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"description": "Zhang and Annika Meerkat had to take their son, Raphael, to the hospital after Raphael developed symptoms of pneumonia. The acquaintance between Raphael's family and Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat got real ugly real quick when it became obvious that Dr. Rat was Hell bent on circumcising Raphael before even diagnosing and treating Raphael's pneumonia (Other doctors don't like Dr. Rat either. They often pronounce his name \"Dr. Ice Berg\"). Raphael began freaking out, screaming and crying that he did not want his \"pee-pee\" cut, and at one point gaging on some of the pneumonia fluid from his lungs, as he was scared half out of his wits. Zhang, Raphael's dad, sternly told Dr. Rat, \"Back off\". Annika, Raphael's mom, demanded a different doctor. In spite of all that, Dr. Rat still attempted the procedure, holding Raphael's sheath retracted, and had trouble getting Raphael's penis head into the clamp bell because Raphael began wildly kicking around. Raphael even kicked the scalpel Dr. Rat had set down, causing Dr. Rat to have to let loose of Raphael's sheath to catch the scalpal. It was at that moment Zhang came around the gurney and shoved Dr. Rat away from Raphael, then roughing Dr. Rat up a bit. Zhang Meerkat then warned Dr. Zander Rat only one time to keep away from his son. Once Annika got Raphael calmed down, she came over and held Zhang's paw to calm him down. Dr. Rat was about to mouth off at Zhang, ispite of Zhang's only warning to Dr. Rat, until Dr. Rat saw a look in Zhang's eyes that made him drop his clamp and scalpel and run away hollering for hospital security. What Dr. Rat does not know about Zhang Meerkat is, Zhang has had martial arts training at a young age, and has a temper. At the moment Dr. Rat dropped his implements and ran, Zhang was only two seconds away from delivering a reverse spin kick to Zander Rat's rib cage, which would have caved it in like a cardboard box, putting Zander standing before his maker. And Zhang could have easily done it before Zander knew what was going on.\nWhile all this was going down, the Death Angel was milling around the emergency room unnoticed, convinced that a soul was ready for harvest at any second.\nA different doctor was assigned to treat Raphael, Dr. Clyde Wolf, who assured Raphael that nothing was going to happen to his \"little boy thing\". Him and a female fox nurse, who Raphael took a liking to, were very caring and friendly.\nHospital security could have pressed assualt and threatening charges against Zhang Meerkat over the encounter with Dr. Zander \"Ice Berg\" Rat (Came really close to being a murder charge). But considering the circumstances, and Dr. Rat's reputation, Zhang was let off with a warning. And reminded that a hospital is no place to be making noise.\nAs for Dr. \"Ice Berg\", Hospital administration warned him that his behavior could cost him his doctor's license someday. He was further told that, unlike where he was from, forced circumcisions are considered unethical. ",
"description_bbcode_parsed": "Zhang and Annika Meerkat had to take their son, Raphael, to the hospital after Raphael developed symptoms of pneumonia. The acquaintance between Raphael's family and Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat got real ugly real quick when it became obvious that Dr. Rat was Hell bent on circumcising Raphael before even diagnosing and treating Raphael's pneumonia (Other doctors don't like Dr. Rat either. They often pronounce his name "Dr. Ice Berg"). Raphael began freaking out, screaming and crying that he did not want his "pee-pee" cut, and at one point gaging on some of the pneumonia fluid from his lungs, as he was scared half out of his wits. Zhang, Raphael's dad, sternly told Dr. Rat, "Back off". Annika, Raphael's mom, demanded a different doctor. In spite of all that, Dr. Rat still attempted the procedure, holding Raphael's sheath retracted, and had trouble getting Raphael's penis head into the clamp bell because Raphael began wildly kicking around. Raphael even kicked the scalpel Dr. Rat had set down, causing Dr. Rat to have to let loose of Raphael's sheath to catch the scalpal. It was at that moment Zhang came around the gurney and shoved Dr. Rat away from Raphael, then roughing Dr. Rat up a bit. Zhang Meerkat then warned Dr. Zander Rat only one time to keep away from his son. Once Annika got Raphael calmed down, she came over and held Zhang's paw to calm him down. Dr. Rat was about to mouth off at Zhang, ispite of Zhang's only warning to Dr. Rat, until Dr. Rat saw a look in Zhang's eyes that made him drop his clamp and scalpel and run away hollering for hospital security. What Dr. Rat does not know about Zhang Meerkat is, Zhang has had martial arts training at a young age, and has a temper. At the moment Dr. Rat dropped his implements and ran, Zhang was only two seconds away from delivering a reverse spin kick to Zander Rat's rib cage, which would have caved it in like a cardboard box, putting Zander standing before his maker. And Zhang could have easily done it before Zander knew what was going on.
While all this was going down, the Death Angel was milling around the emergency room unnoticed, convinced that a soul was ready for harvest at any second.
A different doctor was assigned to treat Raphael, Dr. Clyde Wolf, who assured Raphael that nothing was going to happen to his "little boy thing". Him and a female fox nurse, who Raphael took a liking to, were very caring and friendly.
Hospital security could have pressed assualt and threatening charges against Zhang Meerkat over the encounter with Dr. Zander "Ice Berg" Rat (Came really close to being a murder charge). But considering the circumstances, and Dr. Rat's reputation, Zhang was let off with a warning. And reminded that a hospital is no place to be making noise.
As for Dr. "Ice Berg", Hospital administration warned him that his behavior could cost him his doctor's license someday. He was further told that, unlike where he was from, forced circumcisions are considered unethical. ",
"writing": " HISTORY OF THE CHARACTERS - 29 CHAPTERS (following the description):\n\nCIRCUMCISION ATTEMPT\nThis story has been written from summer of 2013 to December 2013.\n\n \nPermission Icon to Pimp Certain Works by moyomongoose\n\n\n\nDescription: Hospital Visit - The setting is in Salem India, on the evening of 11/30/13.\n\nZhang Meerkat and his wife, Annika, had no idea what they were going to be up against when they had to take their son, Raphael, to the hospital emergency room on the evening of November 30, 2013. Raphael Meerkat had what Zhang and Annika had first thought was a cold, until pneumonia symptoms showed up, and Raphael complaining of feeling weak, and of his chest \"feeling buzzy\" when he coughed.\nShortly after Raphael was admitted into the hospital, the doctor who was assigned to treat him showed up. Raphael's parents sensed that something didn't feel right about this big, brown rat. They also noticed he was circumcised, which they didn't pay much mind to, because, among friends of their family, are two circumcised civets* and a circumcised fossa* who's closest friends jokingly call him \"Ding Bell\", because his flared shape penis head would shake around, looking like a ringing bell, when he walked.\n\"Hello, I'm Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat\", he introduced himself. \"And I take it this is the little one we'll be checking for pneumonia this evening\".\n\"He's has a rattle in his chest when he coughs. And he says he feels weak\", Raphael's mom, Annika, told Dr. Rat.\n\"What is that plastic thing?\", Zhang asked. \"And what's with the knife?\"\n\"Oh. This is a circumcision clamp.\" Dr. Zander Rat explained. \"Before we do anything else, that nasty skin cover needs to come off your son's penis. By the way, you yourself should also consider getting...\"\n\"QUE O INFERNO?! (WHO THE HELL?!)\" Zhang cut Dr. Rat off in mid sentence, as Raphael began freaking out, screaming and crying, scared half out of his wits...The last thing a little boy meerkat with pneumonia needs.\nThe acquaintance between the Meerkat family and Dr. Rat got real ugly real quick. Annika demanded a different doctor for her son as Zander Rat argued how he thought it is the thing to do.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters by moyomongoose\n+15\n\n\"BACK OFF! AND I MEAN NOW, RAT!\", Zhang shouted.\nBut Dr. Rat ignored Zhang as he set the scalpel on the gurney to have a paw free, and retracted Raphael's sheath, poking his little meerkat penis all the way out, and trying to get the clamp bell over Raphael's penis head as Raphael began kicking and fighting it.\n\"STOP THIS! NOW!\", Annika screamed.\nAs Raphael struggled, he kicked the scalpel Dr. Rat set on the gurney. Dr. Rat had to let loose of Raphael's penis, allowing it to sheath back in, so he can catch the flying scalpel.\nIt was at that point, Zhang Meerkat quickly came around the gurney and gave Dr. Zander Rat a hard shove away from Raphael, almost knocking the doctor down, then roughing him up.\n\"WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE?!\", Dr. Tavi Mongoose, who was treating a heart patient, called out.\n\"WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! DR. ICE BERG! WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?!\", Dr. Clyde Wolf answered.\n\"Yea. Zander the Sander\", said Nurse Teisha Civet. \"Why does he always pull that crap?\"\nZhang Meerkat hollered at Zander Rat, \"STAY AWAY FROM MY SON OR I'LL KILL YOU, YOU CREEP! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING!\", as Zhang began backing him away from Raphael.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+15\n\n\"They must be stopped!\", said Nurse Civet. \"Someone will be hurt!\"\n\"NO! Let him have at it.\", said Dr. Wolf. \"I'd like to see that meerkat nail the living shit out of Zander Ice Berg\".\nZhang continued backing Dr. Rat away, telling him, \"Those things tougher than you even dream of being. I've laugh at, voce pedaco de merda (you piece of shit)!\"\nThen Zhang continued to cuss Dr. Zander Rat out in an Angolan dialect of Portuguese, that being the language of Angola, Africa where Zhang and Annika were born and raised.\nAnnika was busy calming Raphael down. \"It's all right, meu bebe (my baby). It's all right\" Annika assured Raphael, as she was hugging and patting him. \"Papai e Mamae irao mante-lo seguro (Daddy and Mommy will keep you safe). It's OK. Daddy's taking care of him. Right now\".\nUnbeknown to Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat, Zhang Meerkat has been through bad war time experiences at a very young age which renders him at times not operating on a \"full deck of cards\". Zhang also has had martial arts training at a young age. And in addition to holding a 2nd degree black belt, Zhang has a temper. At this point, all Zander Rat has to do is take a half step back toward Raphael's direction, or run his mouth one more time, and Zhang Meerkat would turn Zander Rat into a corpse real quick. It had now escalated into a volatile situation as Zhang was on the edge of hooking up Zander Rat with a ride in a hearse and a closed casket funeral.\nOther doctors, hospital staff and a few patients looked on intensely, waiting for something to happen to Dr. Zander Rat, whom none of them liked. Zhang Meerkat then stared Zander Rat down, preparing at any second to go ballistic on him. Zander thought of using his scalpel as a defense weapon, but couldn't get up the nerve to do it. Had he tried it, Zhang could have snatched it away from Zander and rammed it up Zander's ass before Zander ever knew what happened. Annika had finally gotten Raphael calmed down, and came over and held paws with Zhang to calm him down. And hoping to hold Zhang back from making a mistake he'd later regret. Annika, like any other wife, does not want her husband in prison on a murder conviction.\nDr. Zander Rat then dropped his circi-clamp and scalpel, and went running off, hollering for hospital security. Zhang, still holding paws with his wife, told Zander to go to Hell.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+15\n\nDr Zander Rat ran away not a moment too soon. Zhang Meerkat was only two seconds away from delivering a reverse spin kick to Zander Rat's chest. Zhang would have caved Zander's rib cage in like a cardboard box, instantly killing him. And all the other doctors in the hospital would not have been able to save Zander.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 4] by moyomongoose\n+15\n\nZander would have spent that night in the hospital's cold storage morgue with a wide open chest and a tag on his toe...and Zhang Meerkat in jail (In the Furry World, jail is jokingly nicknamed \"the zoo\").\nAlthough circumcision is widely practiced in the meerkats former homeland of Angola, Zhang and Annika were from the Cunene Province of Angola (near Namibia), where, unlike other parts of the country, circumcision is not traditionally practiced. And they certainly did not want it for their son, Raphael...nor did Raphael. \n\nA different doctor was assigned to treat Raphael, Dr. Clyde Wolf MD.\n\"Please don't cut my pee-pee\", Raphael timidly asked Dr. Wolf.\n\"I'm not like Dr. Rat\", Dr. Wolf assured Raphael. \"I can promise you, as long as you are in my care, nothing's going to happen to your little boy thing\". \nRaphael, as well as his parents were so relieved to hear that. Dr. Wolf and an attractive female fox nurse, Nurse Sheryl Fox, were very caring and friendly. Dr. Wolf alleviated Raphael's fear of doctors that Dr. Rat inflicted on him earlier that evening. Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox, and the Meerkat Family got along well, and Raphael took a liking to Nurse Fox.\nAt one point Raphael told her, \"Nurse Sheryl. I like you. You're pretty\".\nSheryl Fox replied, \"Aww. That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all evening. Thank you, Raphael\".\nAfter an examination, a couple of tests and an X-ray, Raphael's illness was confirmed as pneumonia. Dr. Wolf even showed Raphael the X-ray and told him it was a picture of his lungs, and pointed out the spots representing the infection at the top of his right lung. Raphael was fascinated by it. Dr. Wolf administered an antibiotic shot to Raphael's haunch, which he didn't like very well, then prescribed medication for Raphael to take twice a day. Raphael was then released to go home later that night.\n\"That rat who first saw us. He has no business as a doctor. You are by far a better doctor\", Zhang told Dr. Wolf, as they were about to leave.\n\"Well, Thank you\", Dr. Wolf replied. \"And I apologize for what you all were put through with Dr. Rat. I'm giving the apology on behalf of the hospital because you'll never get one from him\".\n\"And you've been so kind...Obrigado\", Annika said to Dr. Wolf .\n\"Oh?\", Dr. Wolf pondered.\n\"In our former homeland, it means thank you\", Annika answered.\n\"You are most certainly welcome\", Dr. Wolf returned.\nThe Meerkat Family and Dr. Wolf then bid each other bye, and everything turned out well.\n\nHospital security did not press assault or threat charges on Zhang Meerkat, considering the circumstances. Zhang was let off with a warning instead. And he was lectured about a hospital being no place to be shouting and making loud noises.\n\nAs for Dr. Zander Iscelberg (Ice Berg) Rat, he was given a good lecture by the senior doctor in the doctor's lounge that evening. And when it was his next time to come back on shift, Administration warned Dr. Rat that any more stunts, like the one he tried to pull on Raphael Meerkat, will get him up before a medical board inquiry, and a possible loss of his doctor's license. In their jurisdiction, forced circumcisions are considered unethical.\nDr. Zander Rat came within two seconds of dying that evening, and had no clue of it. And Zander still goes on as an arrogant, stupid ass rat.\n*The two civets and the fossa, who are among friends of the Meerkat Family, had years ago, been in the hospital (the civets had major illnesses, and the fossa was hurt in a construction accident). Unbeknown to the Meerkat Family, they had the misfortune of having an encounter from Dr. Zander Rat.\n\nHISTORY OF THE CHARACTERS (A LITTLE OF WHAT MAKES THEM TICK)\n\nChapter 1. Introduction to Zhang's Family\n\n\nZHANG MEERKAT, male, born in Angola (Africa) on May 1st, 1986, age 27, is Raphael's dad.\nZhang came from a poor family, dirt poor. So poor, if it only took a nickle to go around the world, his family couldn't have gotten out of sight.\nZhang was born to his dad, Bron Meerkat, and to his mom, Lacara, having two older brothers, Moze, the oldest, then Jorad. And later, a younger brother, Cheesah, was born.\nThe locals spoke an Angolan dialect of Portuguese, which is the language of Angola. But they, and many others they knew, could also speak English. Many of the locals would often speak Angolan Portuguese mixed with English.\nDuring that time, Angola was ravaged by poverty. And an ongoing civil war, in which the UNITA movement, which branched off from the then already dismantled FNLA, always attempted to seize power from the present MPLA government, often erupting into paramilitary confrontations, was no help to the nation's economy either. The political unrest had existed since 1975 between separatist groups that fought in the 1961 to 1974 war for national independence from Portugal. The local anthro-animals of the Cunene Province of Angola were also well aware that the UNITA rebels had been getting help from the then apartheid South Africa, against their non-apartheid MPLA government presently in power. In fact, a city, although a very far distance to the west, Lubango, had fallen under South African control in 1979.\nOn Janurary 12th, 1979, Bron Meerkat and his wife, Lacara Meerkat, were still in their late adolescent age when they were married, which was a few weeks after it was known that Lacara was pregnant with Moze. Although there was the concern over their cub being born in a country experiencing civil war, Bron and Lacara always kept that out of mind the best they could and went on with their everyday lives. \nBeing that Bron had developed hip dysplasia when he was a cub, thus rendering him unable to work most jobs, Bron and Lacara regularly received what help and charity both sides of the family could spare. Lacara's mom and dad, Zeth and Mylah, who were still raising younger brother Amos and younger sister Beth, would help the family a lot, including helping Bron and Lacara get their house built during February and March of 1979 and completing it three months later in April. Some help would also come from Bron's side of the family as well, though Bron was not from the local area, therefore his family wasn't nearby.\nBron and Lacara's home, like other homes typical of that area, was a dirt floor, tin roof, clay wall, bungalow style house in the Angolan countryside in the southern province of Cunene, not far from the Cuando-Cubango Province.\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 25] by moyomongoose\n+31\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 24] by moyomongoose\n+31\n\nThe house had no glass in the windows..There were curtains instead, as well as curtains in place of doors.\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 23] by moyomongoose\n+31\n\nThere were no utilities in the part of Cunene where they lived, thus the house, like other homes, had no phone, electricity or piped in water.\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 27] by moyomongoose\n+31\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 29] by moyomongoose\n+31\n\nThe timing was just right on getting a wood stove for cooking meals....The cafe' in the village three kilometers away was at that time replacing their old wood stove with an LP gas stove. The cafe' owners agreed to sell the old stove to Bron and Lacara on credit. A friend of the family who owned a truck hauled it to the house for them, and it was installed under a low walled porch overhang on the west side of the house. However humble it was, it was home, it provided shelter, and it was a fairly quaint and nice house for the kind of house it was, and for the area of countryside it was in. After-all, Bron and Lacara knew some neighbors in the community who had less of a house than they had to call home.\n\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 26] by moyomongoose\n+31\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola [Page 28] by moyomongoose\n+31\n\n \nMeerkat Brothers Cubhood Home in Angola [Page 36] by moyomongoose\n+39\n\nA genet family, who were long time friends with Lacara's Granddad Dominique and Grandma Gloria, also helped the Meerkat Family, including helping with Bron and Lacara's home. Dominique Meerkat, his son Zeth and Sanchez Genet use to work together on the sugar cane plantations back during the old forced labour days before Angola's war for independence from Portugal began back in 1961.\nOn February 21st, 1979, on an old blanket, on the dirt floor of the only bedroom of Bron and Lacara's new house, Lacara gave birth to the first cub of the family, a male, who Bron and Lacara named Moze.\nOf all members of the Meerkat Family at that time, Granddad Dominique (now a great granddad) and his wife Gloria were the only family members who owned a car, although Dominique had given the car to his son Zeth and his daughter-in-law Mylah to use, being that they were still raising Amos and Beth. The car was a then 25 year old, 1954, Opal, Rekord, Olympia station wagon Dominique and Gloria had owned since 1961.\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/Dominique-Meerk...\n\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/When-the-Car-go...\n\nIn the following year, 1980, Bron, with the help of Sanchez Genet, built a nifty, little, tin roof, storage shed which was an \"A\" frame structure supported from two trees, walled at the back end and half walled in front.\n\nThat Old Shed [Page 4] by moyomongoose\n+4\nThat Old Shed [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+4\n\n \nThat Old Shed [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+4\n\nMeerkat Brothers Cubhood Home in Angola [Page 35] by moyomongoose\n+39\n\nOf course, the day the shed was built, there was conversation between Bron and Sanchez about Angola's ongoing civil war. At that time, UNITA rebel forces had been seizing parts of the Cunene Province, although nowhere near the part of the province where the families of Bron and Sanchez lived. One of UNITA's allies, a unit of the army of then apartheid South Africa, still held the city of Lubango which was a long distance to the west.\n\nAt ages one and two, Moze always looked forward to having Granddad Zeth and grandma Mylah drop by for a visit...that is when ever they had money to put gas in the car. The grand parents were fond of their little grandson Moze. And for Moze, being that Lacara's parents had the family's only car, that usually meant a trip into the village (about 3 km away), which was a real treat. There were times Zeth would take pictures of Moze and the family with an old, 1930, Leitz, 35 mm lens camera that his dad Dominique had given him, which before that was given to Dominique by his dad. The nearest place to get the film developed was in Ondjiva, 70 miles to the south. The pictures taken at about that time would be the last though. In the following year, the shutter on the camera wore out, and no parts were ever available to get it fixed. The family had never had another camera since.\nThere were times Moze's Great Granddad Dominique and Great Grandma Gloria would use the car and drop by to visit Bron, Lacara and Moze. There was also a narrow gauge branch of the CFB railway that ran through the village, which still at that time used steam locomotives. Many times when the grand parents or great grand parents would take the family into the village, they would wait at the train depot a while so Moze can watch a train go by.\n\nWhen Moze was a year and a half old, his little penis poked out of sheath for the first time during a visit from the great grandparents.\nMose came running out of the bedroom and past the old ragged bureau in the living room, pointing to his erect penis that was poking all the way out with it's little head and point flexed upward, proudly proclaiming, \"Mamae Mamae! Olha o que eu tenho!...Papai Papai! Olha o que eu tenho!\"(Mamma Mamma! Look what I got!...Daddy Daddy! Look what I got!).\nBron and Lacara, upon noticing their son's little discovery, looked at each other and giggled.\nAs Dominique and Gloria came from the kitchen into the living room, Moze climbed up onto the old blue striped sofa, sat with his legs spread out with his little penis pointing upward.\n\"Grande Papai Grand! Grande Mamae Grand! Olha o que eu tenho! Olha o que eu tenho!\"(Great Granddad! Great Grandma! Look what I got! Look what I got!), Moze called out as he pointed to his penis, still erect and poking out.\n\"Amigo ao longo da vida do nosso grande filho grand. Ele descobriu isso\" (Lifelong friend of our great grand son. He has discovered that), Dominique laughed to Gloria.\n\"Ah, isso ser tao bonitinha\" (Awww, that be so cute), Gloria giggled.\nThat was Moze Meerkat's first introduction to his little pee-pee.\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 6] by moyomongoose\n+12\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 7] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\nThere were also those times Bron's side of the family would come and visit, although not as often due to the travel distance and transportation not always being available. \n\nWhen Moze was three, that was in the year 1982, when UNITA was pushing major guerrilla offenses into parts of the Cunene Province. Although the initial homeland hadn't seen any of that action, the local animals felt safer carrying guns with them where ever they went, in case of the unforeseeable event they would encounter UNITA rebels, or if the worse nightmare scenario ever happened of coming under fire from South African Army forces.\nWhenever Bron, Lacara and Moze went to the village with the grand parents or great grandparents, there would always be loaded guns in the car...just in case.\nMoze was always told, \"Filho. As armas, voce deixeo seu patas off-las. (Son. The guns, you leave your paws off them)\".\nOn a trip to the village, little Moze Meerkat asked, \"Por que temos as armas? (Why the guns?)\"\nHow do you explain to a three year old meerkat cub why you carry guns everywhere you travel?\nBut it was agreed by everyone to explain the truth to Moze as to why. They figured with a civil war going on, Moze would mostly likely sooner than later see enough to figure out what is going on.\n\nBy 1983, much of the UNITA offensive had been driven out of Cunene by MPLA government troops, thus making life in the homeland once again a little safer. And that was a Godsend for Bron and Lacara. Because not only was there a concern for the safety of their son Moze, then age four, this was also the time a younger brother came into the family. On March 3rd, 1983, Jorad was born on an old blanket, in the very same dirt floor bedroom where older brother Moze was born four years earlier.\nWatching his younger brother being born was certainly an amazing experience for Moze, which during Jorad's birth, Moze asked, \"TODOS os filhotes vem fora de uma buceta?!\" (Do ALL cubs come out of a pussy?!)\".\nAmong the animals in the homeland, someone being born wasn't really anything that was hidden from the cubs. And with the house having only one bedroom, Moze had many times seen his mom and dad having sex together.\nAs time went on, Moze and Jorad always enjoyed each other's companionship as they would play and do a lot of things together. And there were many times Jorad would tag along with his brother Moze when he went out collecting wild greens and grass hoppers for Lacara to cook up with some rice for dinner. \nThere was also that moment of self discovery for Jorad in December of 1984, when Jorad was three months away from turning two years old. Bron was out riding with Sanchez Jenet looking for work that day.\nLacara and Moze heard Jorad in the living room, saying, \"Ele e bonitiiiinnnnha\" (He is cuuuuute).\nMoze and his mom found Jorad sitting on the living room dirt floor, against the table, with his little penis erect and poking way out of sheath, and got a laugh when Jorad looked up while pointing at his penis and said, \"Olha!...Ele e meu peu-peu!\" (Look! He's my pee-pee!)...It didn't take Jorad Meerkat rocket science to figure out what it is.\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees by moyomongoose\n+12\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\n \nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 4] by moyomongoose\n+12\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 5] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\nAnd it did have fun getting played with by it's owner, which was no different than what any other young meerkat would do.\nOther joyous occasions during the year of 1984 was Lacara's brother Amos getting married, and only a few months later, becoming the dad to a son and a daughter who were born at the same time.\nAlso, Bron's relatives had sent a letter announcing that one of his sisters had a daughter.\n \nIn 1985, there was one visit when Dominique purchased a used toy car from an emporium store in the village for Moze, then age 6, and Jorad, then age 2. It was one of those old Japanese made, toy cars made from stamped tin, with a body style like the old, big, fastback cars of the early 1950s. It was about 25 centimeters (10 inches) in length with real hard rubber wheels. Moze and Jorad were really delighted about the toy car their great grand dad bought for them. Dominique had purchased a few toys in the past for Moze and Jorad, but this one would be the last...Later that year Dominique had succumb to pancreatic cancer that he had been unaware of. By the time Dominique saw the doctor at the village hospital, which was not much more than a substandard clinic, which was a one story, adobe wall, tin roof, wood floor building, the cancer was already too far advanced to do anything for him. Dominique requested to be at home to pass away, and within a week, Dominique Meerkat died at home, with his relatives by his side, and leaving Gloria to be a widowed meerkat. Everyone in the family, including the two great grand sons, took it hard over Dominique's death.\nThere is a community worship center in the village that has it's own cemetery, and that is where Dominique Meerkat was laid to rest. \nAs for the car (the real car), it had to be registered and re-tagged in Zeth and Mylah's names. After all, a car can not be registered in the name of a deceased meerkat.\n\nEarly in 1986, it had been rumored that hostilities were ramping up again between UNITA rebels and the MPLA government. Some local animals had been talking about carrying guns for protection again, but so far, it had not come to that.\nIt was also the year Moze, going on age 7, would be of school age, but Moze would not be attending school. Moze would be helping with the family income. Although Bron did occasionally find some work he could do in spite of his hip dysplasia putting him at a great disadvantage, Moze still had to help his dad bring in family income whenever he and his dad could get a ride into the village and find what ever work they can get. Where they lived, programs like welfare, disability, Social Security and food stamps were non-existent...there were no social safety nets.\nIt was on the 21st of February of 1986, Moze celebrated his 7th birthday. It was not the typical birthday party how much of the world knows it, with the cake, candles, ice cream, chips, soda (Moze and Jorad had never even tasted soda before), balloons, horns, party poppers, gifts and so on...For that kind of party, it takes more money than those living in a poverty stricken community have. The celebration consisted of Zeth and Mylah taking everyone to the village, having some shared meals at the cafe' and having pastry or pie, among of which is their well known, homemade persimmon pie. The cafe' never had soda, but the cubs did like iced tea. Although there was no electrical grid in the homeland to run an ice maker, the metal fabrication shop on the edge of the village had an industrial generator that was run off of a twin cylinder steam engine to power their tools and equipment. An agreement had existed between the cafe' and the shop that the shop would freeze ice for the cafe', and the cafe' would always give 50% off on meal prices for the employees of the shop. And among the birthday festivities, playing hide and seek was always fun with other cub friends and cub relatives who attended. For the family, spending money to eat out at a cafe' was a luxury which was something the family seldom ever did, thus when they did, it was a really big treat.\nAbout a week and a half later, March the 3rd, Jorad celebrated his 3rd birthday...celebrated at the village in much the same way.\nAbout the time of Jorad's 3rd birthday was also the time Lacara was beginning to notice she was pregnant with her third cub.\nIt was just a few days shy of two months later, on May 1st, 1986, Moze and Jorad witnessed their, then youngest, brother being born on an old blanket in the same dirt floor bedroom Moze and Jorad had been born in. Bron and Lacara decided on the name 'Zhang' for the newest member of the family. Being that Jorad was still nursing at three years old, which is normal for many 3rd world societies, Lacara would let 3 year old Jorad and new born Zhang nurse together until Jorad was eventually weened from the teats.\nAs the rest of that year continued, Moze and Jorad would play with their brother Zhang and keep him entertained. When Moze was with Dad at the village, or at some other location where he and Dad were able to find work, it was Jorad, Zhang and Mom who were at the house. This was about the time Jorad was also weening from Mom's teats, to leave Zhang to nurse from Mom alone.\n\nIn 1987, Angola's MPLA government launched a crackdown campaign against UNITA. It was looking like the rebel movement would finally be crushed once and for all, thus putting an end to Angola's many years long civil conflict.\nMay 1st of 1987 was Zhang's first birthday, in which grand parents Zeth and Mylah, with Great Grandma Gloria, took the family into the village to celebrate Zhang's birthday at the cafe'.\nIn the weeks to follow, Bron and then 8 year old Moze had been getting a ride to the village with Sanchez Genet where Sanchez, Bron and Moze found a temporary job lasting for several weeks. It was spraying weeds along the narrow gauge rail line for the CFB railway, including trimming tree limbs from out the way of the trains and helping to replace rotted ties, and it paid pretty well too. Because of Bron's hip dysplasia, he was assigned most of the weed spraying which was done from a motorized rail buggy. A family not having a car would usually miss out on a work opportunity like this one, which is why it is such a blessing to know someone who does have a car...although Sanchez Genet's old, ragged, Wartberg Kombi station wagon was at that time barely holding up and was on the verge of falling apart, but it would still run. Although still living a life of poverty, life had been getting good for the locals, as well as for the Meerkat Family.\nA month after turning one year old, Zhang had his moment of his own sexual discovery. Bron and Moze were out with the maintenance crew for the railway that day. At home, Lacara and Jorad, then age 4, heard Zhang in the bedroom giggling and laughing. When they went into the bedroom to see what Zhang was giggling about, they saw Zhang with his little penis sticking erect way out of it's sheath. Zhang was pushing and wiggling the head of his penis around with his paws, giggling, laughing and having himself a good time. Zhang's penis would frequently spring up from having the head stimulated, then bob back down. When Zhang noticed his mom and older brother watching him, he looked up and grinned as Lacara and Jorad chuckled.\nThat was the day Mom and next older brother Jorad found out that Zhang's penis has a longer tapered shape to it's head than what an average male meerkat has. Zhang Meerkat's little pee-pee head HAS now been seen.\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 8] by moyomongoose\n+12\n \nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 9] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\n \nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 10] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\nAround the end of June of 1987, Bron, Lacara and the sons had gotten a ride with some linsang friends into the village. While in the village, the family went into a hardware store so Bron can get some nails to nail some loose ceiling planks back into place at the house, and Lacara wanted to get some seeds to grow some cantaloupes.\nUpon entering the hardware store, they noticed a gathering of various animals...mongooses, civets, genets, a hyena, and a serval, who were engaging in a discussion with the cheetah who owned the store. When Bron inquired to what it was about, the other animals said that there had been speculation going around that there was a large build up of South African Army forces in the area of Rundu, Nambia near the Angolan border.\n\"Algumas delas sao preparacoes for airstrikes, eles dizem\" (Some of it is preparations for airstrikes, they say), the cheetah said.\n\"Ataque de aeronaves?!\" (Attack by aircraft?!), a civet asked.\n\"UAU!\", the serval exclaimed. \n\"Definitivament nao e bom\" (Definitely not good), Bron mentioned, as everyone knew South Africa had been an ally of UNITA.\n\"A counteroffensive at the crackdown on Unita. Todo mundo sabe disso\" (...Everyone knows that), the cheetah replied.\n\"A guerra civil. No mes de Maio, we thought it was over with\" (The civil war. In the month of May...), the hyena added.\n\"Sim. Will it ever be?\" (Yes...), Lacara asked, as though she already knew the answer.\nA mongoose had noted that Rundu was far to the east, thus meaning their prime objective would have to be somewhere far east of the local homeland...That was about the only good news to that situation.\n\"Mavinga...Jamba\", a linsang mentioned the Angolan towns far to the east that would be north of Rundu.\n\"Sim\", the mongoose replied.\nThe linsangs who the meerkats got the ride into the village with heard about the military build up in Rundu while they were in the cafe'.\nNeedless to say, there was a somber mood during the trip back to the house.\nA little more than a month later, on August 4th, 1987, South African forces invaded across the border from Rundu. Fortunately for the local community, the invasion was far away, in the cities of Mavinga and Jamba in the southeast corner of the country, as the animals at the hardware had figured it would be about a month ago. A few days later, Bron and Moze heard news of the South African invasion while they were at the village, prepping custom shelving for painting that the metal fabrication shop had made.\nDuring the rest of 1987, the Meerkat Family and other locals would get news of what was to be known as 'the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale' over car radios, and from other animals who regularly travel everyday, such as truck drivers and train operators of the trains that would stop in the village. For the next few months, they would hear about the MPLA 21st Brigade being driven back, the South African Army running low on ammunition at one point, air strikes, an important bridge being destroyed, and the heavy losses suffered by their country's military forces. There wasn't much the local animals could do about it, except to be thankful they were not living in the southeast part of the country where it was going on.\nHowever, there was a short while that small number of UNITA rebels did come within 30 km (20 miles) of the local community. It was believed by many of the locals that they were sent out recons. Many of the locals who had access to transportation grabbed up guns and ammo and set out to hunt them down. Among those who went out on those patrols were Zeth Meerkat, Bron Meerkat (you don't need two good hip joints to fire a gun), Amos Meerkat and Sanchez Genet and his brother and nephew.\nAs a result of the overwhelming participation of the locals, a few UNITA rebels had been taken out, and what few of the rest who strayed near the community were driven back east.\nBron and Sanchez noticed a type of rifle they've never seen before that was taken from one of the fallen rebels. A serval, who was very familiar with firearms, had identified it as an M-16.\n\"O armas. Partir da nacao poderosa? De atravessar o oceano a oeste?\" (The gun. From the powerful nation? Across the ocean to the west?) a civet, who was somewhat familiar with firearms, asked.\n\"O grande nacao corporativa?\" (The big corporate nation?) Sanchez Genet added.\n\"Sim\", the serval answered.\n\"O armas e Americano\", Sanchez replied.\n\"Sim sim. Fabricado em Americana\", the serval affirmed.\nIt was only a few days later that two other rifles that were taken from fallen rebels were also confirmed as being M-16s.\nFrom that point on, the animals in the local community suspected that big corporate country across the ocean to the west as aiding UNITA. \nThen, in the middle of December, when Bron, Lacara and the sons went to the village with Zeth and Mylah, they couldn't help to notice that everyone seemed to have a sense of relief and was in a happy mood. At first the Meerkat Family didn't know why, as the radio in the old Rekord wagon had quit working a month earlier. But from those in the village, they had heard that it was a week ago that a large Caribbean island country across the big ocean to the west had sent military help to Angola. The locals later learned that the leader of that country was an eccentric coatimundi, with a long chin haired beard, and would often be smoking a cigar. They were now hearing news stories about the UNITA offensive being stopped. And in the following month, January 1988, everyone heard about the attacks launched by the UNITA that had failed, and the South African Army running out of supplies. For the local animals, what had been a feeling of despair was now replaced by a feeling of optimism and national pride.\nWhen the family celebrated Moze's 9th birthday at the cafe' in the village on February 21st 1988, there was some conversation that came up among the adults about the war, while the cubs enjoyed the sweets, treats and festivities. It was a rainy day that Moze turned nine years old, so everyone remained in the cafe' as several adults at one table were talking about how UNITA and South African forces were still getting their asses kicked by the Cuban forces that came to the aid of their country. Kwasi Civet made mention that he and Jumanne Mongoose had been out to the southeast part of the country, and at a distance from one of the UNITA held areas, they were able to spy on them with a pair of binoculars.\n\"Voce tem sorte, que eles nao viu voce\" (You have luck they did not see you), Bron said to Kwasi.\n\"Isso que eu sei\" (This I know), Kwasi replied. \"No entanto, o que vimos, eu vou direi\" (However. What we saw, I will tell).\nKwasi Civet then told how he and Jumanne Mongoose, while taking turns with the binoculars, saw two raccoons and a possum who seemed to be in a position of coordinating everything.\n\"Especie de animais en Americana\", Zeth promptly replied as Mylah nodded in agreement.\n\"O marsupial e guaxinins. Parece que eles eram agentes de inteligencia. Certamente da uma nacao diferente\" (The marsupial and the raccoons. It seems that they were intelligence agents. Certainly from a different nation), Jumanne Mongoose said.\nThen Kwasi Civet noted, \"E ouvir isso. O marsupial e um gauxinim. Eles foram circuncidado...O que ISSO te diz\" (And listen to this. The marsupial and one raccoon. They were circumcised...What does THAT say to you?).\n\"Voce acredita que eles sao animais Muculmanos da Libya ou Somalia?\" (You believe they were Muslim animals from Libya or Somalia?), Lacara asked, as she is vaguely familiar with the customs of north African countries.\n\"Nao nao nao. Americanos\", Sanchez Genet replied seemingly on que.\n\"Eles eram especie de animais em Americana. Eles nao sao especie animais de Africana como nos samos\" (They are species of animals in America. They are not animal species of Africa as we are), Zeth informed Lacara.\n\"Eles eram Americanos\", Sanchez Genet affirmed.\nThen Kwasi Civet laugh and volunteered a detail, \"Ha ha...O um guaxinim. O cabeca dele penis. Lo ganchos con uma curva\" (Ha ha...The one raccoon. The head of his penis. It hooked with a curve).\nEveryone, especially the females, got a good chuckle out of hearing that bit of information.\n\"Ah sim...Eles eram Americanos\", Sanchez reiterated as he too chuckled.\n\"Nao so de Americano\", Jumanne Mongoose mentioned. \"China ajuda a Unita tambem\" (China helps Unita also).\n\"Sim\", Kwasi replied. \"Unita tem armas chinesas, eles dizem nos\" (Unita has Chinese guns, they tell us).\nZeth Meerkat gathered his thoughts for couple of seconds, then made the somber statement, \"Ha mais envolvido nesta guerra do que sabemos\" (There is more involved in this war than what we know).\n\nBy the time Jorad was celebrating his 5th birthday on March 3rd of that same year, everyone would hear news reports and conversation about the war taking a toll on UNITA. And when Zhang celebrated his 2nd birthday two months later, May 1st, it had been reported that UNITA had suffered heavy losses, and the South African Army's supplies in their Angolan campaign had been exhausted\nBy the end of August, UNITA had been stopped, although they still had their stronghold areas. The South African Army pulled out of Angola, and the Cuban troops who were aiding Angola also pulled out once everyone was confident that things would be peaceful for the time being.\nLater that year Bron and Moze found a wooden South African Army ammo crate, with a hinged lid, which made a good storage chest to keep tools in.\n\nIn the year 1989, Jorad had turned 6 years of age, and was getting old enough to go out with his dad Bron and his older brother Moze to help bring in family income. Like his brother Moze, there would not be the day Jorad would see the inside of a schoolhouse.\nWhen ever there was a ride available into town, Bron would go with one or both of the older sons to look for work. When no ride was available, Bron would have to stay home with Lacara and Zhang while Moze and Jorad woke up at dawn to walk to the village. Having hip dysplasia, Bron could not walk the three kilometers on the way to the village, but he always did remind his sons to ask around for a ride into the village for the next day so Bron could get a chance to find work.\n\nOn an early summer weekend in December of 1989 (December through March is summer in the southern hemisphere), the Meerkat Family got a ride with Sanchez Genet and his family out to a pangolin couple who owned a mango grove. Sanchez Genet's old, 1950s model, rusted out, Warturg Kombi station wagon was crowded with all who was riding along.\nhttps://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8p...\nThe mango grove had produced a good crop, and at a stand the pangolins had set up at their place, they had plenty of mangoes they were selling for cheap. The genets and meerkats stopped by and got enough mangoes to fill a few wood crates they had bought along...and those were really nice mangoes too.\nOn the way back, Zhang, then age 3, and Sanchez Genet's grandson, Ojo, then age 4, were riding on the cargo floor behind the rear seat where the boxes of mangoes were. As the car went bumping along the dirt road, Zhang and Ojo complained that the floor felt like it was springing up and down, as everyone else in the car was wondering what they meant by that. It quickly became obvious what was going on. The entire rear cargo floor suddenly began to drop out of the bottom of the car. Zhang and Ojo cried half scared out of their wits. Moze quickly grabbed Zhang over into the read seat. Jorad and Ojo's dad quickly grabbed Ojo into the rear seat. Sanchez realized what was going on and slammed on the brakes. With the car still in motion, the entire rear cargo floor tore away and mangled up under the rear bumper, along with the crates of mangoes. Zhang and Ojo were pulled out of harm's way without a second to spare. By the time Sanchez got the car stopped the car had no bottom from the rear suspension to the back cargo door. Everyone scrambled out of the car as it had filled up with road dust from where the cargo floor had dropped out of it and mangled and dragged against the dirt road. \nThe adults and older cubs comforted and calmed Zhang and Ojo as the dust cleared away, just before everyone surveyed what happened to the car. The meerkats and genets could clearly see that the floor now ended under the back of the rear seat with only a rim of rust around the inside of the body where the cargo floor use to attach to the car...The cargo floor was a mangled wad of rusty sheet metal laying on the dirt road 30 meters behind the car, along with mashed mangoes and splintered crates scattered everywhere. The gas tank did stay with the car though, still attached by the filler tube.\nEven though a Wartburg has a full separate frame, the rear of the frame ends between the rear wheels and does not extend back past the rear suspension. They are made so the back of the body overhangs beyond past the frame...So there wasn't even a frame where the cargo floor fell out. Anything behind the back seat after the cargo floor fell out, though still in the car, would be resting directly on the road.\nThe Meerkats and Genets were not really worried about the mangoes. They were just thankful no one was hurt, and thankful the gas tank didn't blow up when it was dragging along the road in the car. But there was still yet to be another scarey close call. Where the problem with the car happened was on curve in the road. And while the meerkats and genets were figuring out how to secure the gas tank up off the road so they could get the car home, a hyena driving an old International Harvester pick up with no front brakes came around the curve approaching from behind. The hyena locked up the rear brakes, which worked off the parking brake cable. He steered away and barely missed Sanchez Genet's car as Sanchez dashed back into the car and slammed the door just in time to avoid being struck by the truck or getting the driver's door torn off. The hyena's truck did a 180 degree spin out on the dirt road as it came to a stop beyond Sanchez's car, facing the opposite way from which it came.\nAfter everyone calmed down, the hyena offered to tow the car for them with a chain he had in the truck. The gas tank was removed from the car and placed in the bed of the hyena's truck. Then it was agreed to tow the car to Bron and Lacara's place, because they had some board planks stored up in a porch loft that another cargo floor can be made from.\nBron and Lacara rode in the cab of the truck with the hyena while everyone else rode in the bed, and Sanchez rode in his car to steer it as it was being towed with the chain.\nIt was late in the day, so the Genet Family slept over that night with the Meerkats.\nThe following morning, Sanchez Genet's car was fixed with two lengths of bamboo set apart for a cargo floor frame. One end of each bamboo pole was secured through holes that were made in the threshold structure that was still in solid shape under the rear cargo door, with the bamboo ends against the inside of the bumper. The other ends of the bamboo poles were wedged in between the ends of the frame and sheet metal floor above the rear suspension. That made the rear frame extension the car didn't originally have. The gas tank was fastened onto the bamboo with hemp rope and bailing wire. There were two pinholes in the tank that had to be repaired with sheet metal screws and teflon tape. Then some of the board planks that Bron had stored were nailed across the bamboo to make a new cargo floor out of wood (being careful not to nail into the gas tank). It wasn't exactly a typical car floor, but it worked, and Sanchez Genet was delighted with it.\n\nThroughout the year 1990, Bron and Lacara, like many others they knew, were really relieved about the positive developments that everyone had been hearing about regarding the war. To start with, It didn't seem like South Africa was going to be involved in anymore fighting in Angola. The local animals had been hearing about South Africa having a different leader, and of a movement that had started in that country to end it's apartheid rule. And the development that everyone felt so thankful for, was that UNITA was now making moves to abandon being a rebel militia, and began talks with the MPLA to become a political party within the government. That certainly was something Bron and Lacara considered a Godsend...especially being concerned for the safety for their eleven, seven and four year old cubs.\nIn the following year, 1991 was the first government election in which there were UNITA party candidates. The voting precinct for the part of the Cunene Provence where the Meerkat Family and friends lived was set up at the CFB railway passenger depot in the village. And needless to say, Bron, Lacara, and everyone else they knew, voted straight down the ballot MPLA.\nThe election however, did produce a disastrous result...MPLA did win the seats of government, but it wasn't long before accusations began between MPLA and UNITA, which ranged with everything from election fraud to UNITA accusing MPLA of not holding to promises they have made. Before the end of the year, UNITA resumed the civil war against the government as they had been fighting before.\n\nBy 1992, there were the reports of the civil war going on, just like it had always been before.\nTwo weeks before Moze's 13th birthday, Lacara found out she was pregnant her forth cub. And March 29th, 1992, on an old blanket, on the dirt floor of the one and only bedroom of their home, Lacara gave birth to a forth male cub with her husband and three other sons by her. It was agreed that the newest member of the family would be named Cheesah.\nThat was the year Jorad turned 9 years of age, and Zhang turning 6. And it was the year Zhang began to go out at times with one or both of his older brothers, or with his dad, into the village to find work. Most jobs for a 6 year old cub were not very heavy jobs. Jobs that consist of harder work are for those who are older.\nAnd when Bron and the older sons were at home with Lacara and Cheesah, Cheesah would always get love, attention and playing from the other members of the family. He being the cub of the family, always enjoyed being the center of attention.\n\nZhang would still be at home most of the time with Mom and cub brother Cheesah. Dad and older brothers Moze and Jorad were still the ones going out the most to seek work.\nThere was a period of time, in 1993, that the family members had been unsuccessful finding work. Food and what little money the family had was running low, although, there are still eatable plants, nuts and berries that grow wild, and bugs are always a part of the diet for meerkats as well. There was usually enough food to eat, and water was drawn from a nearby creek. But during times when food was scarce, the cubs were allowed to eat before the adults did. The cubs need to grow...the adults are already grown.\nThe opportunity to work finally picked up again starting with a morning that Moze and Jorad, who were then ages 10 and 14, walked to the village and noticed the serval who was in charge of the CFB railway warehouse needed some temporary help unloading two boxcars that were dropped off on a siding. There was already an adult mongoose and an older adolescent genet working that job, but the serval told Moze and Jorad that he could use two more helpers. So the meerkat brothers received instruction from the serval, and went to work following the lead of the adult mongoose. The job wasn't really all that hard. The boxcars were along side a loading platform\nup even with the floors of the cars, and the platform was under a roof that provided shade.\nWhen the job was done, they were paid well...working for the railway always pays better. And Moze and Jorad were also able to get a ride home. By that time, one of Sanchez Genet's sons, Sefu, was working a permanent job at the metal fabrication shop and was using his dad's car, and it was at the end of the work day when Sefu was getting off.\nOn the way home, Sefu's dad's old Wartburg wagon reminded Mose and Jorad how close they came to loosing their brother Zhang, and Zhang's friend Ojo, that time the cargo floor fell out of it a few years earlier, which bought up a conversation of how well that wood plank floor in the back of that old Wartburg was still holding up. Mose and Jorad even looked back at the floor...and yup...the rear cargo floor still looked like the floor of a boxcar, or the wood plank floor of the cafe' in the village.\nOnce they got home, and Sefu Genet was droping Moze and Jorad off in front of the house, Bron and Lacara were so happy that their sons were able to find work...and good paying work for the railway warehouse at that. But Moze and Jorad didn't keep any of the money they earned that day. There wasn't much food at the house, and a family of six meerkats does have to eat. Lacara collected that day's earnings from her sons and asked Sefu Genet if he could take her to the village. At the village, Lacara bought food for the family, including three, 100 pound bags of whole grain rice. Unlike cubs who live in 1st world countries, who would have a fit, a cow and a rage over Momma taking THEIR money, Moze and Jorad never did complain. The brothers knew all to well how poor the family was, and that a family survives when all it's members pull together.\n\nMeerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola by moyomongoose\n+31\n\n\nEarly one morning in August of 1993, Moze and Jorad had gotten a ride with Sanchez Genet into the village to look for work. It being the Southern Hemisphere, August is around the end of winter, although winter in Angola is not the harsh winters other parts of the world know.\n\"Na loja de metal. Para vocês dois. Eu vou mencionar uma palavra boa. (In the metal shop. For both of you. I will mention a good word)\", Sanchez told the meerkat brothers as he droped them off at the village cafe'.\nMoze and Jorad had always thought how nice it would be if they could get hired onto a steady job with the metal fabrication shop.\n\"Aqui. Para você. Pegar algo para comer. (Here. For you. Get something to eat)\", Sanchez said as he gave Moze and Jorad some money to get some breakfast with.\n\"Obrigado. (Thank you)\", said Jorad.\n\"Muito Obrigado. (Thank you much)\", Moze added.\nAs Sanchez drove to the metal shop to go to work, Moze and Jorad ordered some breakfast at the cafe', and keeped an ear open for anyone needing help that day. Rosie Hippo, a waitress at the cafe' who is a long time friend of the Meerkat Family, promised Moze and Jorad she would inquire around to the other customers that they were looking for work. Rosie also, like she has always done, gave Moze and Jorad their hot tea and a pastry for free.\nAs the meerkat brothers were finishing breakfast, Rosie came to their table with some good news.\n\"Moze. Jorad. Dois fotógrafos de uma editora. O equipamentos de câmera, Eles precisam de ajuda pra carregar. Você pode ter um trabalho hoje. (Moze. Jorad. Two photographers from a publisher. The camera equipment, they need help to carry. You can have a job today)\", Rosie told them.\nMoze and Jorad thanked Rosie as an otter and a weasel approached their table.\n\"Hello, Uh, I mean ola. Ola...Me, uh, Oliver Otter. Voce suricatos...uh...Voce tem algum traballo? Mucho, uh, muito, uh uh, mucho salario.\", the otter attempted to introduce himself in Portuguese and offer a job to the meerkats.\n\"It is not 'tem algum'. 'Search for work' is said as 'procura de trabalho...And it's 'trabalho', not 'traballo'\", the weasel corrected the otter. \"Now observe, Oliver. I'll show you how it's done.\n\"Seu Eu...uh uh uh...Eu Seu Vince Weasel. Por favor Eu...know...voce\", The weasel attempted to say 'pleased to know you' to Moze and Jorad, but came over as 'please, I in you'.\n \"If English you can speak, so can we. Portuguese, I see you do not speak well\", Moze said to the photographers as Rosie Hippo giggled.\n\"Oh great! We are from the U.K.\", Vince Weasel affirmed. \"Yes. We do speak English\".\n\"The English, me too can speak\", Rosie informed Vince Weasel with a smile. \"You should have told to me so\".\nVince Weasel and Oliver Otter introduced themselves as free lance photographers on assignment for a British magazine publisher, They said they would need help carrying photo equipment, and they were willing to pay very well. Vince Weasel even offered to treat Moze and Jorad to supper at the cafe' when they return to the village after work that evening.\nMoze and Jorad wasted no time accepting that offer as they paid their tab and were on their way.\nMoze and Jorad were really impressed by the brand new Mercedes TN utility van the photographers had. It is very seldom the local animals ever see such a nice vehicle where they live, much less ever get the opportunity to actually ride in one. The van rode so quiet and smoothly, and had that new car smell, and had air conditioning that actually worked. And the professional grade photo equipment was also something like the meerkats had never seen before...At the time the Meerkat Family didn't even own a camera.\n\"We're doing some shots of some of the majestic countryside you all have sixteen kilometers west of here\", Vince Weasel, who was driving, informed the meerkat brothers as they left the village heading west.\n\"All we need is help carrying our equipment up and down mountainsides\", Oliver Otter added. \"I'll tell you ahead of time, some of it is going to be really steep\".\n\"Where you are talking about, I know of\", said Moze.\n\"Moze, you seem to still be an adolescent...and Jorad...you're what...eleven, twelve?\", Vince Weasel began to ask.