turned towards the row of low cost houses located at the back of our house, the place where I had been bitten a year ago. Our dog is really a brave but crazy fella, he go and piss at one of the Indian’s house. The fella’s dog, who was fortunately tied up, barked like mad at us. So was the owner, the only difference was that the owner was not tied up!
We moved on at a leisurely pace, leaving the still-cursing owner. Mei Fen called our dog and it gladly went off, having pissed off (literally speaking) the indian family. Then out in the front, I saw a fast moving brown torpedo moving in our direction. Another dog! And this time, this pudgy looking fella is not tied down! And it’s threatening to bite down hard on our dog for trespassing. In less a second a dog-fight erupted. Mei Fen tried in call off our dog again in vain. Our dog was just having too much fun, biting and chomping down this fart-face. We were all safe high up on the 4×4, but we can still feel the tension going on underneath us.
I know that the dogs will not stop so easily. So any sane man will want to bring his family away from the danger. I had to move. But with the dogs under me, and a blind spot on them, I am taking a chance. So I did, I slowly moved away from the scene, as nimble as I could possible afford. And by doing so hoping that the dogs will notice me and move away. I knew I was wrong when I felt the Hilux front wheel crushing on something! OMG, I hit a dog! Oh no, what should I do? I hope it’s just his tail and the little guy is alright. I moved again slowly, hoping that the dog (or whatever it was that I rolled over) would move away (if it still can). It did not, my hind wheel now felt something crushed under it! YIKES! Can’t do anything now, must move away. So I sped away. I was kinda relieved when I saw that our dog was still alive, and is still running at its normal pace, which means that it is not hurt in any way. It did stop for a while to lick on its body, but I couldn’t be sure whether it was really hurt.
Mei Fen told me later that she saw the poor dog which landed under the wheels had its eyeballs popped out! I was driving so I didn’t really get to see with my own eyes how the road kill really looked like. But at least it made a great story to tell to my kids as a lesson, do not get killed underneath a moving truck!
So why the sense of closure? I think that was the mongrel who bit me, although Mei Fen denied that it was.