I went to Hargeisa since pretty much my entire family was from there, it was chill though we had no wifi which sucked. I wasn't w very talkative kid so I didn't make an effort to make friends and instead spent most if not all of my time petting kittens and baby goats.
One day i was chilling on the porch of my grandma's house Eating barris, im a very picky eater so I barely touched my food because it had meat (which was DISGUSTING to me at the time)
I suddenly heard something enter, expecting a goat I look up just to be met with this HUGE dog. Not those itty-bitty ones you usually see (they look very similar to the Basenji breed), this one was large and with folded ears.
I ended up throwing my food to it and got scolded by my dad, the next day I see the same dog chilling in the area so I tried to lead it away before anyone chased it out. I was very surprised that it didn't bite me at all and was overall pretty chill, I was very shocked because the dogs there often got treated like trash by the locals, Heck even less than trash which has led to some being overly aggressive, distrusting, unpredictable and others just depressed or something. I started hanging out with it everytime I saw it, at one point it started following me just to be there as some sort of company whilst I was playing, drawing whatever. I remember feeling so cool bc it felt like I had a guard dog, it wasn't aggresive but it would stand between me and strangers to keep space.(And be fr no other Somali especially one born and raised in Somalia would wanna be near a dog)
it even lead me to it's puppies once and let me hold them. She lost a fight to some hyenas a couple of weeks after I left, rip Samira(yes I named her, yes she responded to her name). I got even more upset finding out that the bite didn't kill her but the wound getting infected did, it made me wanna open my own veterinary clinic over there since they're Pretty much non-existent but now idk
(closest image I can find resembling her)
One day i was chilling on the porch of my grandma's house Eating barris, im a very picky eater so I barely touched my food because it had meat (which was DISGUSTING to me at the time)
I suddenly heard something enter, expecting a goat I look up just to be met with this HUGE dog. Not those itty-bitty ones you usually see (they look very similar to the Basenji breed), this one was large and with folded ears.
I ended up throwing my food to it and got scolded by my dad, the next day I see the same dog chilling in the area so I tried to lead it away before anyone chased it out. I was very surprised that it didn't bite me at all and was overall pretty chill, I was very shocked because the dogs there often got treated like trash by the locals, Heck even less than trash which has led to some being overly aggressive, distrusting, unpredictable and others just depressed or something. I started hanging out with it everytime I saw it, at one point it started following me just to be there as some sort of company whilst I was playing, drawing whatever. I remember feeling so cool bc it felt like I had a guard dog, it wasn't aggresive but it would stand between me and strangers to keep space.(And be fr no other Somali especially one born and raised in Somalia would wanna be near a dog)
it even lead me to it's puppies once and let me hold them. She lost a fight to some hyenas a couple of weeks after I left, rip Samira(yes I named her, yes she responded to her name). I got even more upset finding out that the bite didn't kill her but the wound getting infected did, it made me wanna open my own veterinary clinic over there since they're Pretty much non-existent but now idk
(closest image I can find resembling her)