\n\"I am age ten\", Jorad answered.\n\"You can see our photo equipment\", Vince mentioned as the van continued to carry them down the narrow dirt road to their destination. \"Are you two sure you'll be able to carry this stuff?\"\n\"Many hard jobs we've done, and mountains we always walk up and down\", Jorad assured Vince. \"We are use to it\".\n\"This will certainly be an experience you can tell the other cubs about when school starts again\", Oliver Otter suggested.\n\"Nao. We do not go to school\", Moze replied.\n\"You don't go to school?\", Oliver asked.\n\"Our dad. He has bad hips. For our dad to find work, it is difficult\", Moze answered.\n\"To help our family, it is up to us\", Jorad added.\n\"A cub not going to school is unheard of in the UK where we are from\", Vince Weasel added. \"Hasn't you're family applied for assistance...you know...welfare or something like that\".\n\"Huh?\", Jorad responded.\n\"Welfare? What is that?\", Moze asked.\nVince Weasel and Oliver Otter then explained to the meerkat brothers how social assistance programs work in developed countries such as the UK where they are from.\n\"That, they actually do?\", Jorad asked surprisingly, still hardly believing what Vince and Oliver had just told them.\n\"Giving money away? They really do that? What you just told us, we do not have here\", Moze affirmed.\n\"Such a thing as that, I never heard of\", Jorad added.\nVince and Oliver had heard of cubs in the work force in 3rd world countries before, but actually witnessing it seems to bring it to another level of reality.\nSo as they continued their ride, Vince and Oliver and the meerkats exchanged stories of their experiences in the countries they live in, which both photographers and meerkats found to be intriguing. \nAt one point during the ride to the job site, Vince Weasel mentioned, \"I hear you all have been having trouble with rebel militias in this country. Is that something we need to keep an eye out for where we're going?\".\n\"Vince and I were concerned about that when we accepted this assignment\", Oliver Otter added.\n\"Here, for now, it has been peaceful.\", Moze assured Vince and Oliver. \"But in the southeast of the country, there you do not want to go. It is dangerous there\".\n\"East of here, there is much fighting with Unita\", Jorad added.\n\"Unita?\", Oliver asked.\n\"Unita guerrillas. They are the rebels\", Moze explained.\n\"Well...Thanks for the heads up about the southeast part of your country\", Vince told Moze and Jorad. \nAfter about 40 minutes of navigating along rural, winding, mountain, dirt road, they finally arrived to the job site.\n\"Here we are\", Vince Weasel said as he slowed down and steered the van off the road and across a large meadow.\nBefore long, Vince and Oliver were getting photos of the meadow, distant mountains, exotic flowers, cliffs, and of bird's eye views from the cliff tops. Where they went, Moze and Jorad would carry their heavy, cumbersome equipment for them, and at times help them set it up, then take it back down to move to another spot. There were a few locations on the tops of cliffs where a 3+ meter (10 foot) pivotal boom assembly was set up to place a remote controlled camera on. The base of the boom was weighted down with sandbags, then the boom mounted camera was extended out beyond the cliff to obtain a view like you were in an aircraft. There was definitely some work involved in setting up that boom assembly, then dismantling it to move to another spot. \nThen they would go down the mountain side to get pictures of a creek with it's waterfalls that flowed over boulders covered with moss and ferns among the palm trees and palmettos.\nGoing back up the mountain, Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter would get worn out, But it didn't slow down Moze and Jorad that much. The meerkat brothers were use to walking up and down mountains.\nBy evening, Vince and Oliver got the photos they came to get, then it was time to pack up the van, see about getting Moze and Jorad paid, and go.\n\"We seem to have dropped an adapter somewhere\", Vince Weasel said as the last of the equipment was loaded into the van.\n\"We had it with us coming up the mountain\", said Oliver Otter.\n\"Then it's somewhere here in the meadow. We all need to split up and look for it\", Vince Weasel announced.\nShortly after everyone began walking around the meadow in search for the adapter, Vince Weasel said to Oliver Otter, \"Oliver, go look in the van. It may have been misplaced in the van\".\nAfter Oliver got into the van, he called to Vince Weasel, \"Vince, you need to see this\".\n\"Keep looking for that adapter. We need to find it\", Vince said to Moze and Jorad as he went to the van, and the meerkats continued looking in the meadow for the adapter.\n>Rur-rur-rur VAROOOOOM<, the van sounded off, and Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter speed off in the van across the meadow then speed away down the dirt road heading west, without Moze and Jorad being paid for their day's labor. \nIt was then, Moze and Jorad figured out there was no missing adapter. They both knew then they were played for a couple of suckers.\n\"Cabeças de merda! Eles planejaram isso desta forma!. (Shitheads! They planned it this way!)\", Jorad retorted.\n\"Nós nunca vê-los novamente, eles fariam bem em esperança. (We never see them again, they would do good to hope)\", Moze said as the sound of the departing van can be heard fading in the distance.\nThe only thing left to do was to begin the 16 kilometer walk back east to the village...And they were nowhere near home. Home was east, not west, of the village.\nIt was already nightfall by the time Moze and Jorad reached the village. Sanchez Genet had been waiting up for Moze and Jorad since he got off from work at the metal shop.\nMoze and Jorad were relieved to see Sanchez still sitting in his car parked in front of the cafe', which had closed for the night a short while earlier. They had thought they were going to have another hour of walking before they were to get home.\nWhen Moze and Jorad told Sanchez what the photographers had pulled on them, Sanchez told them, \"O que eles fazem contra você, para eles essa coisa vai acontecer também. Se uma semente ruim que você planta, uma coisa ruim voce vou colhe. (What they do to you, for them this thing will happen too. If a bad seed you plant, a bad thing you will reap.)\".\nDuring the ride to take Moze and Jorad back home, Sanchez told the brothers of how that had once happened to him before he got a permanent job at the metal fabrication shop. Sanchez also told Moze and Jorad of how their Great Granddad Dominique Meerkat had been cheated out of a days pay on two occasions when he was younger. It's like when it happens, what can you do?\nSanchez also advised the brothers that it is good when ever local businesses need help, such as the railway depot, the cafe' the thrift stores, the clinic, the car parts yard, or the metal fabrication shop. He told them that they will not cheat someone out of their pay like outsiders passing through could do.\n\nBack at the house, Bron and Lacara were a bit agitated over two swindling scoundrels cheating two of their sons, ages 10 and 14, out of a hard earned day's pay...especially being as poor as the family is. The only thing they could do was assure Moze and Jorad that it does happen, but fortunately it doesn't happen often.\nDays later, when Waitress Rosie Hippo at the village cafe' heard about what the two photographers pulled on Moze and Jorad, she swore that if they were ever in the cafe' again, she would know an otter and a weasel who will get hot coffee...\"accidentally\"...spilled in their laps and all over their genitalia.\n\"O que eles fazem contra os meus amigos, eles também fazem isso para Rosie. (What they do against my friends, they also do it to Rosie)\", Rosie Hippo said.\n\nToward the end of 1993, Cheesah at almost a year and a half old, had his moment of seeing \"Piu-piu Pequeno\" (Little Pee-pee) stick his head out for the first time. It was in the evening when everyone was at home. It was just before nightfall, and the coal oil lamps and lanterns located around the house had already been lit. Mom had a pan of water on the wood stove under the porch overhang to make tea for everyone. Bron and Moze had a homemade checkerboard, that was marked out on an old piece of cardboard, on the old, ragged, living room table, and had a game of checkers going with 12 nuts and 12 washers for game pieces. Cheesah came walking in from the bedroom, hiding his genitalia with both paws.\nMoze asked, \"Cheesah, o que voce esta querendo?\" (Cheesah, what are you up to?).\n\"PIU-PIU VER VOCE!\" (Pee-pee sees you!), Cheesah loudly proclaimed as he suddenly moved his paws away, and his hard little penis went >BOING<, and stuck it's head up so proudly.\nBron and Moze laughed as Cheesah laughed along with his little penis poking it's head out.\nThen there was that buttered popcorn smell, typical of the genitalia sex scent of those kind of animals. But on Cheesah, it is very pungently strong.\n\"Ah. Piu-piu fedido\" (Oh. Stinky pee-pee), Moze made the observation as he and Dad laughed.\nCheesah thrusted his pelvic out forward with little meerkat pee-pee extended way out there, and said, \"Piu-piu diz Ola\" (Pee-pee says Hello), as everyone laughed.\n\"Eu sei que ele diz\" (I know he says), Moze laughed, \"Por ele fedor\" (By his stink).\n\"Meu piu-piu fedido?\" (My pee-pee stinky?), Cheesah asked.\n\"Natureza abencoada seu piu-piu, meu filho\" (Nature has blessed your pee-pee, my son), Bron assured Cheesah.\nWith that said, Cheesah joyfully trotted out to the carport like, porch area where Jorad and Zhang were playing with the toy car their late great granddad Dominique had bought for the cubs 8 years ago.\nWhen Cheesah, again hiding his penis with his paws, got the attention of Jorad and Zhang, he suddenly reveled his penis, and exuberantly proclaimed, \"PIU-PIU VER VOCE!\".\nThe brothers thought it was so cute and funny, they rolled laughing.\n\"Ele e piu-piu FEDIDO\" (He's a STINKY pee-pee), Jorad said as he could smell Cheesah's strong sex scent.\nThey could also hear Moze and Dad laughing from the living room, and Mom asking from the kitchen what the laughter was all about.\nThen Jorad's big headed, meerkat penis poked out with an erection.\n\"Meu piu-piu ver SEU piu-piu\" (My pee-pee sees YOUR piu-piu), Cheesah giggled to his brother Jorad as both of their penises were sticking out.\n\"Sim. Ele fazer\" (Yes. He does), Jorad chuckled back to Cheesah.\n\"Meu piu-piu tambem\" (My pee-pee too), Zhang added as his penis was also poking out erect, making it three meerkat cub penises sticking their heads out of sheath as though the penises were having a pee-pee convention.\nCheesah then joyfully scampered back indoors, and through the living room, past Bron and Moze, and into the kitchen to go show it to Momma...with his penis still poking it's head out, as though little pee-pee was leading the way where ever Cheesah ran through the house.\nAs Lacara was filling a tea infuser with tea leaves, Cheesah called out, \"Mamae! Mamae!\", as he stood on the dirt, kitchen floor, with his paws hiding his penis.\nWhen Lacara turned and looked, she got a laugh as Cheesah dragged his paws downward, his penis springing up, >BOING<, from behind the paws, and Cheesah proclaiming, \"PIU-PIU VER VOCE!\"\nThen Lacara pretended to talk to Cheesah's penis to amuse Cheesah, saying, \"Veso que voce tambem. Voce o piu-piu bonitinha\" (I see you too. You're a cute pee-pee).\nAfter Cheesah finished giggling, he pointed to Mom's pussy, and asked, \"As femeas tem um piu-piu?\" (Do females have a pee-pee?).\nCheesah had many times noticed pussies on females before.\n\"Nossa buceta E o piu-piu\" (Our pussy IS the pee-pee), Lacara assured her son Cheesah.\n\"UAAAAAU\" (WOOOOOW), Cheesah expressed with amazement as his little pee-pee was still sticking his head way out erect.\nThen Cheesah told his mom, \"Mamae...Piu-piu diz Ola a buceta de mamae\" (Momma...Pee-pee says Hello to momma's pussy).\nLacara laughed, and replied to her son, \"Buceta tambem diz Ola a Piu-piu de meu filho\" (Pussy also says Hello to Pee-pee of my son).\nCheesah then went into the living room and took a seat on the sofa next to Moze and Dad playing checkers. And Mom brought in some hot tea from the kitchen for everyone as Jorad and Zhang came in to also have tea.\nCheesah's little pee-pee was still sticking it's head out, and upward, and proud as he sat on the sofa with his cup of tea.\nBron advised Cheesah to be careful not to spill any hot tea on that newely discovered penis of his.\nBecause Cheesah's penis permeated the living room with his strong, pungent sex scent, the curtains in the windows were pulled aside to air out the house (Windows have no glass. The curtains are the windows).\nAt bedtime, the lamps and lanterns are extinguished, except for a lantern that hangs from the bedroom ceiling, and a coal oil lamp on the living room bureau. And they are both turned down low.\nAnd being that the only dirt floor bedroom the house has is shared by all family members, everyone could tell by the smell when Cheesah's little stinker pee-pee stuck it's head out...After all, because this was the first night Cheesah's pee-pee stuck his head out to have a look at the world, little pee-pee was often wide awake all night that night.\nCheesah's penis looks about identical to the penis his older brother Zhang has.\n\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 12] by moyomongoose\n+12\nIdentity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 11] by moyomongoose\n+12\n\n\nOn New Years Day of 1994, Lacar's mom and dad, Zeth and Mylah invited family and friends over to their place for a get-together. Zeth and Mylah were the only family members who had a car, so they provided the transportation. The meerkat cub's Aunt Beth and their Uncle Amos and his wife Aunt Lubaya were also there, with cousins Sengo (M), Jatoo (M) and Nantale (F). Great Grandma Gloria was there minding other cubs for friends of the family. And Sanchez Genet with some of his relatives were also invited as close friends of the family, among of who were Zhang's friend Ojo Genet, his sister Janina and cousin Shemsa.\nThere was cold tea, cooled in a creek spring not far from the house, bugs with rice, fish, nuts and berries, and Mylah had baked a cake. Most of the cubs who were there, including Moze, Jorad, Zhang and Cheeash, had never seen a cake before, and they had thought Mylah was baking some bread. But once the icing was on the cake, and it was served, the cubs really liked it.\nMost of the cubs went outside to have a cricket game, those of which being Jorad, Zhang, Ojo, Janina, Shemsa, Jatoo, Nantale and several of the recently introduced cubs Gloria was minding. An old board made a good cricket paddle, and a mango pit was used for a cricket ball, and the cubs had a great time.\nThere was one slight mishap however. It was when Jorad pitched the mango pit cricket ball to Ojo who was up at bat. Ojo smacked the mango pit - or rather, cricket ball good and hard and really sent it flying...right into the driver's side vent glass of that old Rekord Olympia wagon owned by Granddad Zeth and Grandma Mylah, that Dominique left to them years ago. The vent glass was broken, but because cars were not equipped with tempered glass when that car was built, the glass cracked into larger pieces and did not fall out.\nThose cubs who were involved in the game were called into the house to sit an hour of time out. Then they were given a good lecture and told the next time it happens, the cricket paddle will be use for a paddle, but not as a cricket paddle. When the cubs resumed their cricket game, this time it was further from the house and cars.\nThe vent glass was repaired with some duct tape on both sides, so the pieces of glass would never fall out.\nZeth and Mylah didn't have any duct tape at their house, but Sanchez Genet was able to spare some duct tape that was used to seal up the edges of that wooden floor in his old Wartburg station wagon.\n\nThere would be times Moze, Jorad and Zhang would tease Cheesah about the way his penis gave off that pungent sex scent. Early in 1994, the older brothers invented a nick named a phrase for Cheesah that went, \"Cheesah esta besta de pipoca\" (Cheesah is beast of popcorn). The sex scent of those kind of animals smells like buttered popcorn, and when it is said in Portuguese, it does have a jingle to it.\nCheesah would always get mad at his brothers for it, and would retort, Nao rir de meu piu-piu!\" (Don't laugh at my pee-pee!).\nThere were times Bron and Lacara would get onto the older sons about it, but occasionally, Cheesah would still be teased about that.\nSometimes Cheesah would think he was being teased, then accuse one of the older brothers of it. Like the time the potty shanty needed to be re-roofed. Bron, Moze and Zhang were in the village getting what work they could get for that day, so that left Jorad, then age 11 to re-roof the potty shanty, with Cheesah, then 2 years old, to assist him. The potty shanty was a small \"A\" frame structure roofed with palm and palmetto fronds, which were tied to the stick framing with vines...It's where the family members go to poop and pee.\nJorad could not reach the top of the shanty, so Cheesah would stand on Jorad's shoulders and tie in the upper roofing fronds as Jorad would instruct him.\nWhile Cheesah was standing on Jorad's shoulders, tying the upper fronds in place, Cheesah's little pee-pee got a hard-on and stuck all the way out of sheath, just over brother Jorad's head, and - WOW - little Cheesah Meerkat pee-pee was really stinky like buttered popcorn that day.\n\"AHHH! Cheesah! Get seu Piu-piu back in sheath! E fedido!\" (...Is stinky!), Jorad complained to Cheesah as he was looking up at the bottom of his cub brother's hard penis.\n\"Esta rindo meu piu-piu?\" (Are you laughing at my pee-pee?) Cheesah scorned.\n\"Nao. Eu sou aquele que e cheira-lo\" (No. I am the one who smells it), Jorad protested.\nThe situation was soon remedied by Jorad and Cheesah walking around in the cool creek for a few minutes where the water came up to Cheesah's waist...A penis in cold water calms down and goes back in, and a meerkat male's penis is no exception. Once Cheesah's penis was flaccid and back in sheath, he and hid older brother finished the re-roofing job on the potty shanty.\n\n Shortly after nightfall one warm evening in the month of March in 1994, there was a thunderstorm approaching from the west. The storm was about a half hour away as the family was sitting at the kitchen table, having nuts and berries and hot tea. And looking out from the doorway that leads outside to the porch overhang where the cooking stove is, clouds can be seen flashing with lightning above the horizon in the night sky, although thunder could not yet be heard. However, the night breezes had already began blowing that usually herald the approach of a big storm.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ifNaY8N2s\nBy the time the family bedded down for the night, the storm was close enough for thunder to be heard as the smell of fresh rain was already in the air. The coal oil lamps and lanterns were extinguished, except for the lantern that hangs from the bedroom ceiling, and the coal oil lamp on the living room bureau. The family usually sleeps cuddled up together on a spread of blankets on the dirt floor of the bedroom (There is no bed like the developed countries know. The blankets on the floor is the bed), but on this night, the cubs bedded down on a separate spread of blankets, away from Mom and Dad. That was because Bron and Lacara were wanting to have sex, thus the cubs would sleep where they are out of the way. It was no big tabu for the cubs to be in the same room when Mom and Dad are having sex. There is only one bedroom in the house for everyone to share, and the cubs have seen Mom and Dad having sex many times before.\nBy the time the storm had hit and was raging outside with lightning, thunder, hard wind and pounding rain, Bron and Lacara were at it having sex, really loving on each other and feeling so good...By now Bron's meerkat penis was really deep into Lacara's meerkat pussy, as they were hugging, kissing and telling each other, \"Hmm...Amo-te\" (Hmm...I love you).\nAs the storm raged outside, and Mom and Dad continued having sex, the brothers were cuddled up in a huddle in the other side of the bedroom. As they laid on their spread of blankets, they would occasionally peek back at Mom and Dad, then smile and whisper funny things to each other like they sometimes do.\nThe brothers giggled as Moze whispered to them, \"Este será um irmão ou uma irma?\" (Will this one be a brother or a sister?)\nAbout that time a 'hot cell' of lightning activity in the storm passed overhead with lots of lightning and thunder-bangs, striking really close, and lighting up the windows bright blue as though it were day time. There would be a bright flash - boom. A closer bright flash - bang. A distant bright flash - - boom rumble. Then a close one - BANG.....A REALLY CLOSE ONE - B A N G. That one struck 50 meters from the house. The cubs were so frightened, they jumped up and piled in with Mom and Dad.\n\"Estamos seguros em ó casa\" (We are safe in the house), Lacara assured the cubs as Bron Meerkat pulled his penis out of his wife's pussy. \nThen again, BRIGHT BLUE FLASH - BANG. Then the cubs snuggled even closer to their Mom and Dad.\n\"Nossos suricatos são gatos assustados\" (Our meerkats are scaredy cats), Bron said as he and Lacara laughed while Bron's penis went back flaccid and slipped back into sheath.\nDuring the storm, the cubs felt more secure snuggled up to Mom and Dad. There were always other nights Bron and Lacara could have sex, so the family slept cuddled together on that stormy night.\n\nDuring the following month of April, there was big fish, probably about 10 pounds or so, that would occasionally come into a wide pool in the creek in the wooded area behind the house. For weeks, the brothers had been trying to catch it with a stick and a length of builder's twine for a pole and line, with a homemade hook fashioned from a small nail, and grass hoppers for bait...all of which was to no avail as they never could catch that fish.\nOne day, while Bron and Moze were working in the village, Jorad, Zhang and Cheesah were at home, out in the woods collecting bugs to be cooked up with some rice for dinner that evening. Near the creek, the brothers saw that the fish had returned to the creek pool. Zhang made the suggestion of getting their homemade fishing rig from the house and have another go at catching that fish. Jorad agreed on the idea, so Jarod picked up the box of bugs, and he and Zhang headed back to the house with little Cheesah tagging behind.\n\"O peixe é aqui! O peixe é aqui!\" (The fish is here! The fish is here!), Jorad announced to Lacara as he placed the bug box on the kitchen counter, and as Zhang started toward the tree supported shed to get the fishing rig.\nLacara called Zhang back from the shed, then told her sons, \"Hoje teremos peixe\" (Today, we will have fish).\nThen she had them follow her into the living room. In the top draw of that old, light blue, ragged, living room bureau is where the guns are kept.\n\"We will get the fish with this. This will not fail\", Lacara told her sons as she got out the old, G3A3 Portuguese war rifle that her dad, Zeth had given her, then loaded three rounds...more than one in case there was a miss.\n\"Nao dar ista a Zhang ou Cheesah. Isto noa e um brinquedo. VOCE usa-lo\" (Do not give this to Zhang or Cheesah. This is not a toy. YOU use it), Lacara instructed Jorad, being the oldest, as she pawed the loaded rifle over to him.\nLacara also reminded Jorad to always be careful how he carries a gun, and where where he points it. And she also instructed Zhang and Cheesah to stay behind their brother until they are sure he is not going to fire anymore rounds, reminding her sons, \"Quando você puxa o gatilho, você não pode parar o bala\" (When you pull the trigger, you can not stop the bullet).\nAs Lacara sent the cubs to go get the fish, she told Jorad, \"E não atire no meio do peixe. Que é a carne. Atire a cabeça\" (And do not shoot the middle of the fish. That is the meat. Shoot the head).\nSeven minutes later, Lacara heard >POW<. Then a 2nd >POW<, this time followed by the cubs cheering...she knew then, they finally got the fish. An sure enough, several minutes later, the cubs returned to the house, Jorad carrying the rifle, Zhang carrying the fish with most of it's head blown off, and Cheesah tagging along behind.\n\"Esta noite nos comer peixe. Estou muito orgulhoso dos meus filhos\" (This night, we eat fish. I am very proud of my cubs), Lacara praised her sons as she took the fish to the kitchen to begin to prepare it. Then she instructed Cheesah to turn the bugs loose so they don't die and spoil, then instructed the cubs what was not going to be cooked of the fish that day was to be cured so it would keep for other meals.\nAs Jorad and Zhang cleaned the rifle to be put back away, they enjoyed the aroma of the cooking fish, as they were ever so anxious for it to be ready. When Bron and Moze returned home from the village that evening, they too, expressed their pride in the younger cubs for getting that fish. During the family get-together almost three months earlier was the last time the family had fish to eat, but that night, the family had fish for dinner.\n\nLater in 1994, Great Grandma Gloria had passed away in her sleep during the night. At the time, she had been living in with her Son, Zeth, and her daughter-in-law, Mylah.\nIt was Mylah who found Gloria passed away shortly after dawn. Being it was a natural death, no autopsy was performed. However, autopsies are almost unheard of anyway, and considering that Gloria Meerkat had a recent history of symptoms associated with heart problems, the doctor at the village hospital concluded that she may have passed away from a heart seizure.\nGloria was missed by the family and by friends very much. She was laid to rest beside the grave of her late husband, Dominique.\n\nAlso in that year, the animals in the homeland had been hearing that UNITA and MPLA had agreed to a peace treaty, the Lusaka Protocol Peace Accord. The first members of the family to hear about it were Moze and Jorad, when they were in the village looking for work for that day. When the rest of the family heard about the peace accord from Moze and Jorad when they got home that evening, they were optimistic that this could finally mean the end of the civil war that had been going off and on for what had been then 19 years. But the hope for the end of the war wasn't long lived. Tensions again arose between UNITA and MPLA, the peace agreement collapsed, and in 1995, UNITA was again at war against the nation's government.\n \n \nChapter 2. The War\n\nOne winter morning, late in the month of June of 1995 (Southern Hemisphere, but still near the Equator), when Zhang was age 9, the homeland was invaded by UNITA guerrilla fighters from a region of the country in the mountains to the north, as well as some from the southeast corner of the country which was still mostly UNITA controlled. The invaders consisted of various civet species, colobus monkeys, galagos, and miscellaneous other species including pangolins, and they were leaving no survivors in their wake. Months earlier, there had been a peace accord (the Lusaka Protocol) agreed to among several separatist movements who fought against Portugal for Angola's independence, but that peace accord had collapsed. Since Angola's independence in 1974-75, there had been 20 years of power struggle, which had been an ongoing series of civil war fighting waged against the MPLA government by those loyal to UNITA. That movement was fully intent on seizing control of the country, and it wasn't long before the invaders were joined by forces from Cabinda, a small country to the north that was not at that time recognized by the UN as a legitimate country. As it already was, the UNITA had in years past, with the help of what had been apartheid South Africa, controlled territory far to the east around Mavinga and Jamba. However, the UNITA invaders could no longer rely on South Africa as the ally they had in past years, as that country had pulled out of Namibia years earlier and had issues of their own abolishing their apartheid rule. \nBut in spite of South African troops being out of the picture, the rebel insurgency still had the homeland in the Province of Cunene where Zhang's family lived badly outnumbered and desperately needing everyone, regardless of gender, health condition or age, who can hold and fire a weapon. And no one in the that part of the country could rely on much protection from the country's military...The military was doing all it can do to defend the rest of the country. So the need for those who can fight meant owners of nonessential businesses had to close shop to go fight, and cubs who were going to school had to pull out of school, along with their teachers or school masters, to go fight in the war. Even the leaders and law enforcement officers of towns, leaders of provinces as well as the leaders of the country along with other elected officials picked up weapons to go fight. \"Everyone who can hold and fire a weapon\" meant \"everyone who can hold and fire a weapon\", with only few special exceptions.\nWhile the UNITA invaders had only a limited amount of assault vehicles and other military equipment, the anthro-animals of the southern part of the country had less than that. All they had for military weapons were old civilian firearms that had been in their families for generations, and very few Portuguese G3A3 assault rifles taken from fallen Portuguese during Angola's War for Independence years earlier. What they had for grenades were homemade explosives and dynamite, some of which was old. And their military transport were their own personal vehicles, nearly all of which were in ragged mechanical condition. The populations of the country's southern provinces were basically a rag tag, civilian army with an unwavering loyalty to the country's non-apartheid Labour Party presently in power, the 'Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola' (MPLA). And there was no option of surrender or negotiation which no one wanted anyway...That was because the UNITA invasion was a genocidal one as was evident when those who had cars with radios that worked had already heard reports of extermination campaigns being carried out in a few of their northern villages, and knew their only two choices were prevail or be killed...and the 2nd choice was certainly not a viable option.\nMembers of Zhang's family who were called upon to help defend the homeland were Zhang's dad, armed with a Portuguese G3A3, in what ever way he could serve with his hip joints being bad, and Zhang's two older brothers and Zhang himself. Cheesah was only 3, and Lacara, the mom, had to stay home to care for him. Zhang found himself helping to defend the homeland in a guerrilla combat war, as a 9 year old cub, not much older than Raphael would be in the year 2013. At his young age, Zhang, who was issued a 4/10 gauge shotgun and rifled slugs, got the experience of firing on other living beings, and at age 9, having two kills to his credit. And a time or two, Zhang had a close scrape with death himself from enemy fire. This is where a cub really learns to grow up, and learns to grow up fast. Maybe even too fast.\nZhang, as well as others, was well instructed in martial arts when there was time for it, because there wasn't the guarantee of a firearm, or ammo, being available. In some parts of the country, there was a shortage weapons. Some meerkats and other animals in the southern provinces were fighting with weapons, ammo and grenades (the real ones) that were taken from fallen enemy fighters.\nNot long into the war, it was realized that pangolins and various civet species who are citizens of the southern provinces were mistaken for UNITA fighters, and as a result, came under friendly fire from those who did not know them. This was soon remedied by issuing strips of cloth for their allies to wear either as a bandana or tied around an arm to identify who they are. Sometimes the cloth wasn't easy to come by, but strips of cloth were always available torn from furniture or old blankets. Sometimes cloth was taken from the upholstery of their old ragged cars if no other source was available.\nThe UNITA forces began trying to confuse the civilian fighters in Cunene by having some of their own civets and pangolins wear bandanas and arm cloths so they couldn't be identified as an enemy by the local fighters. But that idea proved to be a folly, and it wasn't long before the UNITA leaders abandoned it. Because it was a guerrilla war, their own fighters wearing the cloth strips caused them to come under friendly fire from their own forces. \nOne hot July afternoon, only a few weeks into the war, Zhang saw his next oldest brother, Jorad, take a sniper shot in the chest. Zhang immediately dropped his weapon and ran over crying to Jorad, who was still conscious, but laid dying. Immediately, the adult meerkat who was with Jorad and Zhang threw himself to the ground to shield the cubs from further gunfire with his own body, as he frantically tried to locate the sniper. \nAs Jorad was moaning, \"Estou a sangrar...Estou ferido gravemente (I'm bleeding...I'm hurt badly.)\" another round ricocheted near the meerkats, followed by the distant sounds of muzzle fire and projectile crack, as Zhang laid with his brother, Jorad, hugging him.\nThe adult meerkat finally spotted the pangolin sniper and took him out with a fatal 30.06 shot to the forehead. The adult meerkat knew the pangolin was a northern fighter by him having no bandana or arm cloth...and from the obvious fact the pangolin had just shot Jorad.\nJorad gave his last farewell to Zhang. Then said to Zhang in a weak voice, \"Zhang, I love you. And mom and dad. And our brothers. Say good bye for me to them. Tell them I love them.\"\nThen Jorad passed away. Zhang cried bitterly, embracing his deceased brother for a while before he and the adult moved on. Jorad's body was picked up for burial that evening.\nZhang also saw two cousins die in that war. One, who was his Uncle Amos' oldest son Sengo, he saw actually get shot, the way he saw his brother die, and one on his dad's side of the family he came up on as she laid unconscious and dying.\nLater during the war, Zhang earned a metal of honor when he was blazed in the thigh while helping a wounded fellow meerkat to safety.\nIn November of that same year, which is shortly before summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the northern forces were well on their way to being defeated. It was then, Zeth, Zhang's grandpa on his mom's side of the family was killed while helping to drive the last of the invaders back to where they came from. As with the death of her 2nd son Jorad, Lacara along with the rest of the family also took the death of her dad very hard.\nWithin a week of Lacara's dad's death, the civilian fighters in Cunene finally prevailed, and the UNITA fighters were drove back north into their mountain homelands and back to other places they had came from.\nDuring this most recent flash point in the ongoing civil war, the animals Zhang and his family knew had only encountered UNITA forces. It was fortunate the better trained and well equipped South African army had no longer been involved in the war. Had that been the case, the outcome for the untrained, poorly equipped locals would have been a really disastrous situation.\nOnce the UNITA rebels were driven away, the locals did not continue to pursue them. Doing so would have only meant more guerrilla fighting and bloodshed by going after them. Besides that, the rebel animals took such a loss of life among them during the later part this round of the war, and another invasion would be a mistake they weren't about to repeat anytime soon.\nThen it was only a couple of months later, in January of 1996, which is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the MPLA government had defeated the remaining UNITA forces further north.\nOne of their first priorities was to conduct a campaign of locating and disbanding the rebel guerrilla militias so they would no longer be a threat to any other animals again. Former rebel leaders who were captured were either executed or imprisoned for their roles in the attempted insurrection, and also for the genocide campaigns and other war crimes committed against the citizens of the country. There were a few of the former rebel leaders who had fled the country and never were found. And many rebel leaders had fled back to the southeast corner of the country around Mavinga and Jamba which were still in UNITA control. However, the government did offer large bounties for their capture. As for their militia compounds throughout the country, they were burned and bulldozed under, and their abandoned war equipment was seized and placed into service in the Angolan military. However, UNITA still had it's stronghold of control in the southeast corner of the country which still remained a challenge for Angola to contend with. But in spite of a state of civil war since 1974 that still continued to exist, everything was at least under control...for now. \n\nChapter 3. Life Goes On\n\nZhang stayed with his martial arts training well after the encounter the locals had with UNITA rebels, and Zhang eventually achieved 2nd degree black belt. As a young teen, Zhang made progress in controlling a lifelong temper he always had, with the help of his parents and his martial arts instructor.\n\nThree years after the local community had to fight off rebel forces, the year now being 1998, Zhang's family was beginning to fare more prosperously. The country still had ongoing trouble from UNITA forces from time to time in parts of the country as Angola's civil war still lingered on. Although the country continued to have it's problems, the way of life had been getting better as oil drilling and diamond mining had improved the country's economy.\nMoze was 19 then, Zhang was 12 and Cheesah was 6. It was decided by Bron and Lacara that Cheesah would get the schooling they themselves and the older brothers never had. School was about 16 kilometers (10 miles) away, which was a good drive, or walk, along those substandard dirt roads where they lived.\nLacara's mom, Mylah, had recently given Lacara and Bron her old station wagon upon Mylah moving in with her son, Amos, and his wife. Lacara's dad had died in the war three years earlier, and her mom could no longer continue the upkeep on the car. At that time, that old, 1954 Rekord Olympia wagon had been passed down through the family for the past 37 years.\nMylah had considered giving the car to Lacara's sister, Beth, or to brother Amos and his wife. But Mylah felt a place in her heart for the fact her son-in-law, Bron, has hip dysplasia, so she gave the car to Bron and Lacara.\n\"Uau. O boter velho que pertenciam ao Grand Dad Zeth\" (Wow. The old car that belonged to Grand Dad Zeth), Moze said, looking over the car.\nLacara told her oldest son, Moze, \"Quando meu pai era um adolescente, seu great grand dad Dominique had este boter\" (When my dad was an adolescent, your great grand dad Dominique had this car).\nLacara's mom, Mylah, then proceeded to tell Moze, Zhang and Cheesah about the time when their great grand dad acquired the car.\n\"Quando o pai do Zeth...seu grande pai grand...compru este boter, o boter was only sete years of age\" (When the dad of Zeth...your great grand dad...bought this car, the car was only seven years of age), Mylah began.\n\"Great Grand Dad had muito dinheiro naquela epoca?!\", Zhang interrupted with enthusiasm.\n\"Uau! Grande Pai Grand era rico?!\" (Wow! Great Grand Dad was rich?!), Cheesah added.\n\"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha\", Bron laughed, then told his sons, \"Nao nao nao. Uma raposa de Portugal precisava vende lo rapido. He sold it para barato\" (No no no. A fox from Portugal needed to sell it quick. He sold it for cheap).\nThen Mylah told the three brothers, \"Escutem, and I will tell you\" (Listen, and I will tell you).\nMylah told her grandsons, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah, about the war for Angola's independence from Portugal that started in 1961. She told them of how the fox who owned the car was among those of the Portuguese plantation field bosses who quickly fled the country back to Portugal when the violence started to sweep through Angola. Great Grand Dad Dominique and Grand Dad Zeth were taking part in a protest march in the city of Menongue against Portuguese occupation when they noticed the fox, who was desperate for money for a plane ticket out of the country, going around the Menongue Airport announcing that his car was for sale really cheap.\nMylah continued telling the brothers the story as she had heard it from her late husband and in-laws, how their Great Grand Dad Dominique and Grand Dad Zeth had saved some money from working for a sugar plantation under the recently abolished, forced labour law. \nShe told them, \"Seu grande pai grand ligou para a raposa. Ele disse, 'Eu vou compra o boter. Vou compra lo. Aqui, Eu tenho dinheiro'\" (Your great grand dad called to the fox. He said, 'I will buy the car. Will buy it. Here, I have money').\nThe story goes that Dominique Meerkat didn't have...or wasn't willing to give...near as much as the fox was asking for the car. But what Dominique would give for the car would be just enough for the fox to buy a plane ticket back to Portugal, so the fox accepted what Dominique offered for the car, then the fox gave Dominique the keys. The fox already had the title in the glove compartment with his signature on it. Great Grand Dad Dominique got a, then seven year old, 1954 Rekord Olympia station wagon for really really really cheap, that was then in immaculate condition. And the fox was able to board a plane bound for Portugal.\nMylah finished the story with telling the brothers how surprised the family was when Dominique and Zeth arrived to the house with such a nice car like the ones the plantation bosses can afford. The story has it that Great Grand Ma Gloria had at first thought perhaps Great Grand Dad Dominique had stolen the car, until her husband Dominique and her son Zeth explained how they got such a nice car for cheap, assuring Gloria that the car was legitimately acquired. \nThat was the first time the brothers heard that story, and they enjoyed it quite well.\n\nBTW: In the Angolan dialect of Portuguese, a car is often called a 'boter' in place of the use of the word 'carro'.\n\nAfter 37 years, the car was nowhere near being in the pristine condition it was in when Dominique Meerkat first got it in the year 1961.\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/When-Bron-and-L...\nThe first few months after Lacara's mom gave Bron and Lacara the car, it required a lot of work to keep it running. The car didn't even have it's rear seat...The upholstery from the rear seat was needed for arm bands and bandanas to identify friendly forces during the war three years earlier. When ever the family went somewhere together, the brothers, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah would sit on the floorboard which no longer had it's carpeting or rubber mat (whichever the car was originally equipped with). The car just had a bare metal floor with a lot of it's paint worn away and a couple of small rust holes you could see the road through. The ignition switch was turned on and off with a screwdriver, the driver's window was rolled up and down with a pair of vice grips, the radio was missing, and the passenger's door had to be pulled just the right way to get it to latch shut all the way. The car still had it's original, teal color, factory paint which was pitted and chalky with surface rust showing through, some of the chrome trim was gone, all hubcaps except for one were gone, and the doors showed signs of rusting out down at the bottoms.\nThere was a branched out crack on the passenger's side of the windshield, a broken right taillight lens, and the left taillight had a wiring problem and did not work. The turn signal switch assembly in the steering column was broken and did not work, and the vent glass on the driver's door was still broken and held together with duct tape on both sides from that time Ojo Genet batted a mango pit into it at a family reunion four years earlier.\nThere was a little bit of lifter tap in the motor, and the transmission would keep a loud drivetrain howling noise going up a mountain on those old dirt roads, or during acceleration. However, the car was good on gas, didn't burn oil, tires held air OK although badly worn, and was fairly reliable once the family got the bugs worked out of it.\n\nAs for air conditioning, the car never was equipped with it. That old car was a blessing to have, and the family was very thankful to have it. Because before Bron and Lacara even had a car, Cheesah would have to walk three hours each way to school and back every day, leaving for school before dawn and getting back home late in the afternoon, except for the times friends and family who did have cars could give him a ride...The luxury of having school buses did not exist in that part of the country.\nBefore the family got the car, there were those times during rainy or cool weather, Cheesah was able to get a ride aboard a train to the village on the way home. Five kilometers (three miles) from the school, there is about a two kilometer stretch of dirt road (a little over a mile) that runs side by side with a narrow gauge branch of the C.F.B. Railway through a mountain pass. For about 130 meters of that pass (400 feet), the road cut in the mountainside becomes so narrow, the road narrows down to only one lane and shares a 3 meter (9 to 10 foot) wide right-of-way together with the narrow gauge railroad tracks...both road and tracks overlapping together where it is hardly wider than a parking spot from rock wall to cliff, plus it's on a curve. On one shoulder of the track and roadway overlap is a sheer rock face going up. And on the other shoulder, 3 meters over, is a sheer drop going down a long way, with no railing or guardrail to stop anything from going over the edge. The speed limit on that 130 meter long stretch for both automobiles and trains is 10 km/h (6 MPH) so in case a train and a car met on that 3 meter wide road cut, they can both stop in time to avoid a head on collision. And also so any pedestrians would have plenty of time to stand against the rock face to allow the train to pass by. There were times a train would happen along when Cheesah was walking home along that narrow stretch of mountain pass. If it was a cool or rainy day, and if the train was going in the direction of the village, the engineer would feel sorry for the little, six year old, meerkat cub walking in the rain out in the middle of nowhere, then stop the train and offer Cheesah a ride to the village. That would always cut a lot of walking distance off of Cheesah's journey home from school. The mountain pass was 11 kilometers (6 1/2 miles) from home...From the village to home was only a 3 kilometer walk (2 miles). Plus the engineer would let Cheesah ride in the cab of the locomotive, a narrow gauge version of the Garrett, articulating, steam locomotive with the two sets of drive wheels...which was a real treat for a six year old meerkat cub.\nA narrow gauge Garrett is shown:\n http://youtube.com/watch?v=h2hRMpMX3KM .\n http://youtube.com/watch?v=OfyLBmA-NHY .\nAnd the heat from the engine's firebox always felt so good after getting wet on a cold, rainy day. Before they got to where the mountain pass widened again, and where the tracks and dirt road separated from each other, you could look out the left window of the engine and see the rock face close enough to reach out and touch it. And from the right window, a bird's eye view of what is beyond the sheer drop. The engineer maintained the train at 10 km/h, and tooting the whistle every 10 seconds to warn automobiles not to venture onto the 3 meter narrow portion of road cut in the way of the approaching train. Once they were past that 130 meter long stretch of narrow road cut, the train would run between 50 and 65 km/h (30 to 40 MPH) on the way to the village.\nShortly before Bron and Lacara got the car, there were only two times Cheesah didn't get that train ride on a cold, rainy day. One rainy day was when Cheesah and a linsang cub had 45 minutes detention after school for talking in class. School normally dismisses shortly after noon. But on that day, the train had already gone by before Cheesah got to the mountain pass.\nOn another rainy day on the way home from school, the train was running an hour late that day. And by the time the train arrived at the pass Cheesah had already walked half way home in the rain, and was at a point nowhere near the railroad tracks. But it was shortly after that the family finally had a car...Needless to say, Cheesah was very thankful for that. \nHaving a car also made finding work for Bron and the older sons less difficult...that was when work was available. And being without a car use to be especially a hardship on Bron due to him having hip dysplasia.\nThe speedometer didn't work in that old car either. But with the dirt roads being the way they are, you couldn't drive fast enough on them to really need a speedometer anyway...In many places, you're lucky if you can get up to 50 Km/H (30 MPH).\nLacara's younger brother Amos, and a few friends of the family had proposed the idea of some of the adult males taking the car to north of Menoque to get some work at the sugarcane plantation during the harvest season. The rumor had been going around that a wealthy rat family in Egypt who for years owned 80% of the sugarcane plantation had finally bought out the remaining 20% from the other shareholders who use to disapprove against any wage increases for the workers.\nAmos Meerkat and the family friends told Bron and Lacara that \"O velho rato pai\" (The old papa rat), as they referred to the plantation's owner, now pays the workers good wages since he now owns the plantation outright.\nBut Bron and Lacara did not agree to lone out the car. Menoque was a long drive from home, and that would deprive Cheesah transportation to and from school while the car was away. And Bron could not easily do without the car with his hips the way they are. \nThere were times, however, although it was seldom it ever happened, Bron and Lacara wouldn't have money for gas for the car until Bron or one of the older sons could get some work. During those situations, Cheesah would still have to walk to and from school until there was gas in the car again. But in spite of those hardships, at least someone in the family would go to school and have a chance at a decent education the other family members never had.\nZhang, like his parents and his older surviving brother, had no formal education, and Zhang was completely illiterate until age 12, and his older brother, Moze, wasn't literate by much. But friends of the family who had a knowledge of literacy began teaching Zhang how to read and write, as well as improving on Moze's literary knowledge.\n\nIn the following year of 1999, the country had still experienced some occasional military intervention due to the collapse of the Lusaka Protocol Peace Accord several years earlier. However, those issues were mostly going on in the major cities, thus leaving many of the rural areas of the country largely unaffected. \n\nIn the year of 1999, Moze (then age 20 and married) had been working for an oil company seismic crew, searching out possible drilling sites around the areas of Caiundo and Capico, which was northeast of home. One job site was within 40 kilometers of the city of Menongue, where Mom's side of the family is from. Moze and others on the crew never did go into Menongue though. Due to the military intervention going on at that time against remnants of FNLA and UNITA, it was safer to stay out of the large cities if you didn't have to be there. \nAs a result of Moze working for the oil company, this was the first time any of the family members had a good, steady paying income going, which was a blessing to Moze and his wife, Leia...Oil companies do tend to pay pretty well. Moze was also able to get fairly nice car that was in much better condition than his mom and dad's old Olympia. But it was still an old car with a few issues. It was a 1970 Opal Rekord Station Wagon.\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/Moze-Meerkat-ge...\nThe car had no rust to speak of, and some dings here and there that could be noticed only if you were up close to the car. It's factory original, black paint wasn't chalky or bleeding rust, but it did have little discoloration due to age. The brakes had to be pumped to stop the car, and like the car his parents had, it too had worn tires. The car also had two bullet holes, one at the bottom of the driver's door, and the other one in the left fender behind the front wheel.\nMoze and Leia found out from the Linsang they bought the car from that the bullet holes were a little souvenir the car received from the civil war when the homeland was invaded four years earlier. For Moze, the bullet holes in the car reminded him of younger brother Jorad, Grand Dad Zeth, and two cousins the family had lost in that war.\nMoze's parents and two brothers were really impressed by how much nicer Moze and Leia's 1970 Opal Wagon looked when they showed up with it at their place. After everyone talked a while and admired the car, they all went out for a ride in it, with Moze driving, Leia riding up front, Bron and Lacara riding on the back seat, and Zhang (then 13) and Cheesah (then 7) riding in the very back. Zhang and Cheesah would refer to their older brother's car as 'the new car'...even though at the time, it was a 29 year old car. \n\nA year later, April of 2000, just before Zhang turned 14, Lacara had a heart attack. Being that their part of the province had no ambulance service or phone service, the family took Lacara by car to the only hospital the community had available, which was a substandard medical clinic in the nearby village, not much better equipped than a field hospital. But it was better than staying at home to die. The nearest really decent hospitals were in Ondjiva, which was the capitol of Cunene, being the only real city in that province, and the other being in Menongue, in neighboring Cuando-Cubango Province. Both cities were in average of 160 kilometers (100 miles) away, which would have been more than a three hour drive on the dirt roads. Many members of the Meerkat Family had never in their lives traveled that far from home before, thus had never even seen those cities. Moze had once been within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Menongue while on the oil company seismic crew. Moze never actually been in the city, but from high ground with a pair of binoculars could barely see some of the city's taller structures and see planes approaching and leaving the Menongue Airport from far away on the horizon. However, the medical clinic in the nearby village, although as basic as it was, did provide Lacara with the best care they had available. \nMoze and his wife, Leia, had their new born daughter, Dora, at the time, but still donated everything they can to go to pay Lacara's medical bills. Zhang had found a job as a metal worker apprentice, a week before he turned 14, with help from a vocational program that Sanchez Genet told him about at the metal fabrication shop. Zhang kept none of his pay from his job. He gave it all toward paying for Mom's medical treatment. Dad helped the best he could, being disabled. Younger brother Cheesah, then age 8, offered to drop out of school and try to find work so he can help. But Mom and Dad wouldn't allow it. No one in the family had a formal education. And if Cheesah could complete his schooling, at least one member of the family will have a decent education.\nA few days after Lacara had her heart attack, it didn't look like she was going to make it. Her husband, Bron and her three sons, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah were at her bedside. So was her mom, Mylah and her brother, Amos and sister, Beth. Lacara told them that if the worse came, she'll be in a better place with her 2nd oldest son, Jorad, and her Dad, Zeth. Fortunately however, it would be many years yet before Lacara was to be reunited with Jorad and Zeth. A few days later, and with medical treatment provided from the clinic, Lacara's condition improved and she finally made a full recovery. Within a couple of days, Lacara was released from the clinic with some heart medication to go back home.\n\nChapter 4. Zhang Meets a Female\n\nIt was two years later, 2002, Zhang noticed an artwork wall mural being painted by an attractive, female meerkat, who was commissioned to paint it. The smooth, stucco walled building was painted to make it look like the wall was part of the stone laid sidewalk with jungle scenery beyond it. Zhang and the female artist, Annika, became acquainted after Zhang stopped to admire the painting. In the weeks to follow, Zhang, then 16, and Annika, then 23, became close friends. Zhang showed an interest in art, and asked Annika if she teach him some about it. So during the following year or so, Annika would occasionally let Zhang come over for art lessons to her studio in the nearby village where she lived.\nAnnika had more work opportunities, painting murals and doing portraits, in Ondjiva, which was a 140 kilometer (85 mile) drive to get there. The anthro animals in Ondjiva had the money that many of the animals in the nearby village didn't have for those services...and by then, the cities were not such dangerous places to visit anymore.\nOne day, Annika invited Zhang to ride with her to Ondjiva in the old, ragged, Russian made, Moskvitch she had.\n\"Zhang, before you get in, hold this over the carburador for a couple of minutos\", Annika said as she got a small piece of cardboard out of the glove compartment and pawed it to him.\nAfter Zhang opened the hood and got the top off of the air cleaner housing, he noticed the choke plate was missing from the carburetor.\n\"Entao este. It's the choke\", Zhang chucked as he briefly held the piece of cardboard up.\n\"Sim (yes). Since my family had the boter, it was never there\", Annika replied as she started the car.\nAfter a couple of minutes of holding the cardboard over the carburetor while the motor idled, it was warmed up and ready to drive. After Zhang got the air cleaner back together, closed the hood, got in and put the cardboard back into the glove compartment, Zhang and Annika were on their way to Ondjiva.\nZhang and Annika had a lot of conversation on their way to Ondjiva.\nAt one point Zhang commented how smooth he thought the car rode.\nAnnika then pointed out that it might seem to ride smoother because as they got closer to Ondjiva, the road was in better condition.\nWhen Zhang talked about the station wagon his grand mom gave his parents, Annika told Zhang that her Moskvitch automobile was driven by her parents for years, then given to her when her parents got a different car.\nA short while before they arrived to Ondjiva, the dirt road left off where substandard paved road began. This was the first time in Zhang Meerkat's life he had ever seen a paved road.\nOnce they arrived in Ondjiva, Zhang was amazed seeing a town that was larger and more modern than their nearby village.\n\"Voce parecia surpreso\" (You look surprised), Annika said to Zhang as they continued riding into town.\n\"In Ondjiva, this is my first time\", said Zhang. \"Other than our village, a town like this, Eu nunca vi antes\" (...I've never seen before).\nAnnika gave thought to how it was no surprise to her, as she was aware of many others in their community who have never traveled more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) or so away from home in their entire life.\n\"Longe de casa (away from home), this far I have never been\", Zhang mentioned.\nWith that said, Annika offered to ride around and show Zhang the town a while.\nLater, at a cafe', Annika had several customers who had her draw portraits of them as Zhang watched her. Annika's work was very good, and she was paid well for the portraits she did too.\nBefore Zhang and Annika headed back home, they had dinner at the cafe' in Ondjiva. Normally, it's the male who buys dinner for the female. But Annika knew Zhang didn't have any money, and Zhang was only 16 then, so Annika paid the bill...which Zhang thanked her very much for, \"Obrigato, Muito, Annika\".\nFor Zhang, that day was quite an experience, and he could hardly wait to tell Mom, Dad and his brothers about his trip with a friend into Ondjiva.\nThere were times that followed that Annika had Zhang come along with her to Ondjive, which each time, Zhang considered it a special treat.\n\nBy the time Zhang was 18, and Annika 25, they were dating, and there was now a strong love bond between them. Zhang would still come over for art lessons, and by this time, they would spend some quality time together.\nOne evening, in mid April, after Annika had just turned 26, and Zhang was a couple of weeks from turning 19, the two of them were laying on a large, roll out mat, on the stone slab floor of the porch atrium that adjoined Annika'a studio. As they were sipping on Merlot wine and watching the stars come out, Annika snuggled up to Zhang as they were both laying on their backs. Zhang put a paw around her. Then Annika rested her paw on Zhang close to his genital. Zhang reached his paw he had around Annika far enough to reach her pussy, as Zhang's penis started poking his head out, and popping out further and further in timing with Zhang's heart beat. Zhang was rubbing at the edge of Annika's pussy, a little timid to go the rest of the way over onto her.\n\"It's OK Zhang\", Annika softly told him. \"Your paw. Bring it over more. Va em frente (Go for it)\".\nNow Zhang was gently rubbing the right side of Annika's pussy as his penis was just about completely extended out and hard, but still going at it a little timid.\n\"Talvez isso ajude (Maybe this will help)\", Annika said, as she began passionately massaging Zhang's penis head.