Going to the Dogs
This is positively the last time I’m going to try hold a photo-op shoot with four-legged animals.
This morning Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Bantay impeachment led a political gimmick at the UP Academic Oval to dramatize their stand that the impeachment complaint hearings in Congress are going to the dogs.
So we brought with us members of the said specie.
Puppies and adult dogs playing, romping, growling and mugging in front of the cameras of the tv stations and the newsprint media. They totally upstaged everyone, including Ka Bel who was no match for the cute puppy he hugged close to him. The one-month old puppy was white all over with oatmeal spots, and he had a laminated dog tag around his neck which bore the logo of Bantay Impeachment and the words "We Want Arroyo Out! Oust! Oust! Oust!"
The last words, when spoken, are supposed to sound like barks (’Arf! Arf! Arf!’)
It was fun but very exhausting. The shoot took only an hour, but like I said to Jo who was there with her dog friend Satchmo, watching and feeling the constant energy of the dogs and the puppies moving and running around had the effect of draining one’s own.
At the end of the shoot, the five puppies (cuddly, unbearably cute, darling little puppies) were plastered. They stretched out on the cold sidewalk near the grass and with their tiny tummies pressed against the pavement, they slept. Their pudgy legs kicked out feebly as they dreamed running dreams.
The media people has a hard time keeping their hands off the dogs and the puppies. One photographer even wante to know if there was any chance we were selling the puppies (we weren’t).The puppies don’t have names yet, but the dogs who were there apart from Satchmo were Polabear, Wesley, Snorlax and a whippet-thin half-grown dog whose name I forget.
Satchmo was dignified, Polabear anxious (it was her puppies the media were oggling), Snorlax hyperactive and leaping all over the place like a deranged firework, and Wesley calm and watchful.
A teenager with two big full-grown German Shepherds walked by and we gave the boy two dog tags. The Shepherds’ names were Sola and Rocky. Their coats were a beautiful reddish brown, and their tongues were so huge!
All in all, it was a fun morning. I really want to go back to sleep, though. I got up at 6am and rushed to UP for this, and I miss my bed.
