tap the “play arrow” (if on mobile device, click “Listen in browser”) on the soundcloud pod below for Chess and Cotton’s theme, Inseparable, covered by a Filipino artist:
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Chess and Cotton, Inseparable
( emotional support dogs of the #UniversityofthePhilippines #UPDiliman )
android-shot six days ago
Chess had gotten pregnant twice before. In both instances, her entire litter of puppies were stolen from her within weeks.
To stop this kind of cruelty and to keep her healthy, she was brought to the vet med to be spayed. She has since then become healthier.
A few months later, a mangy cotton-ball puppy was abandoned at the mass comm parking lot. Khrysta brought him to the vet med, and the mass comm humans nursed him back until he grew to be an independent, smart, and useful companion named Cotton.
After one year, in accordance with the community policy, he was spayed at the vet med.
And…
… He and Chess have become inseparable … well, Chess is domesticated and sleeps in the college grounds most of the time; Cotton free-ranges the grounds of the quadrant of maskom-music-admin then goes back to mass comm at sundown to have supper with Chess and sleep beside her until sunrise.
At 8am today, he was prancing when his name was called, responded with alertness, followed me to the mass comm grounds, but won’t eat or drink anything anymore (maybe it was already too hot? He was full?).
At 10am, at the Quezon Hall parking lot, he appeared within five seconds of his name being called, when presented with his water bowl, he just sniffed it then sauntered away.
He kept strolling away.
He made a turn and walked on the side of the spirited spurting water fountains, meandered to the side, onto the grass… Then, he was munching these : He nibbled about three blades of the wild grass
(i tried to stop him but he just moved to another shrubbery).
On the fourth strand, he trotted on, going outside of the Quezon Hall grounds, then crossed the street.
One step … and he was already outside his “quadrant” (“quadrant” being mass comm grounds – music lobby canteen- admin parking lot).
On the grassy knoll beside the University Avenue, west-bound, where no humans walked, he sprightly skipped along ten meters, behind a shrub, he dug a small hole … crunched up his body tense like an inverted parenthesis and … performed his absolution in five seconds. He then buried his excretion.
Then, Cotton happily hopscotched back to his quadrant, went back to the parking lot, under one of the cars, lounged on his elbows, and slowly melted away there, 10:30am.
(he is expected to come out and proceed to the college of music lobby canteen at 12 noon)