\nZhang's penis immediately stood out straight, hard and as far out as it can go. Zhang felt good all over from the erotic tingle he felt all around it's little head. His knees wobbled in and out, his feet jittered and he felt those butterflies in his lower ventral area. At one point, Zhang thrusted his pelvis up and down in a motion like he was having sex, while Annika continued giving little penis his head massage. Zhang massaged Annika's pussy, squishing it around, rubbing his paw deep in the clef, pulling it open, then pushing the labial halves firm against each other bulging the middle of Annika's pussy outward, and then tickling the entrance to Annika's vagina until Zhang could feel Annika's pussy puking oil out onto his paw. Zhang wasn't timid by then, and Annika was lovin' every second of it. So was Zhang.\nThen Annika turned on her side with her ventral facing Zhang. No one had to tell Zhang what next to do. Zhang turned facing Annika, embraced her up against him, pushing his hard penis into Annika's pussy, as Annika also embraced Zhang. Zhang's penis didn't find Annika's vagina right away. Zhang moved his penis head up and down inside Annika's pussy clef, frantically trying to find the vagina. Then Zhang felt it...The penis found it. Then Zhang went in as deep as his penis can go, as both Zhang and Annika were having sex like there was going to be no tomorrow, and feeling like they were in Sex Heaven if there were such a place.\nAt climax, Zhang rejoicefully called out to Annika, \"Amo-te! Amo-te! Amo-te! Amo-te! Ohhhh! Annika minha garina! OUUUU! Amo-te! Amo-te! (I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! Ohhhh! Annika my girl! OUUUU! I love you! I love you!)\", then Annika kissed Zhang all over his face, neck and chest, then tightly embraced him.\nThis was Zhang's first time at having sex. For Zhang a whole new world had just opened up to him...A whole new beautiful world.\nWith the coal oil lamps dimmed way down low, Zhang and Annika had sex off and on through out the rest of the night, until dawn. At one point during the night, Zhang and Annika fell asleep while they were still copulated together, with Zhang softly telling Annika in his sleep, \"Sim. Amo-te. Sim. Amo-te. (Yes. I love you. Yes. I love you)\", and slept copulated for more than an hour, then being awakened after Zhang's penis went flaccid, slipped out of Annika's pussy and back into Zhang's sheath.\nIn the days to follow, Zhang and Annika would get together again to have sex. Then came the time they were doing it almost every night.\nOn May 2nd, 2005, one day after Zhang's 19th birthday, Zhang proposed to Annika, Annika accepted, and on that same day, the two happy meerkats sought a justice of the peace, and got married. From that day on, Zhang and Annika Meerkat are husband and wife, with a love bond you couldn't tear apart if you tried.\nThat evening as Zhang and Annika arrived in Annika's car to Zhang's parent's place, Bron and Lacara noticed their son, Zhang, riding in an old Moskvitch being driven by a female they've never seen before.\nZhang's family was unexpectedly, but pleasantly, surprised when Zhang introduced Annika to them and announced they've become husband and wife. That would now leave Cheesah being the only brother still living at home with Mam and Dad.\nAnnika's husband now lives with Annika, instead of with his parents Bron and Lacara and younger brother Cheesah.\nIn spite of Zhang having had a hard life growing up, or maybe because of it, Zhang is an achiever and a go getter with a strong sense of ambition.\nWith Zhang out from under Mom and Dad's roof, that left Bron, in spite of his having hip dysplasia, being the only wage earner of the household...that is whenever he could find work he was capable of doing. And because of the fact that Bron was now having to at times use a walking cane, it didn't make finding work any easier. With Moze and Zhang being \"out of the nest\", Cheesah going to school, and Jorad being had died in the war of 1995, that left only Bron (partially disabled), Lacara and Cheesah (then 10 years old) residing at the household. However, Moze, Zhang and other relatives did help out whenever they could.\nAnother source of assistance the local inhabitants began to receive was from United Way humanitarian workers who would occasionally come by, giving food and other help to those who needed it. They were usually a female wolverine, a male stoat, and a young male fox who had recently joined United Way. Although the wolverine and the stoat were longtime veterans of doing humanitarian work, the young fox was still getting some of his first paw looks at what life in the third world is really like. The young fox also found it almost incomprehensible that many of the locals had never been to school a day in their lives, and couldn't even read or write their own names.\nBron, Lacara and other family members considered the assistance from United Way a Godsend, as it relieved a great burden of concern over the family's welfare. The 4 wheel drive SUV with the United Way logos on the doors was always a welcome sight when ever it showed up.\nThe young fox, who's native language was Dutch, had mastered English well, but he still had difficulty speaking in Portuguese, and the Angolan dialect threw him off even more. However, being that Bron and Lacara could also speak English fluently, and Cheesah's English at that time was fair, and the wolverine spoke English and Portuguese fluently, and the stoat spoke Norwegian, English and Portuguese fluently, it was agreed that the conversations among them could be spoken in English. \nThere were also friends of the family who, like Bron, Lacara and Cheesah, received the much appreciated assistance in the way of food, fuel vouchers for those who had cars, offering assistance with home repairs, and other help where needed.\nGrandma Mylah Meerkat also received food assistance from United Way which she was very thankful for. Since her husband, Grand-dad Zeth Meerkat, was killed in the 1995 war, it had been a hardship on Mylah. And the workers did take time out to offer Mylah transportation assistance. Mylah greatly appreciated that, being that she had gotten too old to drive and had given her car to her daughter Lacara and son-in-law Bron.\nThe young fox who had recently joined United Way was totally overwhelmed that the local animals who lived in the area never had electrical service, phone service or municipal water, and that some had never owned a car before...Not to mention none of the locals knew what a cellular phone or a personal computer even was (there weren't the towers around for internet and phone service anyway). Of course there was always radio to listen to if you were lucky enough to have a car with a radio that worked. All this was a difficult thought for the young fox to wrap his mind around being that, in his country, he had grown up with those luxuries and had always been use to taking them for granted.\nAs for the Meerkat Family and other local animals in Cunene, the quality of life had been getting better than it had been in years past.\n\n\n\nChapter 5. Introduction to Annika's Family\n\nANNIKA MEERKAT, female, born in nearby Cuando-Cubango Province of Angola (Africa) on April 17th, 1979, age 34, is Raphael's mom.\nAnnika came from a lower middle income family, born to her dad, Banga, and to her mom, Murua, having two older sisters, Nafula, the oldest, then Abina. And later, a younger brother, Najja, was born.\nAnnika was 2 years old when younger brother Najja was born. Because Najja was the only male sibling among three sisters, and the youngest, Annika and her two older sisters use to tease Najja when they were all at cub age, except Nafula didn't tease Najja very much. She was becoming an adolescent about the time Najja was getting old enough to be teased. Abina and Annika were the ones who did most of the teasing...that is until their parents, Banga and Murua, put a stop to it with a paddle.\n\nChapter 6. Annika's Experience of the War\n\nOn that June morning of 1995, when the northern rebels invaded the homeland, Annika was 16. The part of the country Annika help to defend didn't see as much action as Zhang had seen. There was the time, about half way through the war, Annika, and another female meerkat her age, Zella, was up on a bluff that overlooked a small jungle area and an open plain beyond. Annika and Zella were sitting on a boulder that was on top the bluff when a chunk of rock popped only inches from Annika's paw, accompanied by a ricochet noise, and followed by the close sounds of muzzle fire, and projectile crack. As the two meerkats scurried behind the boulder, another chunk of rock blew out of the boulder near Zella's head, with the sounds of ricochet, muzzle fire and projectile crack. Annika, then Zella, saw them...a colobus monkey and a galago crouched behind a mound. A brief exchange of gun fire took place with Annika blasting the galago through the chest with her 20 gauge shotgun. The colobus monkey immediately turned tail and ran away, disappearing into the patch of jungle. Minutes later, Annika spotted the fleeing monkey out on the open plain. He was almost a half mile away, and Annika's 20 gauge wouldn't reach him. Zella's weapon would. She had an AK-47. Zella fired several times before she and Annika finally saw the colobus monkey fall with his chest blown out.\nThe AK-47 had been taken from the dead body of one of the invaders. She was using it until she could no longer get ammo for it. Then she would go back to using her 32 caliber rifle.\nIn November of that same year, after the northern provinces were defeated and the fighters driven back to where they came from, Annika and her brother Najja, then 14, received honorable mentions for outstanding service.\nAnnika also received martial arts training during the war, and stayed with it after the war until she achieved green belt.\n\nChapter 7. How Annika Fared After the War\n\nAnnika, like quite a few other school age meerkats and other animals, didn't go back to school after the war. Because the war went well into November of 1995, and almost every animal from age 7 through 77 was called upon to fight, it was too late for schools to conduct the 1995 - 1996 school year. During that year, many school age animals got jobs and didn't bother returning to school during the 1996 - 1997 year.\nThe last grade Annika attended before the war was 10th grade. Instead of going back to school, she pursued being a free lance artist instead. Annika made a good living being commissioned to do wall murals, portraits and other art work. For many buildings in the nearby town, or what could be called a town, the murals were a vast improvement. Many of those buildings had walls made of stacked stone, or wood frame from raw timber with corrugated tin walls. Some of the better buildings were stucco or clay wall, but still looked rather shabby.\nHowever, most of Annika's work opportunities were in Ondjiva, which was 110 kilometers (70 miles) away. Luckily Annika did have a car. It was an old ragged Moskvitch, but it always did make it to Ondjiva and back OK. \nIn Ondjiva, Annika got to be well known for her exceptional work doing portraits of the wealthy and somewhat wealthy anthro animals who were living in the Cunene Province. Annika would be paid well for portraits and novelty paintings she'd do for them.\nIt was when Annika was doing a wall mural for a cafe' in the nearby village, a cute, 16 year old, male meerkat, Zhang, stopped by to admire her work. That's when they became acquainted, later became friends, at even a later time fell in love, and when Annika was 26, and Zhang turning 19, they got sexually involved with each other, and shortly thereafter got married.\nThe tail end of Chapter 4 of Zhang's history tells that story.\n\nChapter 8. The Country Experiences Political Troubles\n\nIt was well into June of 2005, Zhang and Annika had been married for over a month.\nThere had been a trend toward their homeland of Angola becoming politically unstable over the past month, and it wasn't getting any better. Large numbers of other species of anthro animals had immigrated to Angola, from areas north of Cabinda that were experiencing political corruption and other problems. The immigrants who came to Angola wanted a share of control of the country the governing anthro animals wouldn't let them have. Zhang and Annika's families had been hearing about riots in a few major cities far to the north because of the situation. But fortunately, those riots were nowhere near the Cunene or Cuando-Cubango Provinces where they lived. The animals in those provinces just wanted to go about their lives and be left alone.\nHowever, there were some immigrant animals who had settled into Cunene and Cuando-Cubango, and had brought their problems to Cunene and Cuando-Cubango with them. Throughout the rest of the summer, whenever Zhang and Annika went into town, they would often encounter a genet, mongoose, civet or some other of those immigrant animals who would try to make an issue with them about \"how certain animals are trying to hold all the power in Angola\".\nDuring a visit in a nearby town, Zhang thought he was going to have to fight off a palm civet who was talking that way and blaming meerkats and mongooses for the country's problems, when Zhang told him, \"Why can't you get a life?\"\nIt was good for the palm civet he didn't try anything. Had he did, Zhang having cubhood war experiences, could have easily snapped and went ballistic on the palm civet. And with Zhang being 2nd degree black belt, and still having a temper issue, Zhang could have easily messed up that palm civet really bad.\nBoth Zhang's and Annika's families would also have similar stories to tell of their encounters during their trips to a town, about an occasional disgruntled immigrant who would openly blame meerkats and various other species of animals for the country's problems.\nIt was worse further north. Train crews with the narrow gauge railroad, and route truck drivers, including Annika's brother Najja, would bring back stories of how bad it had gotten in the major cities in the northern provinces. They would tell of how the 'blame game' in those cities was so bad, there would be animals of one species who would get blamed for all the trouble going on, who in turn would blame animals of other species for all the trouble.\nAs for the agitating animals who immigrated to Angola, those of which who settled into the area where Zhang and Annika's families lived, their numbers were few, the locals knew who they were, and the locals began to make it clear to them, \"Uma atitude con voce, voce trazer aqui? Norte voce melhor leva lo...Extremo norte longe deste lugar\" (An attitude with you, you bring here? North you better take it...Far north away from this place).\nThe Angolan dialect Portuguese may have sounded awkward to them, but they did get the picture from the locals quite clear. Those of the immigrant animals who decided to stay in the local area eventually mellowed down quite a bit...Those who did not, headed north as the locals suggested. After all, there were things in those major cities to the north that simply did not fly in Cunene or Cuando-Cubango.\nEarly in the month of September, Annika found out she was pregnant with Zhang's cub. Zhang and Anika felt like this was the best blessing they've ever had, and both of their families were thrilled to hear news of it.\nWhen Bron, Lacara, Cheesah, Annika and Zhang was visiting with Annika's family, Lacara asked, \"O filhote (The cub). Have you thought of some names?\"\nMembers of both families began offering suggested names.\nZhang told everyone, \"Whether the cub is male or female. Of course, we don't know yet\".\n\"Voce sabe, Zhang?\" (You know, Zhang?), said Annika. \"I somehow feel like its a boy\".\nBron asked Zhang, \"Son, when is the cub due? Voce e Annika sabe?\" (Do Annika and you know?)\n\"Nao fazemos, Pai\" (No we don't, Dad), Zhang answered. \"Annika and I have been together each night. Just when it conceived, we nao know\".\n\"We figure Novembro, is what Zhang and I are guessing\", Annika added.\n\"Setenta e cinco dias for us meerkats\" (75 days...), said Murua, Annika's mom. \"Novembro. That would be about correto\".\nTwo days after the visit with the relatives, riots began flaring up in many cities over the power struggle between the animals who were native to Angola and those who had recently immigrated into the country. Then a new problem for the country also appeared. A pangolin, who called himself, \"Sar Al Binar\" had mustered huge cult following in the far western part of the country near the Atlantic coast, and was threatening to wage a holy war on the country. Most of the country had for generations adhered to Christian and family values, and Pangolin Sar Al Binar had made public statements that his agenda is to destroy that whole way of life. However, it didn't appear like he had near enough followers to pull it off.\nZhang and Annika, along with everyone they knew, were keeping up with news reports on where the country was headed. As a nation, the country was literally falling apart. But then came the worse news of all. Out of the northern provinces had once again formed a large paramilitary revolution from the old FNLA and UNITA movements. In a matter of days, they had taken over some northern provinces, and the rebel leaders issued a declaration claiming the territory they've taken to be the sovereign state of the Republic of North Angola. And they had also began make preparations to conduct another invasion into the Southern homeland provinces. and a much bigger invasion, with more allies than the one 10 years earlier.\nDuring another family get together, the families discussed moving to a different country. Annika even mentioned concern for her unborn cub .\n\"If things get muito ruim (...really bad). The chances of our filhote (cub) surviving. What would they be?\", Annika asked.\n\"The way this country is getting. It will nao longer be a safe place to live\", Banga, Annika's dad, said.\n\"It's already gotten that way\", said Bron\", \"You can see that. Just look around\".\n\"What does this mean? There will be another war?\", Cheesah, then age 13, asked, remembering the war when he was age 3, and remembering his older brother Jorad and his grandfather Zeth being laid into their graves.\n\"Ia, filho. Parece assim. Nao e bom\" (Yes, son. Seems like it. It's not good), Bron answered his youngest son.\nIt was then decided by both families, that research should be started right away as to looking for another country to immigrate to.\nAfter days of research, Southern India is what the meerkats decided on to be the most ideal of those countries that were willing to take them, And although the meerkats, being Angolan, spoke Portuguese, they were also able to hold a conversation in fluent English. And English is a common language spoken in India, therefore, there wouldn't be a language barrier when they arrived there. It would mean leaving jobs, leaving those cars behind that could not make a long trip, possessions and homes. Not to mention Zhang's younger brother, Cheesah, will have to pull out of school five years early. School was to start next month, the Angolan school year running from October to July. That would leave Cheesah with only a 7th grade education, unless he can get into India's school system. But all those things were on their way to being gone anyway with the way events were going. The main concern at this point was to get out of the country while they still can.\n\nChapter 9. Fleeing the Country\n\nBy the time conditions within the country began to rapidly deteriorate, the families already had the passports they needed, being that they filed application early on when the first signs of the country's recent troubles began. Over a period of several days, the families packed what their vehicles could carry, and had been making travel arrangements. Being that the nearest phone service was in the nearby village, making those arrangements would not have been possible had it not been for the generosity of long time linsang friends who owned the cafe' who let them use their business phone to make the necessary calls and inquiries. And there was a long wait to use the phone on each of the days the family made the three kilometer trip to the cafe'...Other families who resided where there was no phone service were also using the phone at the cafe' to make arrangements to leave Angola. Even the cafe' owners and a hippo waitress, Rosie, had gotten passports to leave the country, although it meant walking away from a business they've built up over the years. The arrangements the meerkats were finally able to make were to drive out to the sea port town of Port of Beira in Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean coast. Once there, they were to contact a freighter Captain, Yannas Fossa. The meerkat families would travel aboard Yannas Fossa's vessel, an India bound freighter. The able bodied males would work aboard the freighter while the able bodied females and older cubs would help with cooking and cleaning as payment for the ride over.\nWhen they sold their homes for what they could get out of them, they didn't get a whole lot. It wasn't like the homes could stay on the market for months. Plus hardly anyone was buying real estate because of the turmoil the country was in. If anything, lots of other animals were also selling their homes in order to leave the country. The family, along with just about everyone else they knew, had to settle for selling to investors who came from the cities of Menongue and Ondjiva. Those were investors who were buying up what land and homes they could, trying to put their money into tangible assets in fear that the Angolan currency might become worthless.\nOnce the homes were sold, and those vehicles that could make it to Port of Beira were packed, there was one thing not left overlooked. The family did take a short while to visit the graves of their deceased loved ones for the last time.\nAfter the grave visits, the last thing left was to close out their bank accounts, make currency exchanges for Indian currency and currency exchange for travel expense going through Zambia and Mozambique on their way to the east coast. Upon entering the bank, which was their last visit to the nearby village, members of the meerkat families noticed the bank's employes and customers seemed to be in a somber mood, and quiet enough to clearly hear the building's well worn, wooden floor creak as it was being walked on.\n\"Everyone so gloomy? Why?\", Chessah asked.\n\"In provinces north of here, animals from North Angola crossed over. Our southern provinces. They are now under attack. It started only a while ago\" , a meerkat at a teller desk answered.\n\"A lot of our fellow creatures. They are leaving the country\", a loan officer who knew Annika's family told them. \"You all are doing the right thing by leaving. I'm about ready to get my family. And we too will leave\".\n\"It's horrible\", said Murua.\n\"The country getting like this. We never thought we'd see it\", Banga replied.\n\"No one ever thought it would\", The loan officer added.\nOther customers in the bank began talking about their experiences, and that they were also leaving the country.\nThere wasn't a lot of foreign currency left at the bank, but Zhang, Annika and their families were able to make exchange for some of the Zambian and Mozambique currency needed to get them across the continent. However, the bank had no Indian currency to exchange for them. And in their small town, that was the only bank within an hour's drive.\n\"When you do get to India, exchange your Angolan currency for Indian currency soon as you can\", another bank employee friend of Annika's family said. \"This country could fall any time. Then Angolan currency will be worthless\".\nAs the families left, they bid \"Adeus\" and thanked them for everything, then they got into their cars, and they were on their way down the dirt street, headed for the highway going east out of the country. For many members of the Meerkat Family, this would be the first time in their lives they would travel more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from their place of birth. On their way out of town, it became evident that others had the same idea of leaving, as they saw other vehicles loaded with belongings headed east like they were. There would still be about 480 kilometers (300 miles) of driving through neighboring Cuando-Cubango Province before they would reach the Zambian border.\nFor much of the family, this was quite an experience in itself to have traveled so far from the place where they were born and had called home.\nTraveling accommodations were a bit crowded because of personal belongings that were also packed inside the cars.\nThe only place in Moze and Leia's Opal wagon for their daughter to sit was on Mom's lap...There was stuff also on the front seat.\nNajja's truck was so loaded, there was also stuff packed on the passenger's seat and on the passenger's side floorboard.\nBron and Lacara's wagon was packed so full of stuff, Cheesah had to ride on the front seat squeezed in between Mom and Dad...and a 1954 Rekord Olympia is not a very wide car.\nZhang, Annika and her sister Abina was also riding with a car full of belongings.\nSo was Banga and Murua's car full of stuff.\nAnd Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 was packed full as well.\nTwo of the station wagons in the convoy had roof racks, and they were loaded with everything that can be loaded on them.\nThere was to be yet another family group traveling with their vehicles loaded the same way, including relatives from Yousaf and Leia's families. They would be making the trip a day behind.\nAfter hours of driving, the Meerkats didn't have many kilometers left to travel before reaching the border into Zambia. At this point in their journey, the road out of Angola had become incredibly crowded. They've never seen this many vehicles on the highways before: cars, trucks, vans, buses, bicycles, taxi scooters and even a few wagons drawn by non-antrho beasts of burden. Animals of about every species the family knew of were in that exodus on the way out of the country. And the dust was terrible as the highway leaving Angola, like many others, was a dirt and gravel roadway. As the meerkat family's convoy of cars neared the eastern border, heading out of Angola, they noticed the side of the highway going east out of country was crowded with the exodus of fleeing vehicles, including their own. And at times, they would see vehicles on the shoulder of the highway that had broken down. The side of the highway coming in from the east, going back west into Angola, didn't have a single vehicle on it. After a while, the meerkat families finally made it to the Zambian border, and at least getting out of Angola was a welcome sight. They've now gotten that far. The eastbound side of the highway was backed up with so many vehicles leaving the country, a hyena and a cheetah at the check point, going into the next country, just waved them on through as long as a vehicle didn't look suspicious to them.\n This was the Meerkat Family's first time out of the country, except for Annika's brother, Najja, who had before made deliveries for customers in and out of Namibia with his truck. Once in Zambia, they found out that driving in that country was done on the left side of the road, unlike in Angola where traffic travels on the right, which did take some getting use to. The highway past the Zambian border was a better roadway than the dirt and gravel road back in Angola. At least it was substandard asphalt paved, although unmarked, barely wider than one lane and with occasional potholes anyone driving on it would have to watch out for. It was a very good road compared to the dirt, rocky and mud roads the meerkats have known all their lives.\n\nChapter 10 The Road Trip.\n\nAs the family continued on their way east, there were fewer vehicles on the road with them due to many refugees traveling off to different destinations. Many of those fleeing Angola either had different destinations to other countries within Africa, or to different sea ports to board different ships to different continents.\nAt the end of each day, the family would keep their cars going through the night. During the trip, they would take turns driving while others slept along the way so they could keep going until they reached Port of Beria.\nYousaf and Nafula's Renault was always the last car. This was because it and Mose and Leia's Opal were the only two cars that had properly working taillights.\nNajja's truck had only one taillight with no brake light.\nThe left taillight on Bron and Lacara's car had a wiring problem, leaving only the right taillight with a broken lens working.\nBanga and Murua's car had either a bad light switch or bad ground where the taillights would stay lit only half the time.\nAnd the taillights on Annika's Moskvitch never had worked during the years she has owned the car. \nMose and Leia's car had to be the lead car because of a problem with the brakes, so that left the Renault being the tail car.\nAnd even at that, the lights on Yousaf and Nafua's Renault were turned on and off by attaching a wire with an alligator clamp to the hot lead of the battery...They had to open the hood each time to turn the lights on and off.\nDuring the 2nd day of the road trip, on the way through Zambia, the meerkat families stopped at a few banks along the way and tried to exchange their Angolan currency for Indian currency, or for any country's currency that will still be accepted for exchange in the event Angola was taken over. But none of the banks would exchange it. It was beginning to look as though the family was not going to be able dump the currency everyone knew was becoming worthless.\nAt one bank, a genet teller got her manager, a serval, to see what he can do for them.\n\"I'm really sorry\", the serval told them. \"No financial institution in their right mind will accept Angolan currency with that country about to collapse\".\nSome of the family members explained their situation to the serval, and expressed concerns about arriving to a new country, being broke.\nThe serval told them, \"Here's what I can do. We don't have Indian currency. But I can exchange to you Zambian currency, allowing 20% of what your Angolan currency is now worth. It's the best I can do. Any bank in India will exchange our currency. I'll just dump off the Angolan currency into an investment, but I'm still taking a financial risk\".\n\"We're really going to take a big loss on that deal\", Zhang noted.\n\"Son, it's all we got\", replied Bron. \"Part of something is better than all of nothing\".\nSo it was decided by the meerkats to take the serval up on his offer. Zhang, Annika and their families would not be going to India rich. But at least they would not be broke.\nBron, being poor all his life like the rest of the family, never owned a motor vehicle before the Rekord wagon his mother-in-law gave to him and his wife. But the 51 years of wear on the car became obvious while still coming through Zambia, about an hour's drive before they got to the Zimbabwean border. The engine in that old, beat up Rekord station wagon developed a sharp clacking sound.\nCheesah, who was sitting on the front seat, squeezed in between his parents, asked, \"Esse barulho vindo de o boter. What is it?\" (That noise coming from the car. What is it?).\n\"A connecting rod bearing in the engine. I think it's gone out, Son\", Bron told Cheesah as he flashed the headlights to get Najja's attention to pull his truck over and stop.\n\"Bron, voce certeza?\" (Bron, are you sure?), Lacara asked, hoping Bron was wrong.\n\"Estou certeza. Soa como uma haste\" (I am sure. Sounds like a rod), Bron replied as he prepared to pull the car off the road behind Najja's truck.\nAs Najja pulled over, he flashed his lights for Moze, who was driving the lead car with his wife Leia and daughter Dora, to pull over. Then the other three remaining cars with Zhang, Annika, Abina, Banga, Murua, Nafula and Yousaf pulled over to the shoulder of the road behind Bron and Lacara's car.\n\"Qual e o problema?, Banga asked Bron as he walked up to Bron's car, still idling and engine clacking. \"Oh nao. That don't sound good\".\n\"Sounds like a connecting rod. I think it's getting ready to go. .\", said Bron as other family members came walking up.\n\"Bron, If seu boter doesn't make it, Lacara, Cheesah, and you can ride with us\", Banga offered. \"It might be a little crowded\".\n\"At least seu boter does have a back seat\", Lacara jokingly said to Banga as others laughed.\n\"Cheesah could ride with Annika, Abina and I\", Zhang said as Annika nodded in agreement.\n\"I could make room on my flat bed for your belongings\", Annika's younger brother, Najja, told Bron. The truck was already pretty well loaded. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ajn6sZmvTWw .\n\"Well, let's see how far este velho boter will make it\", said Bron.\nIt was decided to let Bron drive up ahead of Moze and Leia's car, so if his car had anymore trouble, the others would know to stop. Moze and Liea's Opal wagon was to follow behind Bron and Lacara's car, but maintaining a good distance because of a bad master cylinder that required pumping the brakes to get the car stopped. \nEveryone got back into their vehicles and continued their journey.\nAs the family drove on, the clacking in Bron's station wagon got progressively louder.\n\"How far will it go, Dad\", Cheesah asked Bron.\n\"Nao Eu sabe, Son. There's no way to tell\", Bron answered. \"It can go anytime. And I've seen them run for months that way\".\nAbout a half an hour later, the meerkats got the answer to Cheesah's question of how far will it go. That's when the rapid clacking gave way to a loud \"BOOMP\". The rear wheels locked up (rear wheel drive). Bron pressed the clutch petal, disengaging the rest of the drive train from the locked up engine and allowing the rear wheels to turn again. The meerkats in the the other vehicles could see steam coming from Bron's car, and knew to pull over. Bron's car had finally quit running.\n\"Para este boter. O fim da estrada\" (For this car. The end of the road) Bron said as the car coasted to a stop off the side of the road.\nWhen Bron got out and raised the hood of his car, he could clearly see a connecting rod driven out through the side of the engine, and steam and coolant blowing out.\n\"Looks like it's gone it's last kilometer, Dad\", said Zhang after he walked up and had a look at the engine.\n\"Nao Eu posso queixar. Tem sido um boter bom\" (I can't complain, Son. It's been a good car), Bron told Zhang. \"I just wish it had not picked now. Nao a time like this to quit on me\".\n\"A good boter it has been\", Lacara added. \"Tres geracoes, it has been with our family\" (three generations...).\nThe arrangements that were discussed earlier, when Bron's car was first showing signs of trouble, were carried through with. And a note was put on the car to let the grand parents and parent's siblings know every thing was OK. They were traveling in a different group, about half a day behind, and everyone knew they would recognize Bron's car and be concerned. Along with transferring belongings from Bron's car, they also collected the gasoline from the fuel tank for the other vehicles. They had nothing for a siphon hose, so a hole was made in the bottom of the tank with a hammer and a screwdriver (metal tank), then wallowing the hole out bigger with the screwdriver. Then a beat up, old gas can that Najja had in his truck was placed under to catch the stream of gasoline. When the can would fill up, a rag was held tightly on the hole while the can was being emptied into other vehicles.\n\"Pai. Leia e Eu tenho um pode agua com um bico\" (Dad. Leia and I have a water can with a spout), Moze called out to Bron as Leia held the can up so Bron could see it.\n\"Traze lo aqui\" (Bring it here), said Bron.\nBoth cans were alternately placed back under the tank of Bron's disabled car and the process was repeated until the tank had emptied out. A moment was also taken to collect the marker light bulbs and headlights to change out on the other 6 volt vehicles that needed them. Being that their vehicles had the old style, round, sealed beam, glass headlights, they were interchangeable.\nAnd the battery in Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 had not been holding a charge very well lately. That became more so obvious when Yousaf couldn't get the car to crank anymore. When Yousaf turned the key, the solenoid would make a rapid clicking sound.\n\"Being that my boter nao runs anymore, the battery we can put in seu boter\", Bron offered to Yousaf.\n\"My boter. It has a seis volt system\", Yousaf mentioned. \"Obrigato a mesmo\" (Thank you the same).\n\"My Rekord is seis volt also\", Bron replied, that being a sigh of relief to Yousaf and Nafula.\nFortunately, the electrical system in Bron and Lacara's disabled Rekord wagon was a 6 volt system like in Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4, so the batteries were able to be swapped out. They had to set the battery from the Rekord so it sat crooked in the Renault in order to get one of the cables to reach, but once the battery was changed out, Yousaf and Nafula's car was able to start. \nThe last of the belongings in Bron's car were loaded onto Najja's, already loaded, 1962 Thames K series flatbed, and some belongings into Moze and Leia's car, with 5 year old daughter, Dora, riding on Mom's lap. Their Opel station wagon didn't have room to take on any more luggage.\nAfter everything was tended to, Cheesah wanted to see the blown engine in his dad's car. Thirteen year olds have a way of being curious.\n\"We don't have time for that, Cheesah\", Bron told him. \"Get over there with your brother and Annika. You're riding with them\".\n\"Cheesah! Anda SO.\" (Cheesah. Come on-SO), Zhang called with Angolan dialect emphasis 'SO' to his younger brother, motioning him over with his paw. \"Get over here.\"\nCheesah got in with with Zhang and Annka. And Bron and Lacara got in with Annika's parents, Banga and Murua. Annika's sister Abina, got in with Zhang and Annika to make room in her parent's car for Bron and Lacara.\nJust before they got back on their way, Annika's oldest sister Nafula and her husband Yousaf, asked everyone to travel at a slower pace, because they've also been having problems for the past 30 kilometers with their Renault trying to overheat http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPoID2GWopM .\nThe meerkats continued their journey, on their way to Port of Beira, abandoning Bron's old station wagon on the shoulder of the highway. A note for the other group of relatives had been placed on the windshield, and the old battery from Moze and Liea's car was left on the passenger's side floor board. The key to the doors, and the screw driver used to turn the ignition switch was left on the dash. And the title was placed on the driver's seat with Bron and Lacara's signature signing the car off to whoever wants an old, beat up, 1954, Rekord Olympia station wagon with a blown engine.\nMoze and Liea's Opal wagon was always the lead car because of the problem it had of having to pump the brakes to stop the car. The meerkats figured a car with bad brakes shouldn't be behind the other vehicles. The next vehicle to follow was Najja's old Thames truck http://youtube.com/watch?v=wunPE65r3dE , then Annika's 1967 Moskvitch http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjA5bxm1dng , then followed by Banga and Murua's 1972 Toyota Mark II Wagon with the vibration in the front wheel, and the last vehicle, Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 which had developed an engine temperature issue http://youtube.com/watch?v=ng6qJEiTkqw . \nAs the journey continued, Bron and Lacara noticed that Banga and Murua's car wasn't doing much better. http://youtube.com/watch?v=IxLlfSGZzl8 . The clutch was showing signs of wear, there was an intermittent vibration from one of the front wheels.\n\"Your car. I hope it holds up better than mine did\", Bron said to Banga.\n\"Well, the clutch slips a bit. That's been going on three months\", said Banga. \"But it's the wheel. I'm worried about THAT. It only started since we began this trip. And it's gotten worse\".\nIn other parts of the world, those old cars the meerkats were driving would be valuable to antique car collectors. But where they had come from in Southern Angola, they were just old, beat up cars that had been around almost forever, and far from being in pristine condition.\nA part of the Meerkat Family's road trip to Port of Beira took them through a Northern part of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), and through some mountainous terrain. Like in Zambia, traffic there also travels on the left side of the road. From there on, their trip went pretty much without vehicles breaking down. And by this time, they were driving on roads, such as Route A3 toward Mutare, that were far better than the roads they knew back in Angola, which were dirt, and what few that were paved were full of pot holes.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=E1dKQCPY6Ok\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=dfBjbpRGR_U\nThese were well built asphalt roads, smooth and with no potholes.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=zL6Atzgnquo\n Although the roads had no pavement markings, they were plenty wide enough for vehicles to navigate with lots of room...except for on the bridges. When the meerkats arrived into the city of Mutare, they were impressed with how much more modern and beautiful it is than the poverty plagued towns and villages they knew back in their old homeland. And it wasn't very far before they would be crossing the border into Mozambique.\nWhile in Mutare, the meerkats stopped at a petrol station and fueled up their vehicles. As the rest of the meerlats were fueling their vehicles, Bron had noticed that Moze had the hood up on his car a lot longer than it would take to check the oil.\n\"Is everything OK, Son?\", Bron asked as he noticed Moze was tending to something with cap off the car's distributor.\n\"It will be, Dad\", Moze answered as he was rubbing a small piece of emery cloth between the points. \"It's these old points. Trying to get more life out of them. They should have been replaced a long time ago\".\n\"We did hear your boter backfire a few times. It was as we slowed down to pull in here\", Bron added as Cheesah came over to check it out.\n\"This time, it looks like I'll have to re-adjust the dwell. I'll need something for a feeler gauge\", said Moze.\n\"Cheesah, go to the attendant. Ask for a book of matches\", Bron told his youngest son.\n\"Uma pacote de fosforos? (A packet of matches?)\", Cheesah questioned.\n\"Just do as I'm telling you. You'll learn something in a few minutes\", Bron told him. \"Ir busca la SO. Ir, ir.\"(Go get it-SO. Go, go).\nSo Cheesah went and got the matches as he was told, and after a minute, came back and pawed the matchbook over to his dad.\n\"This is the universal feeler gauge\", Moze told younger brother Cheesah as Bron pawed them over to Moze.\nAs Moze adjusted the dwell with an allen wrench from his tool box, and with the matchbook cover as a feeler gauge, Bron and Moze explained the procedure to Cheesah.\nBefore long, Moze had everything put back together and ready to go. Moze didn't do anything with the timing. The meerkats have always timed their cars by ear anyway. If it was close, it was good enough to drive down the road.\nThere was also the matter of the left tie rod end on Annika's Moskvitch being held together with bailing wire. Due to the many kilometers of driving since they left Angola, Annika had Zhang check it for her, and so far it had been holding together OK.\nAs the family went in to get some things to eat along the way, Cheesah was still amazed by the electric lights he had been noticing in the buildings they stopped at along their journey. Although Bron, Lacara, the grandparents and some of Annika's family had seen electric lights in the more developed parts of their old homeland, the rest of the family members had never seen them in buildings until they began the trip. What little bit of lighting that worked on their motor vehicles was the only electric lighting most of them had been familiar with. Zhang had seen electrical service in the metal fabrication shop where he got his apprentice training. And he had used power tools and equipment and worked by electric lighting. But the shop had their own industrial size generator to run large machinery with. And a 220 volt, 50 cycle, step down transformer was also wired to the generator for paw held power tools. All of which was powered up by a large, twin cylinder, double stroke, steam engine that had one of those old type, riveted boilers with a wood burning fire box. However, Zhang's younger brother Cheesah had never known that electrical service or electric lights even existed in buildings. Where the family was from in the Cunene Province of Angola, a power grid did not exist. It had always been sunlight by day, and coal oil lamps, candles or moonlight by night, except for motor vehicle lights and onsite generated power for industrial purposes.\nOnce the meerkats were on their way again, it wasn't long before they got onto the Beira Road just out of Mutare, which took them onto Route EN6 into Mozambique. Like it was, traveling through Zambia and Zimbabwe, they were to continue driving on the left side of the highway, which had been proving difficult because that put the driver's side of their vehicles away from the center of the road, with the exception of Najja's old Thames flat bed. It was built with the driver's side on the right. Now, most of their road trip was behind them. That part of Mozambique is not very far of a drive between it's west border and Port of Beira. The meerkats were happy to find that Route EN6 going through Mozambique was also a well built road like A3 and the Beira Road were, when they came through Zimbabwe. Some time later, the asphalt pavement left off where concrete highway began. Although the concrete portion of the road was one of the country's older stretches of highway that had occasional patch repairs now and then, it was still fairly smooth, and decent to drive on. It was originally built to the old 3rd world country standards, barely wide enough for two lanes with no markings on it, and no place to pull off except into knee high weeds and jungle growth. Palm trees leaning over the highway from the groves and jungle cast shadows of their palm fronds down onto the concrete surface making the highway appear to have palm frond pattern all over it. And the sound of driving over the expansion joints making that steady rapid \"clip clop clip clop clip clop\" rhythm, that in combination with the rickety hum of the four cylinder engines their old, ragged cars were equipped with, was soothing to those who were not driving to fall asleep by.\nA few hours before sunset, local thunderstorms began moving through. There was a really big storm the family drove right into, with lots of rain, hard winds and lightning, and some of the lightning striking pretty close.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=RsucJ5NA5m4 .\nNajja's truck didn't have windshield wipers, so everyone had to pull off onto the shoulder the highway in a spot near those knee high weeds and stop for a couple of hours until the storm passed.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiAdq26XOqU\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXG9Lws_-4\nBecause of the amount of time Annika's car was turned off waiting out the storm, the engine would have to warm up again before they could continue on their way. Ever since Annika owned her ragged, old, 1967 Moskvitch, the choke plate had been missing off of the carburetor. A small piece of cardboard was always kept in the glove compartment to use as a temporary choke. After the storm had left, Zhang had to raise the hood and take the top off the air filter housing, and hold that piece of cardboard over the throat of the carburetor while Annika idled the engine until it warmed up. ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=2_vd70JwbyE shows a rickety sounding 1968 Moskvich engine idling. Annika's car doesn't look as nice as the one in the video though.) Once the engine was able to run without the cardboard being held over the carburetor, Zhang put the air filter housing back together, closed the hood, got back into the car, put the piece of cardboard back into the glove compartment, and everyone continued on their way. \nShortly after nightfall, as Annika was driving, Zhang had gotten the radio in her old car to work. Sometimes the radio would play, and sometimes it would not. Annika's car, being older than both Zhang and Anika, had a radio from a different car that was one of those old push button kind. When Zhang tuned it onto a beautiful Angolan folk song\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=vS_SSXB5yks ,\nAnnika asked him to leave it tuned there, but reminded him not to turn the volume to high because Cheesah and Abina were asleep on the back seat.\n\"It's one of my favorite songs. Back in the homeland, we use to listen to it\", said Annika. \"But I know it can't be coming from Angola\".\n\"We're to far away to pick up a signal from Angola by now\", replied Zhang. \"Besides that, in Angola, there may not be anymore radio stations left. Those that are, would still conducting emergency broadcasting tonight\".\n\"Those who did not make it out of the country. I really feel for them\", Annika added.\nAs the song played, Zhang and Annika thought about how peaceful it was, the family riding through the warm night in those old vehicles of theirs with the windows down, averaging about 70 kph (45 mph) on that old, narrow, concrete highway that was still wet from freshly fallen rain along some stretches, as they saw the night sky occasionally being lit up by distant thunderstorms, with the car radio making a short crackle from the static of each distant lightning strike. Quite a contrast from what they knew had to be going on back in Angola. \nZhang and Annika heard Cheesah's voice from the back seat, so Zhang looked back to check on his younger brother when he said in his sleep, \"Mmph. Eu quero foda voce. Amo-te\".\nAnnika's sister, Abina, was awaken by what Cheesah had said and thought it was she, Cheesah was laying the love lines on, until she noticed he was still asleep. Zhang and Abina noticed Cheesah, was evidently having one of those sexy dreams. That was obvious by Cheesah's penis poking all the way out of his sheath, erect and occasionally bobbing upward then dropping back down again.\n\"Hey, Cheesah\", Zhang, almost laughing, called to his brother as Abina chuckled, \"In that dream of yours. Who you having sex with?\".\nCheesah responded, while still half asleep, with, \"Uhm...Sim...Hmmm\", then dozed back off to sleep to the song on the car radio and to the rhythm of the car traveling over the highway expansion joints.\n\"I thought the love he wanted to make, he wanted to make to ME\", Abina said with a smile, then observed as she giggled, \"Ooo! Cheesah piu-piu pequeno esta pulando novamente! (Ooo! Cheesah's little pee-pee is hopping up again!)\".\n\"I can well imagine Cheesah's dream. Must be a GOOD one\", Zhang laughed.\nAnnika turned the interior light on and took her eyes off the road only long enough to glance back at her young brother in law.\n\"Aww, let him sleep, Zhang\", Annika said with a chuckle. \"I know it must be a really sweet dream he's having\".\n\"I guess you're right\", Zhang agreed with his wife as they both smiled to each other. After all, no one was really concerned about Cheesah having a wet dream all over the back seat of Annika's car and on Abina. At age 13, Cheesah was a couple of years away from that yet.\n\"Mmm, your brother's sex scent. It is strong\", Annika said to Zhang as Cheesah's smegma had put an odor in the car, smelling like popcorn butter and epoxy.\n\"Cheesah's little xixi menino, among us four brothers. His scent has always been the strongest\", Zhang replied with a smile as he rolled the window on his side the rest of the way down.\n\"Moze, Jorad and I use to tease Cheesah about that. We had a nickname for him.\", Zhang told Annika.\n\"That is?\", Annika asked as she rolled her window down more.\nZhang whispered in Annika's ear, \"Cheesah esta besta de pipoca\", as Annika lit up with a smile.\n\"Aw, that's cute\", Annika said, then giggled. \"I bet he did not like it\".\n\"Oh, he would get mad at us for it\", Zhang replied.\n\"What did they call him?\", Abina asked her sister.\n\"I'll wait and tell you later. When we leave the car\", Annika answered Abina. \"So Cheesah don't wake up and hear it\".\n\"Good idea\", Zhang added.\nIn English, that nickname is, \"Cheesah this popcorn beast\"...or, \"Cheesah this beast of popcorn\" (genital smell of meerkats). \nZhang and Annika continued to watch the distant thunderstorms light up the night sky, with the radio picking up the lightning static, as they continued riding along that long stretch of old concrete highway. The other family member's vehicles were also holding up so far without any more mechanical problems. Then Zhang began to doze off to sleep, to a another Angolan folk song on the car radio.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=8orzq4lDTPo\nThe Mozambique radio station they were within signal range of seemed to have been playing a lot of Angolan songs that night. The old car being equipped with a column mounted gear shift and a front bench seat made it easy for Zhang to cuddle up beside Annika with no console or floor mounted lever in the way. As Zhang finally fell asleep and laid his head on Annika's side, Annika then put a paw around her husband and continued driving with the other paw on the steering wheel.\n\nThere was yet one more issue with the vehicles to take place before the road trip portion of the journey was to be completed.\nIt was still in the predawn hours, with about an hour's drive before they were to reach Port of Beira. Zhang had by then taken over driving so Annika could get some sleep. The next vehicle ahead of Annika's car was Najja's truck, which Bron was driving so Najja could get some sleep riding with Banga, Murura and Lacara.\nSuddenly, there was the loud noise of an unmuffled four cylinder engine from Moze and Liea's car, which was the lead car in the group. Najja's truck swerved to the right side of the highway (the oncoming lane in Mozambique), then Zhang saw a muffler tumbling down the highway, making a spread of sparks in the night each time it hit the pavement. Zhang was barely able to swerve to miss it with the car's tires squealing.\n\"What is it, Zhang?!\", Annika said as she was awakened.\n\"WHAT'S HAPPENING?!, Cheesah exclaimed as he awoke.\nAbina immediately looked out the back window as she awakened and saw the muffler get knocked into the weeds off of the bumper of Banga's car.\n\"DAD HIT SOMETHING!\" Abina exclaimed as Annika looked back to see what was happening.\n\"It's the muffler from Moze's car. His car just lost it's muffler.\", Zhang said as everyone could hear the loud engine noise emitting from Moze and Liea's Opal station wagon up ahead.\nWhen Yousaf and Nafula rode past in their Renault, the muffler had already come to rest in the weeds off of the highway.\nThe family pulled over and stopped long enough to see if everyone was OK, and swapped their experiences of the incident. Besides mentioning how fortunate it was no one got hurt, Moze bought up the point that it was good it wasn't another car that quit running...Especially that Banga's car has a vibrating wheel, and Yousaf's car has been running hot.\nBanga admitted he was about to fall asleep at the wheel, and it was striking the muffler with his car that got him wide awake.\nIn spite of how tired Banga was, he was going to continue to drive. But with some pleading from his offspring, Nafula, Abina, Annika and Najja, and from his wife Murura, as well as from Najja and Lacara who were riding with him, he decided to let Murua take over driving before continuing on their way.\nNeedless to say, for the rest of the way to Port of Beira, Moze and Liea's Opal wagon was the loudest car in the group, sounding off like and old World War I bi-wing airplane as it went down the road. \n\n\nChapter 11. Arrival into Port of Beira\n\nAfter days on the road, it was shortly after dawn when the Meerkat Families arrived to Port of Beira, Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 barely made it with it's sewing machine like sounding engine running hot, and it's radiator beginning to boil over. Moze and Liea's car came through town sounding off without a muffler, giving the locals an early wake up call that they didn't care for. And that vibration in the front wheel of Banga's Toyota wagon had by now became consistent and had gotten worse.\nWith the directions the meerkats had, they were able to find the Sea Port OK, as well as where they were to meet up with Yannas Fossa.\n\"Trenger du hjalp?\"(do you need help?), a small black bear asked as he approached the meerkats on the dock.\n\"Nos nao falamos sua lingua\" (we do not speak your language), Lacara replied.\n\"Jeg kan ikke forsta du\" (I can not understand you), said the bear.\n\"Nos falamos Portugues. And we speak English\", Bron, shrugging his shoulders, told the bear.\n\"Oh. I am Norwegian. But I can also speak English\", said the bear. \"I had asked if you needed assistance\".\n\"We sure do\", said Bron. \"We're suppose to meet Captain Yannas Fossa. He is at this sea port, we are told.\n\"Star of Antananarivo. Yannas Fossa\", the bear affirmed with a smile.\n\"I am Audin Bear\", the bear then introduced himself to the meerkats.\nAfter the meerkats introduced themselves to Audin Bear, Bron told him, \"I take it you know Captain Fossa\".\n\"EVERYONE knows him. He is quite a character, but you'll like him\", Audin told the meerkats.\n\"His freighter is moored not far from here\". Audin continued as he gave further directions where to find Yannas Fossa's freighter, the Star of Antananarivo.\n\"Well, I have to return to my ship\", Audin Bear told the meerkats as they thanked him for the information.\nOnce the meerkats further inquired around for Yannas Fossa, it was obvious that just about everyone knew him, as Audin Bear had told them. The meerkats could see that Captian Yannas Fossa had quite a reputation with shore workers and seafarers. It seemed that everyone they asked, including a mongoose shore worker they talked with for a while, told them, if you are on Yannas Fossa's bad side, he's your worst night mare. But if you are on his good side, he's your best friend, and will do just about anything for you.\nCheesah, forgetting the language difference, told the mongoose, in Portuguese, about how he will try to stay on Yannis's good side.\n\"I don't speak Portuguese\", The mongoose replied, recognizing what language it was.\n\"Oh, sorry. I sometimes forget\", said Cheesah. \"I think I'll try to stay on his good side\".\n\"That must be Yannas coming this way now\", Moze told the families, as he pointed out a fairly well built, male fossa who was approaching them.\n\"He's one of Yannis's crew\", the mongoose told them as he headed back to his work area.\nThe fossa overheard Moze Meerkat. \" I'm not Yannas. I'm Joel Fossa\", he said introducing himself. \"I'm first mate on Yannas Fossa's crew...And I take it you all are the refugees from Angola we are to take to India?\"\n\"Yes we are\", Bron answered. \"We also have others. By morning, they should be here\".\n\"Your captain. We heard a lot about him since we arrived here\", Annika added.\n\"He's a very likable Fossa\", Joel replied. \"Provided you're honest with him, and don't try to take advantage of him\".\nAs Joel Fossa took the meerkats to see Captain Yannas, the families told of their road trip and how their country of Angola had become politically unstable, and of the paramilitary invasion going on there.\n\"We've been hearing about that\", said Joel. \"I'm glad you were all able to get out when you did\".\n\"Believe me. You're not the only one who is glad of that\", replied Banga. \n\"Well, there it is\", said Joel. \"Star of Antananarivo. That's our vessel.\"\nThere, was moored an old freighter, that looked like it had seen some years and a lot of sea voyages. But it appeared to be well kept up. It had a good coat of paint of black, white and red hull with white upper structure, and was in fairly immaculate condition for and aged old sea going vessel. It was one of the old kind still left in service that hauled large machinery and other cargo in wooden crates down in it's hull...unlike the kind that are built now days to carry everything in modern cargo containers.\nJoel pointed out the Indian flag on the freighter's stern. \"She use to be registered in Madagascar. Hence why she's named after Madagascar's capitol city.\" said Joel. \"Two years ago, the ship's corporate owners had our ship operate out of India, and registered it as an Indian Vessel.\"\n\"Why would they do that?\", Cheesah asked out of a thirteen year old's curiosity.\n\"Corporate?...Who can figure them?\", Joel replied. \"We had an all fossa crew until then. The best crew this ship's ever had. Captain Yannas and his family, and I, took up residence in India to keep our jobs aboard the Star of Antananarivo\".\n\"I take it your old crew did not\", said Moze.\n\"They chose to stay in Madagascar and look for different jobs\", Joel answered. \"The rest of our crew we now have are native resident of India who hired on after the registration change. At times, Yannas and I have to get after some of them for one thing or another\".\nAs everyone climbed up the gangway to the deck of the freighter, a feeling of excitement mounted. Although the meerkats have been in small river vessels before back in Angola, this was their first time aboard a large, sea going vessel.\n\"You must be the refugees\", a large, burly built, male fossa called out as he greeted the meerkats out on the deck. \"I'm Yannas Fossa\".\nThen the meerkats introduced themselves, and Yannas and Joel introduced the meerkats to the rest of the crew.