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Monday, July 14, 2025

To­ba­go Peeps

The Venus Touch

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20140420

I ar­rive at the TTSP­CA To­ba­go branch to pick up the pup­py I've de­cid­ed to adopt. She is a "To­ba­go Ter­ri­er" (aka "pothong"), about two-and-a-half months old, all white, with a few light brown dots, like mark­ings on dice, on both of her ears. Her black nose is heart-shaped–a fit­ting sym­bol, since I'm nam­ing her Venus, af­ter the Ro­man God­dess of Love and Beau­ty.

Her gen­tle, warm tem­pera­ment re­minds me of Cindy, the gold­en Labrador Re­triev­er I had re­ceived as a pup­py on my first birth­day. Cindy, a loy­al ca­nine com­pan­ion un­til her death at the age of four­teen, would ac­com­pa­ny me and my sis­ters every day to the pri­ma­ry school we at­tend­ed close to home in Trinidad.

For­tu­nate­ly we had a Prin­ci­pal who loved an­i­mals. At school, Cindy would min­gle eas­i­ly with chil­dren and teach­ers as "one of us", sleep un­der our desks dur­ing class and join us at break and lunchtime in the play­ing field or sand pit. A gen­tle soul, she was loved by all.

Be­cause it is a busy day for me, with a few er­rands to run, I take Venus along. It's her first time in the car, but it feels as if she has al­ways been there. She sits qui­et­ly in the pas­sen­ger seat, of­ten look­ing at me, some­times gaz­ing through the win­dow, black nose twitch­ing rapid­ly as it records the pletho­ra of pass­ing road smells.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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