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I have two dogs, Black Lab mixes.  They're both crazy.  But Mica, she is out of this world.  Sometimes we take them to the fish ponds where we live and just hang out.  Generally they go swimming, run around, and chase random things.

Last week they went to the ponds with a friend and began their normal hang out and have fun routine.  All was normal until Mica decided to chase a mongoose.  This wasn't just any mongoose, this was a black belt Shao-lin master, and it would not take the easy way out and run away.  No, no. 

This mongoose master whooped my dogs butt.  When my husband and I arrived home, we came upon a red porch and a very unhappy Mica.  The first thing my husband said was, "I hope she at least killed the mongoose". 

The next day we took her into the vet.  There we fought a battle of epic proportion while trying to staple the wounds on her face.  Finally the testosterone in the room listened to what I had repeated about fifty times, that if she doesn't want something, she won't allow it, and sedated her.  Afterwards, when everything had calmed down the vet said to us, "I hope she at least killed the animal".

Later we went to a friend house and recalled the story, to again, the same response.  Last night I spoke with my sister and told her about Mica's fight.  She said, "Well, I hope she killed it, at least"! 

Now, I can't decide whether I am the sane one, or everybody else is.  I look at it in the sense that Mica attacked another animal, which was brave enough to fight back, and whoop her ass.  Mica got what she deserved (not so say I don't feel bad for her pain and suffering), but why does the mongoose deserve to die?  All it did was stand up for itself.

Well, we have no idea what happened to that mongoose; but I have this funny feeling that while tucking it's little mongoose kids into bed at night, they beg him to repeat the tale of how he, their father, single- handedly defeated the she- monster that attacks at random, and until that fateful day wreaked hell on the mongoose community by the ponds...