\n\"THERE is a crew member for you. You can be friends with him on the way over\", Lacara said to Cheesah as she pointed out a young fossa about Cheesah's age, and as some of the crew chuckled.\n\"Oh, he's not a crew member\", Yannas said to Lacara. \"He's one of my sons, Habbar. He wanted to come along with me on a voyage\".\nThen Yannas invited everyone to the ship's galley where everyone got better acquainted. Yannas had some food ordered up, and got out couple of cases of beer for who ever wanted some.\n\"We enjoy a drink now and then while at port\", said Yannas Fossa. \"But when we're out at sea, this stuff stays locked up\".\nThe meerkats had stories to tell of their road trip, Angola's national troubles, and of the war with the northern provinces ten years earlier. Yannas and Joel had stories to tell of their experiences out at sea, and ports they've been to around the world. Yannas Fossa had some to say about how the corporate owners of the ship never been aboard a sea going vessel in their lives, and how they know nothing about navigating one.\n\"Those corporate know-it-alls would get lost on a pond in a row boat\", said Yannas.\nMoze, Zhang and Yannas had a lot in common, being the tough types. And Yannas, like Bron's sons and family, also came from a dirt poor family where he had a hard life growing up near Toamasina, in Madagascar. Zhang, Moze and Yannas had lots to talk about. They were about like drinking buddies from the get go. However, it didn't take much beer to get Yannas and his crew, or the meerkats in a festive mood. It was seldom any of them drank alchol beverages. That was because the captain and crew of the Star of Antananarivo never had alchol while out at sea...a rule Captain Yannas Fossa strictly enforced. And because the meerkats had always been so poor, back in Angola they seldom had enough money to spare for things like alchol beverages.\nAfter they had a couple of drinks, Yannas would occasionally say something in Malagasy or French, and a merkats would remind him, \"We don't speak French\", or just simply say, \"Nao compreendo\". And a meerkat would occasionally tell Yannis something in Portuguese, and Yannas would reply, \"I don't speak Portuguese\" or \"Tsy azoko\". But they all did speak English.\nIt was a festive atmosphere as they were playing some Malagasy folklore music from some CDs that Yannis Fossa had aboard the ship.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=7rVLPBqCH3w -\n http://youtube.com/watch?v=6L7u3pvqXaE to mention just a couple.\nSome of the tables and chairs were moved aside to make an improvised dance floor, and everyone had a good time. Zhang and Annika danced to some slower songs Yannas had chose for them, out of concern for the unborn cub Annika was pregnant with. \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ajlVbrqjbx8 -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ejQik8Uer3U -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=mlG87ZE06BU -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=AIhNGxODaTA .\nHabbar Fossa, Yannas' son, got out a checker board, and he and Cheesah enjoyed several games of checkers.\nA few photos were taken of the occasion such as of Zhang, Moze and Yannas. And of Cheesah and Habbar standing side by side with paws around each others shoulders, and various candid shots of the others...with Yannas Fossa's camera. The meerkats never owned a camera, so Yannas did promise to later send the meerkats some prints.\nIt was getting late in the day, so the rest of the day was spent with Yannas Fossa giving the meerkats a tour of the ship.\nLate in the evening, it came time to discuss business. Captain Yannas Fossa informed everyone that the Star of Antananarivo was to set out to sea for India the morning after tomorrow. That would allow plenty of time to get the meerkat's vehicles loaded aboard the following day, and for the rest of the relatives to arrive in a few hours. Yannas also mentioned, that in the morning, he'll assign jobs that the able bodied males will have while on the way to India, and on the way there, there will be a stop in Madagascar. Then the meerkats were shown their sleeping quarters, and a place to bath. It had been the first time they've had a bath and slept in a decent bed since they've left Angola. They've been sleeping in their cars while others took turns driving on the way over.\nAt about 5:30 in the morning, other vehicles were arriving. It was the rest of the family members. Those were the siblings and surviving parents of Banga, Murua, Bron and Lacara, as well as Yousaf and Leia's relatives. The rest of the family got out of bed and went out to greet them, and the arriving family members were introduced to Yannas Fossa and crew.\n\"That's what I call a big crew\", First mate Joel Fossa said as he noticed how many meerkat family members had just arrived.\n\"Well. We have a full house sailing with us now\", Captain Yannas Fossa laughed.\nLacara's mom, Mylah, told her son-in-law, Bron, how worried everyone was when they saw Bron's abandoned station wagon on the roadside in Zambia, until they got out and read the note on the car explaining everything. Mylah added that she was so happy that everyone was OK.\n\"That old, one ton truck of yours. I thought you were going to drive it here\", Bron told his brother-in-law, Amos.\n\"I started the trip with it\", said Amos. \"We lost it on the way. About 300 kilometers before we saw your car. One of the axle shafts came out of the rear end. It's sitting on three wheels as we speak. On the side of the road, back there in Zambia\".\n\"We thought a tire would go flat on us\", Yousaf's mom, Zoe, mentioned as Yousaf's dad, Oswald, pointed to the right front tire on their Opal Kapitan, which had a strip of rubber hanging from it.\n\"Just as we got into town, it started slapping the road, Oswald said.\n\"We should be thankful though. These old vehicles we still have. They did make it here.\", said Banga.\n\"That reminds me,\" Yousaf added. \"About one of the tie rod ends on my car. It needs to be rewired back together. But for now, I have to get this running hot problem fixed\".\n\"A wired tie rod end. You car too?\", Zhang replied to Yousaf.\n\"I have one like it on MY car. It's the same way\", Annika added as Zhang and Yousaf chuckled.\n\"Stay on top of that you should. Never let a tie rod fall apart on you\", Oswald reminded them.\n\"Yannas\", Joel called to him.\n\"What is it?\", Yannas asked.\n\"I hope those meerkats find a better way of life in India than they had in Angola\", said Joel.\n\"I hope so too, Joel\", replied Yannas. \"I hope so\".\n\nChapter 12 The Voyage\n\nAt dawn, everyone had a good breakfast, then Yannas Fossa assigned the males their work assignments for the duration of the trip. Part of Cheesah's area of responsibility was cleaning the restrooms. He didn't like it, but someone has to do it. Some of the females shared in kitchen work and other domestic type work. And Yannas reminded his son, Habbar, to get some of his school work done that day. Being that Yannis's sons like to come along aboard the ship at times, Yannis's cubs are home schooled. \nAt about noon, Yannas Fossa set some time aside to get the Meerkat's vehicles loaded into the deck of the freighter. A car was driven into a cage like structure, then lifted onto the ship with one of it's cranes. The car was then driven onto the deck. Then the same was done for the next vehicle. When Banga began to drive his vehicle over to the ship, the car lost one of it's front wheels. Banga's car slid to a stop on it's three remaining wheels, and dragging on a front spindle and control arm where the wheel came off. As Banga was sitting in the driver's seat, saying, \"Perdeu uma roda! Uma porcaria! (Lost a wheel! Crap!)\", the wheel rolled off the edge of the dock and, \"SPLASH\", in into the water.\n\"That's another vehicle on three wheels\", said Amos Meerkat.\n\"The vibration in the wheel on the way here. I think that's what it was all about\", Bron said to Banga.\n\"Blown wheel bearings\", said Banga. \"I'm irritated over it. But at least the car got us here\".\n\"I just thank God it fell off HERE. And not while we were coming down the road\", Murua added.\nIt was decided that Banga Meerkat's car, being that it also had a slipping transmission, wasn't worth taking along. So it was left for Port Authority to dispose of it how they saw fit. Yannas Fossa arranged for a wood shipping crate for the contents from Banga's car. It was like pulling whales teeth to get one, but Yannas did manage to get one.\nOn the following morning, the Star of Antananarivo was pulling out of port.\n\"For an old ship, it sure runs quiet\", said Cheesah.\n\"We're being pulled out by tug boats right now\", replied Cheesah's new found friend, Habbar Fossa. \"Our ship isn't running yet. When we get away from everything, then the ship will run on it's own.\"\nOnce out in the open water they were on their way. A few of the meerkats, at the ship's stern, looked back to watch the African Continent slip out of sight. Bron came to the stern of the ship and reminded those looking back of the Biblical principal of looking ahead while at the plow.\n\"We should look ahead, not back\", Bron said. \"There's a better way of life where we are going\".\nThe Star of Antananarivo made it's stop in Madagascar to deliver infrastructure supplies. The voyage was certainly an experience for the meerkats, and it was the first time they've ever seen Madagascar, although they were not allowed to leave the ship, as their travel arrangements didn't include setting foot in that country. But they did enjoy seeing the country's beauty that could be seen from the deck of the ship.\nThat evening, while still at port in Madagascar, there were a few times that Cheesah's parents, Bron and Lacara, had to get on to Cheesah for blinking lights on and off aboard the ship. Yannas Fossa, would get after him for it too. But they didn't go hard on him for it. They realized how fascinated Cheesah was with flipping a switch on a wall, and a room would light up, then get dark again.\nDuring the time Cheesah was still blinking lights aboard the Star of Antananarivo, two shore workers, a Malagasy civet and a ring tailed mongoose, would stand on the dock and occasionally notice one of the ship's portholes (a ship's window) lighting up and blinking.\n\"Someone on that ship keeps blinking lights\", the Malagasy civet said to the ring tailed mongoose. \"Ever wonder what that's about?\"\n\"I don't know\", the mongoose replied to the civet. \"I wouldn't think old Captain Yannas Fossa would have hired a crazy on his crew\".\n\"Yea, I wouldn't think so either...THERE IT GOES AGAIN!\", said the civet about the time Cheesah blinked another light. \nAt dawn the following morning, The Star of Antananarivo pulled out of port in Madagascar and continued on it's way to India.\nSince the voyage began, the meerkats always noticed a shoulder held missile launcher hanging on a wall in the galley. The meerkats knew what it was because they've seen war in their former homeland of Angola.\nOne evening, when everyone was sitting down to dinner, Moze Meerkat asked Yannas,\"What's the missile launcher for?\"\n\"I'm surprised you knew what it was\", Yannas replied.\n\"We've seen our country war torn before\", said Moze. \"That's not the first one of those I've seen\".\n\"It's to deal with pirates...\", Yannas Fossa answered.\n\"Ocean robbers?!\", Nafula gasped.\n\"If you prefer to call them that\", said Yannas. \"Joel and I, and two of my other crew members know how to use it. If we're attacked by pirates, that's what's waiting for them\".\n\"Along with the rest of our arsenal as well\", Joel Fossa added.\n\"We have several assault rifles\", said Yannas. \"One AA-52, four AK-74s, two Daewoo K-2s, and one Uzi. We also have two sniper rifles, a Serbian made M-92 and a Turkish AMR. The sniper rifles and the missile launcher would be used against their mother ship if we're attacked\".\n\"I just hope we don't run into any ocean robbers...or uh, pirates\", said Annika. \"After we left Angola, we had our share of adventure\".\n\"And at times, MORE than our share. And while we were still living there too\", Zhang added.\n\"Do you think we'll see any!?\" Cheesah asked.\n\"I've never seen pirates in these waters\", Yannas answered. \"But if you ever get up around off the coast of Somalia, those waters are infested with Somali pirates. And it seems like the baboon and jackal pirates are the worst out of all of them\".\n\"Somalia is in REAL rough shape. One of the poorest countries in the world. A collapsed banking system. Hardly a central government\", said Mose.\n\"It's sad too\", said Bron. \"To live that kind of a life of desperation. And we would think WE had it bad\".\n\"The trawlers from rich countries. They have robbed their fishing from them too\", Lacara noted.\n\"We ourselves are no strangers to living in a poor country... And being taken advantage of\", said Annika.\n\"No offense intended, Captain Yannas. And I don't like saying this\", Liea added as she felt a bit uneasy about making the comment in the presents of a ship's captain. \"But the Somalis seem to be victims their selves. Just like the ships they raid\".\nYannas Fossa paused for a moment, then explained, \"I myself grew up in hard poverty in rural Madagascar. And like Angola and Somalia, Madagascar isn't exactly a 1st world country either\".\nThen Yannas continued, \"Before I was born, my dad use to pull tourists around in a rickshaw in our nearby town of Toamasina for a living. One day, a drunk tourist wolverine hit my dad with a car, then drove away. My dad's legs were messed up and he was disabled walking with a cane for the rest of his life. I've known what it was as a cub to go hungry, and to be driven by desperation. I've seen the time my dad was caught stealing off of a market vender's table in Toamasina so the family could eat. The vender was an old ring tail mongoose who knew our family. He felt enough compassion for us to give us some food to take home, and didn't have my dad arrested, which was very kind of him. I've known well what hard times were\".\nThen Yannas motioned his paw toward the missile launcher hanging on the galley wall and continued, \"But if we're ever attacked by pirates, my first concern is for the safety of my crew and the safety of any passengers I have aboard this vessel\". \nAs everyone finished eating, they still enjoyed good fellowship and conversation, but it was agreed that the subject about 'those living in 3rd world countries becoming sea pirates out of desperation' was to further be avoided.\nAlthough Yannas Fossa did not share the same pity that the Meerkats had for those anthro-animals who turn rouge out of desperate circumstances, he did consider that life experiences for the Meerkats may have differed some from what he himself had known. Yannas realized a hard way of life can shape how someone feels about situations differently than if they had grown up wealthy. That may have been why Yannas did not come down hard on Liea Meerkat for referring to Somali pirates as 'victims', in spite of the fact that sea pirates are a captain's worse night mare. \n \nLater during the voyage, the half grown cubs, Cheesah Meerkat and Habbar Fossa, experianced a bit of anatomical curiosity about each other, being of different species and design. It was when Cheesah was cleaning the restroom, and Habbar came in to pee. Cheesah noticed Habbar completely unsheath himself back to the base to pee.\n\"O QUE ACONTECEU, HABBAR!\" Cheesah let out, \"Your poor little dickie. What happened to it?\"\n\"What are you talking about?\" Habbar asked as he continued peeing.\n\"Eh estranho...uhh...strange looking. Looks like behind the head was wrung...And like it's face pushed flat\", Cheesah answered.\nHabbar laughed then said to Cheesah, \"All us male fossas are built by nature this way\".\nCheesah noticed how Habbar's penis, starting from the base, had a long smooth lining, then a divided cluster of barbs, then a short smooth area, then a bulged place behind the head with more barbs, then the diameter going down small at the neck, then the back of the head flairing out like the shape of the end of a trumpet or like a bell, and the front of the head being nearly flat, with the pee opening protruding a little below center.\n\"Sure looks strange\", said Cheesah.\n\"Not if you're a fossa\", replied Habbar as he finished peeing and shook it, with the flair shaped head flopping up and down like a ringing bell. \"Other species say we're blessed to have a pee-wee like this\", Habbar continued. \"When I have time alone, having a pee-wee like this is sure fun to play with\".\nTrying to find the right words, Cheesah began, \"So...the captain...uhh...\"\n\"Captian Yannas Fossa. My dad. He has a pee-wee just like mine, but bigger\", said Habbar. \"My two brothers, my uncles, my male cousins. All us male fossas are made that way\".\n\"I'll sure say this. Yours is the first fossa dickie I've ever seen out of it's sheath\", said Cheesah. \"Espantoso\".\n\"Eshun-toozoo?...or what ever you said\", Habbar replied.\n\"Oh. Amazing\", said Cheesah, \"It's amazing. I've never seen a dickie like it\".\n\"I've never seen one poking out on a meerkat\", said Habbar.\n\"I'll let you see mine. If you want to\", Cheesah offered.\n\"I am curious\", said Habbar.\nCheesah placed his paws to each side of his sheath, and with the thumbs and index digits, pressed his sheath back, revealing the full length of his penis, having a moderatly long sulcus, and a head formed into a point with a graceful sweep to it, and with the point extending out past the pee opening, looking like a little pointy nose on it.\n\nShow You Mine if You Show Me Yours [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+2\n\n\"Oh, I've seen one like that before\", said Habbar. \"A mongoose friend of mine has a pee-wee that looks a lot like yours...except I recall his pee-wee having a more chubby looking head than yours has\".\n\"Well, MINE is not that chubby\", Cheesah replied. \"There's some mongooses I know. Two of them do have dickies with chubby heads. One other mongoose I know, his dickie has a long narrow head like mine\".\n\"So like with us fossas then\", Habbar replied. \"On my dad's pee-wee, where the pee hole is, the point extends out further than mine does and curves down some. And my older brother Haja has a pee-wee with a puffed face and has a big point where it's pee hole is\".\nCheesah then volunteered the info, \"My brother Zhang's dickie has a head like mine. And the dickie my oldest brother Moze has, actually looks up at the same time it points ahead when it gets hard\".\n\"Look up and point ahead?\", Habbar chuckled.\nCheesah explained to Habbar how the head on Moze' penis deflects upward when it gets hard, then added, \"And my deceased brother, his dickie had a big plumpie head\".\n\"The sqeezy head kind\", Habbar giggled.\n\"I did squeeze it once when I was a small cub\", Cheesah volunteered as he and Habbar laughed.\n\"I bet your brother was starttled\", said Habbar.\n\"Took him by surprize anyway...He did jump.\", Cheesah replied as he and Habbar again laughed..\nHabbar mentioned to Cheesah, \"For some reason, until now, I've always thought what a pee-wee looked like on you meerkats was completely different from the pee-wee's I've always seen on mongooses\".\n\"I don't see why. Mongooses and us are related species...Herpestidaes, my dad told me\", said Cheesah.\n\"I guess that explains why it looks a lot alike on your kind and on mongooses\", said Habbar. \"It is a cute design. But do all you male meerkats pee-wees give off such a strong scent? I can really smell it since you poked your pee-wee out to show it to me...It's like popcorn\".\n\"Not all of us. You might say my little dickie is extra blessed. In the...uh...scent department. When he pokes out, he really knows how to make his presents known\", Cheesah replied as he and Habbar chuckled.\n\"One of THOSE kind of pee-wees\", Habbar continued chuckling. \"A stinky dinky\".\n\"When I was younger, my brothers use to tease me about it. They would call me the popcorn beast\", Cheesah told Habbar as they both laughed.\nAbout that time, Yannas Fossa came in to use the restroom.\n\"Ce qui se passe en enfer ici!? (What in Hell is going on here!?)\" Yannas asked with overtones of concern, so startled he spoke his inquiry in French, as he saw his son and Cheesah looking at each other with their penises still extended out.\nThe first thought that ran through Yannas Fossa's mind was, \"Don't tell me I've taken a meerkat cub aboard who is turning my son gay\".\nHabbar quickly explained to his dad what they were doing.\nThen Cheesah told Yannis, clearly and slowly, \"Eu-sou-eh-teh-raw-sehk-soo-ahl\".\n\"I don't understand it if it's in Portuguese\", Yannis reminded Cheesah.\n\"I'm heterosexual\", Cheesah told Yannis, then he verified what Habbar had explained.\nYannas thought it over a few seconds then said, \"Hmph...Cub curiosity...Well, that's far enough. You two don't need to get carried away with it. Draw those things back into their sheaths before they start getting hard\".\nAs Yannas unsheathed himself to pee, Habbar and Cheesah glanced over, then Habbar wispered in Cheesah's ear, \"I told you my dad has one like mine but bigger\". Then the two cubs chuckled.\n\"OK, Habbar. That will do\", Yannas said as he glanced over at the two cubs, while he was still peeing.\nAfter Yannas finish peeing, and shook it, with it's flair shaped head flopping up and down as would a ringing bell, Cheeash thought to himself, \"A bigger bell head, looking like it's going, ding-a-linga ding-a-linga ding-a-linga...I guess if dickies could get dizzy, a fossa's dickie definitely would be, the way that head shakes around\".\nYannas sent Habbar back up to the bridge house so Joel, who was at the helm, can continue teaching him about nautical navigation. And reminded Cheesah that he still had the passage ways to sweep after he got the restroom clean.\nYannis then turned toward Cheesah, him knowing what meerkat sex scent smells like, and said, \"Oh, and Cheesah. I'm not saying this to embarrass you...but uh...well...you should wash that little thing of yours more often...WITH the sheath pulled back out of the way. You got this whole restroom smelling like popcorn\".\n\"Yes sir, Captain\", Cheesah replied with a smile.\n\"Ha ha. Cub curiosity\", Yannas laughed as he left the restroom. \"I guess we all had our turn at it while growing up\".\n\nChapter 13. Life in a New Homeland\n\nAfter days out on the Indian Ocean, The Star of Antananarivo arrived to it's destination, the port city of Karaikal, in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu. And it was a good thing the Meerkat Family had a fluent knowledge of the English language. Because the first thing asked by the immigration official, who was a bear of small build and humble demeanor, was, \"Fala Ingles?\", him knowing they were Angolan.\n\"We do speak English. Yes.\", Lacara answered. And her answer was also affirmed by the other family members.\nThe immigration process was then continued, and in a short while, completed, then the meerkats were sworn in as citizens of India.\nAs for those old vehicles the meerkats brought over from Angola with them, there wasn't hardly any import duty charged on them. Customs took one look at how old those vehicles were, and at the condition they were in, and declared their values as being next to worthless. However, the meerkats were advised to have some repairs made to the vehicles, such as Najja's truck not having windshield wipers, Moze's Opal wagon having bad brakes and now missing it's muffler, and a fair size list of various other safety issues needing to be fixed on the vehicles.\nThere were more safety issues with the first group of the family's vehicles that left Angola. Out of the four vehicles that made it to India, none of them had signal lights that worked...except for Yousaf and Nafula's Renault. The left signal did work, but the right signal did not. And there was the horn in Najja's truck that didn't work, and no brake light.\nAlmost half the tires among all the vehicles were bald, and some had inner plies showing through. And that bad front tire on Oswald and Zoe's Opal Kapitan had already gone flat during the voyage aboard the ship.\nAnd the mink, who's job it was to catch discrepancies on imported motor vehicles, REALLY took issue when he looked under Annika's Moskvitch and noticed the left tie rod end being held together with bailing wire. \n\"Who owns this car?\", the mink called out.\n\"It's mine\", Annika said as she approached him.\n\"This excuse for a tie rod end\", the mink admonished Annika. \"You can call a tow truck and have it towed to a garage to get it fixed, and fixed right. But you're not DRIVING it there like THAT\".\nZhang and Annika argued the issue of needing the car towed until the mink finally told them, \"Hey look. I can reject this car from even being here in India if I want to. It's getting TOWED to a garage, NOT driven there\".\nThen the mink saw the wired tie rod end on Yousaf and Nafulas's Renault and told them, \"ANOTHER ONE?! No way. You're not Driving this car to a garage either, Get it towed there\".\nAnother customs agent, a mongoose, told Zhang, Annika, Yousaf and Nafula about a reputable automotive shop that was nearby so the cars would not have to be towed so far. So that's where the cars were towed to have their tie rod ends replaced, among a few other repairs that should have been done years ago.\nThen there was the second group of the family's vehicles, that made the road trip across Africa a day behind. Those vehicles had also been unloaded from the Star of Antananarivo, and just as many problems were found with those vehicles as well.\nThe mink who inspected the Meerkat Family's cars said to Captain Yannas Fossa, \"Yannas, I can't believe you actually transported those death trap cars into this country\".\n\"Well, Navin, so I did\", Yannas Fossa proudly replied.\n\"Damn anyway, Yannas!\", Navin Mink retorted then walked away.\nThe repair shop that Annika's car, and her sister and brother-in-law's car, were towed to was run by two otter brothers Havish and Sayed. And they were surprised to see the old Russian made car coming into their shop.\n\"A Moskvitch. You don't see those every day\", said the younger brother Sayed.\nThen the Otter Brothers were even more surprised when the other vehicles came in for repairs, such as Najja's old truck, the Renault 4 and the old Opal. The vehicles from Yousaf and Leia's families also came into the Otter Brother's shop, such as a Wartburg wagon that idled and popped like a dirt bike, an Opal Kapitan with layers of cardboard and a few old pillows on the back seat to cover the seat springs that were showing through the upholstery, and a Morris Minor with a half rotted piece of plywood sealed with tar to replace a broken rear side window, to name a few.\nSome of the cars were still packed full of belongings that were not yet put in storage.\n\"Sayed noticed a few cans of 30-W, non-detergent, motor oil behind the front seat of the Wartburg wagon.\n\"I'm just curious\", said Sayed, \"I know this car has a two stroke motor. Why the motor oil?\".\nSayed's older brother laughed, then told him, \"You can use that for two stroke oil. I used it in a moped a lot when you were still a cub\".\nLeia's dad, Sieheib, who owned the Wartburg, then said to Sayed, \"Where we are from, two stroke oil is hard to find. But like your brother says, the thirty weight oil works\".\n\"Three cylinders and only seven moving parts\", Havish added.\n\"That it is\", Sieheib confirmed.\nSieheib then noticed the Otter Brothers gazing at a big sheet of rusty metal, with tar around it, over the rear of the roof of his car.\n\"I see you wonder why the patch is there\", Sieheib told the otters.\n\"It has crossed my mind a time or two\", Havish replied.\n\"If you like, I can tell you\", Sieheib offered.\n\"Sure\", Havish said.\nSieheib explained how his Wartburg use to be a camper special, station wagon with the retractable canvas rear roof section when it was a new car many years ago. By the time any of the meerkats ever owned it, that canvas roof section had been long rotted out. Sieheib continued how what replaced the canvas for years is that large piece of rusty sheet metal. He explained how the metal patch had been hacked out of the side of an old wrecked panel van, by pounding a hatchet through it with a mallet. Then the metal had been beat out flat, then installed on the Wartburg with screws and wire, then sealed with tar.\n\"It always had leaked a little in a hard rain, but not too bad\" ,Sieheib mentioned like a small roof leak was no big deal.\n\"Well. As long as it works, I guess\", said Sayed.\nThe brakes on the Morris Minor was a scarey story. Years ago, rain water had gotten into the brake fluid reservoir and rusted the master cylinder and brake lines, and there was no money or means to get parts. That dilemma had been easily remedied by rigging the parking brake lever so it would not remain up when it was released. If you wanted to stop the car, you simply pulled up on the parking brake lever as you pressed the clutch petal, and that gave you rear cable operated brakes with no front brakes...That was the brakes. To release the brakes, simply let go of the lever. Needless to say, Havish and Sayed Otter saw it necessary to completely rebuild the entire brake system on that old Morris.\n\"Incredible...Simply incredible\", Sayed Otter had to say about how the brakes were on the Morris.\nAt least this was a time when the meerkats did have enough money to afford the proper repairs so badly needed on their cars. \nThe older brother Havish exclaimed to the meerkats, \"My goodness! These old cars. They're worth a lot to any collector, you know\". \nBeing from their old homeland, the meerkats had no understanding of what Havish Otter was talking about. They've never heard of anyone collecting old cars back in Angola. Some of those old cars were passed down from generation to generation, and to them, an old car was just another old car.\n\"We don't wish to sell them\", Lacara said to Havish. \"We need them to get around in\".\nUpon hearing Lacara's reply, the Otter Brothers just simply looked at each other with bewildered expressions.\nHavish and Sayed, had never expeirenced what it was to be so poverty stricken, that all you have for a car is a makeshift masterpiece your grandparents once drove, and to be thankful to have it. The Otter Brothers also had no understanding how someone can have a fifty year old car and not realize it's value.\nWhen Sayed was about to repair the brakes on Moze and Leia's car, he noticed the two old bullet holes in the left door and fender.\n\"Did someone own this car who had a drug deal go bad?\", Sayed halfway joked.\nUpon hearing Sayed's question, the family suddenly got quiet as a somber feeling seemed to set in.\nMoze then asked Sayed to step aside, and that he wanted to talk with him.\n\"Those bullet holes, they are from a civil war our old homeland had. That was about ten years ago\", Moze began as he explained to Sayed about the war, then continued about how because their old homeland province wasn't very populated, everyone including cubs, the elderly and females had to help fight.\n\"In that war, we lost a twelve year old brother when I was only nine. I was with him when he died. A grand dad and two cousins, we also lost\", Zhang added as Moze nodded in agreement.\n\"My son, Jorad, he would be twenty two right now\", Lacara mentioned.\n\"Oh, I didn't know. I had no idea. I'm really sorry\", Sayed Otter said as the family accepted his apology.\nSayed's older brother, Havish, also gave his condolences for the family as well.\nHavish and Sayed have heard about countries before where cubs have been on the battlefield. But hearing about it was nothing like personally meeting those animals who actually have testimony of being there as cubs. \nLater, when Sayed Otter was replacing the left tie rod end on Annika's car, he asked, \"I hear you all came from Angola?\".\n\"We did. Yes\", Bron affirmed.\nThen Sayed asked Annika, \"And you drove this car with that tie rod end across Africa?\".\n\"Well, yes. It's been that way for a couple of years\", Annika affirmed.\nSayed then mentioned to Annika, \"Ma'am, it's a wonder you didn't have it come apart on you on the way over. It could have gotten you or someone else killed\".\nHavish, who was changing out the tie rod end on Yousaf and Nafula's car, commented to the meerkats, \"You all must be mighty brave, or dare devils, to be driving these cars the way they are\".\nHavish and Sayed could hardly believe that the other vehicles were also driven across the African continent in the condition they were in. \nThis was a different way of life for the meerkats, as well as other things that would take some getting use to, including the culture, the music and the seasons being opposite to the months in the Northern Hemisphere, although both Southern India and their old homeland of Angola are pretty much in warm year round climates.\n However, they didn't have to get use to driving on the left side of the road by now, as they do in India. They experienced a lot of left lane driving coming through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, on their way from Angola to Port of Beria. But the driver's side being on the left of their vehicles did present some inconvenience driving around India's wild traffic. Najja's truck was the exception. Being a truck meant for use in Kenya, it is a right paw drive vehicle. And in addition to inconvenience, under India's motor vehicle laws, the Meerkat Families cars had to have a small sign displayed, or letters painted, on the rear to warn other drivers, which read, 'left paw drive vehicle'. There was also some concern as to how long the meerkats would be allowed to continue driving their left paw drive cars on India's roads. They were told that it would not become an issue before the Angolan tags on their cars were to expire. Then other animals told the meerkats that because their cars are so old, they would be exempt from any regulations against driving a left paw drive vehicle on Indian roads. However, Yannas Fossa promised the meerkats that he would speak about the matter to an attorney friend of his, Attorney Ebeneezer Weasel.\nYannas assured them, \"If they try to stop you from using your cars when your Angolan tags expire, Ebeneezer should be able to find what exceptions your cars would fall under\".\n\"Son, the tag on your car. It will expire in two months? Will it not?\" , Bron asked his oldest son, Moze.\n\"The end of November, it will be expired. Yes\", Moze replied.\nYannis then told Bron and Moze, \"I see other left paw drive vehicles around here occasionally. I notice they are always old vehicles. I'll get with Ebeneezer and have him see what he can do for you\".\nWith that the meerkats thanked Yannas for offering the help.\nThe Star of Antananarivo was scheduled for extensive maintenance work, so Yannas Fossa would have two months off with leave pay while the vessel was in down time. Yannis offered to help the meerkats get settled in during his two months off.\nWith the meerkat's vehicles unloaded from the ship, immigration procedures completed, and their Zambian currency exchanged for India currency, most of the relatives were able to find work. Although the jobs some of them found were not very good jobs, and didn't pay well, they did have an income. A few of the family members got better jobs, getting hired on working at the sea port. As for Moze, he got a job with a construction contractor. Najja put his beat up old truck to work, being in business for himself as a local hauler. Whether a family member found a good job, or a not so good job, or not yet found a job, they were grateful the country they now live in wasn't on the verge of exploding into instability and collapse like the country they just left.\nChessah wanted to get hired on with Yannas Fassa's crew aboard the Star of Antananarivo, but at age 13, he was considered too young. And there was also the matter of Bron and Lacara wanting to get Cheesah enrolled in school. With Angola in collapse, it was unlikely Cheesah's parents could get a transcript sent from the school there. However, the school administrator they went to see was able to administer an aptitude test to determine what grade they could place Cheesah in. Once Cheesah resumed his schooling, and his niece, Dora, began attending school, Cheesah was amazed with how different the school building in the City of Karaikal was from his old school back in Angola. It's a nice building with air conditioning, electric lights, running water, tiled floors, restrooms with toilets and sinks. and even a cafeteria. And there were actually buses to take students to and from school.\nCheesah remembers the times, where they lived in Angola, there were no such thing as school buses. Before his parents had a car, he had to get out of bed and begin walking to school at 5:00 o'clock in the predawn hours, then arriving home at 6:00 o'clock in the evening. It was 16 kilometers each way, and over one mountain ridge. Even though his parent's old Rekord wagon was next to being a piece of junk on four wheels, the car had really been considered a blessing to have, up to the time the engine blew a connecting rod on that trip leaving Angola. Even so, the family was still grateful they had that car for the years they've owned it. \nAnd the school in Karakal had something Cheesah and the rest of the family had never seen before...lap-top and desk top computers. Cheesah didn't even know what they were at first.\nAt one point, Cheesah asked, \"We get to watch tape in this school?\" ('Tape' being an Angolan word for TV) when he thought the lap-tops were television sets.\nThe rest of the students wondered what Cheesah was even talking about.\nBut in the months to follow, Cheesah was well on his way to being computer savvy.\nThe school Cheesah use to attend back in Angola had walls constructed of stacked rock with clay for mortar, and a leaky corrugated tin roof supported by rough timber rafters that were not even milled into lumber, and it had no glass in the windows...only curtains that would wave as the wind blew through. It had no electricity, drinking water was drawn from a nearby creek, there was a designated tree away from the building for the \"potty\" area, and some classes were held outside (weather permitting).\nAnd Annika's dad, Banga, told of what little education he had, back in the days when Angola was known as Portuguese West Africa. The school building was a large, makeshift tent supported from trees in a meadow near the edge of the jungle. For school desks, you picked a place to sit on the ground. And the chalk board was a spread of sand, on the ground, inside the tent, the teacher would write in with a stick as the students gathered around to learn. Banga's school allumni still remember that sand spread as \"O kota placa de areia\" (The old sandboard).\nAnd cellular phones were a story in itself. The meerkats have never seen those before either, and never even had land line phones where they were from. And once they understood what cellular phones were, those meerkats who could afford a cellular phone, got one. The method of carrying them ranged from a clip on the back of the phone attached to fur hairs, to a pouch and belt worn around the waist, to a flip phone closed down on a necklace. Annika's brother, Najja, being self employed, saw the benefit of having one as a business phone. To some, these new phones were also somewhat of a novel toy. \nAs for housing, a lot of the families started out sharing apartments or renting shanty houses, and later, getting to a point where they could do better. Being that Annika was pregnant, Yannas Fossa offered to put her and Zhang up at his house to live with his family, which is a good drive inland from Karaikal, and out into rural country, in the mountains near Yercaud. Zhang and Annika have never been in that nice of a house before, and never even seen such a house back in their old homeland, much less been invited to live in such a place. Yannas introduced them to his wife, Sthella, his 1st and 3rd sons, Haja, age 16 and Mario, age 8, and the youngest member, daughter Malala, age 6. They already knew 2nd son Habbar, age 14. Arrangements were made for Cheesah so he can stay over, on some of his days off from school, at Yannas Fossa's place, with Annika and older brother Zhang. Cheesah and Yannas' 2nd son Habbar had become very close friends, and Cheesah was becoming friends with the other two brothers as well. Cheesah's place of residence was still with his mom and dad in Karaikal.\nWhile staying at Yannas Fossa's place, Zhang would look for work in near by Yercaud and in the next town, Salem, a larger city, but with not much success. In fact, for three days in Yercaud, Zhang would encounter a beggar, who was an old ragged lesser panda. When the panda would ask Zhang for money, Zhang would simply reply, \"Find me a job, and I'll give you a paw out\"...His way of telling him, \"I don't have it to give\".\nOne day, in a cafe in the nearby City of Salem, Zhang met a panda named Kim Sou. During their conversation, Kim Sou Panda found out that Zhang had recently immigrated with his family to India, and was looking for work without much success in finding a job. When Zhang found out Kim Sou was a martial arts instructor who ran a martial arts school in Salem, Zhang told Kim Sou about himself holding a 2nd degree black belt.\n\"I can use an assistant instructor\", Kim Sou told Zhang. \"It won't pay much, but it will get you by until you can find something\".\n\"And I can use a job\", Zhang replied. \"I accept your offer\".\nAfter they left the cafe, Kim Sou began to have Zhang follow him on foot to his school.\n\"Riding's better than walking\", said Zhang as he offered Kim Sou a ride in the car Yannis Fossa had loaned to him.\n\"Oh, thank you Zhang\", Kim Sou replied as he got into the car. \"My car is in the shop waiting for a part to come in\".\nAt the martial arts school, Kim Sou had Zhang show him some moves to see what Zhang can do. Kim Sou was well pleased with what he saw, and Zhang was hired on.\n\"The school only runs two days per week\", Kim Sou told Zhang. \"And I can't afford to pay you much. This school doesn't by any means make my rich. But it is something until you can find a profitable job\".\n\"I'm just grateful to have the job\" Zhang replied. \"Besides, during the time I'm here, I'd feel honored to pass along some knowledge to those who want to learn\".\n\"That's why I keep this school open instead of going into something else or getting a full time job\" said Kim Sou. \"My heart's in it. I like what I do\"\nAnnika and the Fossa Family were happy for Zhang that he did at least find something, even though it was temporary until Zhang could find full time work. And with Kim Sou being 5th degree black belt, Zhang learned a few moves from him he had not until then known, plus some Aikido moves that Zhang's instructor back in Angola did not teach him. Zhang's martial arts training was for war time, to be use against invaders when there not enough guns to go around. The object to Aikido is not to kill, so in Angola, it was never taught.\n \nDuring the late morning of November 23, Annika called Zhang into the bedroom she and Zhang were using.\n\"Get Sthella. Have her bring some old sheets or towels in here\", she said to Zhang. \"The cub is about to be born\".\n\"This is a blessed day!\", Zhang told Annika as he went running to get Sthella, and to break the news to everyone.\nZhang and Yannas' family gathered in with Annika, Sthella bringing in the old sheets. Yannas' three sons had witnessed the miracle of their siblings being born. Malala had not because of her being the youngest. But this was the day they will all witness a new born meerkat coming into the world. Cheesah was staying with them that day, and was standing in the doorway.\n\"You can come on in Cheesah\", Zhang said to his younger brother. \"You're about to witness yourself become an uncle\".\n\"Well, we're already uncles\", said Cheesah, \"Dora\", referring to the five year old daughter of their brother Moze and sister-in-law Leia.\n\"You'll be his uncle also, right?\", Annika asked Cheesah.\n\"Sure will!\", Cheesah answered with enthusiasm.\nIt was at that moment Annika passed fluid.\n\"I feel the cub coming through\", Annika said just before fur and afterbirth can be seen pushing out of her clef.\nIt was Zhang who began holding the new born on the rest of the way out.\nAs Yannas cut and tied the umbilical cord, and Sthella gave the little one a wipe down, Zhang said to Annika, \"Do you remember, when we were still in Angola? You said you felt like he was going to be a male?\"\n\"Yes. I do remember saying that\", Annika answered as she was regaining her breath from giving birth to their cub.\n\"You were right\", said Zhang. \"We have a son\".\nAnnika was the first to snuggle their son, as he found the strengh to reach out with his little paws, and grab Mom's fur, and hugged her. Then Zhang gently hugged him, and eventually everyone else had a turn holding him. Even tough old Captain Yannas Fossa gently hugged the new born meerkat cub. As Cheesah held him, he said, \"Hey. How's my little nephew?\"\nThen he was given back to Annika so he can nurse. There was no crying or pitching a fit, as those are not the ways of new born animals.\nEveryone gave suggestions as to what to name Zhang and Annika's newest family member, but Zhang and Annika decided to name their son Raphael. Yannas Fossa even broke out the finest wine he had for everyone to celebrate the occasion. There was even a music CD played which included a really good Malagasy / French tune, http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fPxPcfKgMI .\nYannis had wines he had picked up at various ports he's been to in many parts of the world. What Yannas broke out that day was wine he reserved only for special occasions. And this was a special enough occasion.\nThe next day, Zhang and Annika took Raphael to Salem to have it on record that Raphael is a native born citizen of India.\nWithin a few days, Zhang was blessed with a good job opportunity. He was able to get hired on as a yard worker with the railway, at the Salem Railway Junction. Annika and the Fossa Family were thrilled to hear about Zhang getting the job, and Zhang's former employer, Kim Sou Panda, wished Zhang well with his new job. The railroad paid well, and in a couple of months Zhang and Annika, with their son Raphael, had their own place, renting a fairly nice, modest home in the town of Yercaud. They were even able to help a couple of family members who weren't yet prospering so well. Cheesah and his niece, Dora, were now enrolled in school. Yannas Fossa let Zhang and Annika borrow an old Lexus the Fossa Family no longer used. That old 1967 Moskvitch that had belonged to Annika, since before her and Zhang were married, was by now literally falling apart, and had finally quit running. Zhang and Annika really liked the car Yannis loaned to them. And it had a lot more \"zip\" and get up and go.\nAs Raphael got up to ages 2 and 3, he enjoyed playing with the other cubs. Cheesah, then age 16, and Raphael would go over to play with Yannas Fossa's sons and daughter. Sometimes Moze and Liea would bring Dora, then age 8, to play.\n\nChapter 14. Life Gets Better for the Meerkats\n\nA few years later, Zhang put in for a position that became available where he worked. It was for an assistant locomotive operator trainee for a newly commissioned express train run. Zhang had the most seniority among the others who also put in for it, and it was Zhang who got the position. As an assistant locomotive operator, Zhang would earn a lot higher pay, plus working fewer days, than if he had stayed as a rail yard worker. Zhang's crew would relieve the crew of an eastbound bound express train in Erode in the late afternoon, then running the train the rest of the way to Chennai, near India's east coast. The crew would spend that night in Chennai, then, at 7:15 the following morning, they would begin the westbound return run. When they arrive at Erode around noon, they are relieved by the crew who would run the train to it's western turn around point in Coimbatore. http://youtube.com/watch?v=fYA3FJPJ9ul .\n.After work, Zhang would then ride a commuter train back to Salem. Annika would drive down from their home in nearby Yercaud to pick him up at the Salem station. Zhang would have a day off, work two days, have two days off, then work two more days each week, and still bring home more pay than working in the rail yard six days per week. With Zhang's higher pay grade, it was only several months, he and Annika were able to put a down payment on the purchase of a nice home in the mountain rural countryside. And it isn't more than several kilometers from where Yannas Fossa and his family live. At the closing of the sale of the house and land, Zhang had difficulty reading the paperwork in a timely manner. Because Zhang never learned to read or write until age 12, he is still a very slow reader. So Annika read the sale contract, escrow agreement and legal description out loud, The realtor, Jaharh Linsang, explained the contract as Annika read along, then Annika and Zhang signed off as the buyers.\nThe meerkats even began to receive mail from relatives who never made it out of Angola a few years earlier.\nThis was the first time since they had left Angola that mail was again allowed to go out of the country.\nFrom what the relatives wrote to them, Angola had now become a peaceful place to live and began to prosper very well. The political issues that use to plague the country had been resolved, and those who were in power of the country since the northern provinces took over, had been overpowered by the rest of the population there. Many of the northern leaders who took over the country had been arrested for war crimes, and a democracy government is back in power. And the best news from the relatives was that The State of North Angola was no more. It is once again Angola as it was before the trouble erupted.\nIt's good to hear from the other meerkat relatives, although those of the family who came to India don't plan on going back. But they do stay in touch with their relatives abroad.\n\nZhang and Annika also got a decent reliable vehicle, and it was a one in a lifetime deal too. An elderly widowed palm civet, who's husband recently passed away, had a utility vehicle she called a jeep. Her late husband left it to her and she was selling at almost a give away price. When Zhang and Annika, taking along Raphael, then age 6, went to see the so called jeep, the widowed civet mentioned that it had some collectable value to it, but since her husband died, she just wanted to get rid of it. When the Meerkats saw the vehicle, they found out what the widow palm civet was calling a jeep, was a 1970, five door, hard body, Land Rover, in pristine condition, in dark green, with a white top. It had 4 wheel drive, in line 6 cylinder engine and a manual transmission.\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/Zhang-and-Annik...\nIt was the ideal rugged, well built, go any where, nostalgic, family wagon, built to hold up and last. And unlike the cars the meerkats were now replacing, the steering wheel was on the right side, which is better suited for driving in India.\n\"The only thing missing, is it use to have the safari roof panel above the regular roof\", the widowed palm civet told Zhang and Annika. Then she continued, \"Birds use to build nests up under it. My late husband and I would tell them not to build there, but they'd do it anyway. Then they'd expect us not to drive it, telling us they were scared that their young would fall out while going down the road. So we fixed that by taking it off and getting rid of it\".\nLittle Raphal was even hopping and climbing over the seats in glee and astonishment.\n\"I can hardly wait for the other cubs in school to see our new car!\" Raphael exclaimed as he took a place on the driver's seat and reaching up holding the steering wheel, barely being able to see over the dash. Raphael had recently started school at that time.\n Zhang and Annika hopped on that deal right away.\n\"And the engine. It can warm up on it's own. We won't need to hold a piece of cardboard over the carburetor\", Zhang said jokingly as Annika chuckled and hugged him.\nThe widow palm civet was puzzled by Zhang's comment until he and Annika explained how Annika's Moskvitch automobile was.\nThen she too laughed, then told Zhang and Annika, \"This old jeep treated my late husband and I very well. And as long as it's taken care of, it will treat you just as well as it treated us\".\n\"Hey look. It don't have the fast numbers\", Raphael announced as he pointed at the speedometer, noticing it only read up to 75.\n\"Well, the fast numbers, we don't need them, Babe\", Annika replied to Raphael.\n\"We seldom drive faster than seventy five kilometers per hour anyway, Son\", Zhang added.\n\"Oh my!\", the widow palm civet exclaimed. \"I almost forgot to tell you. That speedometer is not in kilometers. It's in the old English miles per hour\".\n\"I see that now\", Zhang mentioned as he saw MPH, instead of KPH, printed on bottom of the speedometer.\n\"So seventy five to this speedometer. It's going pretty fast\", Annika added.\n\"My goodness yes\", the widowed palm civet answered. \"You run this to seventy five, you'll be going almost 120. This kind of speedometer can easily fool you, being use to kilometers.\n\"We usually drive at seventy or eighty on the open highway. So in miles, that would be....?\", Zhang asked.\n\"Well, if you run it to forty five, that will give you seventy kilometers per hour. And running it to fifty will give you eighty\", the widowed palm civet explained.\nFor Zhang and Annika, getting accustomed a speedometer they were not use to was only a trivial matter. They really liked that Land Rover, and so did Raphael, especially after the meerkats, with the widowed palm civet riding along, took it on a test drive. When they got back from the test drive, Zhang went over to the car that Yannas Fossa had been letting he and Annika borrow, and got the checkbook from the glove compartment. The widowed palm civet received a check in the amount she was asking for the Land Rover, and Zhang and Annika received the title to the vehicle, signed off to both of their names, and a written bill of sale. The deal was done.\nNow that Zhang and Annika were the proud new owners of the Land Rover they had purchased, the first thing to do was to return the car that Yannas and Sthella Fossa had been letting them use. Annika drove the car back to the Fossa residence, as Zhang and Raphael followed in the Land Rover. When Yannas and Sthella saw Zhang and Annika's newly purchased vehicle, they were really impressed, which of course, was followed by an hour visit, talking about old Land Rovers and other old vehicles while Habbar entertained Raphael, before the meerkats went on their way.\nFor most of the remainder of that day, Zhang, Annika and Raphael cruised around Salem, and stopped in at a few places, before they headed back to their house in Yercaud. \nAlthough Zhang and Annika had the Land Rover registered in both of their names, this was the first time Zhang, then 22, ever in his lifetime had a motor vehicle with his name on the title. And it was among the first of the vehicles they and the other family members had that wasn't either beat up or a falling apart piece of junk.\n\nOn a Saturday morning, about a month later, there was a knock on the front door of Yannas Fossa's house. It was Yannas' wife, Sthella, who answered the door.\nThere stood a male skunk of humble demeanor, who introduced himself as Seymour, and announced, \"I noticed the old Moskvitch automobile around side of your house. Would you be interested in selling it?\".\nThe skunk then reached into a pouch on a belt around his waist and got out a business card and pawed it over to Sthella.\nThe card indicated Seymour Skunk to be a dealer of restored antique automobiles.\n\"It belongs to friends of ours\", Sthella Fossa informed Seymour Skunk. \"If you want come inside and wait, I'll call them\".\nOnce inside, Yannas offered the skunk a drink while Sthella made the call.\nSthella was able to reach Annika by phone and told her there was a skunk who wanted to buy the old Moskvitch...which had been sitting up long enough, among the palmettos and banana trees, to have a couple of flat tires and weeds grown up around it.\nAnnika said she would like to sell that old car. It was one of Zhang's day's off from the Indian Railway, so Zhang, Annika and Raphael got in the Land Rover and promptly arrived to Yannas and Sthella's house with the title to the car.\nOnce everyone got introduced, Seymour Skunk offered 5,000 rupees for the old Moskvitch, which Annika was about to gladly accept.\n\"Wow! Five thousand!\", Zhang responded with surprise.\n\"He's gonna buy our JUNKY car?!\", Raphael asked.\nThen Yannis told Annika, \"Hold up a minute. Let me talk to him\".\nYannis then had Seymour follow him alone into the den and began discussing the offer on the car.\nAnnika could hardly believe anyone would offer that much money for her old broken down car that no longer ran.\n\"He must want my old car really bad\", said Annika.\n\"Or he's crazy\", Zhang laughed as Annika and Raphael laughed along with him.\nYannis Fossa and Seymour Skunk haggled about the offer over in the den for about seven minutes.\nWhen they came back into the living room, Seymour told Annika, \"I'll gladly give you 35,000 rupees for that old car\".\n\"Thirty five thousand\", Annika asked. \"For my old broken dow....\".\n\"Annika! Annika!\", Yannis called her attention as he motioned her to stop talking.\nSeymour reached into his belt pouch and got out his checkbook and a pen. Seymour wrote out a check for 35,000 rupees, and Annika signed the title of the old Moskvitch over to Semour Skunk.\nNeedless to say, Zhang and Annika thanked Yannas for haggling with Seymour to get his offer up 30,000 rupees higher...a big difference between that and the 5,000 Seymour originally offered.\nAfter Seymour Skunk left, Zhang remarked, \"For that old broken down car. Thirty five thousand rupees. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't have believed it\".\n\"I know\", said Annika. \"But I'm not complaining\".\nYannis and Sthella then told Zhang and Annika that there are antique car enthusiasts that pay good money for rare and old cars. Yannis told Zhang and Annika that for a car like the old Moskvitch Annika had, Seymour Skunk was taking advantage of them by offering only 5,000 rupees for it, in spite of the condition it was in.\n\"The five thousand he would have given you for that car would have been nothing compared to what he'll sell it for after it's restored\", Yannas had mentioned.\nZhang and Annika had no idea old cars like that were worth anything. Back when they were living in Angola, they've seen lots of cars as old as 60 years old that were falling apart but would still run...and some that would only barely run.\nTo everyone where Zhang and Annika grew up, an old car was just another old car, regardless how old or how rare it was. Some of those old cars back in the old homeland had been around seemingly forever.\nAnd there were some of those cars that were passed down from generation to generation to the animals who presently drove them. Many animals in the southern part of Angola drove the very same cars that their parents and grandparents use to drive. And when those cars quit running, an engine, transmission or other parts were taken from another car that no longer ran to get that car going again, so someone in an upcoming generation could someday have a car to use. Only when a car was literally falling apart...that is actually rusting apart into pieces, was it no longer kept running.\nLater that day, Seymour Skunk returned with a rollback wrecker truck, driven by a helper, a stoat, and picked up the old Moskvitch.\nNo one would have guessed it was only six years earlier that the meerkats had lost everything they owned except for their ragged vehicles and what they could haul in them, fleeing a country that was falling into a state of collapse and violence.\nIn the recent years, life has been good to the meerkats, and more so to Zhang, Annika and Raphael.\n\nChapter 15. A Little About Raphael Meerkat\n\nRAPHAEL MEERKAT, male, born near Yercaud, India, in the State of Tamil Nadu, to Angolan parents, on November 23rd, 2005, age 8, is Zhang and Annika's boy.\nAt Raphael's young age, most of what will be his history is still yet ahead of him. Raphael is a playful, inquisitive young meerkat who likes companionship, loves his friends and relatives, and loves, honors and obeys his parents, and like his parents, God fearing and a love for the creator. The lifelong love bond between Rahpael and his parents is a very strong one. Hardly a day goes by without Raphael, at least once, hugging his parents and telling them, \"I love you, Mama\", \"I love you, Dad\". And it's always the highpoint in Raphael's day when either Zhang or Annika would pick him and hug him, and snuggle him, and love on him, and tell him, \"Raphael, you're my boy. I love you\", and then hug him again. There are some nights, that Raphael's parents would decide, instead of having sex that night, they would allow Raphael to sleep with them, snuggled up between Mom ans Dad. And if you were to ask Raphael, \"Raphael, what movie picture hero would you want to be like?\", the answer he would give you would be, \"I just wana be like my Dad\".\nRaphael likes helping his dad, and learning things, when his dad is working on projects or doing maintenance on the family vehicle. And Zhang likes having his son with him, helping him. Zhang has been a good teacher to his son. Since age 7, Raphael has known how a gasoline engine works, and how to change spark plugs, do an oil change, check filters and maintain the fluids on their Land Rover wagon. Zhang even taught Raphael how to drive the family wagon, with the driver's seat pulled all the way foward so Raphael's feet can reach the petals. The stipulation to that was, that Dad or Mom would be with Raphael, and only on the secondary dirt roads, and no speed above 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour).