How I Learnt the Facts of Life From Benji
November 4th 2007 21:11
When I was little one of my neighbours had a cross-bred dog that looked liked a cross between a dingo and a Labrador called Benji. In fact, I swore he was a dingo until I asked Mr Harry, my neighbour, what breed he was. Benji was as gentle as a lamb around people he knew but would growl at strangers. As kids, my sister and I loved to play with Benji and since there was no fence between our and Mr Harry’s home, we used to move back and forth between both properties all the time. Mr Harry didn’t mind us roaming around as long as we didn’t hurt Benji.
One afternoon I went out to play with Benji as usual only to find him mounting another dog called Sao. I had never seen Benji do this with other dogs so I ran inside and told my grandma to come out to see what was going on.
“What’s he doing?” I asked Grandma. “Why is he standing like that?”
“He’s making puppies,” said Grandma.
“What?” I asked, incredulous. Until then, no one had talked to me about the birds and the bees. My parents had told me they had found me in the garden while one of the teachers at school implied pregnancy was something that just happened. My classmates and I were in second grade at the time so naturally we accepted that as a plausible explanation.
But back to Grandma. Grandma explained to me that Benji and Sao were in love and when two animals were in love they made babies. She made it sound so beautiful and natural that I was shocked when a few years later I was telling this story to someone and she told me to change the subject as she thought what Benji and Sao had done was “dirty”.
One afternoon I went out to play with Benji as usual only to find him mounting another dog called Sao. I had never seen Benji do this with other dogs so I ran inside and told my grandma to come out to see what was going on.
“What’s he doing?” I asked Grandma. “Why is he standing like that?”
“He’s making puppies,” said Grandma.
“What?” I asked, incredulous. Until then, no one had talked to me about the birds and the bees. My parents had told me they had found me in the garden while one of the teachers at school implied pregnancy was something that just happened. My classmates and I were in second grade at the time so naturally we accepted that as a plausible explanation.
But back to Grandma. Grandma explained to me that Benji and Sao were in love and when two animals were in love they made babies. She made it sound so beautiful and natural that I was shocked when a few years later I was telling this story to someone and she told me to change the subject as she thought what Benji and Sao had done was “dirty”.
Photo d'une jeune chienne labrador assise (Photo of young labrador sitting down) contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Mzelle Laure. Used in accordance with the terms of Wikimedia Commons’ GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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