“'You will never teach that dog to walk on a rope. She is a
wild dog," she said, as translated by another neighbor.
Pup proved her wrong, which of course made the Buddhist
bitch like her even less. Some of her
comments were apparently too nasty to translate, because the other neighbor
blanched and instead of explaining, looked away, embarrassed. The Tibetan Buddhist Bitch was not a poor
lady. She owned a big house and all her kids were in college or careers and had
nice clothes and motorcycles. For
someone so privileged to be offended by a street dog’s lucky break? That takes a particular smallness of
character....