\nThere were a few small knocks in life that Raphael had already experienced. There was the time Raphael was caught by Zhang watching a television show ran by two hairy trolls who were a bad influence on cubs. Raphael was told before not to watch that show, so Zhang, letting his temper get the better of him, threw a bottle of flowers through the picture tube, and told Raphael there would be no more television in the house. When Annika got home, she made Zhang take the family into town and buy a new television.\n\nNot a TV Show for a Cub [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+8\nNot a TV Show for a Cub [Page 4] by moyomongoose\n+8\n\n \nNot a TV Show for a Cub [Page 5] by moyomongoose\n+8\n\nNot a TV Show for a Cub [Page 6] by moyomongoose\n+8\nNot a TV Show for a Cub [Page 7] by moyomongoose\n+8\n\nThere was the time Raphael had a problem with some bullies at school. Part of what started it was over the fact that Raphael has that extra strong penis scent like his Uncle Cheesah has. Other cubs would call him names like \"stinky dinky\", \"popcorn popper\" and \"pee pee pee pee pew-ee boy\".\nZhang taught Raphael some of the Aikido he learned from Kim Sou Panda years earlier. Zhang wouldn't teach Raphael the other martial arts, which had lethal moves in them, until Raphael got older. Aikido is turning the opponent's strength against their self, so Zhang figured that would be safe enough to teach a cub. Once Raphael got good at what his dad taught him, the bullying stopped almost overnight. Raphael got respect after that, and even the bullies were later in Raphael's circle of friends.\nAnd there's a more recent time on November, 30th, 2013, when Raphael had pneumonia. The evening his parents took him to the hospital to get treatment, the doctor, creepy, old Dr. Zander Rat, was Hell bent on circumcising Raphael against his will. Raphael's parents protected him from any harm being done, including his dad coming close to killing the doctor over it. Thus Raphael's little meerkat pee-wee was spared from Dr. Rat's clamp and scalpel. A different doctor, Dr. Clyde Wolf, was then assigned to Raphael's case. And that incident was only a week after Raphael's 8th birthday. What a screwed up 'belated birthday surprise' getting his penis sheath sliced off would have been.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 10] by moyomongoose\n+15\n\nWhen Zhang and Annika told Yannis and Sthella Fossa about it during a visit, Yannis said, \"If it had been any of our sons, Haja, Habbar or Mario, that rat would already be dead\".\n\"And my husband would not have given a second thought about killing him either\", Sthella Fossa assured.\n\"My husband almost did kill him\", said Annika.\n\"That's right\", Zhang added.\n\"Back in our homeland, that doctor you're telling me about would eventually find himself on a bonfire out on a beach one night\", Yannis said to Zhang and Annika as Sthella nodded in agreement.\n\"We call it Island Justice\", Sthella added. \"And it is said, garbage is cleansed by fire\".\nRaphael's uncle, Cheesah, was now a 21 year old, strong, young adult meerkat, and had earlier learned martial arts from his older brother, Zhang. When Cheesah heard about the ordeal at the hospital, he wanted so badly to \"beat the rat shit\" out of the doctor who tried to circumcise his nephew. Some of the other family members wanted a piece of Dr. Rat's hide too. But Zhang and Annika insisted that the matter is already resolved.\nHowever, less than a month later, Cheesah came over from Karakal to visit Zhang, Annika and Raphael. Raphael had the Christmas 2013 and New Years Day 2014 holidays off from school, so Cheesah and Raphael went to see Habbar Fossa, now 22, so the three of them can go to the City of Salem for the day.\nCheesah and Habbar had some free time as well. Habbar has a job as a ship's officer aboard his Dad's freighter, and the Star of Antananarivo wasn't scheduled for another run until the end of that month. Cheesah was hired on as a yard worker at the Salem Rail Junction and was to begin work the following week. Cheesah's older brother, Zhang, being an assistant train operator, put a good word in for his younger brother where Zhang himself use to work.\nOn their way into Salem, Habbar even took along a small \"boom box\" radio / CD player of his, and Cheesah brought some of his Angolan music CDs with him from his parents house in Karikal. Unlike the old folk songs, Cheesah's CD collection has the exciting stuff the young anthro-animals are crazy about and like to listen to.\nCheesah's dad and two older brothers would jokingly tell Cheesah, \"That sounds like the kind of music that comes out of Luanda\" (Angola's capitol).\nCheesah's dad and brothers never did make a big deal over it. The family had never been into narrow minded thinking, and they figure various animals like to listen to various styles of music.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmnqoc66hs&spfrelo...\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=EIlJRd9T7xQ \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=oAo1cKpxCcA \nHabbar would carry his boom box up on his shoulder, playing Cheesah's CDs, as he, Cheesah and Raphael would walk along having a good time and shuffling along like they were dancing. Habbar Fossa even bought along some Malagasy hit tunes,\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=QeWIzYgISPw \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=P6olIgG6NGI \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=AbD3lh1PImI ,\nwhich they did more of a slow groove to.\nThe three of them noticed an ice cream parlor just down the sidewalk as they were getting down on it with a really good tune they had going http://youtube.com/watch?v=A91nBwyqEd8 , hopping, grooving, dancing and having them selves a blast. The fossa and the two meerkats were about to go in to get some ice cream, when who would be coming out of the ice cream parlor with a cone of pistachio ice cream, was a creepy old rat.\nRaphael began pointing to the rat and frantically calling it to Cheesah's attention.\nHabbar, taking notice, turned the volume down on the boom box so Raphael can be heard.\n\"That's him!\", Raphael gasped. \"Uncle Cheesah! Uncle Cheesah, that's him!\"\n\"Who's him?\", Cheesah asked his nephew.\nIn a low voice, as not for the rat to hear him, Raphael pointed out the rat and told Cheesah, \"That's the rat who tried to cut the skin off that hides my pee-pee's head\".\n\"You thinking of doing what I'm thinking?\" Habbar asked Cheesah.\n\"Damn right. Let's follow him\", Cheesah replied as Habbar turned the boom box off so the rat couldn't hear that he was being followed.\nThe three youths followed the rat on foot to the parking lot of the nearby hospital.\nJust as the rat was about to get into an odd ball looking 1950s European sports car of his, Habbar Fossa set the boom box down and called out, \"Dr. Zander Rat\".\n\"Who called me?\", The rat casually asked as he turned around, still licking on his cone of pistachio ice cream.\n\"ELE SER ZANDER RATO!\" (He be Zander Rat!), Cheesah shouted as he came flying into Dr. Rat with a jump side kick, breaking two of the rat's ribs as his pistachio ice cream cone was sent flying, followed by a heel kick in the balls before Cheesah's feet ever touched back down onto the pavement, then followed by a few rapid jab punches and a front snap kick in the face and mouth while Dr. Rat was still collapsing on his way down to the pavement, all within a matter of seconds. Cheesah's speed, accuracy and co-ordination was like that of a zipping squirrel. Cheesah learned the arts very well from his older brother, Zhang...Bruce Lee would have been impressed had he been in the Furry World. \nDr. Rat laid on the parking lot, cold cocked lights out, with his face battered and bloody, his lower lip busted wide open, one crushed gonad, two broken ribs, jaw broken in two places, a dislocated neck, the cornea jarred loose from his right eye and eight of his teeth knocked out onto the pavement. When Dr. Rat woke up, moaning in excruciating pain, he recognized Raphael, and then knew what the beating he just received from Cheesah was all about.\nLoud enough to make sure Dr. Rat clearly heard it, Cheesah told Raphael, \"If that perverted rat ever comes near you, or even looks at you, you just let me know\".\n\"I sure will, Uncle Cheesah!\", Raphael exclaimed bright eyed and exuberantly.\nThen Cheesah told Dr. Rat, \"You're lucky, freak. I could have stopped your clock if I wanted to. You don't EVER mess with my family...OR with their sex parts, you perverted creep\".\nOf course, Raphael put his two paises worth in, telling Dr. Rat, \"When I grow up big and strong like my uncle, I'm gonna do it to ya too!\".\n\"You tell 'em, Raphael!\", Habbar added as Raphael looked up to him and smiled.\nZander Rat still laid helpless on the pavement, near his car, as he tried to roll side to side in a fetal position, gasping and moaning in a world of hurt. Habbar, Cheesah and Raphael stood around, staring down at Zander. Nearby was Habbar's boom box where he had set it down, along with eight of Zander's teeth scattered out on the pavement. Also nearby was Zander's cone of pistachio ice cream that had landed up side down on the warm pavement, with the brown sugar cone still standing pointy side up, after it went flying in a spin out of Zander's paw when Cheesah kicked him. Not so nearby was Zander's clip on wallet. It flew a long way when Cheesah kicked and broke Zander's ribs.\nWhen hospital security guards came out into the parking lot, Habbar snatched up the boom box and the three youths fled the scene, then a short while later, they went to the ice cream parlor.\nWhile they were there, having some ice cream, a hospital security guard, who was an otter, along with two law enforcement officers, a wolf and a bear, had Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael come outside from the ice cream parlor so they could talk with them about the assault and battery incident in the hospital parking lot.\nQuite naturally for an 8 year old, Raphael mentioned, \"Our ice cream's gonna melt\".\nOf course, it was Dr. Rat's word alone, written on paper before undergoing anesthesia in the O.R., against the three youths who denied they had anything to do with it. None of the security guards actually saw it happen, plus the parking lot security camera system was down (lightning struck it two days earlier), and there were no witnesses, so no charges were pressed. Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael were told about Dr. Rat's condition. Then they were let off with a warning, during which, the three of them were trying to hold back from giggling and grinning about it the best they could. The three of them had a good laugh, giving each other the \"high fives\" and the \"high tens\", once they were back to their table, finishing their ice cream. Needless to say, Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar never mentioned a word about the incident to Zhang, Annika, Bron, Lacara, or to Yannas Fossa and his wife.\nThe beating Cheesah gave Dr. Rat laid the doctor up in a hospital bed, with a neck cast, on a bed pan, with his face stitched, and his mouth wired shut eating through a straw for almost a month, including Christmas of 2013 and New Year's Day of 2014. Plus the one crushed gonad had to be removed, and there was the dental work that was yet to be done on his remaining teeth, including dental plates. And Dr. Rat now wears a contact lens on his right eye.\nZander Rat was also told that when Cheesah delivered that snap kick to Zander's mouth, it almost severed his spinal cord when his head popped back dislocating his neck. That would have paralyzed Zander Rat from the neck down for life.\n\"You're a very lucky rat\", Dr Tavi Mongoose told Zander. \"You have no idea how close you came to that young meerkat making you a quadraplegic. Maybe you should leave your paws off of the genitalia of your patients, huh?\"\nAt the time, Zander could only reply, \"Ummmmph!\", through the straw in his wired shut mouth.\nDr. Wolf would always rub it in Zander's face by turning the television on in Zander's room each morning to \"The Meerkat Friends Variety Show\", hosted by meerkats, knowing Zander didn't want to be reminded of meerkats...especially of the meerkat who laid a good hurting on him out in the parking lot. And also knowing Zander couldn't get out of bed, and was unable to move his neck in the cast or talk with his mouth wired shut on a straw.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=xzocEeiD10M -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=zqDz3IHwP4E -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=NcGfIeO6usM -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Qfksq52ij7U .\nAnd Zander Rat didn't get a break on those mornings Dr. Wolf was not on shift at the hospital either. Dr. Wolf would leave instructions with a nurse to turn The Meerkat Friends on in Zander's room the following morning.\n\"It's Part of his therapy\", Dr. Wolf would tell a nurse. \"I personally prescribed it\". \nZander had no way of turning off the television or changing the channel. It was a half hour of Hell in the hospital bed each morning, being reminded of the meerkat who put him where he was. Zander could only bounce his butt up and down on the bed pan and go, \"Ummmmmmmh!\" through the straw out of frustration.\nDr. Zander Rat will always have to set dental plates in his mouth and instal a contact lens in his right eye every morning, plus look at a nasty lip scar in the mirror...not to mention missing one of his testicles. For the rest of Dr. Rat's life, it will constantly and naggingly haunt him as being \"compliments from Cheesah Meerkat\".\nDr. Rat's wallet was never recovered either. It was the the kind that clips into the fur hairs. Cheesah kicked Dr. Rat so hard in the chest, the wallet wet flying across the parking lot. A fox eventually found Dr. Rat's wallet and walked off with it.\nAnd Dr. Rat's sports car had the convertible top down when Chessah gave him that beating. For the following two days, while Dr. Rat was still bedridden, one of those monsoon rain storms came through. And because Dr. Rat wasn't very well liked, no one \"thought of\" putting the top up for him until the rain had passed.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=KeSGgge0Udg .\nA couple of days later, Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael came back into Salem. They were curious if the top was still down on Dr. Rat's car during all that rain a few days ago, so they went by to check out. When they got to the hospital parking lot, they noticed the top was up, but busted out laughing as they could tell from all the condensation inside the windshield and windows, the car had been rained in.\nNoticing the car's circular grill (1954 Lancia Aurelia PF 200),\nhttp://www.pinterest.com/pin/143904150563292120\nHabbar said, \"That rat must have chose that car because the grill looks like a mouth getting ready to suck a dick\", followed by Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar laughing at Dr. Rat's car.\n\"So that's a pee-pee sucker car!\", Raphael laughed as Cheesah and Habbar laughed even harder.\n As the three noticed there was a bad, afternoon thunderstorm approaching about 40 minutes away, Raphael said with a devious smile, \"Uncle Cheeeeesaaaah...You think we should put the top down? It needs to dry out?\"\n\"It don't hurt for it to dry out!\", Habbar Fossa quickly and gleefully replied as the three of them laughed.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=RRDisKk9Z7Q .\nSo Cheesah and Habbar put the top down. And before they left, Cheesah gave the right quarter panel of Dr. Rat's sports car a good, hard Tae Kwon Do side kick, caving in a big dent just ahead of the rear wheel..\nTwenty five minutes later, as the storm got closer, a security guard, a lesser panda, noticed the top had been put down, so she put it back up.\nTen minutes after that, as the storm was just about to hit, Dr. Clyde Wolf, who did not like Dr. Rat at all, was coming on shift. Dr. Wolf took a minute to put the top back down, then went into work, thus, Dr. Rat's car got rained in again.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=xbhMXSgiUi8\nA few days after Christmas, the boys returned with a can of magenta color, spray paint that Habbar had purchased from a hardware store. Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar got a good laugh as Habbar spray painted on the right front fender, and on part of the driver's door, of Zander's car, 'Zander is a wiener'...misspelling 'wiener' of course. Before discarding the spray can, Habbar smacked a dent in a front wheel cover on Zander's car with the bottom end of the can.\nhttp://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/Zander-Rat-s-Ca...\nNeedless to say, when Dr. Rat recovered from the hospital almost a month later, and the next time he saw his car, he was not a happy rat. After Dr. Rat saw the quarter panel of his car that Cheesah had kicked in, he had assumed another car had backed into it and the driver left without saying anything. And Zander about had a cow when he saw the graffiti that Habbar had painted on the fender and door. Then Zander about had another cow over the dent in the right, front wheel cover. \nZander promptly had a vandalism report filed and requested to see security video tapes to find out who dented the quarter panel of his car, and who painted the graffiti, and who dented the wheel cover. At the time, it was thought the dents and the graffiti were unrelated incidents. Dr. Rat was anxiously anticipating on having someone in court over his car being damaged. But at the time Cheesah Meerkat and Habbar Fossa damaged Dr. Rat's car, it was before the parking lot security camera system had been repaired from that time when lightning struck it a month earlier. Thus no video footage ever existed of Cheesah kicking in the quarter panel, or Habbar spray painting the side of Dr. Rat's car and denting the wheel cover...Speak about the most rotten luck.\nZander did remember the top being down on his car the day Cheesah attacked him. But Zander had no idea the top was put up, then put down by Cheesah and Habber, then put up again by a security guard, then put down again by Dr. Clyde Wolf. The security cameras were still down when all that went on too. All Zander knew about the top being down was that the interior of his car was wet and full of mildew. \nHard knocks, like anything else, is a part of growing up, and a part of life. Some are unavoidable. And there are those who bring them on their selves.\n \nAmong the good times in Raphael's life, are times Zhang would get permission, from his boss with the railway, to let Raphael come along on a run aboard the train...That is provided that Raphael's grades are good enough for him to take a couple of days off from school, or when school is on break.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=VTXkYwfIGp0 .\nIt was made clear to Raphael that the controls aboard the locomotive are to be touched only by his dad, Zhang, and the chief locomotive operator, Benjamin Binturong. However, Raphael is allowed to sound the horn. Zhang would get Raphael up to the locomotive's control console so Raphael can reach the switch to blow the horn. And on the newer WAP-5 locomotives, it didn't take Raphael long to figure out how to get the low and high tones from the horn. There would be times Benjamin would allow Raphael to wave the green signal flag, from an open door of the locomotive, with Zhang holding Raphael's paw so he don't fall out (or Benjamin holding Raphael's paw when Zhang is at the controls), while pulling out of the crew relief point in Erode, and pulling out of Chennai on the return run the following morning. Raphael always gets a thrill when ever he can come along with his dad aboard the train. Then on Raphael's next day at school, he always tells stories to his fellow students, as they gather around to hear about the train run with his dad.\nRaphael once asked his dad, \"Dad, did they have trains in Angola?\"\n\"Yes we did\", Zhang answered his son. \"But they were not as nice. Not like the ones we have here in India\".\nZhang told Raphael of the two times he had been aboard a train as a cub in Angola. It was a narrow gauge railroad that still used steam locomotives that didn't go very fast. And for passenger cars, it was a homemade, wood frame and corrugated tin coach body, built on an old flatbed car chassis, with no glass in the windows and hard wooden benches to sit on. In some areas of the coach floor, you could barely see the tracks and train wheels below through the gaps between the floor planks. \nRaphael has always had a fascination for trains, and has recently said he would like to be a locomotive operator when he grows up. Young ones have many things they say they want to be when they grow up...Only time will tell.\n\n\nChapter 16. Introduction to the Rat Family\n\nWORD OF WARNING: ZANDER RAT'S HISTORY HAS SOME REALLY CREEPY STUFF IN IT.\nHERE'S WHERE IT GETS SCOUNDRELOUS AND UGLY.\nINCLUDING ZANDER RAT MOLESTING CUBS AND STEALING FROM CHARITY.\nTHERE IS ALSO A CAR CHASE ALMOST TURNING DEADLY.\nAND THE REMEMBRANCE OF A HIGH SPEED CAR WRECK, FROM YEARS BACK, IN WHICH SOME FRIENDS OF THE RAT FAMILY HAD DIED.\n\n\nDR. ZANDER ISCELBERG RAT MD, male, born at his parent's lavish, granite and marble stone built mansion estate in Northeast Egypt, not very far from Al-Minya (you might as well say, born on silk sheets and with everything pawed to him on a silver platter), on April 1st (April fool's day) 1958, age 55, is single.\nZander Rat came from a very wealthy elite family, born to his dad, Hanan Iscelberg Rat the III, deceased since 2005, and his mom, Judith Iscelberg (Rhostin) Rat, now age 88. Zander has two older siblings, older brother Hanan Iscelberg Rat the VI, now age 62, and older sister Givol Fennbecker (Iscelberg) Rat, now age 59.\nThe Iscelberg Rat family estate is a lavish, majestic, three story, stone palace like mansion in Northeast Egypt, located on 24 acres of waterfront property on the Nile River. The palace itself covers approximately four acres of land, about the size of a downtown city block and is large enough to accommodate three or so generations of the family, as well as provide live-in quarters for the hired servants. And the estate also has gardens, vinyards, a tennis court, a hedge maze, four, eight car garages, a twelve slip boat house and other amenities. Zander's family has been wealthy, illuminati elites for countless generations (the \"old money\").\n\nBack during the 1950s, their was much concern among the Iscelberg Rat Family over the changes and uncertainty Egypt was going through at the time. In June of 1956, Britain had relinquished all military presents in Egypt via a 1954 treaty between the two countries, thus giving Egypt it's full independence.\nThis was also at the time Hanan III's youngest brother, Hebron Iscelberg Rat, was graduating law school at Oxford in the UK.\nHanan's next youngest brother, Louie, was out of the country at the time, brokering deals on rare and expensive, collectible automobiles...some of them worth millions. Louie Iscelberg Rat also owns many car dealerships throughout Europe, Australia and Western Asia, selling brands like Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Land Rover and Mercedes Benz...So Louie does get out of the country quite a bit. \nHowever, now that Egypt gained it's independence, there had been stories heard of the government expelling Jews out of the country, seizing their bank accounts and confiscating belongings they own within Egypt's borders. It became obvious those stories were not idle rumors when a steady decrease in Saturday attendance started being noticed at the synagogue.\nThis was a grave concern to Hanan Iscelberg Rat III and his wife, Judith, as well as to other members of the family. Hanan and Judith's first born son, Hanan VI had already been born by then, but at only two years old at the time, was too young to realize the gravity of the situation.\nHanan III's dad, Hanan II, who at that time was still head of the Iscelberg Rat Estate, had mentioned after a puff on his cigar, \"My dad and my Grand Dad Adin told me how the way of life improved in Egypt when the British took the country away from the Ottomans. That happened seventy five years ago - before my time, you know. But today, I see Egypt stepping backward toward it's old ways again\".\nShefra, Hanan III's mom, acknowledged to her husband, Hanan II, \"Even in our generation, we've never seen anything like this\".\nChaim and Chanita, Hanan II's brother and sister-in-law, acknowledged it wasn't the same Egypt they grew up in. \nThere was one fortunate side to all of this for the family though...Out of their multi-billions in bank accounts, bonds, investments, businesses, corporate shares, real-estate holdings, etc, only a small percent of it was invested within the borders of Egypt. Most of the family assets had always been in foreign cash reserves, investments and property outside of Egypt. Thus if the day ever came that the family would be ordered to leave Egypt and leave their belongings behind, only a small percent of the family's wealth and property would be lost. So far, the family was never faced with that contingency.\nAn aardwolf friend of the family once asked Hanan II and his son, \"How would you all get by if the government forced your family to leave the country?\"\nHanan II simply answered, \"We have enough in foreign assets to go to any place in the world we want. We could purchase a palace tomorrow and begin living in it if we want to\".\n\"We could almost buy a small country if one ever was for sale\", Hanan III added. And he wasn't saying that too facetiously.\nTruth was, the Iscelberg Rats already owned several vacation mansions in various, pristine parts of the world, including a private island resort in the Indian Ocean.\nEgypt's newly independent leadership had also began clamping down on Masonic Lodges and Shriner's Temples throughout the country. Many of the Iscelberg Rat males, along with many friends of various animal species who are of Jewish, Muslim, and Coptic Christian faiths, as well as other faiths and even a few Atheists, were Shriners and Masons in the El-Minya, Egypt area. In both the local chapters of the temple and the blue lodge, there were already discussions about secretly holding underground meetings if being members openly would no longer be possible. And there was the possibility that fund raising and charitable events would someday have to be held under a 'different shingle' than 'Shriner' or 'Mason'. \nMany animals in the temple and the lodge would say, \"I can see the day coming when we will have to act outside of Egyptian Law to continue having these meetings and events\".\nThe year 1958 was the year Hanan III and Judith's youngest cub was born who they named Zander, after Judith's great grand dad. It was on April 1st Zander was born, then on April 8th Zander was Pharisaically circumcised on the eighth day in keeping with the law of their faith. Even the inner sheath over the head was also removed...Male rats have an inner sheath under the outer main sheath covering the head of the penis.\n\nUncircumcised Rat by IscelbergRatFamily\n+6\n \nCircumcised Rat [Page 3] by IscelbergRatFamily\n+5\n\n\nTheir daughter, Givol, was one year old then. Hanan VI was age seven then, and was surprised watching younger brother Zander getting circumcised during the breis ceremony. Until then, young Hanan VI had no idea there was a sheath covering the little wee-wee that got cut away. He had always thought he and other males in the family, as well as other circumcised animals he had seen, were born that way.\nThe year 1958 was also the year even more concern for many animals in Egypt, including the Iscelberg Rat Family. This was the year Egypt and Syria formed a union which was named the United Arab Republic.\nThere were animals in the country who believed it to be a good thing, and with a mood of euphoria among them. And there were those who were very skeptical what the new UAR was going to turn out to be, with a ominous mood among those animals. The Iscelberg Rat Family didn't like the idea of Egypt and Syria becoming the UAR either.\nAlso, a new national anthem had earlier been adopted for Egypt and the new United Arab Republic. That ominous feeling really set in on the Iscelberg Rat Family, as well as with their hired servants, as they all watched the television news coverage from out of Cairo of the old, green, national flag with it's crescent and three stars coming down, and the new, red, white and black flag with it's two green stars ran up the flagpole...During which time, that new anthem had played:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxC3WNBqB0&spfrelo...\nIt was to antiquate the old anthems Hanan III and Judith had known when they were cubs, one of which the country used for about 15 years:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBB12eIUlkQ&spfrelo...\nAs well as an earlier anthem the country went back to using in the late 1930s...which was the anthem Hanan III's parents Hanan II and Shifra, and also Judith's parents Gan and Pauline grew up with:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSLaArpCyw&spfrelo...\nIn 1960 Egypy's old anthem eventually phased out.\n\nIn January of 1961, Hanan III and Judith Iscelberg Rat and the cubs, then ages 9, going on 6, and going on 3, took a trip to Menongue, Angola to check on the 80% of a sugarcane plantation Hanan III had purchased years ago. Along with them them came Hanan III's dad and mom, Hanan II and Shifra Rat, to check on how things were going on a coffee bean plantation they owned near the Province of Cunene.\nTransportation for that trip for Hanan III and family was a 1959 Cadillac convertible in indigo black (the color that had the blue and purple casts in it when the light hit it just right) with white and black interior. Hanan III's brother Louie located the car for him, and had it sent to Menongue, Angola waiting on the family to pick it up upon their arrival by private plane. Even though it was a two year old car, Hanan III liked the big fins and torpedo tail lights. Yasin Genet came along to chauffeur the car for the family.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5YxxigUbfY\nHanan II and Shefra had their vintage, 1937 Horch 853 convertible transported by cargo plane to Angola for that trip, which they had Husam Fox chauffeur for them.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4DvHjYWF8&spfrelo....\nIt was at a general store one evening, around dusk, near Menongue that Zander (then not far from age three) found out that circumcision does not equal \"being born that way\". \nIn the store, an old Jambo song was playing over their radio:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZzh62PPiY&spfrelo...\nThe ordeal at the store that evening started out with Zander laughing at the Angolan species animals; meerkats, genets and mongooses, because the Rat Family had nice, beautiful cars, and most of the Angolan animals didn't even have a car. A genet had an old 1914 Ford, about to fall apart, with the front fenders rusted away, a board supported from the firewall holding up the radiator, and a roof made of barn tin and tar supported by scrap lumber. The Angolan animals had a weekend off from the sugarcane plantation and were crowded in that old 1914 Ford to take the trip to their homes, with several animals standing on the running boards for the ride. Zander thought that ragged, old car, with all those animals crowded in and on it's running boards, was so funny and busted out laughing at them.\n\"Ha ha ha ha ha. Look at that silly car!\", Zander laughed and pointed. \"We got a NICE car\".\nZander continued to keep it up...that was until Daddy Rat paddled Zander for it.\nThree minutes later, when Zander calmed down from the paddling, the old 'Sugarbush Song' played on the store's radio:\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg8BNliL3fc&spfrelo...\nThat's when Zander noticed, while Daddy and Mommy were able to buy the best candy the store had for Zander and his siblings, The Angolan cubs had to settle for cheap candy their parents could only afford, plus they had to share it.\n\"Ha ha ha ha ha\", Zander laughed. \"You n***** animals get junky candy, an' ya hafta share it too\" I got GOOD candy aaaallllll to myself\".\nThen Zander stuck his tongue out at them and went, \"Mnnnnn\".\nZander got a paddling for that also. During the paddling, Zander accidentally dropped his candy on the ground.\nThen Zander really cried when Daddy Rat told him, \"I'm not getting you another candy. I believe Yushura punished you for laughing at those poor animals by making you drop your candy\".\nNow the meerkats, genets and mongooses began laughing at Zander...instead of Zander laughing at them.\nShortly before the local animals were getting ready to leave inside of and on the running boards of that crowded, ragged, old, Model T Ford to go home for the weekend, a cute, jazzy, French song began playing on the store's radio:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGstAoBBFUA&spfrelo...\n As Zander looked around at the Angolan animals who came in close proximity to the family, he began to notice he could not see the pee-pee heads on any of the males...just a sheath and ball sack.\n\"Haaa ha - ha ha ha - haaaaa. You got your pee-wee-doooos cut off. You ain't got no pee-wee-do heads\", Zander pointed and scaughed at the Angolan animals.\nThe Angolan animals were giving Zander dirty looks about that time.\nThen a genet cub, slightly older than Zander, who could speak broken English, approached Zander, and told him, \"Pee-pee me got. Pee-pee too got head. Pee-pee me daddy got, an' pee-pee me brother an' nother brother got\".\nZander didn't believe the genet cub until he pulled back his penis sheath, reveling his genet penis head and barbed sulcus to Zander, and said, \"Seeee? Me do got pee-pee. Pee-pee no cut off\".\nThat's when it hit Zander like a 90 mph freight train that Zander should have had, by nature, a penis sheath like the Angolan males have, but it was cut away on Zander and his family.\n\"WAAAAAAAAA!\", Zander screamed in a tantrum, throwing himself on the ground, and beating the ground with his feet and paws. \"MY PEE-WEE-DOOOOOO - WAAAAAAAAA - MY PEEEE-WEEEEEEEE-DOOOOOOOO - WAAAAAAAAAA\".\nThe meerkats, genets and mongooses were REALLY laughing at Zander now. Now it was not Zander doing the laughing.\nThe genet cub's mother called to her son, \"De la, afaster. Para O boter, Venha Aqui\" (From there, move away. To the car, come here).\nWhen the genet cub came as his mother had called him, then stepped up for him a place on a running board of the old Ford, the rest of the Angolan animals boarded the car and they all took off for home, still laughing at Zander. A meerkat who had and old rusted out, 1931, Ford pick up, also crowded with passengers, had to lead the way for the the other local animals riding the Model T...That's because it was getting dark, and none of the lights on the Model T worked, and at least one headlight was working on the meerkat's pick up.\nDaddy Rat REALLY paddled Zander a GOOD one this time, for embarrassing Daddy Rat in the presents of the Angolan animals who worked the sugarcane fields for him.\nNeedless to say, form that point, through the rest of the family's visit in Angola, Zander was one miserable rat cub.\nSeveral occasions, when Yasin Genet would be chauffeuring the family in that 1959 Cadillac convertable down those Angolan dirt roads, Zander would murmur, \"Goyim animals got a pee-wee-do cover and I don't - Whyyyyy?\"\nThat's when Daddy Rat would reach over from the front seat of that 1959 Cadillac convertible and 'Jap-slap' Zander a few times. \nDuring the family's trip back to Egypt aboard their private plane, it was still grinding on Zander about being circumcised, and how Daddy Rat dealt with Zander over it...From that time on in Zander's life, Zander somehow hated Angola.\n\n\nLater in 1961, the United Arab Republic formed by Egypt and Syria collapsed only three years after it was started. Syria succeeded from the UAR, thus Egypt was again a separate, independent nation.\n\n\n\n\nChapter 17. The Rat Family Encounter with the President\n\nIn the year 1964, Egyptian President Nazztah Aardwolf issued a decree, outlawing organizations of the Shriners and Masons in Egypt. Fellow shrine and lodge members of the Rat Family had seen this coming quite some time. And as Egypt's federal government began shutting down shrines and blue lodges throughout the country, the local Shriners and Masons of El-Minya were already making arrangements with the local Rotary Club, who would allow them to continue to operate and hold charitable events under the disguise of their club.\nAlso, Hanan II and Hanan III were long time major contributors to the El-Minya Police Benevolent Association, as well as good friends with many of the politicians of the area. And for years, Hanan II has personally known the governor of the Governate of Minea (Governate is like a province or state). Many of the family's friends in high places had given their assurance, without actually coming out and saying so, that they would keep a blind eye turned to Shriner and Masonic activities, as long as those activities were discretely kept at a low profile.\nFunds from Shriner's carnivals, presented as Rotary Club carnivals of course, would have to be secretly sent out of the country to be dispersed to hospitals for the treatment of burnt and crippled cubs. Contacts had already been made with animals in London, who know the family, to receive and appropriate the funds where they are to go.\n\nAnd by this time, Jewish synagogues had already been shut down by order of the Egyptian federal government since more than a year ago. Rabbi Squirrel, along with what few who were left in the congregation, had agreed on a decision to hold Saturday services as \"house synagogue\" services. Congregation members would take turns lending the hospitality of their homes for worship services to be held.\nBy the way, June 28th, 1964 was the day of Hanan VI's Bar-Mitzvah. The congregation use to observe a cub's Bar-Mitzvah at the synagogue, but with that shut down, Hanan VI's Bar-Mitzvah was held at a fellow congregation member's home.\nRabbi Squirrel had said of that idea, \"Where there is a sincere will, Yashura will provide a way\".\n\nLate one Sunday morning, in October of 1964, a Rolls Royce limousine, baring fender mounted flags of the Governate of Minea, accompanied by armed hyenas on motorcycles for protection, pulled up to the grand entrance of the lavish granite and marble palace of the Iscelberg Rat Estate.\nAs the limo's chauffeur, a genet, opened the door for it's passengers to exit the vehicle, Rashon Civet, one of the Rat Family's butlers, announced that Governor Sazim Mongoose had arrived.\n\"Allow him in, Rashon. I'll inform my dad\", said Hanan III.\n\"Very well, Sir\", Rashon Civet replied as he opened the massive double doors to the estate's entrance.\nAs Rashon welcomed Governor Mongoose and two of his aids accompanying him, another mongoose and a linsang, Hanan II entered the palace's spacious front entrance foyer, at the same time extinguishing a cigar he had been smoking.\n\"Sazim. Hello\", Hanan II greeted.\n\"Hi there, Hanan, It's been a while\", Sazim Mongoose replied as the two animals shook paws and began conversation.\nThen the cubs came running to the foyer, Hanan VI who was then age 13, Givol who was then age 10, and Zander who was then age age 6.\n\"Governor Mongoose!\", Hanan VI exuberantly called out.\n\"How's everything going, young Hanan?\", Governor Mongoose asked.\n\"Very fine, sir\", Hanan VI replied.\n\"Hello Governor Mongoose\", Givol greeted with a smile and a cute little wave.\n\"You grown much bigger since I've seen you last\", The Governor said to Givol.\n\"HI ya, Shazam\", Zander addressed Governor Mongoose.\n\"ZANDER!\", Hanan III called out to his youngest son.\n\"What?\", Zander asked.\n\"You address Governor Mongoose properly\", Judith reprimanded Zander.\n\"But Grand Dad said Shazam, hello\", Zander mimicked his grand dad.\n\"How would you like to have you grand dad whump you one time?\", Hanan II asked Zander. \"Don't you mimic me\".\n\"Well, cubs will be cubs\", Governor Mongoose said. \"I have two of my own you know\".\n\"Yes, I know\", Hanan II replied, \"But, Sazim. Zander needs to learn respect\".\n\"YOU called him Shazam. See? Just now\", Zander retorted to his grand dad.\n\"The governor and I have been friends for a long time\", Hanan II told Zander.\n\"Your grand dad is right, Son\", Sazim Mongoose told Zander. \"With long time friends, It's different\".\n\"I know what Zander will understand\", Judith said as she took him into another room.\nMoments later, you could hear >whop whop whop< \"WAAAAA ahaa ahaa ahaa ahaa ahaaaaaaaa\"\n\"You going to stop acting like a little wise guy?\", you could hear Judith asked her son.\n\"Yeeaaaa\", Zander cried.\n\"That's not the way I want to hear it\", Judith replied.\n\"Yes, Mame\", Zander cried.\n\"That's better\", said Judith.\nThen Judith marched Zander back to the foyer and told him, \"I think you owe Governor Mongoose an apology now\".\n\"I'm sorrrry\", Zander said, still snibbling from the spanking he got.\n\"I'm sorry who?\", Judith asked Zander.\n\"I'm - I'm sorry Governor Mongoose\", said Zander.\n\"Apology accepted, Son\", Sazim Mongoose replied. \"I thank you very much\".\nAfter all that was out of the way, everyone went to the dining room to have snacks, treats and some coffee or tea. Hanan II also saves fine wine and cognac for such occasions, but for only those who the family knows well. Alcohol beverages are illegal in Egypt, but the Iscelberg Rats, as well as Governor Sazim Mongoose and other friends of the family in high places, do tend to bend that law just a little.\nAfter about 40 minutes of socializing, there was an important matter to be addressed.\nSazim Mongoose announced to the family, \"There is a reason for my visit here today. A delegation from your family will need to travel to Cairo tomorrow. President Nazztah Aardwolf requires the presents of some of you at five o'clock\".\n\"The President!\", Hanan II exclaimed.\n\"Why would he want to see us?\", Hanan III asked.\n\"Are we getting kicked out of the country?\", Chaim, Hanan II's brother, asked.\n \"I hope not, Uncle Chaim\", Hanan III replied.\n\"I don't believe it's about that\", Sazim Mongoose assured the family. \"The president wouldn't have someone visit him personally just to expel someone out of the country\".\n\"Can we come with you tomorrow?! To see the president?!\", Hanan VI asked with much enthusiasm.\n\"Pleeeease!?\", Givol added.\n\"Wowwww!\", Zander further added.\nThere were many times the cubs have noticed President Aardwolf on their wall size, cinema screen television, with his large snout and predominate bottom jaw, and wavy neck mane and wavy fur on top his head.\n\"No you can't\", Hanan III told the cubs.\n\"Awwwww\", the cubs contested.\n\"It's no place for you cubs\", Judith explained.\n\"That's right\", Hanan II added. \"We have no idea what this thing is going to be about\".\nGovernor Mongoose then acknowledged, \"With the political climate of the country, bringing the cubs along definitely would not be advisable\".\nAs everyone discussed plans for the tomorrow's trip to Cairo, it was decided that Hanan II and his brother Chaim would make the trip. Hanan III had volunteered to come along also.\n\"How about your brother Hebron?\", Chanita suggested to her nephew Hanan III.\n\"He should be with us too, Son\", Hanan II added.\n\"I agree\", said Chaim. \"Hebron's background in law could be an asset to us in this matter\".\nRight away, Judith phoned her brother-in-law Hebron, who lived in Luxor to the south of them, and told him what was going on. Hebron Iscelberg Rat certainly was surprised to hear what Judith had to tell him and agreed to come along with them.\nAfter Judith got off the phone with Hebron, she called Louie, who also lived in Luxor. It came as a surprise to Louie as well, and at the end of the conversation, he wished everyone the best of luck.\nIt was going into evening by the time logistics for the trip were finalized, and everyone agreed it was getting late. Sazim Mongoose wished the best for everyone as he and the two governor's aids with him were leaving. And that night, the Rat Family got to bed early. It was expected to be a long day tomorrow, and the cubs were to have school the next day. \n\nThe following day, Monday, after Judith wished the males luck with President Aardwolf, she had Yasin Genet chauffeur her and the cubs in the Rolls Royce limo to drop the cubs off at school, an elite private school, definitely not the public school system. Then she had Yasin take her to run some errands she wanted to do.\nHanan II, Hanan III and Chaim would have Husam Fox chauffeur them to Cairo in Hanan III's Cadillac limo...Rabbi Squirrel was coming along also, and with the Cadillac being a bigger car than the Rolls, there would be more room for the four of them.\nAbout mid morning, Hebron Rat arrived from Luxor to the Rat Family Estate near El-Minya, in a Mercedes limo, driven by Zahid Jerboa. Brother Louie was also with him to come along on the trip. Shortly after Hebron and Louie's arrival, they began the trip to Cairo, with Hanan's limo leading the way, and Hebron's limo following.\n\nHours later, the five Iscelberg Rat males and Rabbi Squirrel arrived in Cairo. There was still a while before the meeting time of 5:00 pm, so Hanan III and Hebron had their chauffeurs stop in at high class bistro to get something to eat. It was one of those places that had no prices on the menu, everything was a la carte, and if you were not rich you don't show up there, much less go in. While they were there, Hanan II treated Rabbi Squirrel to what ever he wanted on the menu, which Rabbi Squirrel greatly appreciated.\n\nNot long before five o'clock, the family delegation made their way to the Abdeen Palace where they were to meet President Nazztah Aardwolf. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by dignitaries in the way that diplomats and ambassadors would expect to be welcomed.\n\"Many welcomes my friends. I'm Yusef Lion\", a Barbary Lion greeted the Iscelberg Rats and Rabbi Squirrel.\n\"The pleasure is ours as well\", Hanan II replied, being first to exit the limousine.\nAfter they were acquainted, Yusef Lion, accompanied by two caracal cats, showed their guests around the palace as they engaged in small conversation. Then after a short while, the lion had everyone follow him out to a lavish courtyard with it's extravagant gardens...And there he was...President Nazztah Aardwolf.\n\"Hello. I have been expecting you\", Nazztah Aardwolf greeted the guests as he shook paws with them. \"Of course, I need no introduction, as you all already know who I am\".\n\"We're delighted to meet you, Mr. President\", Hanan II replied.\n\"While you are my guests, you may address me as Nazztah. That would be good\", said Nazztah Aardwolf.\n\"Very well\", replied.\nAfter everyone took seats at the wrought iron and brass, patio chairs and tables, Nazztah said to Yusef Lion, \"Yusef, let's have some treats and coffee\".\n\"Jahad\", Yusef called one of the caracal cats. \"Get the servants to bring some coffee and treats for the President and our guests\".\n\"Right away, Sir\", Jahad Caracal answered as he went to summon some servants.\nSo far what Nazztah Aardwolf to talk about was small conversation...getting acquainted.\nSeveral minutes later, a mongoose butler, a mongoose maid and a linsang maid arrived with trays carrying pastries, fruit, berries, unleavened bread and rich, aromatic coffee...There was no wine or cognac here, which was illegal under Egyptian law.\n\"Will that be all, Sir?\", the butler asked.\n\"That will do\", Nazztah answered. \"Thank you\".\nNazztah offered to let one of the members of the Rat Family choose his mug of coffee for him, in which he would take a first drink before the others, to assure them none of the coffees had been spiked.\n\"I am sure you are wondering why I've asked you here\", Nazztah Aardwolf mentioned.\n\"That has been on our minds\", Hanan II replied.\n\"You do know that animals of you religious faith have been getting expelled from Egypt since...Oh say...eight years ago\", said Nazztah Aardwolf.\n\"We have been painfully aware of that\", said Rabbi Squirrel.\n\"There's a story I have to tell that is like our situation\", Nazztah began. \"There was once a bee hive in southern Africa, and a community of meerkats who lived nearby.\"\nThe rats and squirrel listened intently as the aardwolf continued, \"As we all know, insects are a part of a meerkat's diet...The story goes that the meerkats figured out a way to eat the bees in the hive without getting stung. And they found the bees to be so tasty and satisfying. However, the meerkats soon found out there would be no more honey. They chose to eat the bees one time, when they could of had a lifetime supply of honey\".\n\"And how that relates to us...\", Hanan II pondered.\n\"That is this\", Nazztah answered. \"I could choose to have you and your family expelled from Egypt, with a one time confiscation of your assets...\"\n\"Only a small percent of what we own is in Egypt\", Hanan III interjected.\n\"Your billions in assets and properties in this country is only a small percent of what you have?\", Nazztah Aardwolf asked with surprise.\n\"That is correct\", Hanan affirmed.\n\"If what you have in this country is only a small percent of your wealth, I believe I could not fully comprehend the wealth and assets you must own around the world completely\", Nazztah said in amazement. \"The taxes Egypt alone collects from what you generate each year within our borders is a fortune in itself\".\nThen Hanan II summarized, \"Your saying if you expel us from Egypt, Egypt looses a huge source of tax revenue each year\".\n\"Exactly so\", Nazztah Aardwolf answered. \"Egypt can either eat bees one time, or she can enjoy honey for as long as you continue to prosper in Egypt as well as your family does...Your investment strategies, not even our best financial experts have been able to crack how you do it\".\n\"I take it we need not fear being expelled out of the country\", Hanan II mentioned.\n\"You are guaranteed to be allowed to remain in Egypt as long as you desire to\", Nazztah Aardwolf assured the Iscelberg Rats. \"With the same respect as anyone else enjoys who lives here. You have my word on that\".\nAt first President Nazztah Aardwolf wasn't going to grant Rabbi Squirrel and his family immunity from possible expulsion from Egypt, until the family delegation pleaded and convinced Nazztah Aardwolf to grant him and his family the same immunity.\nNazztah Aardwolf invited his guests to visit and socialize a while longer. Then as it got late into the evening, the family delegation thanked Nazztah Aardwolf for the immunity he granted them, and Nazztah wished them a safe trip home just before they entered their limousines to leave.\n\nLater that night, when Hanan II, Hanan III, Chaim, Hebron, Louie and Rabbi Squirrel returned to the Iscelberg Rat Estate, the rest of the family were relieved and delighted when they were told what the meeting was about, and how well it went. \n \n\n\n \n \nChapter 18. School Days\n\nWhen Hanan VI, Givol, and Zander were growing up, they attended a very elite private school, that had a high quality education curriculum, and had grades starting at preschool, and going all the way through 12th. There were also fellow students who were of other species in their school, who's parents were wealthy enough to send them there, but not from as wealthy families as the Rat Family, who were popular among the other students because of that.\nFriday, February 4th, 1966, at school, two months before Zander turned age 8, and in the 2nd grade, the class was given their morning restroom break. There was an oriental linsang using the urinal next to where Zander was peeing. Because Zander, along with all the males in his family was circumcised, he was fascinated with seeing the linsang draw his sheath back to pee.\nThe linsang's attention was caught when Zander said, \"Ohh! It's shiny!\".\n\"What?!\", The linsang said as he noticed Zander gawking at his penis, out of sheath, peeing. \"Why are you stareing at my pee-pee?\"\n\"What's that skin like?\" asked Zander.\n\"None of your business!\" The linsang told Zander as he turned his back to Zander, and Zander leaned around so he can still see it.\n\"ARE YOU QUEER OR SOMETHING?!\", the linsang asked as he resorted to re-sheathing his penis, and continued peeing through his sheath, so Zander can't see it.\n\"I didn't know you could do that!\" said Zander as the other class mates now noticed what was going on.\n\"Zander, leave him alone!\", a male genet called out.\nThe females who were there, started giggling at Zander. Being that the animals don't wear clothes anyway, they all share the same restrooms, showers, etc.\n\"Hey, Zander! Why don't you look at some of these females instead of looking at Chaun Linsang?! You're gona marry Chaun or something?\", a male palm civet called out as everyone busted out laughing. An otter and a mongoose were among the circumcised males in Zander's 2nd grade class, and even they were laughing.\n\"Zander would get a scent pouch in the deal!\", the otter called out, getting everyone to laugh even harder, referring to the scent pouch linsangs have near the genital.\n\"He can marry the sharp ends of my claws and see how he likes it\", said Chaun.\nBy the time everyone was leaving the restroom, heading back to class, Zander was so embarrassed, he felt like he could wear a paper bag over his face.\nBack in class, Zander kept calling across the table to Chaun Linsang, and trying get an answer out of him as to what having a genital sheath is really like.\nChaun finally stood up in class, and hollered at Zander, \"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! YOU DON'T HAVE A SHEATH COVERING YOUR PEE-PEE HEAD, SO IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! LEAVE ME ALONE!\"\nThe class busted out in loud laughter, followed by the otter calling out, \"Hey, Zander, Jollah Mongoose and I are circumcised too, but we don't go around asking those kind of questions\".\n\"Well!\", exclaimed the teacher, who was a persnickety poodle, \"Enough on THAT subject. Let's get back to class material, shall we\".\nZander making a schoolwide spectacle over Chaun Linsang's uncircumcised penis also had a bad ramification for older sister, Givol. The Friday it happened was the one day before Givol's 12th birthday...And a very special birthday it was...It was the day of her Bat-Mitzvah, which is when a female turns age 12.\nThat Saturday of Givol's 12th birthday, at the Iscelderg Rat Estate after Sabbath worship services, everyone began the observance of Givol's Bat-Mitzvah. It started out pleasant...However, many of the cubs in the congregation who attended were also students of the elite private school that Hanan VI, Givol and Zander attend.\nJust as Givol's Bat-Mitzvah was going along, a gerbil cub mentioned, \"Gee, Givol. Your brother was sure nosy about Chaun Linsang's pee-dee-pee-dee-do at school yesterday, wasn't he?\"\n\"HEY!\", Givol protested. This is MY Bat-Mitzvah!\".\n\"SAMUEL!\", the gerbil's dad reprimanded his son.\n\"He he he. Maybe Zander wants to play with it\", Samuel Gerbil's younger brother giggled.\n\"Uhhh, not exactly THAT\", Zander opened his big mouth, which got all the cubs who were there laughing and making other comments.\nAs parents were getting their cubs back under control, Givol began crying.\nRabbi Squirrel called for the attention of the cubs and told them, \"Let's not have any of that kind of talk here, cubs. This is a Holy ceremony\".\nAs the situation was back under control, Judith came over to comfort Givol.\n\"It's OK, dear. Everything will be OK\", Judith told her.\n\"Mom...Did Zander have to pick the day before my Bat-Mitzvah to?...You know?\", Givol cried.\n\"All that stuff's over now...OK?\", Judith assured her daughter.\n\"OK\", Givol sobbed as she dried up her tears and regained her composure.\nBefore long, Givol's Bat-Mitzvah was going along as planed very pleasantly.\nA short while later four male chipmunk cubs went into one of the palace's bathrooms that was nearby. One of them had a circumcision in a way that he still had some of his sheath.\nGivol's Bar-Mitzvah had so far been going along smoothly again...That was until everyone heard, coming from the bathroom with the door open, one of the chipmunk cubs shout, \"I'M CHAUN LINSANG! SEE MY PEE-PEE! SEE MY PEE-PEE!\".\n\"SOMEONE GET THOSE CUBS OUT OF THE BATHROOM!\" Hanan III called out.\nBy that time the rest of the cubs were laughing again as Rabbi Squirrel was trying to restore some sense of order.\nAs several adult animals went to go get the four cubs, Givol cried, \"Zander turned my Bat-Mitzvah into something creepy...Booooo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo\".\n\"It's alright, honey. It's alright\", Judith assured Givol.\nAs the adult animals led the chipmunk cubs back into the family room, Rabbi Squirrel ordered the young pranksters to have a seat on a sofa.\n\"Listen! Cubs! We're not having any more of these antics!\", Rabbi Squirrel demanded.\n\"Hey, Zander! What were you looking in bathroom at school yesterday?!\", a female dormouse cub called out as Rabbi Squirrel whirled about to see who made the remark.\n\"Uhh...Nothing really\", Zander blurted, not having sense enough to keep his mouth shut.\n\"I know!\", a male Jerboa cub called out. \"A pointy nose worm with a hoodie!\"\nAs other cubs busted out in laughter, Rabbi Squirrel announced, \"I think some of you parents need to be correcting your cubs\".\nEverything quickly got back under control when parents began taking their cubs into other rooms and spanking them.\nGivol, in tears, grabbed up a piece of cake, and approached her younger brother Zander with it.\n\"THANKS A LOT YOU CREEP! YOU RUINED MY BAT-MITZVAH!\" Givol cried at Zander as she whacked him up side the head with the cake.\n\"It only comes once in a lifetime\", Givol cried as she ran to the next room, up the palace's spacious, grand stairs, and to her room to cry over her Bat-Mitzvah becoming a social disaster.\nBy this time, everyone had heard what Zander had done at school the day before.\n\"Zander, you should be ashamed of yourself!\", the female jerboa cub's mom told Zander.\nThere were other remarks like, \"Zander, you pervert\", and \"Your parents should seek help for you\".\nThen Zander's uncle Herman on Zander's mom's side of the family exclaimed, \"Zander, ya lousy bastard! You ruined you own sister's Bat-Mitzvah! How could you!\"\n\"That's not doing any good, Herman. Please don't rub it in\", Judith asked her brother.\n\"OK, OK, Judith. I won't.\", Uncle Herman replied.\nAfter Judith came upstairs to Givol's room and got Givol calmed down, many of the guests downstairs had already left. But there were still quite a few attendees, including Rabbi Squirrel, who were still present when Judith and Givol came back downstairs. This time when everyone continued with Givol's Bat-Mitzvah, everything went along peacefully and pleasantly without anymore problems. And to make sure it stayed that way, Zander was warned by the other males that if he so much as uttered a peep for the rest of the observance, Zander would be taken outside and get the living shit beat out of him...And it was said to him in those exact words too. \n\nBy the time Zander was going into the 3rd grade, he would frequently ask his other male school mates personal questions like, \"What's it like not being circumcised?\", or questions about the genital anatomy of species that were not of his own species. The answers he got were always, in so many words, \"None of your business\". Zander once asked a male fossa school mate, \"What does it feel like to have a funky penis like the ones you fossas have? Is having one like that really fun to play with?\" The young fossa gave Zander an angry look, sharp clawed Zander across the face, then told him, \"MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!\".\nThose questions often got Zander beat up by his fellow students, and quite often got Zander's parents called to the school to have a talk with the school administrator.\n\n\n\nChapter 19. Zander Rat, a Jerk and a Creep\n\nDuring the last quarter of 8th grade, a month after Zander turned 14, he got the notion in his mind he wanted to try his paw at being a school bully. That didn't go over so well with Zander's fellow students as there were no bullies in that school and no one cared for it either. Zander didn't have the nerve to pick on anyone, except for one student. He was a Malagasy civet named Hassar. Zander picked Hassar out to torment and harass because Hassar was born somewhat mentally challenged and was not a good fighter. The rest of the students were appalled at Zander for it, and thought what Zander began doing to Hassar really stunk on ice. Zander all along thought he was being considered bad ass cool by everyone, until several students ganged up and began beating Zander with every inch of his life.\nThen they told Hassar, \"If you ever get any more trouble from Zander Rat again, just let us know and we'll take care of it for you\".\nThat afternoon, after school, several other students beat Zander bad enough to put him in a hospital for three days. Needless to say, Zander was a bully for only five minutes before his fellow students quickly put a stop to it. Hassar always knew he had good friends, and it became apparent that day.\nZander's family didn't care for those ways much either. Especially his older brother Hanan IV, who would get really angry with Zander over it. But Zander was family, and they say blood's thicker than water.