Posted: Nov 15, 2008, 5:57 AM CST
Simba - I am sure most of you know that 'Simba' means 'Lion' in Swahili.
Anyway, in the Congo, where they do NOT speak swahili I had a puppy called Simba.
Simba was the runt of the litter but perfectly formed and a very intelligent dog.
I remember how cute he was as a puppy.
One day he was playing basketball with me - well we were kicking around a basketball...... ok, I was kicking it and he was chasing it and doing the grlwly 'It's my ball now' shit and then he picked it up in his jaws!
Heck, he was only a little puppy dog and he picked up the dang basketball - no shit!
The basketball got stuck and I had to prize his jaws apart. The basketball didn't burst (proper basketball, not one of those imitation things), but it had Simba's teeth marks in it!
Another time I gave him a huge bone to chew on...... he was so proud to be able to pick it up. Then he dropped it. He dropped it on his paw - poor Simba howled (he was a boy dog like me) and limped for several days!
Another time we had a storm. A tree fell and knocked out our telephone line and the telephone line repair guy came to repair it. The gate was locked and he climbed over the wall. Foolish man.
I had screams.
I rushed out - I was only a kid (12 or 13 years old).
The rerpair man was up a tree - way up with Simba looking very happy and pleased with himself waiting patiently at the bottom.
Simba was my best friend.
My mum and dad brought him from the Congo to Europe on a cargo ship.
Simba got run over by a bus a year later.
It was my fault.
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