\n\nAs a teen, Zander seemed like he had no sense of responsibility, and couldn't be relied on for anything. He'd invite friends over to his dad's estate for parties, and leave several rooms of the estate in a major mess, and with things broken, for the house servants to clean up. In early June of 1972, a week after graduating 8th grade, Zander and his friends got into Daddy's wine cellar, got drunk, and made a game of swatting at fish in the Nile River with expensive tennis racquets and ruining them...Oh well, Daddy will buy new ones. On a few occasions Zander would take a boat out, and when he returned it to the boat house, he did not secure it. One of Daddy's speed boats Zander let drift away was hit by another boat eleven hours later, totaling both boats, during the night, further down the Nile. Later in the summer vacation from school of 1972, Zander and some friends took Daddy's yacht out on the Nile without Daddy's permission or knowledge of it. Zander's unruly crew included an assortment of, a male mongoose with blue and green fur dye down his back and tail, wearing lots of gold jewelery. And there was a female jackal with several pierce rings in her ears, lower lip and three in the right side of her pussy with a heart tattoo on the left side. Then there was a male linsang with the fur on top of his head dyed fluorescent pink and a peirce ring in his toungue and one in the end of his genital sheath. There was the female rat with a snowflake tattoo on her nose. And her fiancee, a male rat with a nose ring and a jingle bell pierced through the end of his tail. Then there was the male fox. He was a real work of art. He had rings pierced down both ears, one in a toe on his left foot, three in his chin, and he had the hair on top his head trained out to be long with it partly hanging in his face and dyed lime green, and wore several long gold necklaces. The fox was was circumcised as a new born (which was fairly frequent in their country). Back when it was done, he was not lined up before he was stitched. As a result, the fox's penis laid, rotated over to it's left side. The fox also had a rose tattoo covering the face of the penis head, and a ring pierced in the head. All these anthro animal youth friends of Zander either lied about their age to get their tattoos and pierces, and some knew an artist who was willing to hook them up for a price. The only thing that stopped Zander from getting any of that stuff is that he knew Daddy would beat the shit out of him for it. The fox bought along a bag of weed aboard Daddy Rat's yacht, making him the most popular, for that day, among that crazy crew. Zander and his friends partied hardy out on Daddy Rat's yacht, cruising up and down the Nile, running the yacht stoned and reckless and everyone having multiple partner sex out on the deck. After everyone had their day of fun in the sun, the stoned, motley crew bought Daddy Rat's yacht back, and Zander did not secure it.\n\"Ha ha ha...Uhh...Shouldn't you tie it back up?\", the fox asked him as he swayed around stoned.\n\"Nah...Eh...The butler will get it.\", Zander replied half stoned.\nTwelve days later, Hanan Rat the III's yacht was found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, with a quarter bag of dope aboard. Hanan reported it stolen the day it drifted off. And Zander denyed to his parents any wrong doing.\nZander also acted like a smart ass jerk toward the estate's domestic hired help, considering them substandard to his family and himself. The rest of the family, however, treated them with decency and respect.\nWhen Zander was 15, his older brother, Hanan the IV, then age 22, beat the shit out of Zander, literally, for sexually molesting and injuring a 12 year old male cousin, causing him to be sterile for the rest of his life. Hanan IV would not allow Mae Mongoose, one of the maids, to clean up the crap off the floor Hanan literally beat out of his younger brother, Zander. Hanan forced Zander to clean up his own shit instead. Zander's parents later took Zander to see a shrink over the incident.\nAt that time, Hanan IV was already married to his wife, Joan, and with a daughter, Wanda. And Givol was pregnant from her husband, Joseph Finnbecker Rat. Out of concern for their little ones, it was made crystal clear to Zander Rat, that he would get every bone in his body broken if he dared to come anywhere near his nieces and nephews before they became adults. And when Givol's cub was born, it was a male, Joey Finnbecker Rat Jr.\nEight days later, Zander Rat was forbidden to attend little Joey junior's circumcision ceremony (a custom observed by the family linage).\nIn addition to the regular penis sheath, male rats also have a 2nd inner sheath fold, beneath the regular sheath. When the outer sheath is retracted, the inner sheath of the male rat is shaped like a vase when it is not being retracted to reveal the head (one sheath inside the other).\nDuring a circumcision ceremony observed by the Rat Family, the outer furry sheath, as well as the vase shaped inner sheath, are both removed, leaving the head continually exposed (sort of like a double circumcision, leaving no sheath at all). \nThe entire family attended Joey Junior's circumcision, but it was off limits to Zander.\n\nChapter 20. Zander Gets a Mopar\n\nZander had no appreciation for the things his parents would by for him either. When Zander was 16, his dad bought for him a 1971 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda that Zander wanted\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=wGXvKzKfHrw and\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Mpf8lGt9gs0 .*\nIt was a three year old car at the time, and had been seized from it's original owner in a drug raid. It was lime green, with the \"billboard\" style quarter panel decals, \"shaker\" style hood scoop, rear spoiler, and it had set of aftermarket blacked out mags. Uncle Louie Rat was a car dealer, and had connections with those who were able to locate one, and get it in from the U.S. Louie Rat had to pull some real strings to make that one happen. Zander didn't have it long before he was racing up and down the highway in competition with his motley friend's cars, showing off and seeing how hard he can push it. One day Zander was out cruising with his green haired fox friend riding along (the one with the rose tattoo you know where), who bought along a few joints for him and Zander to toke on.\nEven though the laws against marijuana use is rarely enforced in Egypt, it still wasn't exactly a smart move on the part of Ferris Fox and Zander Rat to be cruising in a car down the highway while stoned.\n\"Heeyy...How do you like it?!\", Zander asked as they were crusing along at 160 kph (100 mph) down a stretch of desert highway, both of them half stoned, and playing one of Ferris Fox's British punk rock, 8-trac tapes, \"Blast - Damned Flame\", so loud it would just about run anyone out of the car.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=llaDswZVdLY .\nFerris Fox would occasionally play air guitar with a joint hanging out of his mouth as they sped down the highway with the 8-trac player blasting away.\n\"Wow!...Awesome ride! Never seen a cool car like this!\", Ferris Fox eventually replied, then taking a toke off of a joint.\n\"Hu hu...Probably the only car like it in Egypt\", said Zander. \"My Uncle Louie got it...from the U.S. There's lot's of these kind-a cars over there\".\nFerris noticed the speedometer, then told Zander, \"Hey...Heeyy, Zander, Your speedometer is waaayyy off, or I'm real stoned. We're going a lot faster than 100 kilometers per hour\".\n\"Hu hu hu hu hu\", Zander laughed.\n\"What's so funny?\", Ferris laughed as he passed the joint to Zander.\n\"Hu hu hu...It's in miles per hour, not kilometers\", Zander replied. \"My dad told me to be careful with it. Hu hu. He said a speedometer like this can fool you\".\n\"Oh oh oh! Ferris! Get the owner's manual out of the glove compartment and read it\". Zander said to Ferris. \"Hu hu...It's really loopie\".\nFerris did as Zander had told him to do.\n\"Woaha wow yo hey! How can anyone read THIS?!\", retorted Ferris as he, at first, held the manual up side down, until he noticed the pictorial illustrations.\n\"Hu hu hu hu\", Zander laughed, \"It's sure not written in Arabic script that WE can read, is it? That's the way they write over in the west\".\n\"Craaazzzy\", Ferris replied as he put the manual back away.\n\"Hey! Ferris! Wana see what this car can do?!\" Zander asked exuberantly.\n\"Go for it\", replyed Ferris.\nZander downshifted from 4th to 3rd and floored it. The two motley friends were thrilled by the hard acceleration. Then Zander threw it into 4th, barking the tires, as he held the twin, four barrel carburetors wide open.\n\"Ferris, you ever seen anything this fast before?\" Zander asked as he got it up to 160 miles per hour.\n\"Ha ha ha ha ha...Wow! Awesome!...No I haven't, Zander. This is really cruisin' \", replied Ferris Fox.\n\"Uhh...Watch what it can really do\", said Zander as he continued holding the throttle wide open, trying to wrench every bit of the 427 horse power he could get out of it, the engine buzzing like a chain saw motor, as the speedometer had gone long past it's numbers, going on to where 170 would be.\n\"Heyo. Uhh. Zander, I 'm not too stoned to see you're red lining this thing. You're gona blow it up\", Ferris told Zander.\n\"It's OK, Ferris. I know what this car can do\", Zander replied.\nBOOM went the engine, blowing apart at 170 miles per hour, and locking up so hard, the transmission shattered. Gears, bent shafts, synchronizer parts and chunks of clutch housing and transmission casing went tumbling down the road, and the drive shaft tore loose and flew out from under the car. Oil smoke trailed behind like the contrail of a rocket.\n\"Woah! What the Fuck! Like...End of ride!\", Ferris Fox exclaimed, with a smoking joint still hanging out of his mouth, as Zander's car began it's coast from 170 down to 0.\nZander could only say, \"Huuuhhh?\" as he was still stearing the coasting disabled car.\n\"I told you, Zander. You were gona blow it up\", Ferris reminded him after the car stopped, and as the two of them, sharing their last joint, began their long walk to anything resembling civilization.\nThey were both so stoned, Zander never turned off the ignition and took the keys with him, and Ferris Fox forgot his 8-trac tape. As they abandoned the car, the 8-trac player continued to play the loud punk rock music Zander and Ferris had been listening to before the car's engine blew up.\n\nChapter 21. Other Cars Daddy Bought for Zander\n\nA few weeks later, Uncle Louie found a 1970 BMW 2800 at a dealer auction\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=UO1iWY-abkU .*\nLouie Rat heard about Zander blowing up his Hemi Barracuda, so Louie bidded on the BMW and got it for Zander. It was a 2nd owner repo, in pristine condition, cream color with seats upholstered with a material similar to soft leather. Zander had it for about three weeks, then he set it on fire on the side of the highway, and made up a story, an electrical short under the dash caused the fire. Zander did so because it wasn't a car he really liked, and he figured Daddy would get him different one. And Zander figured right. Believing the \"under the dash fire\" story, Daddy asked his brother Louie to locate another car for Zander. Zander said he would like to have a Porsche, so that's what Louie kept a look out for. Two weeks later, here comes Uncle Louie, driving up to the estate, in a Shiny red 1973 Porshe 911 Carrera \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=vgCvaKj5rYo \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=AaiE05WlZzE .* Louie blows the Porshe's fancy horn, and when everyone comes outside, he announces, \"Here's Zander's car!\", as he gives the horn another blast.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=xxXbpaBYB6c .\n\"Oh boy, oh boy!\", exclaimed Zander as he was like a cub on Christmas morning. While Zander's dad was paying Louie for the car, Zander hopped in and took off with it. He never thanked Daddy or Uncle Louie. And never asked Louie if he needed a ride home. Zander just sped on down the highway in his new Porsche, wanting to see how fast it can go.\nThe following year, Zander, then age 17, wanted to get more performance out of that Porsche. Zander had heard some myths about aviation gasoline, and thought he'd like to try it. There was a small municipal airport about 40 minutes drive from the estate. Zander's dad owned a Cessna twin engine plane and a Lear private passenger jet at the airport, so he knew the fuel attendants there. When Zander explained what he wanted to do, the attendants, both of them bears, tried to talk him out of it, and told him he would ruin the engine. Zander dissagreed with them, and insisting for 20 minutes that he heard airplane gas makes a car run better. So how do you argue with a know-it-all? The two bears finally went ahead and let Zander \"fill 'er up\". As Zander filled the tank, various species of other anthro-animals stood around and gawked at Zander Rat like he must have lost his mind. One of the bears shrugged his shoulders and said, \"We tried to tell him\".\n\"Wow! This gas DOES make it run stronger\", said Zander as he sped away from the airport on a full tank of aviation fuel. And it did run better. That Porsche went screaming down the highway like it never had before. About 12 kilometers down the highway, Zander heard a \"poop-pop\" sound come from the engine as he continued speeding along.\n\"Hmm. Must need a tune up\", Zander said to himself.\nThen the engine started started more popping, sounding, \"rrrrrrrrrr pop rrrr poop rrrrrrrrrrrr poop pop pow rrrr bang rrr pop pop rr pop bang boom pow\", as it began blowing thick white smoke out of the exhaust.\nThen Zander's Porsche rapidly began loosing power, as it sounded like a string of lit firecrackers going off and would barely run. Finally, it quit running all together. Zander, stranded on the side of the highway, attempted to restart the car, but it would only crank and not fire over. Zander finally ran the battery dead trying to get it started. There were no cell phones in the year 1975. So Zander had to get out and start walking. A binturong in a Volkswagon stopped by and gave Zander a ride to the estate. Zander didn't even thank the binturong. In fact, Zander acted like the binturong owed him that ride.\nThe mechanic, Charlie Weasel, who's expertise was exotic cars, who tore down the engine to Zander's Porsche, told Zander's dad that every valve in the engine was burnt, two of them burnt down to only a stem, four of the pistons had holes burnt in the tops of them, the cylinder walls scored and an exhaust manifold was cracked from excessive heat. The engine couldn't be rebuilt. It had to be replaced. Daddy went ahead and gave the OK to put a new engine in the car, being that he felt Zander didn't know better about putting aviation fuel in an automobile. Zander questioned why that gas didn't work in a car if it will work in an airplane.\n\"You see what airplane fuel did to your car don't you?\", Charlie Weasel told Zander Rat.\n\"But what stops it from burning up an airplane?\", Zander retorted.\n\"An airplane is designed for it. A car is not\", Charlie tried to tell Zander as Charlie was getting short on patience.\n\"But then what made it burn up the motor in my car?\", Zander continued.\n\"YOU STUPID FOOL JACK ASS! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TELL YOU?!\", Charlie shouted at Zander.\n\"That doesn't answer my question\", said Zander.\n\"I guess you think you know more than this mechanic does, I suppose\", Zander's dad told his son.\n\"Thank you\", Charlie told Zander's dad.\nZander shut his mouth after that.\nFour days after the Porsche was repaired, Zander was showing off with it, to his linsang friend, who was riding in the car with him. Zander lost control of the car and crashed it, totaling the car out. Zander busted his nose on the stearing wheel and had to be treated at the hospital. And his linsang freind had his parents try to sue Zander's dad by faking an injury.\nZander graduated in Class of 1976. Zander's dad had gotten Hanan IV and Givol expensive brand new cars of their choice as a graduation present back when they had completed school, and Zander was to be no different. Zander's car of choice was a 1976 Ferrari 512, in red \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=fGg0VvaYoZ4 \nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=dshb4_cZoTM .*\nThe day Zander graduated, Daddy pawed the keys to a brand new, 1976, red, Ferrari 512 over to his son Zander. Zander can really burn up the highway with that one. Three months after Zander had the Ferrari, he loaned it to a civet freind who totaled it at over 355 kilometers per hour, literally tearing the car into fiery chunks and fragments, getting himself instantly killed and learning a hard lesson he'll never live to remember that a car is not a play toy. The civet's parents began filing a big law suit against Zander's dad, Hanan III, for the loss of their son, but instead, accepted an out of court settlement for five million pounds, Hanan had offered them. Admitting that five million pounds will not bring their son back, Hanan III offered his condolences toward the Civet Family. The family's attorney advised them that Hanan's generous offer was way more than what they would have walked away with had they followed through with the law suit.\nHanan III replaced Zander's totaled out Ferrari with a 1970 Datsun, 180B...in the 4 door hatchback version...Ugly looking car, and a slow one at that.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=CLmpJ_QfGak .\nDaddy didn't mind getting Zander the car, but he was through getting Zander cars that are costly and nice. And anymore fast cars for Zander were out of the question also.\n\nChapter 22. Zander Steals From the Shriners...Anonymously known as the Rotary Club\n\nNow that Zander was graduated, Zander's dad taught Zander about the family's real estate business. Hanan Rat III also showed his son \"the ropes\" of bidding on tax foreclosed homes, acquiring rental property and how to squeeze the the most money out of tenants.\n\"This is where the real school begins, Son\", Hanan would tell Zander when he taught him those investment secrets to acquiring more wealth, and the dos and don'ts about corporate share holding, and other secrets of how the rich get richer. Those are the illuminati secrets that are usually not revealed to just anyone. However, one thing Daddy Hanan could never get Zander interested in was the European Classical, Polka and Yiddish style music like the rest of the family listened to.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=kmzbTo14uos -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=VqxAIFehNj0 -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=jOKnUKIZ_Kc -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=SNmpkeY41xA -\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=6MA3Rbd2Kww .\nHowever, Zander, along with his motley friends he always hung out with, were into British punk rock music whenever they could get their paws on 8-trac and cassette tapes that had those recordings. In Egypt, that kind of music was hard to come by because it was frowned upon by Egyptian mainstream society in those days. Zander's family members, as well as the servants and other hired help, referred to it as \"noise\" instead of music. http://youtube.com/watch?v=WMql1o5by8Q .\nWhen ever Daddy Hanan would get tired of hearing it, he would give a house servant, or the chauffeur, a pay bonus to collect Zander's tapes while he was away, take them far away, and dispose of them as they saw fit. When Zander could not find his tapes, he would assume that he had misplaced them, or that some of his motley friends walked off with them. Everyone knew when Zander discovered some of his tapes missing. They could hear him throwing stuff around in his room looking for them.\nAnother issue where Zander and Daddy were on opposite pages was when one of Hanan's business associates, a makak named Omar, invited Zander to come along with him to the U.S. and visit the Bohemian Grove.\nOmar Makak is a member of the club, and Zander once told his dad, with gleeful joy, how much he would love to go with Omar to visit the grove and participate in the homage ceremony to the great stone owl, Moloch.\nHanan warned his son, \"If you even so much as go near that grove, you'll no longer be allowed to return to this estate ever again\".\nOmar Makak had tried to get Hanan to become a Bohemian Club member. But Hanan made it clear to Omar, that although the Iscelberg Rat Family are among the elite aluminaties, they would have nothing to do with the Bohemian Club. Hanan III always had his mind firmly made up that the things that go on in that grove are of evil doing. \nZander had only dysfunctional relationships during his early adult years. Some were marriage, and some were live in arrangements, and most turned violent. Out of all his relationships, Zander fathered no offspring.\nDuring one warm night of the Summer of 1981, when Zander was 23 years old, he broke into the local Bahia Shrine Temple, which of course was under the facade of a Rotary Club Chapter to avoid detection by the Egyptian government. Zander gained entry through the rear emergency exit door, which was an open inward door secured with a wood bar and brackets that were not very strong. All Zander had to do was shove against the rear door several times, and he was in. He knew this, because his dad and older brother were Shriners, and members of that temple. There were several occasions when Zander was invited to Shrine meetings when Zander's dad tried to encourage him to join the Mason Lodge. However, Zander's dad did realized that decision has to be of one's own free will. Those were the times Zander took notice of how poorly the rear door to the Shrine Temple was always secured.\nZander already knew what he wanted. He heard his dad and brother, over the past several days, talking about how profitable the Shriners fund drive carnival had been. It didn't take long for Zander to find what he was after. He then grabbed an old duffel bag from his car, then packed it with every bit of what was over 17,000 pounds that had been collected by the carnival for burnt and crippled cubs. Before Zander left the temple, he found some of those four inch round, colourful, embossed aluminum, stick-on Shrine emblems. Zander thought a few of them would look cool across the back of his ugly, old, Datsun 4 door hatchback. So he grabbed a bunch of them on his way out then stuck five of them on his car. Displaying one of those emblems is a definite no-no with serious consequences unless you are a Shrine member, which Zander was unaware of. But there was a concern more grave than that. Zander took the risk of the emblems being seen by a following motorist on his way home...All it would have taken would have been one \"good Samaritan\" cellphone call to Egyptian authorities about those emblems, and it would have been \"game over\" for everyone. Then off for home Zander Rat drove through the night, with over 17,000 pounds of cash he had stolen, which was meant for burnt and crippled cubs. And with Shrine emblems he had no business having in his possession.\nCome morning, about 45 minutes after sunrise, the Rat Family was just sitting down to have breakfast, when they were startled by the sound of a mob of fellow anthro-animals literally smashing the Hell out of Zander's car with a tire iron, axe, baseball bat, sledge hammer to name a few. When Hanan III got up from the table, and ran outside to the driveway where Zander's car was being smashed, he noticed the angry mob were fellow fraternity members from over at the Shrine Temple.\n\"Hanan!\" Carl, a big brown bear called out, as he was still holding the wrecking bar he used to help smash Zander's car with, \"It seems your son has stolen the 17,000 pounds we've raised for the cubs at the carnival!\".\n\"Carl Bear, you just don't know that!\", Hanan retorted with some doubt. \"Was the temple robbed?!\"\n\"You want to have a look at this, Hanan?!\", Vince Mongoose, still holding a baseball bat, yelled out as he motioned Hanan to have a look at the back of Zander's car.\nAs Hanan came around to the back of the smashed remains of Zander's car, he saw the five Shrine emblems that were still where Zander had stuck them to the back of his car the night before.\nCarl bear reminded Hanan, \"If the wrong animal saw those emblems on your son's car last night, Nazzah Aardwolf''s boys would have us all put in the zoo\".\n\"I need not remind you we operate this thing underground\", Vince Mongoose added.\n\"I am really sorry about this! This is getting straightened out right now!\" Hanan immediately assured his fellow Shrine members, then stormed back to the mansion, calling for his son, \"ZANDER, YOU STUPID ASS SON OF A BITCH! WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE! YOU GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW!\"\nBy now, other family members had gotten up from the breakfast table and began coming outside.\n\"What's going on Dad?\", Hanan IV asked Daddy Hanan. \"What's with everyone from the Shrine being here? And Zander's car.\"\nSister Givol Rat and son-in-law Joseph Finnbecker Rat stood together on the front lawn with their son, Joey Jr., then age 8, gazing in disbelief, not knowing what to make of the situation. Even the house servants, chauffeur and other hired domestic help came out to see what was going on.\nThen Hanan IV's wife Joan, holding their three month old son Hanan V, and daughter Wanda, then age 10, came out to find out what was going on.\nAnd of course, Hanan III's wife, Judith, came out rambling on, \"Hanan, what's going on? Aren't those the Shrine members? Why are they here, Hanan? GASP! Zander's car! Hanan, tell me! Is everything alright?!\"\n\"It's under control, Judith\", Hanan assured her. \"Everything will be alright if you just let me take care of it\".\nThen Zander came diddy bopping outside, then to his shock and dismay, noticed the Shrine members, holding destruction implements, standing around, and some jumping down from off the top of, his smashed up car, with all the glass knocked out of it, the driver's door torn off, the three remaining doors sprung completely around backward, the rear hatch lid twisted, one windshield pillar torn away from the firewall and pulled straight upward, and not a square foot of sheet metal that wasn't ripped or caved in. What Zander saw going on clued him in on what the situation was about. Although he had no idea, until now, he was ever going to be caught.\n\"What's the meaning of this, Zander?!\" Daddy Rat Demanded.\n\"Uhhh...Meaning of what\", Zander responded with his voice nervously quivering, as he glanced over at the smashed remains of what was once his car..\n\"Don't you dare lie to us! We'll beat your ass...Hanan's son or no Hanan's son\", Joel Genet warned Zander as he swung a steel pipe down onto the already battered hood of Zander's car.\n\"Joel! Please! Allow me to handle this!\", said Hanan.\n\"Yeeeaaa\", Zander mouthed off to Joel Genet.\n\"SHUT IT NOW!\", Hanan told Zander. \"WHERE IS THE MONEY FROM THE SHRINE TEMPLE, ZANDER?! AND I AM REALLY PISSED AT YOU!\"\n\"I wasn't at the Shrine Temple for the longest time. YOU know that\", Zander lied.\n\"Explain the Shrine emblems on you car\", Vince Mongoose demanded of Zander.\n\"Hey! I bought those at the corner store\", Zander insisted.\n\"YOU CAN'T JUST GO INTO A STORE AND BUY THOSE, DUMB ASS!\", Carl Bear hollered at Zander as he began running toward Zander with every intention of hurting Zander, and hurting Zander really bad.\nZander went running from Carl, Zander being so scared he peed as he ran. Zander then began trying to hide himself behind family members, in the same way a frightened cub would hide behind Mommy, hoping they could convince Carl to stop chasing him.\n\"KEEP YOUR DISTANCE FROM THE CUBS, ZANDER, OR GET YOUR BONES BROKEN!...REMEMBER?!\", Hanan IV warned his brother.\n\"I'll LET EVERYONE TEAR YOU UP IF THAT MONEY DOESN'T SHOW UP NOW!\" Hanan III warned his son, Zander.\nThat got Zander's attention real quick, and he led his dad to where he had the duffel bag of money hidden in his room. Hanan had Zander carry it out to where Gabriel Binturong took custody of it.\n\"We're going to count it when we get it back to the temple. You better hope it's all here\", Gabriel growled at Zander as he snatched the duffel bag away from him.\nVince Mongoose collected up the Shrine emblems Zander was not suppose to have, including peeling the five of them off of the back of the remains of Zander's car...And not a moment too soon. Zander had planned to give out the rest of the emblems to his motley friends that day.\n\"Shit...Shit...Shit...How did they know?\", Zander pondered out loud.\n\"The Shrine Temple has security cameras. We're not stupid like YOU are\", Hanan answered his son, then stormed back into the mansion to finish his breakfast.\nPolice were, at first, going to charge Zander with breaking and entering, burglary and grand theft. However, it was made official for the record that the incident was resolved within the organization, and no charges were filed. Under Egyptian law, had charges been filed, Zander would have had a paw chopped off upon being convicted on the grand theft charge, in addition to a prison sentence (aka zoo) for that and the other charges.\n\nThe following morning, a news crew, consisting of a male jackal carrying a video cassette news camera, and a female hyena with a remote microphone, showed up at the Rat Family Estate. They both approached Rohj Civet, an oriental palm civet who is the family chauffeur, who was checking the fluid levels in one of the limousines, and began asking Rohj questions about Zander stealing money from the Rotary Club.\n\"I've nothing to tell you\", Rohj promptly answered them.\nThe hyena replied to Rohj, \"Certainly you would have something to share with...\"\n\"I told you I have nothing to tell you\", Rohj cut the hyena's reply in mid sentence.\nThen they went over to Japeth Fossa, who was washing and detailing the limousine.\n\"Hello. What's your name\", the hyena enthusiastically asked Japeth as the Jackel was recording.\n\"Japeth, don't talk to them! Go and get Hanan out here!\", Rohj immediately told Japeth.\nAs Japeth ran to the mansion to to get Hanan, the jackal, who became agressivly cocky, badgered Rohj, \"Come on! Why don't you talk with us?! You're not social, are you?!\"\n\"For the third time, I've nothing to tell you\", Rohj insisted.\nA moment later, Hanan came storming out of the front double doors and down the porch steps of the mansion, with Japeth behind him. Japeth had already told Hanan what was going on.\nNot only did Hanan consider the matter to be none of their business, the last thing Hanan wanted was a slip of the tongue accidentally leaking it out that it is actually Shriner's activity going on.\n\"GET OFF THIS PROPERTY NOW!\" Hannan called out to the news crew as he quickly approached them.\nAs the jackal began recording, the hyena asked Hanan, \"Sir, you must be Zander Iscelberg Rat's father. Can you tell us...\"\n\"This matter is none of your business!\" Hanan interrupted the hyena as he pushed the camera away, almost knocking it out of the jackal's paws.\n\"Hey! How would you like to pay for a camera, Sir\", the jackal arrogantly asked Hanan.\n\"GET OFF THIS PROPERTY NOW BEFORE I HAVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES ESCORT YOU OFF OF THIS PROPERTY!\", Hanan warned the hyena and the jackal.\nThe hyena and jackal got the message real quick and left. As they were getting back into their news van, Hanan further warned them not to come back. The incident was embarrassing enough to Hanan III as it was. The last thing he wanted was it getting into the news media.\nThis whole incident was also especially disappointing to Rohj Civet, the Rat family's limousine chauffeur. Rohj Civet was at the time a 33rd degree Free Mason, who was next to be considered for the position of Master Mason upon Heberen Iscelberg Rat's sponsorship to become a Shriner. Rohj had promised for some time to Hanan III, as well as to the members of the Mason Lodge, that he would encourage Zander to become a Mason, and mentor him along. It was believed by the family that it would help Zander to put his life in a positive direction. Now Rohj would have to break the news, at the next Mason Lodge meeting, that Zander Iscelberg Rat is not the kind of character the Lodge would want anything to do with. Rohj felt like he was eating his own words about the promise he had been making to Hanan III and to the Lodge all along, plus feeling like he had been made to look like a liar and a fool in the presents of the Lodge.\nTwo of Zander's uncles are also Masons. His Uncle Louie, the car dealer, was then a 33rd degree Mason. And his Uncle Hebron, the local prosecuting attorney, was the Master Mason presiding over the lodge where Rohj attends. Both were also very disappointed and embarrassed by what Zander had done.\nRohj later called Zander in private, and gave him a lecture on how his actions have 'tread on sacred ground' and how he betrayed and embarrassed the whole family by what he had done. During that lecture, Rohj also laid the guilt trip on Zander thick and heavy about what it is like to be a cub who has been burnt, or is cripple.\nHanan Iscelberg Rat III had to give an official apology at the next Shrine meeting for the actions of his son, Zander.\nPlus Hanan III had to listen to one of those 'Riot Act' lectures from some of the senior Shrine members about how it is Hanan's responsibility as head of his household to maintain his family's respect for others, and to ensure orderly conduct within his family. \nNeedless to say, Hanan III was embarrassed because of the actions of his youngest son over the whole ordeal.\n\n\n\nChapter 23. Zander Sexually Molests a Fossa Cub\n\nEarly one afternoon in September of 1982, when Zander was 24 years old, he had been caught sexually molesting and hurting a young male Madagascan fossa. Because of a fossa penis head being flair shaped like a horn, Zander was fascinated with how Chad Fossa's penis head flipped around like a speed bag each time he slapped it.\n\nZander Rat Molests a Fossa Cub [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+4\n\nZander was also fascinated with Chad's sheath, because Zander didn't have a sheath since 8 days old. Zander had used an old Zagnut candy bar to lure Chad out to where the attack took place.\n\nZander Rat Molests a Fossa Cub [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+4\n\nChad Fossa, age 8, was in tears, crying, \"Let me go! You're hurting my pee-pee! Let me go! It hurts!\"\nIt was Chad Fossa's mom, Nirina, who caught Zander in the act of grasping the shaft of her son's penis behind it's aft barb cluster, holding it out of sheath and slapping the head around.\n\"TAKE YOUR PAWS OFF MY SON, VOUS AFFREUX MORCEAU DE MERDE! (...YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT!)\", Nirina Fossa screamed as she came running to rescue her son.\n\"GET OUT OF HERE!\", Nirina screamed at Zander as Zander stood there, looking surprised and dumbfounded.\nLittle Chad Fossa held his paws over both the head and first cluster of barbs of his penis, crying in tears, \"He made my pee-pee hurt, Maman. Maman, ca fait mal (Mama, it hurts)\".\n\"GET OUT OF HERE!\", Nirina again screamed at Zander.\n\"It's not...Uhh. It's\", Zander muddled, trying to invent an excuse. \"It's not what it looks...\"\nNirina picked up a rock and nailed Zander square in the face with it as hard as she can, knocking Zander to the ground. Zander began crawling away, then staggering away, then running away, like Nirina told him twice to do.\nAs Chad Fossa continued crying, Nirina hugged her son, assuring him the best she could, \"Mama's here, my precious baby. Mama's here with you. Your pee-pee will be alright, honey. It's OK, baby. It's OK\".\nNirina pick up her son, cradling him as only a loving mother could do, and carried him home.\nWhen Nirina got Chad home, and told her husband, Jhi Fossa, what had happened, Jhi instantly stormed into the bedroom, went into the draw of a nightstand, and got out their 50 cal AE Desert Eagle pistol.\nNirina had a different idea, and phoned the law, reporting Zander for what he had done.\n\"Isn't he that looser the Iscelberg Rat family has?\" Jhi asked as he was loading rounds into the clip.\n\"Jhi, qu est-ce tu fais?\" (Jhi, what are you getting ready to do?)\" Nirina demanded as Jhi slammed the loaded clip into the clip well.\n\"Ce qui aurait du etre fait il ya longtemps. Cest Zander, droit? (What should have been done a long time ago. It's Zander, right?)\" said Jhi as he cocked a round into the chamber, the pistol making that cold metal \"click-click\" sound.\n\"Oui. Cest Zander. (Yes. It's Zander)\", Nirina replied. \"Jhi, plait ne pas (Jhi. Please don't). Let the authorities take care of him\".\n\"His dad has so much pull, he won't see the first day in jail for it\", Jhi retorted, then stormed out to the car, and drove off to hunt down Zander.\nJhi spent the rest of the afternoon looking for Zander Rat. He knew about some of the motley friends Zander hung out with as a teenager, and paid some of them an unpleasant social call. Zander's old time friends cooperated the best they could with Jhi's demands to learn the whereabouts of Zander. After all, Jhi was the was the one carring the gun. Zander's friends weren't of much any help, so Jhi left to go find some friends of his he could ask if they've heard about anything.\nA binturong friend gave condolences to Jhi. \"I heard about what happened to Chad today. That's a tough break\", he said.\n\"Yeah. My son took it hard too\", said Jhi. \"If you find out where Zander is, Mussa, how about letting me know, OK?\"\n\"I sure will, Jhi\", Mussa promised. \"Your boy didn't deserve to go through that\".\n\"Thanks, Mussa. I appreciate it\", Jhi said.\n\"HOLY SHIT! Looks like you got a peice that will do the job alright\" Mussa Binturong told Jhi Fossa as he noticed it was a 50 caliber pistol laying on the front seat of Jhi's car.\n\"It will\", replied Jhi. \"And you know, Mussa. When I get him, I won't stop with one shot. I'm gona empty the clip on that shit ball\".\n\"Can't say that I blame you\", said Mussa. \"But you shouldn't leave that gun where anyone can see it. They can give you the death penalty for having it, you know\".\n\"Yes, Mussa, you're right\", Jhi replied. \"I guess I have been getting careless with it\".\nAbout an hour later, Jhi thought he might get the nerve to drive out to the Rat Estate, and blast Zander all over some of their expensive carpet and marble floor in front of his family if he's there. Jhi Fossa figured that 50 cal of his would do a thorough job of dealing with Zander Rat. http://youtube.com/watch?v=wR8sXWSlMyU .\nOn his way to the Rat Estate, two law enforcement officers pulled Jhi over, a bear and German sheperd, outfitted with their gun belts and clip on badges (made to fasten to the fur hairs). When they approached Jhi's car, they began asking Jhi questions regarding going out to the Iscelberg Rat Estate.\n\"So you know where I'm heading\", Jhi affirmed.\n\"One of Zander's friends got scared and called\", the sheperd replied to Jhi, as they informed Jhi that Zander's motley friend he had talked to earlier reported that Jhi was out to get Zander.\nThe officers had no idea Jhi had a gun in the car, which Jhi was concerned about the officers searching the car for. Egyptian law forbids the general population to own a gun. And with Jhi Fossa hearing rumors that having a gun carries the death penalty, he wasn't sure whether he was going to feel compelled to use the gun on the officers to prevent being caught with it, which Jhi knew would have gotten ugly real quick.\nHowever, luckily for Jhi Fossa, the motley friend of Zander he questioned earlier was a big time, zoned out, air head, and forgot to give information to the police about there being a gun. \nThey didn't arrest Jhi considering the circumstances, but advised Jhi, \"We're going to let you go on your way, but you need to go home and cool out a bit\".\n\"I want that rat to pay for what he did to my son\", Jhi told the officers.\nThey told Jhi that Zander had already been hauled away in a straight jacket to an asylum for his sexual assault on Chad...His parent's doing, in lieu of him going to jail.\n\"A nut house\", Jhi replied. \"A country club for crazies. A slap on the paw, and a little medication. What about my boy?\"\n\"We're sorry, Jhi. It's out of our paws now\", the shepard told him.\nThe law officers then let Jhi be on his way. And when Jhi returned home and told his wife about what he encountered, she said what Jhi had commented to the officers.\n\"A slap on the paw, and some medicine\", Nirina replied.\nAfter Zander was committed into the asylum, other young males of various species felt safe to come foward and testify what Zander had also done to them. Some of Zander's victims had sexual injuries ranging from distortions and lesions on their penis heads, to sprawled opened and torn sheaths. A few injuries were severe enough to temporarily cripple the victim...all inflicted by Zander Rat. Even some of Zander's victims who had been circumcised, Zander had managed to injure in some way.\nThe cubs who Zander had injured, had in the past, made up alibis to their parents about their sexual injuries, out of fear of Zander. Since Zander got put away, the cubs who Zander molested were no longer afraid to make the truth known. There were so many who came foward, it seemed like young males were coming out of the woodwork as special victim's officers began piling cub sex crime charges up on Zander, including a charge of \"crime against religion\".\nA sex offender record would stop Zander from pursuing his dream of going to med-school and becoming a doctor, provided Zander didn't get 'death by stoning' for it, except Zander's dad was good friends with judges, attorneys and other elected officials. And Hanan III was a brother of the prosecutor, Heberen Iscelberg Rat PA, which also meant the prosecutor was Zander's uncle. Daddy Rat saw to it that all criminal charges against his son, Zander, somehow disappeared and mysteriously went away for good, so Zander can attend med-school, thus adding another pervert to the roster of medical doctors.\nUpon Zander's release from the asylum, Hanan III had to go to the courthouse and post bail to stop his son from being immediately transferred to jail because of the criminal charges on him. Then Hanan had to go from there, to the asylum to pick up his son. Hanan did not choose to have the chauffeur take him in one of the limousines. Hanan drove his vintage 1957 Jaguar XK-SS instead, so chauffeur Rohj Civet would not hear things he had to say in private to his son on the way home about the situation. http://youtube.com/waych?v=20UHwyi0RKc .\nWhen Hanan arrived to the asylum, Zander was waiting at the front gate.\n\"Dad, it's sure good to be out of THAT place. That place is looooney\", Zander told his dad as he got into the car. \"I see you took one of the Jags. Cool\".\nHanan was a bit too angry with Zander to say anything as Zander shut the door and they headed for home.\n\"They give you some really loopy medicine in that place, I tell you\", Zander told his dad, who was in no mood to listen.\nA few minutes down the road, Hanan said to Zander, \"Son, I believe you are aware there are tensions that have already existed between the general population and families like ours, here in Egypt, since our president was assassinated last year, and all that trouble going on in the Sinai Peninsula...You have been aware of that, haven't you?\"\n\"Well...Eh...Yea, Dad\", Zander Replied.\n\"SO YOU HAD TO GO PULL SOME SHIT LIKE THIS!\", Hanan reprimanded his son.\nZander didn't have much of a response to the reprimanding. On their rest of the way home, Hanan told Zander about how he was going to \"pull some strings\" with the family's politician friends to try to get Zander out of trouble.\nAfter Hanan and Zander arrived home, Zander's brother-in-law, Joseph Finnbecker Rat Sr., showed Zander a newspaper, printed two days after Zander was caught molesting the son of Nirina and Jhi Fossa. It hit Zander like a sack of bricks when he saw the front page headline, in Arabic script, \"Iscelberg Rat Family Member Charged With Sexually Attacking Cubs\". Under the headlines, centered on the front page, was a large picture of Zander Rat himself, and the half page article had details that many paperback novel publishers wouldn't print. Of course, the names of the victims, being underage cubs, were withheld.\n\"Oh, by the way, you also made it on television, Zander\", Joseph told him as he snatched the newspaper back and stormed away.\n\nChapter 24. The Court Arraignment and it's Aftermath\n\nIt was only a few days after Zander was released from the asylum, he was bought up for arraignment on multuple cub sex crime charges. Zander and his family, the family relateted prosecutor, other attorneys, the judge and others of course were in court. The courtroom was a full house with Zander's molested victims and and their parents also being there, looking forward to seeing Zander get his just deserts. Everyone stands as it is announced, \"The Honorable Judge Silas Opossum presiding\". Then everyone is seated,\n\"This is the arraignment for the case of, The Anthro Animals of the Governorate of Menia vs Zander Iscelberg Rat\", Judge Silas Opossum announces, then reading a very long list of cub sex crime charges on Zander Rat. \"Counselor. How does the defendant plead?\"\n\"Not guilty on all counts, Your Honor\", replies Zander's attorney as gasping and murmuring can be heard from the parents of the victims through out the courtroom.\n\"The court calls the prosecution to present probable cause\", says Judge Silas Opossum.\nThe prosecutor, a grey, circumcised rat, who is Zander's uncle, replies, \"All charges are null pros, Your Honor\".\n\"Zander Iscelberg Rat. All charges are dismissed. You're free to go\", said Judge Silas as \"clack\" goes the gavel.\nThrough out the courtroom, there were angry outbursts from victim's parents, as Judge Silas tried to restore order. Special victim's officers, who arrested Zander, looked on, stunned in disbelief. Many cub victims and their mothers began crying, while Zander and his family were all smiles, congratulating the attorneys, and thanking their corrupt influential friends. When Zander shook paws with his Uncle, Attorney Heberen Rat, the victim's families then knew the arraignment was a rigged rehearsal. \"YOU'LL LEAVE THIS COURTROOM AS A CORPSE, ZANDER!\", a victim's dad shouted. \"YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!\", another dad shouted, as the courtroom quickly became an out of control free-for-all, and Judge Silas clacking the gavel, trying to restore order.\n\"YOU BETTER SEEK AN UNDERTAKER!\", the dad, of a molested wolf cub, hollered in Hanan III's face. \"THAT SHIT BAG FOR A SON OF YOURS IS ABOUT TO NEED ONE!\"\n\"WHAT THAT CREEP HAS DONE IS SUPPOSE TO CARRY THE DEATH PENALTY HERE IN EGYPT...BY STONING\", a mother Madagascan fossa screamed out.\nHer friend, Nirina Fossa, replied, \"BACK IN MADAGASCAR, WE BURN SHIT LIKE HIM TO DEATH OUT ON A BEACH!\"\n\"ORDER IN THIS COURT, NOW!\", Judge Silas shouted as he repeatedly clacked the gavel.\nAt that point, the court room was like all Hell had broken loose.\nA daddy fox, almost in tears himself, and with court bailiffs trying to hold him off, got up in Zander's face, trying to maul him, and shouted, \"A MONSTER LIKE YOU HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST! I'LL DROP YOU INTO HELL!\"\nA daddy otter, who's son had his inner penis sheath torn by Zander, pointed a 6 inch blade, fold up knife in Zander's face, hollering, \"I'LL CUT YOU UP YOU SORRY PIECE OF SHIT! I'LL THROW YOUR PIECES IN THE NILE RIVER!\"\nThe knife was confiscated by bailiffs, with some struggle, then the otter family was ordered to leave the courthouse. The rest of the Rat family were now being threatened. Judge Silas Opossum still could not regain order, as a lesser panda's dad was being arrested for telling Judge Silas he was as good as dead.\nZander and his family finally had to be escorted, under police protection, out to where Rohj Civet, their chauffeur, was waiting with their limousine for them.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=mSs1RjH5nRE \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet#/media/F...\nLaw officers had to hold a mob of outraged parents at bay while the Rat family scurried into their limousine. Rohj Civet hurriedly closed the door behind them, and quickly got in behind the wheel. Once the family and chauffeur were in, Zander's dad told Rohj, \"ROHJ, GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE!\" Rohj floored the accelerator, squalling the limo's tires as they went speeding off. Relatives of the victims hurled rocks at the limo as it sped by, doing sheet metal damage, breaking the windsheild and grill, and knocking off a sideview mirror, to what was then, a brand new 1982, high gloss black, Cadillac Fleetwood, stretch limousine. A lit Molotov cocktail bomb was also thrown at the limo, but missed and smashed onto the street into ball of fire.\nZander's mom, Judith, told Rohj, \"If they get in the way, run them down! Just - don't - stop!\"\nRohj had to turn a street corner around the court house grounds to get to the highway. As the limo sped around the corner, more victim's relatives hurled rocks, knocking off a wheel cover, puncturing the A/C condenser, and busting out a rear door glass. As Rohj Civet floored it out of the turn, heading for the highway, a daddy merekat, who's son was temporarily crippled from a sexual injury by Zander, flung a tire iron into the path of the speeding limo, meant to come through the windshield and take Rohj out, but smashing out a headlight instead. The tire iron flew up over the roof of the limo, and went bouncing and clanging down the street, along with broken headlight glass, as the battered limo sped away. The meerkat's brother emptied the clip of a 38 caliber pistol at the fleeing limo, as he stood in the street, managing to shoot a hole in the trunk lid, dinging the bumper in two places and shooting out the left tail light.\nRelatives of the victims got into their cars and took off, chaseing after the Rat family limousine.\n\"HANAN, HANAN! THEY'RE COMING AFTER US! DO SOMETHING!\", Judith exclaimed in panic as she saw the cars speeding up the street behind them.\n\"What CAN I do, Judith?!\", Hanan retorted, then told Rohj, \"Rohj! You really need to step on it! We're being chased!\"\nWhen the limo got to the main highway leading out of town, Rohj swung the corner wide and fast, without stopping, with the wheels screeching and the limo starting to swing out sideways. After straightening the limo back out of the slide, Rohj Civet punched it to the floor, rapidly wide open accelerating as hard as it can go, the 368 cubic inch engine reaching high RPMs before each gear shift of the limo's automatic transmission, and the speedometer needle quickly sweeping over to the high end. http://youtube.com/watch?v=V2homlJBbzY . In only a few minutes, they were out of town, speeding down open Egyptian desert highway. The chase reached speeds to well over 160 kilometers per hour, as Rohj tried to loose them, and having to watch the highway through a cracked up windshield.\n\"Just keep it wide open, Rohj!\", Hanan III told him. \"Don't slow down! Keep the accelerator to the floor\".\nOlder brother Hanan IV was able to get through on the limo's mobile phone and call for help...There were no cell phones in 1982.\nBy now, a slight vibration could be felt coming from a front tire, and at 210 kph (125 mph) the limo's speed was well beyond the point when it's speedometer pegged out at 85 miles per hour.\n\"Rohj! Some of them are gaining on us! Can't you go faster?!\", sister Givol pleaded.\n\"This is all the speed I can get out of it!\", Rohj retorted. \"I'm holding it wide open now! It won't go any faster!\"\nAfter about a few seconds, Rohj could hear Hanan IV tell his younger brother, Zander, \"Thanks a lot for all of this, Shit Head...I hope you're happy\".\nFurther down the highway, the Rat Family and Rohj noticed a couple of those in pursuit had to give up the chase, because their cars had boiled over with their engines overheated. But it wasn't long before a Volvo, driven by a binturong, who's nephew was one of Zander's victims, had caught up to the back of the limo. The binturong started repeatedly clacking bumpers with the limo, slightly stearing side to side, trying to throw the limo out of control. But the Volvo wasn't heavy enough, on it's first try, to run a full size, western built stretch limousine off the highway.\n\"Damn it! That binturong back there is trying to wreck us!\", said Hanan III as everyone could feel the bumping and swaying.\n\"I can feel the rear end swaying\", Rohj replied as he worked at trying keeping the limo straight.\nIt really started getting scarey when the tires of both vehicles could be heard chirping against the pavement at 210 kilometers per hour. And by now, the big, heavy limo started a rocking motion, and drifting all over the highway with a surreal, slow motion sensation. Rohj would let his foot off the accelerator for only a split second at a time before putting it back to the floor, trying to maintain control of the vehicle as he began to loose feel of the road.\n\"That son of a bitch is crazy!\", Hanan retorted.\n\"It feels like I'm driving on ice! This limousine is starting to get away from me!\" Rohj told Hanan as they were still speeding down the highway at 210 kph. \"What do you what me to do?!\".\n\"I don't know!\", Hanan frantically answered, then after pausing a moment, said, \"ROHJ! When he backs off for another hit, slam the brakes on him! I don't give a damn about the back of the limo!\"\nAs soon as the Volvo backed off for another hit, Rohj locked the limo's brakes for a second, causing the Volvo to smash against the back of the limo. The binturong then dropped his car back 30 meters. That's when Rhoj slammed the brakes as hard as he can, all four tires smoking and screaming against the pavement, until the Volvo crashed into the rear of the limo, caving the Volvo's radiator into it's fan and engine, and smashing it's left front fender, into the left front wheel. The moment the binturong released the brakes, his car went spinning out of control with a front wheel locked up, tires smoking against the pavement, still at over 150 kph, then flipped over. As Rohj again floored the accelerator to flee the remaining cars, the Rat Family saw, from the limo's rear window, the Volvo rolling over and over and over, with glass, chrome and contents sprawling all over the highway and the Volvo's hood flying off. Judith and Givol gasped when everyone watched, in dismay, it's driver get ejected then hitting the pavement and tumbling down the highway like a thrown rag doll, as other cars swerved almost out of control at high speed, barely avoiding running him over.\n\"I knew someone was going to get hurt before this was over with!\", Givol exclaimed.\nRohj himself witnessed glimpses of the roll over in the remaining side view mirror that wasn't knocked off by the earlier rock pelting.\nAs Rohj got the limo speeding down the highway back up to 210 kph, members of the Rat Family looked back at the overturned Volvo fade out of sight into a distant mirage, as they left it far behind, along with it's badly hurt driver laying on the highway, clinging to life in a cloud of coolant steam and tire smoke.\nBy this time, Rohj and the Rat family could hear that vibrating front tire making a low, but rapid \"rap-rap-rap-rap-rap-rap\" sound, along with the noise of small debris striking inside of the front fender well.\nSeveral of those, who were chasing the limo, stopped to assist the injured binturong, and a few of them headed back to the city, speeding off to get help. Of those who decided to resumed the chase, it wasn't long before a couple of them began to gain on the limo, just as the binturong in the Volvo had done minutes earlier.\n\"That's all WE need\", Rohj murmured.\n\"What is it, Rohj?\", Hanan asked.\n\"We're not going to be going much longer. The engine is starting to run hot\", Rohj explained to Hanan as he briefly pointed to the temperature light, lit up on the limo's instrument panel.\n\"I just don't know what we're going to do, Rohj\", Hanan replied, trying to maintain a calm composure the best he could. \"Let's slow down some. That might help. If the rest of them get too close, slam the brakes on them like you did the binturong\".\nRohj slowed the limo down to 155 kph (just under 100 mph) as Hanan instructed him to do, but it didn't do any good. Within a few minutes, steam could be seen blowing out from under the hood as everyone could smell the odor of boiling coolant. By now, the pursuing cars had gained close behind the Rat Family limousine, with their drivers waiting for the limo to inevitably quit running.\nIt was about that time, police finally caught up and pulled everyone over, putting a stop to the chase. And not a moment too soon. In addition to the limo being on the verge of boiling over and burning up the engine, one of the limo's front tires was on it's way to going flat from picking up a peice of broken glass from the headlight the meerkat flung the tire iron into, back when they left the courthouse. Before the chase was stopped, the vibration that was felt in the limo was from \"standing waves\" on the deflating tire. And the rapping sound was the tire already showing signs of tread separation, with steel belting beginning to show, and could have blown at any time. And at 210 kph (125 mph), it would have been beyond Rohj Civet's ability to keep the vehicle under control...A stretch limousine flipping over, or crashing into roadside palm trees, at over 200 kilometers per hour would have gotten really ugly really quick...Not a pretty price to pay for a family member who can't respect the decent integrity of little cubs.\nAs Rohj prepared to change the punctured tire, the Rat Family got out of the limousine and had their first real look at the damage done to it. Rohj had to borrow a tire iron from one of the law enforcement officers to pry open the limo's smashed trunk lid from where the Volvo rammed it, before he could get to the spare and jack.\n\"I'm glad I thought of taking this one instead of the Rolls, \"Daddy Hanan said, referring to their 1981 Rolls Royce ultra stretch http://youtube.com/watch?v=49H_sZfxba0 .\n\"It looks terrible! It's just awful, Hanan dear! What kind of bums would want to do this to one of our cars?\", Judith carried on.\n\"Yea Yea Yea, Judith. I know\", Hanan told his wife in a tone showing he was being annoyed by her, and then asked a law enforcement officer how badly did the binturong get hurt who was thrown from his car.\nThe officer told Hanan, \"I heard on our radio it's not good. He has some broken bones, and it looks like he may have internal injuries. They said he's barely conscious. We have an ambulance on the way to...\"\n\"...SHIT FOR BRAIN PERVERT!\", brother Hanan IV hollered out as he repeatedly rammed Zander's face into one of the limo's quarter panel roof supports hard enough to slightly dent it. \"YOU'LL GET US ALL KILLED!\"\n\"HANAN! THAT'S ENOUGH!\", Daddy Hanan Rat III called to his first son. \"That's not doing any good\".\n\"Doesn't do any harm either\", brother Hanan IV told his dad as he turned loose of Zander.\nZander, looking stupid, and walking in circles, just held his paws on his bleeding nose, going, \"Ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh\", sounding like someone with a nose plugged up.\nEveryone looked upon Zander with disdain, including his own family. Even Rohj gave a look, and briefly shook his head, as if to say, \"How pathetic\".\n The Rat Family remembered all too well how Yomin Genet VI, one of Hanan III's business associates, died in a high speed limousine crash eleven years earlier. Hanan III told Rohj about it once during a driving safety lecture. It took place one summer evening in the year 1971, in Saudi Arabia, on one of those open desert highways that have no speed limit. Yomin Genet VI, his wife Marcie, and his cub son Yomin VII were out on a road trip in their, then brand new, 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=mRP7qeSFLe4 .\nYomin VI had Yousif Mongoose, their chauffeur, run the limo at 230 kph (140 mph) as he always had done all along. Back in the day, many Cadillacs were equipped with a high compression, 500 cubic inch V-8.\nOn the day of the accident, the Genet Family limo sped past a slow moving truck as they were approaching a road side palm tree grove. According to the eyewitness testimony given by the driver of the truck, an Asian linsang, the limo had to be traveling at nearly 240 kph, and when the limo moved back out of the oncoming lane, the chauffeur apparently over steered it onto the sandy shoulder of the highway, causing the wheels to catch in the sand and throw the limo out of control. The linsang then recalled watching the limo slam into the palm tree grove at nearly 240 kph, shooting it's chauffeur out through the windshield, his body disintegrating against the palm trees, and the engine and transmission thrown out across the desert sand. The limo continued slamming through the palm trees, sheering a few of them down and tearing off the limo's mangled front section where the chauffeur sat. The passenger and rear section of the limo spun airborne diagonally along and across the highway at an incredibly high speed five feet above the pavement, then slammed into some palm trees on the other side of the highway, tearing off the rear section as the gas tank exploded. The Rat Family remembered the linsang telling of how when the torn apart remains of the limo flew airborne over the highway, he saw drive shaft sections, mufflers, exhaust pipe and other pieces and parts of the limo, chrome trim and broken glass flying and sprawling everywhere. And of the blood and cut up body parts of the limo's occupants that were thrown all over the highway. The linsang described the limo's fiery rear section as looking like a fiery comet speeding across the desert sand until it came to rest. The limo's mid section ended up as unrecognizable, mangled sheet steel smashed and wrapped into the palm trees. The front section, barely recognizable as a piece of a motor vehicle, came to rest in one of the highway's travel lanes. The battered up engine and transmission ended up 150 meters (450 feet) beyond the wreckage. And the highway was littered with blood, car parts, glass and mongoose and genet body parts, and two sheared off palm trees laying across the pavement blocking both lanes.\n Remembering how Yomin Genet VI, his wife and son and chauffeur died, the danger Zander put the family in, and that front tire on the Rat Family limo almost blowing out at high speed, who can blame Zander's older brother for slamming Zander's face into their dad's limo?\n After Rohj Civet got the flat changed, police provided the Rat Family escort protection to their home. It had been a scarey and surreal experience to both family and chauffeur.\n\nChapter 25. The Fallout and Repercussions\n\nThe following morning, Rohj Civet, out of concern for his own life because of the danger Zander put the family in, turned in his resignation and quit. Rohj and Hanan had already seen that morning's newspaper, showing a picture of the wrecked Volvo, with paramedics tending to it's injured driver in the background.\n\"I'm going to be on the level with you, Hanan. I can no longer feel safe working here for you anymore\", Rohj said to Zander's dad. \"And truthfully, if it was one of my boys your son got a hold of, I would not have been driving your limousine yesterday. This black footed palm civet would have been throwing rocks with the rest of them\".\nHanan replied, \"Rohj, I hate to loose you. You've been the best chauffeur I've had. And I'm truly sorry you were put through this\".\nHanan made it up to Rohj by giving him a 5,000 pound severance payment, which was chump change to Hanan and family. And Hanan promised Rohj he would give Rohj a good reference when he looked for another job.\nRohj had been becoming prosperous by making use of the investment and corporate sharing knowledge Hanan III had taught him over the years. Those were secrets to financial wealth that Hanan's family doesn't share with just anyone. Many years ago, Rohj Civet was a homeless beggar who Hanan and family felt pity for and took him in. Rohj was faithful and loyal to the Rat Family, and Hanan III shared knowledge and \"status quo secrets\" with Rohj about acquiring financial wealth...That is provided Rohj gave his word not to share those secrets with those of middle and low income.\nA gardener and two house servants also quit. One of the servants who quit, Gloria, a lemur, told Zander's dad when she picked up her last paycheck, \"You do know, Hanan, your son fix it so this is now a dangerous place to work...You know that don't you?\"\nHanan could only agree with her.\nZander had to leave the country for his own safety if he was to remain alive. The Egyptian Judicial System arranged to have Zander immigrate to Southern India under a special protection program agreed to by both countries. After arrangements were made with one of Judith's family friends in India for Zander to have a place to stay, and once Zander's passport was ready, Zander was flown to Southern India in a matter of hours aboard his dad's private jet, with dad and mom coming along...Nowhere near the kind of trip the meerkats were to have getting from Angola to India 23 years later. After they arrived in India, Hanan III and Judith discussed some behavioral issues with their son, Zander, while waiting at the airport for Judith's friend to arrive to pick Zander up. It wasn't very long before Judith's friend, Ruby Rat, showed up.\n\"Over here! Ruby!\", Judith called out as she waved to get Ruby's attention among the crowd at the airport.\n\"Oh hi! It's been a while. How's everyone been doing?, Ruby asked as she came over.\n\"We've been all doing OK\", Judith answered.\n\"Considering\", Hanan gruffed as he glanced over at his son, Zander.\n\"Awww, Hanan, how could you?\", Judith retorted. \"That's so mean\".\n\" Your brother-in-law, Louie, phoned me and told me about what Zander had done\",Ruby told Judith. \"And, Zander, you should be ashamed of yourself\".\nZander had no reply. He just stood there embarrassed in the presents of the rest of the anthro animals at the air port.\n\"Hanan, can we continue this conversation in Arabic so the other animals here don't know what we're saying?\", Judith asked her husband. \"You can see Zander's getting embarrassed\".\n\"I - will - not\", Hanan retorted. \"Let them know. I don't care. I don't really give a shit. Zander will just have to be embarrassed\".\n\"Where did young Hanan and Givol go off to?\" Ruby asked. \"I'd like to meet them\".\n\"They didn't come along on the trip\", answered Judith. \"They're at home\".\n\"They were to pissed at Zander to come along\" Hanan added. \"I don't blame them\".\n\"Ahhh, Hanaaaan. Come on\", Judith begged her husband.\nRuby, Judith and Hanan talked a while longer before Hanan and Judith headed back to their private jet to go back home to Egypt.\nAs they were leaving, Judith said to Ruby, \"Take care of our little cub for me\".\n\"Mom. I'm a big rat, not a cub\", Zander called back as he was leaving with Ruby.\n\"Just - Keep him out of more trouble\", Hanan requested to Ruby.\nRuby had several friends in high places around Southern India, and had lots of connections who helped Zander get a high paying job, then helped him with some very profitable investments. Before long, Zander was able to get a home in a ritzy neighborhood in Salem, in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, that he picked up really cheap on a tax foreclosure auction. Zander also got a 1954 Lancia Aurelia pf 200, convertible, two seat, sports car, in metallic silver, he found at an estate sale. He was just in the right place at the right time on that deal, and had the cash with him to buy it. It was a really weird looking car with a bold circular grill, but it appealed to Zander, and it is a classic.\n http://www.pinterest.com/pin/143904150563292120\nSeveral months later, Zander began fulfilling his dream of going to med-school to become a doctor.\n\n(This mess Zander dragged his family into happened 4 years before Zhang Meerkat was even born, and when Annika was only 3 years old.)\n\nMeanwhile, back in Egypt, after Zander had left for India, the parents of Zander's molested victims were constantly showing up at the Rat Estate, demanding to know the whereabouts of Zander.\nBut Zander's family would only give answers such as, \"None of your business! And leave us alone!\", or, \"Get off our property or we'll have you arrested!\", or, \"You have no business here! I think you better leave\".\nBut Zander's family didn't say those things to Jhi Fossa, who showed up one morning, wielding that 50 cal Desert Eagle pistol, demanding answers. And it was full clip locked and loaded with safety off too.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=ftTyvjmMfWE .\nThe Rat family and house servants went diving under furniture, females screaming, and some running through the mansion for cover, instead of mouthing off at Jhi as they did to the others. Holding the 50 cal pistol two paw hold with elbows locked, Jhi fired a shot, \"FOOM\", into a large, 1,200 year old, antique vase exploding it everywhere as it flew into pieces the size of potato chips, with the noise of loud gunfire echoing throughout the mansion, and the smoking shell casing bouncing off of a rosewood coffee table onto the black and white, checkered, marble floor. Jhi ran into a large family room and found Givol cringing behind a love seat. \n\"WHERE IS HE!?\", Jhi demanded as he fired a second shot, \"FOOM\", blasting a chunk out of one of the mansion's beautiful, genuine marble walls, sending marble shrapnel into the cathedral style ceiling and nearby furniture.\nGivol screamed in fear as she leaped up from behind the love seat and ran to a staircase atrium then up a flight of steps to the 2nd floor.\nJhi Fossa had only one reason for being in the Rat Family mansion. That was to get answers as to Zander's whereabouts, and blast a cantaloupe size hole through anyone who gets in his way.\nJhi heard Givol scream from upstairs, \"EVERYONE OUTSIDE!\".\n\"NO! YOU'LL BE AN OPEN TARGET OUT THERE!\", a male voice replied as Jhi began to run up to the 2nd floor.\nAs the Rat Family and servants continued panicking, running and hiding throughout the mansion, Jhi shouted, \"JE METTRAI ZANDER EN ENFER! (I WILL SEND ZANDER TO HELL!)\" and fired another shot, \"FOOM\", barely missing Joseph Finbecker Rat Sr. as the round went ricocheting off the marble walls down a long hallway into the Rat Family's private library, followed by the noise of a massive chandelier crashing down in the library. Joseph Rat, fearing for his life, swiftly ducked into a nearby room and slammed and locked the solid, red oak door behind him. \"FOOM FOOM\", two shots Jhi fired into the solid, red oak door, blasting out two holes in it, sending wood shards flying into the room on the other side, pocking chunks out of a marble wall into shrapnel that barely missed Joseph Sr., and destroying the door with it's beautifully ornate pearl, bird's eye maple and ebony inlay.\nIt quickly became obvious to the estate residence that this was one fossa with a hot temper and was not the kind who played games.\nJhi then ran to a large, lavishly furnished, foyer area adjacent to some bedrooms up on the 3rd floor. From behind a locked bedroom door, Jhi heard Hanan's wife, Judith, on a phone calling for help.\n\"OPERATOR! OPERATOR! OPERATOR!\", Judith screamed hysterically while frequently catching her breath. \"GET ME THE POLICE!... THERE'S A MAD FOSSA IN THE HOUSE!... HE HAS A GUN AND HE'S TRYING TO KILL US!... WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!... IT'S THE ISCELBERG RAT ESTATE!... HURRYYYYYYYYY!\" \nJhi Fossa fled the Rat Family Estate with his smoking gun when he heard that. Jhi may be a bit crazy at times, but he's not stupid. He knew when it was time to leave.\nAs Jhi ran through the grand entry foyer on his way out of the mansion, he, and a maid who was running for a place to hide, bumped into each other. The maid, a Malagasy civet, named Sharrah, was so terrified she fainted, passing out onto the floor.\nAfter Jhi Fossa had left, the Rat Family and servants, seeing Sharrah laying on the floor, had assumed that the intruding fossa had shot and killed her...That was until she woke up, crying, still scared half out of her wits, and no gun shot wounds were seen on her, which was a big relief to everyone. Joseph Rat mentioned that if Sharrah had been shot with what the intruder was firing in the Rat Family mansion, she would have been blown apart.\nNone of the estate residents knew who Jhi was. All Hanan was able to tell the responding officers was Jhi's description, what happened, and that he thought it might have been a 357 magnum pistol that was used. Joseph speculated it may have been a 50 cal. The type of pistol was confirmed as a 50 cal when the officers collected the shell casings that were ejected from Jhi's gun. At one point, Hanan had to tell the officers that Japeth Fossa was not the intruder. Japeth had just started as the Rat Family's new limousine chauffeur since Rohj had quit.\nAfter that incident, Zander's dad hired armed security to protect the family and the estate, and had construction started on a security wall around much of the acreage that surrounds the mansion, with all entrances key code accessible only, plus the installation of security cameras and outdoor lighting. The Rat Family never kept their own firearms easily accessible as they were only used for sport shooting events. But that had now changed.\n \nJhi Fossa had contemplated purchasing a 300 H & H mag, high powered rifle, with a long range scope, to pick off the Rat Family and security guards at a distance from the Rat Estate.\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=lAXELlxWgZ8 .\nJhi knew of some high ground, not far from the Rat Estate, where he could draw aim above that new security wall Hanan had built. But Jhi thought it over, how Nirina would loose her husband, and Chad would loose his dad, if one of those guards shot back and killed Jhi, or if Jhi got life in prison or the death penalty for it. And there was also the risk of sparking off a family war against powerfully wealthy, secret society, illuminates, as well as others among the ranks of the influential, dragging Jhi's loved ones into a living nightmare, with Jhi gone. So Jhi Fossa never followed through with that idea. Being with his family meant more to him than the satisfaction of revenge. Jhi figured God, whom he often referred to as \"Zanahary\" due to his Madagasy roots, will someday punish Zander, Zander's dad, their corrupt politician freinds and others for what Zander had done, and the rest of them for covering it up.\n\nThree years later, in July of 1985, Jhi Fossa had a run in with Joseph Finbecker Rat Sr. Shortly before noon, Jhi, along with his wife Nirina, and his son Chad, then age 11, stopped in at a local hardware store to get some materials to repair a sink drain at their house. Joseph Rat with his wife Givol, and son Joseph Jr., then age 12, and daughter Julia, then age 2, were riding by in their chauffeur driven, Mercedes limousine, when \"Joey\" Sr. noticed Jhi Fossa driving the BMW he and his family were riding in. Joey Sr. positively recognized it was Jhi when they passed Jhi's car as it was pulling off of the street and into the hardware store parking lot.\n\"The Fossa driving that car!\", Joseph Sr. called out, then told the chauffeur, \"Mondo! pull into to that hardware store!\nMondo Mongoose turned the limo around then pulled into the store's sand and gravel parking lot just as the Fossa Family were getting out of their car.\n\"I have a score to settle with that Fossa!\", Joey Sr. exclaimed as he leaped out of the limo.\n\"JOEY! LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE! IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS AGO!\", Givol called to her husband.\n\"YOU'RE THE SHIT HEAD WHO SHOT AT ME AT MY FATHER-IN-LAW'S ESTATE A FEW YEARS BACK!\", Joey Sr. hollered as he came running at Jhi Fossa and punched him once in the snout.\nMuch to Joesph's surprise, Jhi Fossa punched Joseph back the the face twice as hard, knocking the rat silly, then shoving him down across the rough gravel parking lot. Jhi then picked Joseph up in a neck hold and repeatedly pounded Joseph's face until the rat fell unconscious.\n\"STOP IT! STOP IT!\", Givol screamed from inside the limo as 12 year old Joey Jr. was crying, and as 2 year old Julia hugged onto Mommy, half scared out of her wits.\nThen Joey Rat Jr., still crying, got out of the limo, picked up a paw full of gravel and slung it at Jhi's car. That's when 11 year old Chad Fossa jumped out of his dad's car and started beating on Joey Jr., sending him back into the limo, crying even harder.\n\"DON'T YOU EVER THROW STONES AT MY DAD'S CAR EVER NEVER AGAIN!\", Chad Fossa retorted to Joey Rat Jr. as the traumatized rat cub scrambled back into his mom and dad's limo.\nAs Jhi tossed Joey Rat Sr., still unconscious, back into his limo, Givol hollered, \"YOU ALL ARE BRUTES! PRIMATIVE, HORRIBLE MONSTERS!\"\nNirina Fossa ran up to the open door of the limo and told Givol, \"YOUR HUSBAND DESERVED IT! AND YOU HAVE SOME MONSTERS YOURSELF, LIKE THE ONE WHO SEXUALLY ATTACKED MY SON!... VOUS SALOPE CHIENNE!\"\n\"WHAT'S A LOPACHINEY!?\", Givol replied.\n\"YOU SLUT BITCH!\", Nirina answerd.\nGivol Rat gasped in disbelief with her eyes and mouth wide open, as her husband still laid unconscious on the limo's floor, and her son still crying. Jhi slammed the door shut on the limo as hard as he can, then he walked over to the driver's door and knocked on the window. Mondo Mongoose lowered the powered window down only barely enough so he can hear Jhi.\nThen Jhi told the chauffeur, \"Get this shit charade out of here or you're the next one to come out of this car\".\n\"Yes Sir!\", Mondo replied, then drove the limo with it's occupants on the way out of the parking lot.\nAs the limo was pulling away, Givol lowered a window enough to shout back, \"YOU'LL HEAR FROM OUR LAWYER!\"\nGivol then raised the window back closed as the limo left the parking lot and headed down the street.\n\nAlthough Givol threatened legal action, a letter from an attorney never was sent to the mailbox of Jhi and Nirina Fossa. Joseph and Givol Rat were advised by their lawyer it would cost more in attorneys fees to sue Jhi and Nirina Fossa than what they could collect.\nJoseph Rat Sr. later told his wife's uncle, Attorney Heberen Rat, the local prosecuting attorney, that he now knows it was Jhi who shot up the Iscelberg Rat Estate.\nHeberen then told Joseph Sr., \"Well, Joey, you know it's Jhi, and I know it's Jhi. But after three years, it would be difficult to prove it was Jhi Fossa who showed up with the gun on that day. They'd only throw it out of court\". \nZander was always the \"bad apple\" of the Iscelberg Rat Family. And this incident was one of many examples of how other animals were dragged into the situations that Zander had caused. \n\nThere was another encounter in April of the following year, 1986, when Jhi Fossa and his family were at a large community market (flea market). Joseph Rat and his family, who dropped by to see what the market was like, noticed the Fossa Family from a short distance away. Joseph got the attention of the Fossas, then slowly raised a middle finger at Jhi.\n\"I can care less what it means, pal,\" Jhi called out to Joseph Rat as He, Nirina and Chad were giving the Rat Family dirty looks.\nThen the Fossa Family continued to go about their business.\nJoseph's wife, Givol, then pulled Joseph aside and gave him a good reprimanding over it, then scorned at him, \"This kind of a vagabond market is not meant for the animals of our social status anyway\".\nThen the Finbecker Rat Family left the market with 13 year old Joesph Jr. in the lead, and 3 year old Julia Finbecker Rat toddling along behind them.\n\nThis encounter at the community market in El-Minya, Egypt, in April of 1986, took place at the same time when Lacara Meerkat, in the Cunene Province of Angola, was two weeks away from giving birth to Zhang. And it was on the same day Annika turned 7 years old, and when Zhang's oldest brother Moze was age 6 and when next oldest brother Jorad was age 3 (died in the war at age 12). It was 6 years before Cheesah was born. And it was also when Zander Iscelberg Rat, then age 28, in India, was close to completing his junior year of med school. At that time, even Moze and Jorad (in Angola) at ages 3 and 6, seemed like they had more common sense than Zander (in India) at age 28.\n\n\nChapter 26. Zander Rat in India.\n\nIt was in India, Zander Rat attended med-school and became a doctor, graduating with his doctor's degree in the class of 1991, which was one year before Cheesah Meerkat was born in Angola...who would be the same meerkat who would 22 years later fuck up Zander in a hospital parking lot in India.\nNow Zander can pull almost the same perverted crap in India as he pulled in Egypt, but under the cloak of immunity...almost...by being a medical doctor. 'Almost', meaning that circumcision in India was still considered unethical, and in some places illegal, unless requested by the patient. But that didn't stop Zander Rat. He still pulled off doing unwanted circumcisions whenever there was no one around with authority above him to stop him.\nOn the days Dr. Rat didn't have an ER shift at the hospital, he would also attempt to circumcise his male cub patients at his office of medical practice, which was located in a rented store front in an old, ratty strip-mall that had that late 1950s architecture. However, that circumcision notion didn't go over well with the cubs or with the parents of those cubs. The parents would always take their ailing cubs and storm out of Dr. Rat's office to go seek a different doctor.\nDr. Zander Rat's circumcision fetish had also caused much friction between himself and the other doctors who will not do the procedure unless a consenting adult animal requests it. There in Salem, India, in April of 1992, a six year old male wolf cub was taken to the hospital by ambulance after he was struck on a bicycle by a car. Dr. Rat was among the doctors who were on emergency room shift that day. The wolf cub was not seriously hurt, but he did have a sprained knee and some small cuts and scrapes. At the hospital, the little wolf cub had a fellow wolf as his doctor, Dr. Clyde Wolf MD. The cub wolf and Dr. Wolf took a liking to each other, as did Nurse Sheryl Fox, as Dr. Wolf braced up the cub's sprained knee, and Nurse Sheryl Fox tended to the cub's cuts and scrapes. Immediately after the cub's knee was braced, Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox had to go assist other doctors who were struggling with a bear who had been off his epilepsy medication and was having seizures...and he was a very strong bear to restrain too. Dr. Zander Rat did not offer any help for the bear, but after the bear's crisis was under control, Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox went back to see how their little patient was doing, only to find that he was missing. Out of concern for the missing wolf cub, other doctors and nurses helped to look for him, which meant they had to momentarily leave the patients they were treating in order to do so. Everyone looked in the treatment rooms, around outside, in the hallways, and even in the patient and visitor's lounge in case he may have wandered there wanting a snack or a soda. Even Hospital Security was called to look for the cub, although they knew he couldn't have gotten far away on a sprained knee...not on his own anyway. Twenty five minutes later, an otter, who is a hospital security guard, found the cub in a large, A/C mechanical, utility room, still laying on the gurney he was treated on, sedated and out like a light, and...circumcised...which he wasn't when he came in. While the little wolf cub was still knocked out, his little K-9 wolf penis was sticking out in the open air, laying flopped over naked in it's owner's belly fur hairs, with stitches around it where a sheath recently was. The cub's penis sheath was discovered where it had been tossed over near some A/C machinery.\n\"I'LL POUND THAT RAT INTO PULP!\", Dr. Wolf raged, knowing from Zander's, then 1st year track record as a doctor, it had to be Zander who circumcised the wolf cub.\n\"Poor babe\", Nurse Sheryl Fox sighed for the sedated and circumcised wolf cub.\n\"That lowlife rat sneaked him here to do this to him\", Dr. Julius Orangutan scorned as the A/C machinery in the utility room continued running.\n\"We know now why Dr. Rat was not with us to help with the bear...He was doing THIS\", said Nurse Cindy Panda, a lesser panda.\n\"Animals like Zander have no business being a medical doctor\", Nurse Fox added as an intern wheeled the wolf cub out of the utility room and back to ER.\n\"WHERE IS HE! HE HAS AN ASS BEATING COMING! Dr. Clyde Wolf exclaimed as he began to set out to search the hospital hallways for Dr. Zander Rat.\nDr. Julius Orangutan talked Dr. Wolf out of searching for Dr. Rat, convincing him that Dr. Rat has mostly likely left to go home or to his doctor's office location after doing what he did.\n\"Searching the hallways in this hospital is not helping our patients in ER\", Julius reminded Clyde. \"They need us in ER\".\nNeedless to say, the little wolf cub was hysterical over what was done to his penis when he awoke from the sedation, and his parents were highly pissed off over what was done to their son. The wolf cub did identify Zander Rat as the doctor who wheeled him out of ER when the bear was having the seizure, although from what the wolf cub recalled from there, Zander stuck him with a needle, then it was lights out.\nAt that time, Zander Rat had been a doctor for only a year, and he had already fixed it to where no one else liked him. Dr. Wolf didn't like Dr. Zander Rat from almost as far back as day one a year earlier, back shortly after Zander Rat first got his doctor's license.\nThat shenanigan Dr. Zander Rat pulled on the wolf cub in the A/C utility room did catch up to him though. Dr. Tavi Mongoose, who was a senior doctor by that time, came on ER shift the following day, Dr. Mongoose had already made several attempts before to get Zander Rat shut down for good as a doctor. And when he learned of what Dr. Rat had done to the wolf cub, he went straight to Administration and reported Dr. Rat for it, especially volunteering the information that it was done in an A/C utility room of all places. A week later, Dr. Zander Rat MD. was summonsed to to appear before a medical board hearing over it, which resulted in a 30 day suspension of his doctor's license. Plus, the wolf cub's parents had launched a law suit against Dr. Rat for it as well.\n\nDuring the time Zander Rat's doctor's license was in suspension, he got really itchy to slice those penis sheaths off those male cub's little pee-wees. Not getting that opportunity for 30 days was really beginning to drive Zander up a wall. So Zander Rat invented some opportunities of his own.\nZander got the wheels clicking in his noggin, and thought to himself, \"As long as there are school yards to hang around in that are full of little cubbies, and alleyways to hide in...why not\".\nIt wasn't long before Zander was lurking around schoolyards, trying to lure male cubs with candy bars, hoping to circumcise one of them right there on the playground in front of the rest of the cubs. Zander figured on easily getting away before getting caught if he did circumcised a cub. But Zander quickly found out that idea didn't work the way he thought he had it planned out when the school principal and teachers ran Zander off before he had the chance to even lure a male cub.\nAfter the 30 day suspension of Zander Rat's doctor's license elapsed, Zander figured he would confine his circumcising fetish exclusively to his doctor's office, and that way the other doctors would not find out, and especially Dr. Tavi Mongoose would not know to report him. But Dr. Zander Rat found out that he figured wrong when he attempted to do a few unwanted circumcisions at his doctor's office, which caused those patients to seek a different doctor. And when some of those patients who left Dr. Rat went to see Dr. Tavi Mongoose instead, and they told Dr. Mongoose why they had left Dr. Rat as their doctor, Dr. Rat was back before the medical board again.\nAnd it wasn't long before Dr. Rat was again pushing his circumcision agenda on those patients who didn't want it, like he had been doing before.\nIn the years to follow, there would be more times Dr. Rat would be summonsed before a medical board hearing, which would in some cases would result in more license suspensions.\n\nDuring one license suspension in the year 1998, Zander Rat started pulling that stunt of luring male cubs with candy bars at schoolyards again.\nAt one school, the principal who was a loin, and two teachers who were a bear and a wolf, got a hold Zander and roughed him up pretty bad, then stuffed Zander face first into a street side trash can with his legs and tail sticking up out of the can. When Zander got out of the trash can, he got the picture good and clear to stay away from that school.\nAt another school where Zander Rat started to wave a candy bar around, Zander found out that the police had been immediately called, so Zander scrammed away from that school in a big hurry. \nSo Zander Rat tried his luck in an alleyway between a cafe' and an emporium store, using a Zagnut candy bar as bait in hopes to lure a male cub to be circumcised. And Zander didn't have to wait very long. Along came a male genet cub, accompanied by a female bonovo cub, both on their way home from school.\nAs the cubs approached, Zander mumbled under his breath, \"Ooooweee! I just GOTTA cut that fuzzy little sheath OFF of that little genet's cub pee-wee-do. I just gotta. I just gotta. I want his little, cub size peeeeeee-de-de head being out and showing full time. Ooooo, say bye-bye to your sheath, you teeny, little pee-wee-do down there between that little genet's legs. You're about to loose it. Ooooweee, ooooweee\".\nThen the cubs began to pass by where Zander Rat was still hiding in the alleyway. \n\"Hey! Lookie! I got some cannnndeeeee\", Zander Rat called from the dark alleyway at the cubs, as he held out the candy bar in one paw, but had a brain fart and held up the scalpel in his other paw.\n\"RUN! IT'S THAT CREEP AT THE SCHOOL!\", the female bonovo cub shouted.\nAs the cubs took off running, the male genet cub hollered, \"HELP! CALL THE POLICE!\"\n\nSexual Predator [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+5\n\nAs Zander bolted after the cubs, a genet and a hyena, who were having a late lunch at the cafe', saw from the window what was going on and alerted a waitress to call the police.\nA mongoose couple who owns the emporium store heard the commotion and realized it was being caused by the same rat who had been hanging around earlier, so they too called the police.\nThe cubs didn't have to keep evading that creepy rat for long. A police car soon arrived which two German Shepard police officers immediately bolted out of upon quickly braking the car to a stop, then chased after Zander Rat on foot.\nThanks to those who called the police on Zander, Zander never got his paws on the cubs, especially on the male genet cub Zander was so Hell bent on circumcising.\nZander had to break off the chase and flee from the police. Zander was chased by the police on foot across a grassy field toward a railroad line.\nThe only way Zander evaded apprehension was to dart across the path of an Indian Railways freight train. Zander barely made it across the tracks, almost getting struck by the train, but the two German Shepard police officers had to stop the chase because they didn't make it ahead of the train in time. After Zander ran clear of the train, there was a 2nd set of tracks where Zander tripped on one of the rails, thus falling face first and scuffing himself up on the ballast track bed, including putting some scuff scratches on the unprotected head of his circumcised rat penis (Yeow...That had to hurt). Zander quickly got back to his feet and continued to flee as the officers who were held at bay on the other side of the passing train could only watch.\nBetween the passing freight cars, they could see glimpses of Zander on the other side of the train, getting away. Before the last of the train had passed, the officers could see glimpses of Zander getting into his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sport car where he had parked it earlier on a roadside, then speeding away.\nIn spite of this close call of almost getting caught, Zander Rat had in the following years to come, whenever his doctor's license would be in suspension, would still, like a hard head, resort to luring male cubs with candy bars at school yards and from alleyways in hopes of circumcising one.\n\nIn February of the following year of 1999, during one of those license suspensions, Zander Rat was run off from hanging around...of all places...an orphanage. Zander had planned on cutting some sheaths off of some of those orphan cub penises. But it was made clear to Zander that he had better not show up there again if he knew what was good for him, thus the orphan cubs were kept safe from Zander and his scalpel.\n\nIn May of 1999, Zander Rat had his doctor's license suspended again. This time for three months. It was over circumcising a 7 year old, male, Malagasy civet cub who came into ER with a busted snout from fighting with an older cub.\nDuring those three months, Zander Rat was just about climbing the walls over not having more opportunities to circumcise more cubs. So one afternoon, while sitting at home, sipping on a cup of coffee and watching television, Zander Rat hit on a really twisted idea...He then got into his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sport car and drove out to the special school for mentally handicap cubs.\n\"THOSE cubs should be eeeeazzzzy targets\", Zander said to himself on his way to the school. \"There not very smart and will fall for ANYthing...Hur hur hur...I'll get THEIR pee-wee-do sheaths\".\nUpon Zander's arrival to the special school, teachers and other staff immediately realized that the Lancia sport car and the Rat who had just stepped out of it, carrying a first aid box, had no business at the school.\n\"Some dim-wit cub pee-wee-do head gonna stiiiiiick oouuut, he he he\", Zander muttered out loud.\nHowever, Zander didn't think that for long. A beaver who was a grounds keeper for the school was within earshot of Zander, and heard what he had just said.\n\"THAT RAT'S AFTER THE CUBS!...SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR DICKIES!\", the beaver called out as he pointed at Zander.\nImmediately, teachers and other staff came running over and surrounded Zander. The beaver told them what he heard Zander Rat say. Zander stood there and looked stupid as other staff members got the cubs back at a safe distance. Then a clouded leopard who was one of the teachers, snatched the first aid box away from Zander.\n\"I saw him get out of his car with this\", the clouded leopard said as she pawed it over to a staff member, who pawed it to the school principal, a binturong.\nWhen Principal Binturong opened the first aid box, and everyone saw that it contained a scalpel, suture supplies and a circie-clamp, the binturrong, the clouded leopard, a wolf and a bear commenced pounding and mauling the shit out of Zander Iscelberg Rat with every strappin' inch of his life.\nThe special needs cubs were getting a kick out of watching Zander get beaten up, thus a fox told them, \"Inside, cubs. Let's everyone get inside\", as she ushered them into the school building.\nAfter they were satisfied that Zander had enough, they dragged Zander over to his Lancia Aurelia sport car, which had the top down, and threw him into the driver's seat head first. Zander was up-side-down behind the wheel of his car, with the top of his noggin on the floor near the driver's petals, and his feet, tail and rat penis sticking up out of the car.\nZander Rat, who was really hurting bad, eventually got himself situated behind the wheel of his car then drove back home. Zander Rat didn't ever dare show-up at that special needs school again.\n \n\nAmong the victims of Dr. Zander Rat's circumcision fetish that got a lot of attention in the year 2000, was a 4 year old male kitten.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten by moyomongoose\n+42\n\nThe kitten's parents took him to the hospital emergency room to get stitches in his paw where he got it cut playing around with a broken bottle. Unfortunately for the little male kitten, Zander had emergency room shift at the hospital that day. And even though Zander was not assigned to the kitten's case, Zander moved in on the first opportunity he got when the kitten was unattended and circumcised him...sedating him first of course to keep him quiet.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 5] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\nThe penis of a male feline is built short with a short sheath to start with, and Zander had removed the entire loose skin from base to head. Zander had cut the base of the penis skin away from the surrounding skin that is not even the penis, all the way up to cutting the sheath lining completely off of the back of the head of the kitten's penis. When Zander got done, all the kitten had for a penis was just the head alone above the ball sack. The corona of the head was stitched directly to where the base had been removed. And because there was nothing left attached to the back of the head to run stitches through, stitches had to be ran through the head itself to attach it to the skin where the base no longer was.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 14] by moyomongoose\n+42\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 16] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\n \nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 22] by moyomongoose\n+42\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 36] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\n \nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 35] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\nAfter Zander finished his dirty work, the other doctors noticed the kitten missing. They didn't have to look for him very long until Doctors Julius Orangutan and Tavi Mongoose found him in a side treatment cubical where Dr. Rat had left him still laying on a gurney, sedated, and missing his entire penis sheath. Dr. Tavi Mongoose mentioned right then about filing another malpractice report on Dr. Zander Rat and having him summonsed before the medical board again.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 37] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\nOf course there was the usual hysterical screaming and crying from the cub, or kitten, when he awoke and found out what Zander had done to him. Once the drama unfolded in ER over what Dr. Rat had done, Dr. Rat made his convenient exit and left for the day. Needless to say, the kitten's parents were ready to kill someone over it, and were talking about law suits. \n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 38] by moyomongoose\n+42\n\nWith all inconsideration toward his victims and others, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. in the years to follow, would refer to the circumcision he inflicted on that kitten as his \"master piece work of art\"...although Zander never did get the picture that the nurses and fellow doctors were not amused by it.\n\nShown below are Doctors Kyle Genet and Julius Orangutan rebuking Dr. Zander Rat.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 41] by moyomongoose\n+42\n \nDr. Rat Circumcises a Kitten [Page 42] by moyomongoose\n+42\n \n\nThere was an unwanted circumcision Dr. Zander Rat had done to a opossum cub in the year 2001. A opossum couple took their 7 year old, male cub to the hospital one evening with flu like symptoms and a really high fever. Zander had emergency shift that night and was assigned to the opossum cub's case. Right from the beginning, Zander was exhibiting a substantial level of incompetence in his attempts to diagnose the opossum's cub's ailment, and Dr. Julius Orangutan was about to take over, thus relieving Zander Rat from his futile attempts at diagnosing the cub. But knowing Dr. Rat, he simply could not leave the scalpel off of male genitalia.\n\"Ooooo, eggs over sausage. This one's gonna be different\", Dr. Rat sadistically thought to himself.\nBefore Dr. Orangutan took over as the opossum cub's doctor, and while the cub's parents were in the waiting room, Dr. Rat wheeled the cub into an unoccupied treatment room, sedated the opossum cub, and circumcised him.\nDr. Zander Rat also, out of being a wise ass, cut and stitched the right side of the base of the opossum cub's penis a bit tight. Zander knew what circumcising one side tight would do because of the way much of a male opossum's penis is split down the middle with a clef.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Opossum Cub [Page 5] by moyomongoose\n+16\n\nA opossum's penis is only suppose to split when it is hard, and the halves of the head normally stay together when flaccid. But when Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. got done with the little opossum cub's penis, the penis would continually pull itself in halves from the tension of it's own flesh. The left side of the head pointed straight ahead, and the right side of the head pointed 45 degrees outward and slightly down. The penis head was now continually exposed and would not go back together on it's own.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Opossum Cub [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+16\n\nAfter the dirty work on the opossum cub's penis was done, Zander wheeled the cub back into the main emergency room area for Dr. Orangutan to treat.\nWhen Dr. Orangutan approached the opossum cub, he thought he noticed the cub was sleeping. Then he noticed the cub was sedated and freshly circumcised.\n\"DAMN IT, ZANDER, YOU SHIT FOR BRAIN!\", Dr. Orangutan shouted. \"Where is he!\".\nDr. Dennis Fox and Nurse Teisha Civet came running over and noticed the opossum cub sedated with his circumcised penis split and pointing two ways.\n\"Zander again\", Nurse Civet retorted.\n\"Where IS that rat\", Dr. Fox exclaimed.\nDr. Rat couldn't be found anywhere. It was assumed he had slipped out and gone home while the heat was still on.\n\"He has always left and went home each time after pulling this kind of a stunt\", Nurse Civet mentioned.\nThe only thing left to do at this point was to diagnose and treat the opossum cub, which is what Dr. Orangutan did, then prescribed some medication to clear up the opossum cub's illness.\nWhen the cub's parents saw their son, they were outraged at Dr. Orangutan, threatening him with a law suit.\n\"I am NOT responsible for this! Why sue ME?!\", Dr. Orangutan asked the cub's parrents.\n\"FOR THAT!\", the cub's dad ranted at Dr. Orangutan, while pointing at his son's disfigured penis.\n\"You did this to our son. YOU are responsible\", the cub's mother insisted.\n\"I did not do this to your son\", Dr. Orangutan informed the cub's parents.\n\"He did not\", Dr. Fox affirmed.\n\"The doctor who saw your son first is the one who circumcised him\", Nurse Civet told the parents.\n\"And a hack job at that\", Dr Fox added.\n\"You are of course referring to Dr. Rat\", the cub's mother said to Nurse Civet, then told Dr. Orangutan, \"Dr. Rat told us YOU did it\".\n\"I can assure you I did not\", Dr. Orangutan assured the cub's parents, as Dr. Fox and Nurse Civet affirmed.\n\"Well, we're talking to your hospital's administration in the morning, and get this sorted out\", The opossum cub's dad said. \"Then we are seeing an attorney\".\nA short while later, the opossum cub awoke from the anesthesia and was totally devastated over what had been done to his penis. And the things the cub said eluded to it messing with his mind even more over his, \"Little Pee-pee stays pulled in half. It can't come back together\".\nWhen Zander Rat was summonsed in the morning to talk to the hospital administration, the opossum couple was there with their cub, and Nurse Civet and Dr. Fox were also present. Zander tried to lie to administration at first, blaming it on Dr. Orangutan as circumcising the opossum cub. But when they had Dr. Orangutan enter the admin office, and when the opossum cub testified that it was Zander who stuck him with a syringe and made the cub \"go to sleep\", Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. abandoned any further attempts real fast to continue lying about it.\nZander Rat was then scheduled to go up before the medical board again for another hearing. On the following day, the opossum cub's dad saw Zander Rat in town, and beat him up pretty bad. Dr. Julius Orangutan also had an issue to settle with Dr. Zander Rat...That was Zander lying about it and trying to put the blame on Julius Orangutan as the perpetrator who sexually hacked the opossum cub.\nThree days after the inquiry with hospital administration, Dr. Orangutan caught Dr. Rat in a part of the hospital parking lot where the security cameras don't see. Julius Orangutan commenced pounding the Hellfire out of Zander Rat with every inch of his life. And Orangutans are really powerful animals when they are pissed. At one point during the beating Julius gave Zander, Zander was pounded so hard, he actually shitted while he was getting beat up.\nIt would not be the last time Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. circumcised cubs, but that was the only and last time he ever tried to claim and blame someone else as doing it.\n\nThe emotional trauma of the penis being robbed of it's sheath was bad enough on the cub as it was. But it was REALLY messing with the cub's mind about his penis also staying always split into two halves all the time.\nThe cub would lament over it, saying, \"Pee-pee don't know himself split in half\".\nHe would sometimes push the halves of his penis together, imagining that his penis was aware of what was happening only while he held the halves together, then would say to it, \"My poor Pee-pee. You're back. It's gonna be alright, Pee-pee\".\nThen when he took his paws away, and his penis split back out divided again, he'd cry to the halves of his penis, \"Come back and be my Pee-pee again\". \nThe opossum couple, seeing the emotional agony their cub was going through, eventually took their cub to Dr. Orangutan's office location to see about getting Dr. Rat's damage to the cub's penis undone as much as possible. Unfortunately, Dr. Rat had cut every bit of loose foldable skin away from the cub's penis...On a male opossum, like many male animals, that length directly behind the head has unmovable skin as a long sulcus, and is not made to move loose and fold over. As a result of how Dr. Rat did the circumcision, there was no possibility of stretching a reconstructed sheath. However, Dr. Orangutan was able to do a small graft in order to relieve the pull on right side of the base of the penis, thus allowing the halves of the penis to be able to stay joined back together on it's own.\n\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Opossum Cub [Page 14] by moyomongoose\n+16\nDr. Rat Circumcises a Opossum Cub [Page 15] by moyomongoose\n+16\n\nA male opossum is OK with \"little Pee-pee splitting his little head apart\" when it gets hard. But when it's flaccid, any male opossum wants little Pee-pee to keep his little head together...That's just the way it is with opossums...Sort of a 'opossum thing'.\n\nOne afternoon, later in 2001, a male lion and his lioness came into the hospital emergency room with their 9 year old male cub who had a bad burn on his right arm. The cub had been burnt when he and a friend were fooling around with a sky rocket they had earlier stolen.\nDr. Zander Rat was on ER shift along with Dr. Tavi Mongoose that day, and Dr. Mongoose was assigned to the lion cub's case.\nAt one point while Dr. Mongoose was treating the lion cub, he had to leave the cub for a moment to assist another doctor who was treating a female binturong with a broken leg.\nDr. Rat didn't have a patient at the time (not that he always knows what he's doing when he gets one), so Dr. Rat made his move.\n\"I get to cut a liiiionnn peeee-weeee. Uncover that prickly head\", Zander muttered under his breath as he approached the lion cub.\nZander started the conversation with the cub, \"They told me to take over for Dr. Mongoose. Now we first need to get you sedated\".\nBefore Zander could wheel the cub to a secluded place, he heard a female lioness ask, \"Son. Has THIS taught you anything about playing with fireworks?\"\n\"I guess so, Mamma\", the cub answered as Dr. Rat turned around and saw both of the cub's parents who came to reprimand their son.\n\"And I'm disappointed about you and your friend stealing that sky rocket too\", the cub's dad reprimanded.\nAnd Daddy Lion was a big lion too. And Mamma was almost as big a lion as Daddy.\nAs the lions continued lecturing their son, Dr. Rat realized he would have been caught in the act by the those two big lions of trying to circumcise their son. Daddy was tall enough to have to bend down some to get through a standard doorway. That Daddy lion could easily snap Zander in two like a tooth pic, and Zander knew it. So Zander backed off, and no longer dared to even so much as think about circumcising that lion cub.\n\"Well, lets get your arm patched up little lion\", Dr. Mongoose said as he returned.\n\"Didn't he say he's gonna be my doctor?\", the lion asked as he pointed to Dr. Rat.\n\"He's not. I still am\", Dr. Mongoose answered the cub, then told Dr. Rat, \"Zander, you have no business near this patient...GET!\".\nDaddy lion then gave Dr. Zander Rat a stern look that scared Zander so bad, he had to quickly get to a restroom in order to avoid dropping a shit on the floor.\nDr. Rat didn't dare touch or come near that lion cub. Daddy Lion made sure of that. And Mamma Lion made sure of that. And Dr. Tavi Mongoose made sure of that as well. Dr. Zander Rat kept his distance during the time Dr. Mongoose completed treating the cub, and the cub being discharged from the hospital.\n\n Early in 2002, at the hospital ER, Dr. Kyle Genet was assigned to treat a five year old, male jackal cub for a sprained shoulder from wrecking a go-cart.\nDr. Zander Rat also had ER shift at the hospital that day, and had recently been pulled away from his incompetent attempts at treating a civet for a job related chemical burn on his leg.\n\"I've got it, Zander. At least I know what I'm doing\", Dr. Clyde Wolf taunted Dr. Rat as he took over treating the civet.\n\"That Rat was really beginning to scare me\", the civet said to Dr. Wolf.\n\"He scares us all actually\", Dr. Wolf replied as he began treating the civet's leg burn.\nWith nothing else to do, Dr. Rat began hanging around Dr. Genet as he was treating the jackal cub.\n\"Get away, you sicko\", Dr. Genet warned Dr. Rat. \"Go clean toilets or something...something you might be good at\".\n\"He's...a doctor?\", the jackal cub's mom asked Dr. Genet as Dr. Rat walked away.\n\"Unfortunately\", Dr. Genet answered, then added, \"And what ever you do, do NOT allow him near your son...believe me\".\nAs Dr. Genet began to set the jackal cub's shoulder, Dr. Zander Rat came hanging around again, and Dr. Kyle Genet had to tell Dr. Rat again to scram.\nThe jackal cub's dad, feeling a bit uneasy, told his wife, \"I'm going to the car for a minute, Dear. Fight that rat off if it comes to it, but keep him away from our son. I'll be back\".\n\"OK\", the cub's mom acknowledged as the dad left to go to the car.\nA couple of minutes later, the dad came back, wearing a belt with a pouch on the side, then continued to stand by his wife as Dr. Genet continued to treat their son's sprained shoulder.\nMoments later Dr. Genet had to walk off to get some extra fasteners for the sling he had just put on the cub's shoulder.\nWith Dr. Genet momentarily away, that's when Dr. Rat showed up like a pesky fly that won't quit, carrying a scalpel and a circie-clamp.\n\"What do you think you're doing\", the cub's dad scorned at Dr. Rat as the cub became frightened.\nDr. Rat began pushing the gurney away with the cub on it.\n\"NO YOU DON'T!\", the cub's mom retorted as she grabbed the gurney, stopping it.\n\"I'm warning you to leave us alone!\", the cub's dad told Dr. Rat.\n\"Look\", Dr. Rat began to argue. \"Your son's not circumcised, and I'm fixing this now\", Dr. Rat continued as he attempted to move the gurney.\nThe cub's dad then reached into the belted pouch he was wearing and pulled out a loaded pistol.\n\"GET AWAY FROM THAT CUB, OR THE NEXT BREATH YOU DRAW WILL BE IN THE PITS OF HELL, DOC!\", Daddy warned Dr. Rat, pointing the pistol straight at Dr. Rat's head.\nDr. Zander Rat just about shit where he stood, with his eyes and mouth wide open, as he stared down the barrel of the jackal's loaded pistol.\n\"WOAH! WHAT'S WITH THE GUN!?\", Dr. Genet exclaimed as he returned, dropping the sling fasteners.\n\"GET SECURITY IN HERE!\", Dr. Wolf called out to a nurse.\nWithin moments, hospital security guards came rushing into ER and over to where Dr. Rat and the Jackal Family were.\nTwo guards, a male otter and a female fox, successfully talked Daddy Jackal into pawing the pistol over to them, thus disarming the volatile situation.\n\"He was gonna shoot me! He was gonna shoot me!, Dr. Zander Rat rambled on as he jumped up and down, pointing at the jackal.\n\"ZANDER, SHUT IT!\", Dr. Genet called out.\n\"ONE MORE PEEP OUT OF YOU, ZANDER, AND I'LL FLATTEN YOUR ASS!\" Dr. Wolf warned Dr. Rat.\n\"Zander's fetish again?\", Nurse Linsang asked.\n\"I told Zander time after time to stay away. He's like a persistent fly that won't qiut.\", Dr. Genet mentioned.\nAfter the situation in ER was under control, Dr. Wolf, being the senior doctor in ER that day, sent Dr. Zander Rat straight to the administration office. Hospital security had also escorted the jackals to Admin as well. And other doctors and nurses who could be spared from ER at the time were also called to Admin to testify what they had seen happen.\nWith Zander Rat's reputation being well known for what it is, Daddy Jackal was not criminally charged, although they very well could have if they had chose to do so.\nHowever, Daddy Jackal was told, \"You are banned from returning to this hospital premisses ever again...except if you are in medical need. If you are not in need of medical attention, you don't come back here\".\nAs for Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD., he was scheduled to go up before the medical board again for another hearing. And on the day of Dr. Rat's hearing two weeks later, his doctor's license was suspended for three months.\nThat jackal cub was among those cubs Dr. Zander Rat never did get to circumcise. \n \n\n \n \nChapter 27. Death of Hanan III\n\nEarly one afternoon, on September 26th, 2005, Dr. Zander Rat was setting a cast on a broken leg of a fox cub who had a bicycle accident. Zander was having the incompetent difficulty he often has, so Dr. Sharuel Bear was sent to relieve Dr. Rat of his patient.\n\"I can't believe this. How hard can it be to set a broken leg?\" Dr. Bear retorted to Dr. Rat. \"You've had eight years of med school like the rest of us, and had your doctor's degree for 14 years. You should know how to do this\".\nDr. Wolf called out from the hallway, \"Oh, but Zander Rat is good at doing circumcisions though!\", after overhearing Dr. Bear reprimanding Zander.\nIt had been less than a week earlier Dr. Rat had performed his most recent circumcision. It was on an 8 year old fossa cub in which the scalpel slipped and put a permanent scar on the face of the cub's penis head. So not only was the fossa cub's penis always exposed, it was always exposed as a penis with a scar across it's face as well (Scar Face Pee-pee)...All done against the will of the family and the cub of course. Dr. Rat was already worked up and raring to cut the sheath off of another cub's pee-wee, so Dr. Rat chose to remain in the treatment room with the young, male, fox cub, in hopes that after Dr. Bear had completed setting the leg and left, Dr. Rat can get a circumcision in on the young fox. However, Zander's plan was thwarted when Nurse Teisha Civet stepped into the treatment room and informed Zander that he had a phone call in the doctor's lounge, and it was urgent. Thus the young fox was saved from having his little red rocket penis deprived of it's sheath.\nWhen Zander Rat arrived to the doctor's lounge and took the call, it was his sister Givol calling from back home in Egypt, and sounding like she had been crying. Givol informed Zander that their dad had a major heart attack an hour and a half ago, and the doctors don't expect him to live. Givol then put older brother Hanan IV on the phone.\n\"Hello Zander\", Hanan IV greeted his brother in a mournful tone.\n\"Yea...Hi, Hanan. Givol told me\", Zander answered, still stunned by the bad news.\n\"We're at the hospital at Dad's bedside\", Said Hanan IV. \"Before Dad went back into a coma, he said he would like to have us all here\".\nI don't know about me being in Egypt though\", Zander retorted. \"Those cub's daddies. And those cubs are all big and grown up now\".\n\"Look. Zander. That was 23 years ago. They said Dad is lucky if he makes it for a few more days. We all want you here\", Hanan replied.\n\"But but\", Zander began.\n\"Zander, I can send Dad's private jet there to Salem, India to pick you up. You'll be with us at Dad's bedside in a few hours\", Hanan IV offered to his brother.\n\"But what about that whacked out fossa you all told me about?\", Zander asked worriedly. \"You know. The one who was shooting up the mansion, looking for me after I came to India.\"\n\"Again, Zander. Twenty three years ago. I'm sure he's cooled down after all these years\", Hanan tried to reason with his brother. \"That crazy fossa won't even know you're here. And after Dad leaves us, you'll be back in India right away\".\n\"I'm just to scareeeed to be there though\", Zander retorted.\n\"He's your dad, Zander. You're not going to be there for him?\", Hanan asked his brother.\nVarious family members tried to talk Zander into taking the trip to Egypt to be there by Dad's bedside, but to no avail. So they talked a while longer before ending the call.\nGrieved by the bad news about his dad, Zander took the rest of the day off.\nOver the next couple of days, Zander and his family would frequently phone each other and talk a while. This is one of those times when family members stay in touch.\nThree days later, well into the morning of September 29th, Zander was finishing breakfast at his favorite cafe before beginning his day. About a minute or two before 8:00 am, India time, as Zander was on his way to his car, his cell phone rang. When Zander answered, it was his mom, Judith, crying and telling her son Zander that Dad had just passed away at 4:46 am, their time in Egypt. That was only 15 minutes ago. Because of the difference in four time zones, it was already well into daylight in India.\nZander and his family talked a while, made funeral arrangements and set a time for the reading of the will and settling the estate. The family offered to have the family private jet (now belonging to Judith) fly Zander in to attend the funeral, but Zander still said he would be to scared of his grown cub victims and of their daddies to go to Egypt. They talked a while longer until Zander had to make some other calls.\nZander had a few appointments to see patients in his office that day, so he contacted them to postpone those appointments, and took the day off.\n\nWhen Hanan Iscelberg Rat III, then age 82, was on his death bed, that was during the same time when the meerkats were on that September 2005 road trip leaving Angola on their way to the Port of Beira. In fact, at the moment Hanan III drew his last breath in the hospital in Egypt, that was only a few minutes after Moze and Leia's Opal station wagon lost it's muffler on that lone, narrow, concrete highway in Mozambique a while before dawn.\n\nJust like Zander was never at his dad's bedside when his dad passed away, Zander never attended his dad's funeral, and was not present for the reading of the will either. Zander never left India that whole time.\n\nOn the morning of November, 23rd, almost two months after Hanan III's death, Zander Rat received a registered flat in the mail that he had to sign for at the postal facility. It being sent from the family's attorney, Zander knew it contained a copy of the disposition of the Iscelberg Rat Estate.\nCoincidentally, that was the same day Raphael Meerkat was being born at Yannas Fossa's house, just one town away in Yercaud...and at the same time of day too.\n\"Oh wow!, Zander gleefully exclaimed as he stood in the lobby of the postal facility, rapidly shredding off the manila colored, 9\"x12\" envelope. \"What did Daddy leave me?! What will I get?! What will I get?!\"\nZander Rat began to read with much enthusiasm the document containing the words, 'Be it known to all interested parties, the disposition of the Iscelberg Rat Estate as decreed herein the will and last testament of the late Hanan Iscelberg Rat III, and in of sound mind...'\n\"I can barely wait to see what's coming to me!\", Zander gleefully exclaimed.\nThen Zander continued to read, '...Monetary sums of 25 million pounds go to Hanan Iscelberg Rat IV, Joan Iscelberg (Zendler) Rat, Hanan Iscelberg Rat V, Wanda Iscelberg Rat, Givol Finbecker (Iscelberg) Rat, Joesph Finbecker Rat Sr., Joseph Finbecker Rat Jr., Julia Finbecker Rat...'\nSums of 25 million pounds were also left to to the aunts, uncles and cousins as well. There were even friends of the family, the house servants, grounds keepers, chauffeur, and some of the late Hanan III's former business associates who received sums ranging between one million and five million pounds. The late Hanan III's businesses and business accounts, investment properties, antiques, art, stocks, construction and railroad bonds, oil and gas contracts, corporate shares, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property were willed to various family members and inlaws. A sum of 200 million pounds was donated to charity, most of which went to a trust fund set up in London, which was actually redirected to a donation for the Shriners. And the rest of the multi-Billion pound family monetary assets, the mansion and it's 24 acres of Nile River front property, boats, cars, planes, recreational vehicles, the family's private resort properties, along with a private owned island retreat in the Indian Ocean went to his widowed wife, Judith Iscelberg (Rhostin) Rat.\nOne of Zander's ex-wives from a dysfunctional marriage 26 years back, who Daddy Rat felt sorry for, was awarded one million pounds.\nAnd Zander Iscelberg Rat was awarded only five hundred thousand pounds (Gee, wonder why).\nIt was like a hit between the eyes to Zander when he held that copy of the document and read, 'And a monetary sum of 500 thousand pounds goes to my youngest son, Zander Iscelberg Rat'.\n\"I WAS CHEATED!...SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK! DAD, YOU LOW LIFE BASTARD!\", Zander Rat hollered out in the postal facility lobby in the presents of other anthro-animals, some with their cubs, as he clinched and crumpled the papers in his fists. \"EVERYONE GOT TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS AND A BUNCH OF OTHER DAMN FREAKIN' SHIT! AND I AIN'T GOT SHIT! EVEN ONE OF THOSE CRANKY BITCH EX-WIVES WHO DIDN'T GET ALONG WITH ME GOT MORE THAN ME! MOTHER FUCKEN' SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!\"\n \"GET OUT OF THIS POSTAL FACILITY NOW!\", a panther counter clerk called out to Zander. \"YOU WILL NOT TALK THAT WAY IN HERE! IF YOU GOT MORE BUSINESS TO DO, TAKE IT TO THE POST OFFICE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED BACK IN HERE ANYMORE!\"\n \"EXCUUUUUUZZZZZZE ME! BUT I JUST GOT FUCKED OVER ON MY INHERITANCE, - IF - YOU - DON'T - MIIIIIINNND!\", Zander protested to the panther as he tossed the crumpled document copies on the floor, and continued to make a drama scene in the postal facility lobby.\nImmediately, the panther swiftly ran out from behind the counter toward Zander.\n\"OK! I'M GOIN' I'M GOIN'!\", Zander exclaimed as he bolted out of the front door and left the postal facility.\nAfter Zander was kicked out of the postal facility, he promptly called his mom to find out why he got the least than anyone else. Five hundred thousand pounds being way more than what most anthro-animals will ever see in their lifetimes didn't mean anything to Zander. All Zander cared about was that he felt that he was entitled to get what he felt he should have got. He wanted what was 'coming to him'.\nWhen Judith, then age 80, answered the phone and recognized it was her son Zander, she immediately asked him, \"Do you realize how early you got me out of bed?...Well?...Do you?\"\nAlthough it was about 9:00 am in India, it was still around 6:00 in the morning in Egypt.\n\"Yeeeaaaa, Mom. I knoooooooow\", Zander replied. \"Uh, I didn't get twenty five million pounds like everyone else got...Whyyyyyyy?\"\n\"Zander, you don't deserve it\", Judith replied, then went down a case history of Zander's screw ups, stupidity, and how it endangered the family, and at times how it cost the family large amounts of money.\nJudith then continued to lecture her son, \"You don't even deserve the five hundred thousand pounds you got. Consider yourself lucky you got THAT. If you got what you REALLY deserve, you would be owing compensation to the family right now, and not inheriting anything\".\n\"No, Mom, no!\" Zander retorted. \"Dad fucked me over!\"\n\"Watch - your - mouth. You're talking to your mother\", Judith scolded Zander.\n\"But I was cheated!\", Zander insisted.\n\"I'm not continuing this call any longer\", Judith told Zander.\n\"I was singled out!\", Zander argued.\n\"Your father gave you more than you deserve. If you could talk to the dead, you should thank him\", Judith argued back.\n\"You know, Mom. I don't feel so bad Dad is dead now. I hope Dad's roasting in Hell. A real HOT Hell\", Zander told his mom.\nJudith replied, \"That attitude is why you didn't get twenty five million pounds\"...>CLICK<\n\"Don't do this to me!\", said Zander. \"Hello?.....Hello?\"\n\"SHIT!...FUCK SHIT!\", Zander hollered as he slammed his cell phone down on the sidewalk, smashing it into three pieces.\nDr. Rat's next hospital patient was a 7 year old, male binturong cub who had to have his gall bladder removed. Dr. Rat took the matter out on the young bintrung for how the disposition of his late dad's estate was awarded. While the binturong cub was still under anesthesia, Dr. Rat circumcised him, and cut him tight. Then just for more spite, Dr. Rat twisted the cub's penis around to stitch it up so the head of it would be constantly up side down, with the peehole turned upward, and the face part of the head turned downward facing the nut sack.\n\"There! Little dickie-wee can look up side down at his nut sack all day long\", Dr. Rat snidely said as he stitched up the binturong cub's penis.\nNormally, Dr. Clyde Wolf and Dr. Tavi Mongoose would step in and put a stop to Dr. Rat from doing that kind of stuff, but the were busy with other patients. It was just Dr. Rat, two nurses who he had authority over, and the young patient.\nOne the nurses questioned Dr. Rat, \"That's not even natural. It shouldn't be turned up side down like that.\"\n\"Ieeee'mmmm the doctor. Ieeeeee know what I'm doing\", Zander insisted as he completed the sadistic circumcision procedure.\nTwo hours later, the other doctors found out what Zander had done to the young binturong's penis, when they heard the binturong cub in the recovery room screaming, crying and freaking out over what he found out was done to him. And when his parents saw it, they were about ready to kill someone.\nDr. Tavi Mongoose, who was then available, had the young binturong taken back into O.R. and put back under anesthesia. Although, Dr. Mongoose was not able to do anything about getting a penis sheath back for the cub, he did undo the stitches and restitch his penis turned the proper way.\nA few days later, Dr Zander Rat went up before a medical board inquiry to answer some questions about what he had done to the binturong cub. It was during that inquiry Dr. Zander Rat had his medical license suspended for six months, and he came very close to loosing his license in the country of India permanently. During the medical board inquiry, Zander was shown some photos that were taken at the time of the incident of the binturong cub's penis when it was still the way Zander stitched it up side down. The photos were used as evidence in making the decision to suspend Zander's medical license. At the time Zander saw someone with a camera taking the pictures, he was actually stupid enough to think that someone was taking novelty scrapbook photos of the cub's messed up penis as a memento of the occasion. \nIt was a week later the biturong cub's dad saw Zander Rat in the parking lot at his favorite cafe getting out of a brand new, glossy black, Dodge Viper Zander had just bought with some of that inheritance money Daddy Rat left him. Daddy Binturong unmercifully beat the shit out of Zander right there in the parking lot bad enough to lay him up in the hospital for three days.\nWhile Dr. Zander Rat was laid up in the hospital, he phoned his receptionist, Zella Gerbil, to send billing notices to the binturong couple for the gall bladder surgery he performed on their son. The notices were sent from Zella's home, being that Dr. Rat's office was closed down during the six months that his medical license was in suspension. However, after that perverted circumcision stunt Dr. Rat pulled on the binturong cub, his parents were not about to so much as pay Zander two paises (Indian equivalent to pennies and shillings).\nOnce Zander was out of the hospital, he purchased another cell phone and continually made phone calls to his family to pester them about 'why he didn't get twenty five million pounds like everyone else'. Being that Zander's doctor's license was in suspension, he had plenty of time on his paws to pester his family.\nDuring an argument over the phone, Zander told his sister in law, Joan, \"Why don't you just fuck yourself with a roll of coins?!\"\nIn another phone call, his mom's chauffeur, Japeth Fossa, answered the phone and Zander told Japeth to stuff his one million pounds so far up his ass that it comes out the other end until he chokes on it. Japeth just hung up on him then left the phone off the receiver so Zander would get a busy signal.\n\"Japeth, who was it?\", Judith asked.\n\"Zander. Who else?\", Japeth answered.\n\"What did HE have to say this time?\", said Judith.\n\"Trust me, Judith. You don't want to know\", Japeth assured her.\nThere was one call when Zander told his mom, \"I wish lightning would strike the mansion and burn it down with you in it\"...The mansion is a stone building, with iron roof framing and clay tile shingles, and is not likely to burn anyway.\nThe calls got so frequent, and the arguments and drama got so bad with Zander cussing out family members over the phone, all of Zander's family had their phone numbers changed to unlisted numbers so Zander could no longer call them. Only the family's business numbers remained the same, and employees were instructed to hang up if Zander called.\n\nAfter the six month suspension period on Zander Rat's medical license had passed, and his license was reinstated, Dr. Zander Rat's office was once again open for business as usual...unfortunately. Dr. Rat wasted no time having Receptionist Zella Gerbil send more billing notices out to the parents of that binturong cub he did the sadistic circumcision to. This time, the notices were not so friendly, and contained language about legal ramifications for nonpayment.\nThen there was the notice where Dr. Zander Rat had threatened the Binturong Family that the next letter was to come from an attorney.\nThat letter was the last straw. When the Binturongs opened and read that letter, Daddy Binturong immediately drove to Dr. Rat's office.\n\"DR. RAT! I HAVE SOMETHING TO SETTLE WITH YOU!\", Daddy Binturong hollered as he entered the waiting room of Dr. Rat's office, and waving the billing notice.\n\"Sir! This is a doctor's office! Do you mind?!\", Zella Gerbil retorted.\nAbout that time, Dr. Rat left a patient he was with to come out to see what was going on.\n\"Oh, it's about time you decided to pay that delinquent bill\", Zander said as he approached the binturong. \"I was beginning to wonder if...\"\n>BAM< Daddy Binturong punched Zander square in the face and commenced to unmercifully beat the living shit out him right there in the waiting room, like he did in the parking lot of the cafe months earlier. \nDaddy Binturong literally mopped the floor with Zander, then picked him up and continued to beat the shit out of him like a punching bag. Zander was thrown over chairs and other cheap chintzy furniture in the waiting room, breaking and knocking them over. A few times, Zander's face was repeatedly rammed into a wall then rammed down onto the receptionist counter in front of Zella Gerbil.\nTwo of Zander's patients, a male skunk with an abdominal pain, and a mother fox who's son had flu like symptoms, were frightened so badly, they got up and left to go see a different doctor.\nWhen the binturong was done with Zander, the quack doctor laid unconscious on the floor of the waiting room in bad need of an ambulance ride to the hospital.\nDaddy Binturong then picked the billing notice back up off the floor, shook it at Zalla Gerbil, and told her, \"I don't believe my wife and I will be receiving any more of THESE, right?\"\n\"I'm a female. Don't you lay a paw on me\", Zella warned.\n\"I'll have my wife come down here and do THAT if you like\", the binturong replied.\n\"Uh...No\", Zella answered.\nNurse Jamie Squirrel slowly came out into the waiting room and saw Dr. Rat out cold on the floor, blood on a wall and chairs turned over.\n\"YOU have a problem with any of this?\", the binturong asked her.\n\"No no. Everything's cool\", replied Jamie Squirrel.\nThen Daddy Binturong told Zella Gerbil, \"When that disgusting sicko creep wakes up, you tell him my wife and I will see an attorney for what he did to our son. HE will owe OUR FAMILY money. We won't owe HIM the first paise\".\nAfter the binturong stormed out of Dr. Rat's office, and got into his car and drove away, it was decided by Nurse Squirrel that Dr. Rat needed to go to the hospital, so Zella Gerbil called an ambulance for him.\nThis time, Zander Rat was laid up in the hospital for a week.\n\nThe five hundred thousand pounds Zander inherited didn't last long either (Egyptian pounds exchanged for Indian rupees). Back on the day when Zander received his inheritance money, he had already gone out and spent $134,000 to purchase an American built Dodge Viper, then spent $55,000 on a full restoration job on his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sports car (the one with the circular grill...the one Cheesah would kick the quarter panel in on 8 years later). Of the binturong cub Zander circumcised and stitched his penis up side down, the cub's parents successfully sued Zander for the equivalent of $200,000 in rupees of that money (some of which to go for genital restoration for the cub). During the time Zander's medical license had been in suspension, he was without an income for those six months, so Zander lived down some of that money during those six months. Zander plowed through more than another $100,000 in attorney's fees, over the next two and a half years, trying to sue his family's estate for the twenty five million pounds Zander figured he was entitled to...but to no avail. As for the few thousand rupees left, Zander lavishly squandered it within several weeks. In less than three years, all of Zander's inheritance money was gone.\n\n\n\nChapter 28. More of Dr. Rat's Shenanigans.\n\nAdult male animals were not immune to Dr. Zander Rat's sick fetish either. In the years 2007 and 2008, among his male cub victims were three adult males, an Asian palm civet, an African civet, and a Fossa.\nIn early 2007, the palm civet had to go in for heart surgery. Dr. Rat was not one of the doctors who operated on the palm civet, however the palm civet's surgery was at a time Dr. Rat had an ER shift. After the surgery was done, Dr. Rat sneaked into the recovery room and added a circumcision to go with the palm civet's open heart surgery.\nAs a result, the palm civet found a good attorney and successfully sued the hospital for 180,000 rupees over the loss of his penis sheath. Dr. Rat went up before another board hearing and came close to loosing his doctor's license for good over that one...The hospital share holders didn't exactly ignore the loss of 180,000 rupees.\n\nIn the summer of 2007, Dr. Rat snagged the penis sheath off of the African civet.\nThe African civet needed to have a cancer infested kidney removed. The African civet was Dr. Wolf's patient, and Dr. Rat had ER shift that day. The removal of the tumor infested kidney went smoothly without complications, but before the civet was taken to the recovery room, Dr. Rat made his move when the patient was momentarily unattended. Dr. Wolf was outraged when he and the other surgical team members saw the patient with his penis sheath cut off...On top of all that, Dr. Rat had no business in OR that day. Dr. Rat's assigned place of duty was in ER that day.\nWhen the patient awoke in the recovery room, he was upset and irate over the surgery that was not suppose to have been done to him. The African civet swore that the doctor who did that to him would be dropped into Hell if he ever caught up to him.\nDr. Wolf took it personal, it being his patient. Being that Dr. Wolf was there for his patient's surgery that day, and didn't have an ER shift, he waited in his car for Dr. Rat to get off from his ER shift. After Dr. Rat got off shift, Dr.Wolf followed him to where he stopped on his way home at a small shopping center. Dr. Wolf pulled up along side that glossy black Dodge Viper of Zander Rat, yanked him out of his car and beat and mauled the shit out of Dr. Rat right there in the parking lot.\nBy the time Dr. Rat, badly beaten up, went squawking to a store owner to call the police, Dr. Wolf had already left, thus Dr. Rat had no proof or case against Dr. Wolf. \nIt would be for a few years to follow that Dr. Zander Rat would always have to keep an eye over his shoulder on the look out for that civet's family members who were out to get him.\n\nIn April of 2008, a male fossa came into ER aboard an ambulance with a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder. The fossa received his injuries on a construction job as a result from an 'airhead' sloth bear on the crew improperly assembling a scaffold. Part of the scaffold had collapsed, causing the fossa to fall 15 feet.\nDr. Rat had an ER shift that day and was assigned to the fossa's case. Dr. Rat decided to sedate the fossa and move him into a secluded treatment cubical, where he was to be assisted by two nurses. Right from the get go, Dr. Zander Rat exhibited his usual incompetence in setting the fossa's leg.\nWhen the nurses would point out to Zander the things he was doing wrong, Zander would reply, \"I'm just testing you nurses to be sure you know what you're doing\".\nThe nurses were the ones who actually got the fossa's leg and shoulder set correctly.\nThen Dr. Rat began to circumcise the fossa.\n\"Hey! What are you doing?!\", One of the nurses, a genet, protested to Zander.\n\"I say the patient needs a circumcision. I'm the doctor. I know what I'm doing\", Zander retorted as he continued the circumcision on the fossa.\nThe other nurse, an aardwolf, ran out from the treatment cubical into the main ER and got another doctor to stop Dr. Rat. But by the time Zander was stopped, so much of the fossa's penis sheath had been cut, there was no way to save it and the sheath had to be completely removed, thus leaving the fossa's long, double barb clustered, trumpet shape headed penis completely out exposed in the open, with no sheath for it to go back into.\nDr. Zander Iscelberg Rat was kicked off of ER shift and sent home that day.\nNeedless to say, the patient was not a very happy fossa when he awoke from the anesthesia and discovered why his penis felt so different. Dr. Rat had already been sent home by then, but the fossa swore if he ever found Dr. Rat, he'd 'knock a few holes in that rat with a pistol he always kept in his car.\n\nIn the spring of 2010, Dr. Zander Rat REALLY fucked up with that circumcision fetish of his. A young bear cub was taken into ER with sprained knee from a dirt bike accident.\nDr. Rat was not assigned to the bear cub's case, but he lied to the bear cub and his mom, telling them he had been assigned. Dr. Rat wheeled the gurney carrying the cub into a treatment cubical, and telling the cub's mom to wait out in the main ER. Zander Rat sedated the bear cub, circumcised him, then left for home before shit would hit the fan when the bear cub awoke.\nWhat Dr. Rat didn't know, and soon found out, that bear cub he did the unwanted circumcision on was a nephew of the mayor of the City of Salem, India (where the hospital is located and the city where Zander lives).\nBeside Dr. Zander Rat getting sued for 50, 000 rupees, and the hospital getting sued for 500,000 rupees, and Dr. Rat going up before another medical board hearing and getting his doctor's license suspended for three months, the mayor had the Salem Police Department harass Zander Rat everywhere he went for the next two years.\nIt seemed like every time Zander Rat turned around, he was always getting a ticket for one thing or another. They ranged from going a half a mile over the speed limit, to not giving a turn signal early enough, to having a little dust on the tag and taillights. One time, Zander Rat got a littering ticket for spitting from in his car.\nThere were times the police would pull Zander over and search his car for no reason.\nThe officers would tell Zander Rat, \"You looked suspicious to us, so we just wanted to search your car to make sure you weren't running illegal drugs. Or that you weren't a terrorist or something like that\".\nDuring one stop and search, Zander Rat got so antagonized, he began raving and ranting over it. Zander quickly found himself staring down the barrels of three police issue pistols until he cooled down.\nIt was seldom Zander Rat could drive anywhere without a police car pulling in behind him and following him all over town. When Zander Rat was out in the Viper, he wanted so bad to floor it and leave the police behind. But Zander didn't dare try it. Even though a 320 km/h (200 mph) Dodge Viper can outrun the police cars, it can't outrun a police helicopter.\nDuring that time, a 14 year old, adolescent jackal stole a ride mower from out of Zander's yard that Zander had paid 2,500 rupees for. He was the same jackal cub who's dad held a gun on Dr. Zander Rat at the hospital nine years earlier to stop Zander from circumcising the cub when he was five years old. That was the jackal cub who had the go-cart wreck.\nWhen Zander called the police, he was told, \"Well, we didn't see it happen. So there's nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day\".\nTwo days later, Zander was out driving around in his Lancia and saw the adolescent jackel and an adolescent hyena cub riding his mower along one of the side streets.\nWhen Zander called the police and identified his mower, he was again told, \"We didn't see the cubs take it. Nothing we can do\".\n\"And don't be taking the law into your own paws or YOU'LL go to the zoo\", another officer told Zander.\nAfter doing nothing about Zander's ride mower, the officers then conducted a street side inspection on Zander's Lancia, found a burnt out parking light, and wrote Zander a ticket for it...Wow, THAT one backfired in Zander's face.\nZander Rat's green and metal flake silver, ride mower looked really nice before it got stolen. But within a week, the jackal and his friends had removed the blade deck, other attachments and the muffler. They also painted it with cans of orange spray paint, put race car stickers on it and painted the shiny green wheel rims flat black. And an adolescent aardwolf friend had changed some belt pulleys around on it so they can race it up and down the residential streets at 40 km/h (25 mph) as a stripped down lawn tractor.\nZander had several times seen jackals, hyenas, an aardwolf and dingos, all adolescents, hot rodding his stolen ride mower at 40 km/h down the nearby streets, painted orange with race car stickers on it, without it's mowing deck, and without it's muffler as it loudly sounded off >POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP<. And it also looked like it had already been flipped over at one time. It would grind on Zander Rat whenever he would think of how much he paid for that mower.\nOne day, Zander Rat had walked out his front door and caught the jackal and his aardwolf friend in the act of dragging #16 penny framing nails down the side of his Dodge Viper.\n\"FUCKEN FIRE SHIT!\", Zander Rat hollered as the two adolescents dropped the nails and took off running down the street laughing.\nWhen Zander called the police, they wouldn't even attempt to get paw prints off the nails.\n\"Who's gonna pay for THIS!\", Zander retorted as he pointed to the damage to his car.\n\"That's what you got insurance for. Use it. Have a nice day\", an officer replied to Zander as the two officers got in their patrol car and left.\nBecause Zander Rat filed a claim on his insurance to get the side of his Viper repainted at Chariots of Fire Customs and Classics, that made his rates go up.\nZander Rat eventually resorted to seeking help from an attorney as to what can be done about the police harassment, and about those cubs who stole his ride mower and nailed the side of his Dodge Viper.\nZander's jaw dropped wide open when he heard Attorney Weasel tell him, \"Well, as I understand this situation, you seemed to have made some bad blood with some very powerful animals around here, including the mayor of this city\".\nZander just replied, \"Huuuuuhhh?\"\nThen Zander retorted, \"Ya know Mr. Weasel?...I paid twenty five hundred rupees for that mower\".\n\"Aww, let those crazy, delinquent cubs keep it\", Attorney Weasel replied. \"The police aren't going to do anything...Not for you anyway\".\n\"What about all the traffic tickets the police are piling on me? It has gotten really costly\", Zander added.\nAttorney Weasel then answered, \"My advice, Zander...Just pay them and go on...That's all you can do\".\n\"You mean?! You mean?! You're not doin' nothin'?!\", Zander Rat protested.\nAttorney Weasel replied, \"Look, Zander. What do you expect me to do? You made your own bed. I heard about what you did to Mayor Bear's nephew last year...To put it simple, you stepped on the wrong toes that time. And they're not going to let you forget it\".\n\"Soooo...Then?\", Zander muttered.\n\"It's not over until THEY say it's over...Until then, deal with it, Zander\", said Attorney Weasel. \"I wish I could give you better news...You should have left Mayor Bear's nephew alone\".\nAs Zander got up to leave, he muttered, \"Mayor Bear. Mayor Bear. What a douche\".\n\"Excuse me, Mr. Rat\", Attorney Weasel called Zander down. \"Mayor Bear has done a lot of good things for this city. And I voted for him in the last election. If you have anything bad to say about Mayor Bear, you need to take it somewhere else...Bye\".\nZander stood for a moment, looking stupid.\n\"I said, bye\", Attorney Weasel reminded Zander.\nNeedless to say, Zander left Attorney Weasel's office as one really pissed off rat...not to mention Zander still had to pay a 70 rupee consultation fee. Zander was so pissed, he threw a crumpled 100 rupee bill on the receptionist's counter and stormed out without his change. \n Then there was the time while Dr. Zander Rat was at his office of medical practice, writing out fraudulent prescriptions for his drug addict clients and seeing other patients, the young jackal, two of his hyena friends and his aardwolf friend showed up at Zander's house with machetes.\n\"You sure that creepy rat's at work?\", one of the hyenas asked.\n\"I bet he's cutting up dicks right now\", the aardwolf replied as the others laughed.\n\"Yea. Just like we're gonna cut up his banana trees\", said the jackal.\nZander Rat had lots of beautiful banana trees on his property, which the four youths immediately commenced hacking to pieces with the machetes.\nAs the youths continued hacking up Zander's banana trees and laughing about it, the jackal went over to a tree loaded down with clusters of ripe, golden yellow bananas.\n\"That stupid rat likes circumcisions so much. Let's circumcise his bananas\", the jackal exclaimed as he hacked the clusters of bananas into chunks falling off of the tree while the others laughed.\nBefore the youths left, they threw bananas all over Zander's yard and driveway and against his house, and against his 1954 Lancia Aurelia (Zander took the Viper that day). Then they took some bananas with them to eat along their way.\nBy the time the youths got done, Zander Rat's banana trees looked like they were hit by World War Three.\nWhen Zander Rat got home and saw the ruins of what was once his 'precious' banana trees, he hollered out, \"MOTHER FUCKEN' SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT! MY BANANAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!\".\nAfter Zander called the police, an officer told him, \"There's nothing we can do. But this big banana mess is a health hazard. You need to clean this up before the health department writes you a citation\".\nAnd because Zander Rat's neighbors didn't like him, those who did see it happen claimed they saw nothing.\nThere was also the time the young jackal and his aardwolf friend threw roofing nails in Zander Rat's driveway. Zander later unknowingly backed his Viper over the nails as he left to go to an ER shift he had that day.\nBy the time three of the tires on Zander's car began to go flat, there was already a police car following Zander like they had always been doing. When Zander had to pull over with three flat tires, and another one starting to go flat, the police officer who was following Zander wrote him a ticket for driving around on faulty tires.\nZander had to call the hospital to cancel his ER shift that day, then call a roll-back wrecker to take his car to a tire shop. At the tire shop, one tire was salvageable to be repaired with vulcanizing patches. The other three tires could not be fixed and had to be replaced.\nThere were several occasions when Zander Rat would choose to walk to nearby places, figuring that way, he couldn't get a traffic ticket. But Zander was wrong. He would get those jaywalking tickets that anyone else rarely ever gets.\nIn the summer of 2012, the adolescent jackal and his friends found out where Dr. Zander Rat's office location was. It was in a rented store front which shared the same old, late 1950s style, ratty strip mall with two bail bonds agencies, a claw (nail) manicure salon and a few vacant store fronts. Dr. Rat's office was not in a nice medical professional complex like where the other doctors had their offices of medical practice.\nOne morning, early in July of that summer, Dr. Rat went to open for business that day and saw in big, orange, spray painted letters, \"QUACK\", on the front plate glass windows of his office.\nWhen Dr. Rat called the police, he got the same ole, \"What do you expect US to do about it?\".\nThe only thing Zander could do was to have Nurse Squirrel and his receptionist, Zella Gerbil scrub \"quack\" off the windows before the business day began.\nThen throughout the rest of July and into August, there were 16 other occasions where \"QUACK\" showed up on the windows by morning again at Dr. Rat's office, eleven times in orange, one time in yellow and four other times in lime green....One of those mornings, Dr. Rat had an ER shift at the hospital, and was alerted by phone from Zella Gerbil that the window had been spray painted again.\nAnd each time it happened, Dr. Rat called the police, only to be told, \"Nothing we can do. Have a nice day\".\nAnd each time, Dr. Rat had to send Nurse Squirrel and Receptionist Gerbil to scrub \"quack\" off the windows.\nBy that 17th time \"QUACK\" was spray painted on the windows, Dr. Rat had been really pissed off a long time ago. Dr. Rat finally had a security camera system installed at his office.\nThree days after the security cameras were installed, Dr. Rat drove his Lancia Aurelia into the parking lot of the ratty strip mall his office is in, and heard the burglar alarm system sounding off, >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<.\nThen Dr. Rat noticed one of the large plate glass windows in front of his office had been smashed out, then exclaimed with much optimism, \"Oh yea! I KNOW those cameras caught them! I got 'em now!\".\nAs the alarm loudly continued, >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<, Zella Gerbil shouted over the noise, \"THEY GOT ONE OF OUR WINDOWS\".\n\"I KNOW. BUT THAT CAMERA GOT 'EM. SOMEONE'S GOIN' TO THE ZOO NOW. YEA!\", Dr. Rat loudly answered as he unlocked the front door.\nInside, as the alarm continued >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<, there was broken tempered glass granules all over the floor and furniture of the waiting room, and a brick near a table.\nDr. Rat stuck a key in a switch panel, shutting off the alarm >WEE-DOO-WEE-Do<.\nAfter Zander called the police, he viewed the video that the security system had recorded during the night.\n\"Oh boy, oh boy, I got 'em now\", Dr. Rat said as he finally found the footage he was looking for, then set the monitor for full screen on the camera that recorded the incident.\nNurse Squirrel and Zella Gerbil wanted to see the video also, so Dr. Rat let them watch.\nThe camera that saw it was located at the back of the waiting room, near the receptionist counter, facing the big front windows. On the video, the time readout was at 12:47 am (47 minutes after midnight), and it showed several shadows showing up outside cast in the parking lot lights.\nThe sound track had picked up a voice outside, \"That stupid Rat needs some air conditioning\", along with the sounds of others laughing.\n\"That's the jackal and aardwolf who stole my ride mower last year! And scratched up my Viper!\", Zander exclaimed as he recognized the adolescent animals in the video.\n\"Well, they're caught now\", said Nurse Squirrel.\nThen an adolescent dingo and two adolescent hyenas came into the picture. And the video reception was good and clear as a bell. There was no mistaking as to who they were.\nDr. Rat, Nurse Squirrel and Zella Gerbil watched the video as it showed one of the hyenas pawing the brick over to the aardwolf.\nThen the footage showed the aardwolf outside throw the brick, as he grunted, \"UHH!\"\n>POP< it showed the window explode everywhere into granules.\n>WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO< it showed the alarm sound off as the brick bounced across the floor in the waiting room, then came to rest near the table.\n\"SHIT! THIS PLACE HAS AN ALARM!\", the jackal could barely be heard shouting over the alarm.\n\"He he he! I got you shit asses now, an' you don't know it yet! He he!\", Dr. Rat said as the video showed the youths fleeing from the scene.\nDr. Rat then reversed the video to where the youths showed up so he could play it for the police.\nHowever, when the police arrived they viewed the video, then told Dr. Rat, \"Well, as you can see, the reception is not good enough to make a positive identification. There's no proof. Nothing we can do\".\nZander just stood there dumbfounded, going, \"Duhhhh\".\nThen Dr. Rat retorted, \"Uhhh, what about the brick? Don't it have paw prints?\"\n\"Bricks are known to be porous. We might be wasting our time trying to get prints off that brick.\", an officer told Dr. Rat.\n\"That's the way it goes, Bub\", another officer said as they left.\nAfter the police had left, and Nurse Squirrel was vacuuming the glass granules, and Zella Gerbil was phoning the landlord about the broken window, Dr. Rat was ripping the cameras down in a fit rage of temper.\nIn reality, the police could have used the video as evidence, and gotten paw prints from the brick, if they wanted to, but Dr. Rat was still paying for circumcising Mayor Bear's nephew two years earlier.\n\"WHAT GOOD IS IT TO EVEN HAVE THESE FUCKEN' CAMERAS ANYWAY\", Dr. Rat raged as he ripped the cameras by their mounts out of the walls.\nDr. Rat took the cameras out back and slammed them as hard as he can against the inside of the dumpster, as they sounded off with a loud >BOONG BOONG BOONG< as they hit.\n\"FUCKIN' SHITTIN' PUNKS GOT AWAY WITH IT!\", Dr. Rat shouted out by the dumpster.\nAbout that time, the female French poodle who ran the claw manicure salon stepped out the back door of her place of business and saw Dr. Rat still throwing his tantrum.\n\"ZANDER, CAN YOU KNOCK IT WITH THE NOISE?!\", the French poodle scorned at Dr. Rat. \"YOU ARE FREAKING OUT MY CUSTOMERS!...THANK YOU!\"\nAfter Dr. Rat stormed back in through the back door of his office, the French poodle went back about her business.\nTo top it all off, Dr. Rat had to pay for the replacement cost of the window. As a business tenant renting from the strip mall, Dr. Rat was responsible for any damages to the portion of the building he rented, except for in the case of damage caused by war or natural disaster...Dr. Rat was also made to pay for wall repairs where he ripped the cameras out.\nEver since Dr. Rat sexually violated Mayor Bear's nephew, it seemed like everyone was allowed to walk all over Dr. Rat like a welcome mat. But Dr. Rat had to make sure he tip-toed on egg shells. The slightest slip-up got him harassed by the police, fined or both. And that went on for over two years...almost into 2013. During that time Zander Rat's auto insurance premiums were always high, apple pie in the sky, sky high from all the traffic tickets he had been accumulating.\nZander Rat got all too familiar with that blare of a siren and seeing the flashing lights in his mirrors...It was made crystal clear to Zander Rat that Mayor Bear is good friends with a lot of powerful animals and with a lot of 'good ole boys'.\n\nMeanwhile, in El-Minya, Egypt, after 31 years, if Jhi Fossa (now age 62) ever found Zander, Jhi still would not hesitate to kill him.\nJhi's molested son, Chad (now age 39), still attends therapy to this day. Chad became suicidal at age 17 (the same year Zander Rat graduated from med school in India), forcing Jhi and his wife, Nirina, to mortgage their home to pay for their son, Chad's, psychiatrist bills, because of Chad's bad experience, at age 8, with Zander Rat. And that's only one example of the families who's lives were turned up side down by Zander Rat.\nMany anthro animal families, including Zander's own family who lived in fear of retaliation, were caused to suffer hardship, intense drama and bad experiences, with members of a few families in Egypt turning to alcohol and drug abuse, in the wake left behind from Zander's sick fetish.\n\n\n\nChapter 29. Same Old Zander Iscelberg Rat\n\nNovember 30, 2013 was a day that Dr. Zander Rat had an ER shift at the hospital. It was a shift beginning early in the evening with Dr. Tavi Mongoose already having to get on Dr. Rat for a constant stream of \"heel to toe\" screw-ups.\nOnly an hour after Dr. Rat came on shift, Dr. Mongoose had to tell him, \"I should send you home, Zander. I'll do that rather than let you kill a patient\".\nEven nurse Sheryl Fox, who is not even a doctor, had to catch Dr. Rat in time to stop him from administering penicillin to a linsang with an ear infection who was highly allergic to it.\nShit hit the fan for a minute or two over that one, as Dr. Mongoose simply told Zander, \"Get away from the patient, now!\".\nThe linsang with the ear infection felt more at ease when Dr. Mongoose assigned Nurse Fox to treat him.\nDr. Mongoose was still busy treating a fellow mongoose who had a paw lacerated from a circular saw accident.\nDr. Clyde Wolf was also on shift, but at the time he was busy treating a civet who had come in with an asthma attack...As it was, Dr. Wolf was already feeling like he could slap Dr. Rat up side the head a good one.\nEventually Nurse Fox completed treatment for the linsang with the ear infection. The only thing left was to write out an antibiotic prescription (which Dr. Wolf took the time to do...being a qualified doctor), and have the linsang go see the billing department on his way out.\nShortly after, Dr. Mongoose got the other mongoose's paw stitched and bandaged, and a prescription written out for medication to prevent infection.\nIt was about an hour later into the evening before the Dr. Wolf's patient, the civet with asthma, could be released. Dr. Wolf got the civet an inhaler refill from the hospital pharmacy before she was released, and she would see her regular physician in the morning.\nFor a brief while, no more patients came into ER, so the doctors and nurses took turns chilling out in the doctor's lounge, but ready to report back to ER if called via intercom. During that time, Dr. Mongoose also took the time to pull Dr. Rat aside and give him a good stern lecture about his constant screw-ups he's been doing that evening.\nLater, while doctors Tavi Mongoose and Clyde Wolf were in the doctor's lounge, Nurse Teisha Civet's voice came over the intercom, \"Dr. Mongoose, Dr. Wolf, Dr. Rat, report to ER please...Dr. Mongoose, Dr.Wolf, Dr. Rat\".\n\"Well, were needed\", Dr. Wolf said as the two doctors got up to head back to ER.\n\"Yes. Duty calls\", Dr. Mongoose replied.\nWhen doctors Mongoose and Wolf returned to ER, a female fox had just come in by ambulance, and was complaining of bad chest pains. Dr. Mongoose took her as his patient, and Dr. Wolf offered his assistance until he himself was needed for a patient.\nAs Tavi and Clyde were considering the fox for admission into the hospital, Dr. Wolf mentioned, \"I haven't seen Zander lately\".\n\"Probably somewhere screwing off\", Dr Mongoose replied. \"We don't need him anyway\".\nIt wasn't long before Dr. Wolf had to pull away from assisting Dr. Mongoose and Nurse Civet with the fox. He and Nurse Sheryl Fox were needed to tend to a panther who was injured in a car accident and had arrived by ambulance. The panther was still conscious but badly banged up.\nThen a sloth bear couple came in with their 6 year old daughter who had stepped in a roofing nail that was still deep into her foot.\n\"Where is Zander?\" Dr. Mongoose retorted. \"We have a sloth bear cub with a nail in her foot, and another doctor screwing off somewhere\".\nNurse Civet then pulled away from assisting Dr. Mongoose just long enough to make the intercom announcement, \"Dr. Rat, you're needed in ER. Dr. Rat, you're needed in ER\".\nStill no sign of Dr. Rat.\nDr. Wolf had to finally send Nurse Fox over to treat the sloth bear cub's foot, until she would be needed come back and help.\nNurse Civet made another intercom announcement, \"Dr. Rat, you are need in ER\".\n\"Let me have that\", Dr. Mongoose told Nurse Civet as he took the microphone.\n\"Dr. Zander Rat, get to ER now! We have a patient in need! Get in here now!\", Dr. Mongoose announced.\nThree minutes later, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. comes ditty-bopping into ER.\n\"Where the Hell have you been?!\", Dr. Mongoose scorned Dr. Rat. \"We're short on help! There's a cub with a nail in her foot! Get on it!\".\nWithin minutes, the sloth bear cub could be heard screaming and crying.\nThe bear cub's mom exclaimed at Dr. Rat, \"That's enough! Leave her alone!\"\n\"Hey doctor, do you even know what you're doing?!\", the cub's dad retorted.\n\"Zander's violently wiggling that nail in her foot!\", Dr. Wolf told Dr. Mongoose.\n\"ZANDER, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!\", Dr. Mongoose asked.\n\"Uhhh, trying to jiggle it out?\", Dr. Rat replied with an overtone of doubt to his answer.\n\"Get away from the cub, Zander! Just get away from her! WE'LL take care of it!\", Dr. Mongoose sternly told Dr. Rat.\nDr. Rat just stood there looking stupid, then back-talked Dr. Mongoose, \"I can do this...I'm a doctor too, ya know\".\n\"You're not...No you're not... I don't want you near our daughter,\". the bear cub's mom told Dr. Rat.\n\"I'm warning you to step away from our daughter, you quack\", the cub's dad added.\nDaddy Sloth Bear got Dr. Rat's attention real quick, and he then backed off.\n\"I can manage here OK if you want to treat the bear cub\", Dr. Wolf told Nurse Fox. \"I can call you when I need you\".\nNurse Fox agreed to treat the little bear cub, and Dr. Rat felt embarrassed when Mamma Bear said, \"I'd rather a nurse who knows what she's doing treat our daughter than to have a quack who calls himself a doctor\".\nAs Nurse Fox began tending to the bear cub's nail in the foot, a meerkat couple came into ER with their 8 year old son who had a rather gravelly cough, and was complaining about feeling weak.\n\"From what his parents told me, it sounds like pneumonia\", the triage nurse told Dr. Mongoose as she described the cub's symptoms.\n\"It sure sounds like it\", Dr. Mongoose replied to the triage nurse. \"Have them wait over at that gurney\".\nThe triage nurse lead the meerkats over where she got the meerkat cub comfortably situated on a gurney to wait for a doctor to see him. Then she assured the meerkats that a doctor will be with them shortly as she left to go back to the triage station.\n\"Zander, get over here\", Dr. Mongoose called out.\n\"Yea\", Dr. Rat replied in his normally goofy tone of voice as he came walking over.\nDr. Mongoose and Nurse Civet were still tending to the fox with chest pains, and Dr. Wolf was still patching up the panther who had the car accident.\nSo Dr. Mongoose asked Dr. Rat, \"You see that meerkat cub over there?\"\n\"Oooo yeeeaaa!\", Dr. Rat answered as he noticed the cub was a male...and not circumcised.\n\"Listen to me, Zander\", Dr. Mongoose instructed. \"He has symptoms of pneumonia. All I want you to do is to get the cub over to x-ray. Tell the x-ray tech you need pictures of his lungs to check for pneumonia. And when you get them, do NOT try to diagnose them yourself. You bring them to ME, and I'll tell you what to do from there...You got it\".\n\"No problem. It's a cinch\", Dr. Rat replied so confidently, as he continued staring across ER at the meerkat cub's genitalia.\nDr. Mongoose noticed some distraction on Dr. Rat.s part, so he had Dr. Rat recite the instructions to make sure he got them...which Dr. Rat was able to recite word for word.\nSatisfied with that, Dr. Mongoose then sent Dr, Rat over to get the cub to x-ray.\nBefore going over to where the meerkats were waiting, Dr. Rat deviated out of his way to a treatment side room.\n\"Where is that silly rat going?\", Dr Wolf asked as he saw Dr. Rat heading for the side room instead of going where Dr. Mongoose told him to go.\n\"I know I told him to get that meerkat cub to x-ray\", Dr. Mongoose retorted.\nIn that treatment side room, in a counter drawer, is where Dr. Rat kept a scalpel and a circie-clamp stashed. Once Dr. Rat got his clamp and scalpel, it was off to see the meerkats.\n\"I think Zander's going over there now\", said Dr. Wolf.\n\"Good\", Dr. Mongoose replied.\n\"Oooo. That little meerkat male simply MUST have his pee-wee-do loose his sheath\", Dr. Rat mumbled as he headed over to the meerkats. \"I'm gonna GET that sheath, he he\".\nDr. Rat had even been thinking up a new tactic for his circie-fetish...He thought he might try TALKING his victims into it this time and see how that works.\n\"Hello, I'm Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat\", he introduced himself as he approached the meerkats. \"And I take it this is the little one we'll be checking for pneumonia this evening\".\nDr. Rat was focused on the cub's penis sheath when the cub's mom explained, \"He's has a rattle in his chest when he coughs. And he says he feels weak\".\nThe cub's dad asked Dr. Rat, \"What is that plastic thing? And what's with the knife?\"\n\"Oh. This is a circumcision clamp.\" Dr. Zander Rat began his circumcision sales pitch. \"Before we do anything else, that nasty skin cover needs to come off your son's penis. By the way, you yourself should also consider getting...\"\n\"QUE O INFERNO?!\" Daddy Meerkat scorned Dr. Rat in an Angolan dialect of Portuguese that Dr. Rat didn't understand..\nThe meerkat cub began freaking out, screaming and crying, scared half out of his wits.\nBy now, it had gotten the attention of the nurses, patients and other doctors.\nThe acquaintance between the Meerkat family and Dr. Rat got real ugly real quick as the cub's mom, told Dr. Rat, \"My son is not here for a circumcision. He has pneumonia! I demand a different doctor, you quack\".\nZander Rat thought his lame circumcision 'sales pitch' would still work as he replied, \"It's all about what I feel is best in my professional opinion\".\nThe meerkat cub cried out, \"I DON'T WANT MY PEE-PEE CUT!\".\nDaddy Meerkat hollered, \"BACK OFF! AND I MEAN NOW, RAT!\"...So much for Zander being a good salesrat.\nSo Dr. Rat stuck to his old proven tactic, ignoring Daddy Meerkat as he set the scalpel on the gurney to have a paw free, and retracted the cub's sheath, poking his little meerkat penis all the way out, and trying to get the clamp bell over the cub's penis head as the cub began kicking and fighting it.\n\"STOP THIS! NOW!\", the cub's mother screamed.\n>ZOOM< went the scalpel as the cub kicked it from where Dr. Rat had set on the gurney. Dr. Rat had to let loose of the cub's penis, allowing it to sheath back in, so he can quickly catch the flying scalpel.\n>THUMP WOOSH stumble stumble stumble< Dr. Rat was suddenly hit hard and almost knocked to the floor.\nBefore Dr. Rat even knew it, Daddy Meerkat had quickly came around the gurney and gave Dr. Zander Rat a good hard shove away from the cub.\nAs Daddy Meerkat began roughing up Dr. Rat, Dr. Mongoose called out from the other side of ER, \"WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE!'.\n\"WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! DR. ICE BERG! WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?!\", Dr Wolf answered.\nNurse Teisha Civet asked, \"Why does he always pull that crap\", after referring to Dr. Rat as \"Zander the sander\".\nIt got really tense when Daddy Meerkat back Dr. Rat away, telling him, \"STAY AWAY FROM MY SON OR I'LL KILL YOU, YOU CREEP! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING!\".\nNurse Civet mentioned, \"They must be stopped! Someone will be hurt!\"\nDr. Wold disagreed, saying, \"NO! Let him have at it. I'd like to see that meerkat nail the living shit out of Zander Ice Berg\".\nDr. Rat was almost scared enough to shit where he stood as Daddy Meerkat continued backing him away and cussing him out. Much of the cussing being in Portuguese that Dr. Rat didn't understand intimidated him even further.\nMeanwhile, Mamma Meerkat was busy getting her upset cub calmed down. \nAt one point, Dr. Rat got to thinking, \"I think that crazy meerkat's gonna hurt me...I KNOW...Maybe I can stab him with my scalpel...Yea\".\nHowever, some sense of instinct that all animals have told Dr. Rat, \"You'll definitely die trying it...And you won't put a scratch on that meerkat\".\nDr. Rat felt like he was staring into the face of the Death Angel seeing the look in Daddy Meerkat's eyes. And when Mamma Meerkat came over and held Daddy's paw, that's when Dr. Rat went into panic mode.\n\"AHHHHH! SECURITY! SECURITY! I'VE BEEN THREATENED! I'VE BEEN THREATENED!\", Dr Rat hollered as he dropped his clamp and scalpel and took off running.\nAs Dr. Rat ran by, Daddy Meerkat told him, \"Why don't you just go to Hell?\".\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 10] by moyomongoose\n+15\n\nDr. Rat dashed out of ER and went running down the hallways hollering, \"SECURITY! SECURITY! SECURITY! AHHHHHHHHH! SECURITY! SECURITY! AHHHHHHHHH!\".\nEveryone in ER could hear Dr. Rat all the way down the hallway.\nSeveral doctors, staff members and nurses called down Dr. Rat about being loud in a hospital as he ran through the hallways hollering for security, and his feet slapping the floor real loud as he ran. But Dr. Rat kept running through the hospital hallways, hollering for security.\nAs Dr. Rat ran past intensive care, everyone heard Dr. Rat's feet slapping by in the hallway, >SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP<, and him hollering, \"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!\", as he went by.\nDr. Rat hollered in a hallway, \"HEEELLLLP! I'VE BEEN THREATENNNNED!\" as he finally found two security guards, a rottweiler and a bear.\n\"Hey! You're in a hospital!\", the bear retorted to Dr. Rat.\n\"Being a doctor, I thought you knew better\", the rottweiler added.\n\"BUT I'VE BEEN THREATENNNNN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NINNNN!\", Dr. Rat protested as he hopped up and down, slapping his feet on the floor.\n\"Hey! Pipe it down! There's sick and injured animals here!\", the bear reminded him.\n\"And as for your foot slapping. Remember, you rats have plantigrade feet\", the rottweiler added.\n\"Well excuuuzzzze me. I can't help that\", Dr. Rat replied, beginning to raise his voice again.\n\"You're getting loud again\", the rottweiler reminded Dr. Rat.\nThe bear informed Dr. Rat, \"We bears also have plantigrade feet. But you don't hear me slapping my feet through the hallways of a hospital\".\nOnce the two guards got Dr. Rat calmed down, Dr. Rat told them his altered version of what had happened in ER.\nBack in ER, Dr.Wolf had determined the panther who had the car accident should be admitted to a hospital stay for a few days. Once Dr. Mongoose reaffirmed Dr. Wolf's decision that the panther's injuries were bad enough to require a stay, that left Dr. Wolf freed up to go treat the meerkat cub with the pneumonia symptoms.\nAs for the sloth bear cub who stepped on the roofing nail, Nurse Sheryl Fox completed her treatment. Once Dr. Mongoose could pull away from his heart patient long enough to write the bear cub an anti-biotic prescription, she could be released. That left Nurse Fox freed up to assist Dr. Wolf with the meerkat cub.\nThen the two security guards came in through the double doors from the hallway. Behind them, still out in the hallway was Dr. Zander Rat.\nImmediately, Dr. Mongoose told Nurse Civet, \"Teisha, I'll leave you with the patient for a minute. I'll be back\", then went to meet the guards at the hallway doors.\n\"I'm the senior doctor here, and that rat is not to come into this emergency room\", Dr. Mongoose told the guards as he pushed the doors back against Dr. Rat.\n\"You heard him, Zander. You have to stay out there\", the bear told Dr. Rat.\n\"Zander, go to the doctor's lounge and wait for me. I'll be in to deal with you later.\", said Dr. Mongoose.\n\"But but but\", Dr. Rat protested as he stood in the hallway near the doors and looking stupid.\nDr. Mongoose stepped out into the hallway and shoved Dr. Rat's back against the hallway wall...something he's never done to Dr. Rat before.\nI don't have time to play stupid games with you, Zander!\", Dr. Mongoose warned Dr. Rat. \"I have a heart attack patient in there right now who may have to be admitted. I'm not fucking around with you! I'm not playing games with you! I told you to wait for me in the doctor's lounge, now get there!\"\nAs Dr. Mongoose headed back into ER, he told the guards, \"If Dr. Rat doesn't go to the doctor's lounge, escort him off the premises\".\n\"Yeeeeesh...He's never treated me like THAT before\", Dr. Rat mumbled.\n\"Dr. Rat. You'll have to go to the doctor's lounge, or you'll have to leave\", the rottweiler told Dr. Rat.\nThat got Dr. Rat's attention, so he then went to the doctor's lounge like Dr. Mongoose told him twice to do.\nFifteen minutes later, it was decided to have the fox with the chest pains admitted for further care. Now Dr. Mongoose can go deal with Dr. Rat.\nWhen Dr. Mongoose came into the doctors lounge, he took no time with opening questions or an introduction.\nDr Mongoose started on Zander Rat with, \"This evening, you really outdid yourself fucking up, Zander! Since you got on shift, it was non-stop! You trying to set a record?! That linsang with the ear infection could have died if Nurse Fox hadn't stopped you! And jostling an object embedded in a patient. That bear cub who stepped on that nail. You have the gall to call yourself a doctor?! And then you have to top it off with your sick fetish of wanting to cut off penis sheaths! What from Hell floats your sick boat with that anyway?!\".\n\"Uhhh, it reduces the chance of disease by sixty percent,\", Dr. Zander Rat interjected.\n\"You're the one with a disease, Zander! A mental disease!\", Dr. Mongoose told Zander Rat. \"There are no studies that prove that, and even if there were, it's none of your business to cut them off to begin with! And you caused a drama scene in ER with that sick shit when we had a heart patient! But I guess you're to ignorant to realize the ramifications of THAT one! And stomping down the hallways and hollering! In a hospital of all places! You really outdid yourself in stupidity with that one! Even someone who is not a doctor knows better!\"\nThen Dr. Mongoose told Dr. Rat, \"I'm filing another report on you. You will be seeing admin. Right now, you go home. You're not finishing out this shift\".\nWith that said and done, Zander Rat went out to the parking lot, got in his car, and drove home...stopping off at his favorite cafe' for a late dinner on his way home.\nA while later in ER, it was confirmed by an x-ray and other diagnosis that the meerkat had pneumonia. The Meerkat Family's experience with Dr. Clyde Wolf and Nurse Sheryl Fox was a pleasant one..unlike with Dr. Rat. Nurse Fox liked the cub's name, Raphael. And the parents, Zhang and Annika, made good acquaintance. \nDr. Wolf wrote out a prescription for the cub's medication and the cub was ready to be released...But first, the security guards had a talk with Zhang Meerkat for a few minutes about making loud noises in a hospital, about that drama scene with Dr. Rat. There were no charges filed on Zhang Meerkat for threatening Dr. Rat. After all, he was only protecting his son from a sick creep.\nAfter the Meerkat Family left, everything was slow in ER again, so the doctors and nurses were able to take some more breaks.\n\nA few days later, when Dr. Zander Rat had another ER shift at the hospital, he was called in to Administration. Dr. Rat was reprimanded, then told that with his past track record, if he went up before the medical board for what all happened that evening, he would loose his license to practice medicine in India for good. Dr. Zander Rat was lucky that Admin didn't refer him to the medical board that time.\n\nAbout three weeks later, some thunder storms with a lot of lightning moved through the Salem, India area. It was about a week before Christmas. During one of those storms, the hospital got one of it's parking lot security cameras struck by a bolt of lightning, and it took out the entire camera system for the parking lot.\nA guard watching the monitors in the hospital's security room saw the system go down.\nThe monitors for the cameras closest to the lightning strike brightened up for a split second.\nThen the loud >BANG< from outside.\nThen the monitors showed only the blue background with the prompt, \"no signal\".\n\nCameras Down by moyomongoose\n\nAfter the storm had passed, charred and partly melted parts and pieces of the camera that was directly struck were found sprawled over the parking lot. A few of the camera's pieces had landed on the roofs and hoods of three cars.\n\nTwo days later was a day Dr. Zander Rat had an ER shift at the hospital. It was a predawn shift, and at 11 o'clock in the morning, Dr. Rat was just getting off shift, and feeling disappointed that five hours ago, Dr. Kyle Genet stopped him from circumcising a 7 year old fossa cub.\nIt was about an hour before it would be noon, and Dr. Rat already had an early lunch at the hospital cafeteria before he got off shift.\n\"A cone of ice cream would be nice about now\", Dr. Rat thought.\nThere's an ice cream parlor just a block down the street from the hospital, so Zander went to go get a cone. The ice cream parlor being only a block away, Zander decided he'd leave his car parked where it was and walk there.\nIt wasn't too far a walk up the sidewalk before Zander Rat got to the ice cream parlor.\n\"Hi Zander. Will it be you usual today?\", the server, an elk hound, asked.\n\"Oh yea. Pistachio. A single dip will do. in a sugar cone\", Zander answered as he unclipped his wallet from his underlying fur hairs (a typical wallet placement for anthro-animals).\n\"Single dip, pistachio, sugar cone. You got it\", the server replied as he dipped Zander's ice cream cone.\nWith the transaction made, the wallet clipped back on with the fur hairs brushed over it, Zander took the ice cream cone to go.\nAs Zander Rat stepped out of the ice cream parlor, licking on his \"mmmmm yummy\" pistachio ice cream, and proceeded down the sidewalk on his way back to where his car is, he could hear a peppy, modern, Angolan tune playing somewhere from a boom box.\n http://youtube.com/watch?v=A91nBwyqEd8\nZander didn't pay much attention to where it was coming from.\n\"Shoooodee-doot\", Zander said to himself. \"If someone's gonna play some hoppin' music, why not make it punk rock?\" Punk rock's got style\".\n\"Hmm. That's odd\", Zander thought as he heard the music get turned way down, then about 15 seconds later, turned off all together.\n\"They must-a got tired of hearin' it\", Zander said as he continued down the sidewalk and licking on his pistachio ice cream.\n\"Mmmmmm. Pisssstaaacheeeooo\", Zander said after he took another lick of his pistachio ice cream cone, on his way back to the hospital parking lot.\nZander soon arrived to his 1954 Lancia Aurelia, with the top presently down. That's the car he drove that day instead of the Viper.\nAs Zander was about to get in his car, he heard a voice behind him, \"Dr. Zander Rat\".\n\"Who called me?\", Zander turned and asked, then took a lick of ice cream.\nThere was a fossa, a meerkat and a meerkat cub.\n\"ELE SER ZANDER RATO!\", the older meerkat shouted, jump side kicking Zander Rat in the ribs.\nThe rest happened so fast. Ribs broke - ice cream flying - nuts hurt - face banged up - teeth busting out - right eye hurt bad - kick in the face - >LIGHTS OUT<.............\n...........\"Ooaaaahhhh awwwoooooooo\", Dr. Rat moaned as he woke up in excruciating pain.\nDr. Rat's face was battered and bloody, his lower lip busted wide open, a gonad crushed, two broken ribs, jaw broken in two places, a dislocated neck, the cornea jarred loose from his right eye and eight of his teeth knocked all over the pavement.\n\"That cub looks familiar\", Zander Rat thought as he continued to moan in pain. \"Oh shit. The one with pneumonia. Last month\".\nDr. Rat now knew what the beating was all about. Sure enough. The same meerkat cub Dr. Rat tried to circumcise, but he still had his penis sheath that Dr. Rat did not get.\nDr. Rat heard the older meerkat audibly say to the cub, \"If that perverted rat ever comes near you, or even looks at you, you just let me know\"...THAT really added insult to injury.\nWhen the cub exclaimed bright eyed and exuberantly, \"I sure will, Uncle Cheesah!\", that rubbed it in on Dr. Rat really bad.\nThen Dr. Rat had to listen to the wrathful meerkat uncle warn him, \"You're lucky, freak. I could have stopped your clock if I wanted to. You don't EVER mess with my family...OR with their sex parts, you perverted creep\".\n\"When I grow up big and strong like my uncle, I'm gonna do it to ya too!\", the cub got in Dr. Rat's face with.\n\"You tell 'em, Raphael!\", the fossa added more insult to Dr. Rat's injuries.\nIt really ground on Dr. Rat when he saw the meerkat cub smile back to the fossa...Dr. Rat couldn't stand it.\nIt was like a voice kept ringing in Dr. Rat's noggin, \"This is what you got for fucking around where you had no business going\".\nSuddenly, the fossa picked up a boom box, and he and the meerkats ran off.\n\"What are they up to now\", Dr. Rat thought as he was still moaning in pain.\nSecurity guards showed up. That's why the fossa and meerkats ran off.\nRight away, the guards alerted the medical team in ER to get a gurney out to the parking lot and get Dr. Rat.\nDr. rat wasn't in ER long before he was taken to OR (operating room). There was some work to be done on Dr. Zander Rat, and he was going to be laid up in the hospital for a good while.\nBefore Dr. Rat went under anesthesia, the guards asked him to write down who he thought did it...Dr. rat couldn't talk with a busted up jaw.\nHe wrote something about a fossa and meerkats, and a meerkat cub he tried to circumcise.\nThe guards told Dr. Rat they would try to find who did it to him. But they did also tell him that there were no witnesses, and the parking lot security camera system had not been working for the past two days.\nThen it was patch-up time. Dr. Rat was sedated so work can begin on him...>out like a light<.\nAfter Zander was patched up, he was on a bed pan in a hospital bed with his mouth wired up eating through a straw for a month.\nDuring that time Dr. Wolf would torment Dr. Rat by tuning the television in his room to the Meerkat Friends Variety Show that came on in the mornings.\nDr. Rat's wallet was never recovered from the parking lot. It's believed someone found it and walked off with it.\nAt one point during Dr. Rat's hospital stay, and during one of those thunder storms, it dawned on Dr. Rat, \"Oh shit. I hope the top on my car isn't still down\".\nBut it's kind of impossible to talk with your mouth wired shut on a straw.\nWhen Dr. Rat finally recuperated and was released, and had his first look at his car, sure enough the mildew and ruined upholstery indicated the top had been down in the rain. So was the right rear quarter panel caved in, the right front wheel cover dented, the words \"Zander is a wiener\" spray painted on the right door and fender...Spelled \"Zander is a weener\".\nThe security camera system in the parking lot had by that time been fixed, but not before the damage was done to Dr. Rat's car.\nRaphael Meerkat's penis was definitely something Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. had no business messing with.\n \nA song that best describes Dr Zander Isceberg Rat MD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CUubI37JTGw .\n\nAnd in 2013, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat, under the cloak of being a medical doctor, still has not repented from his perverted ways. Almost dying in a courtroom in 1982, followed by a car chase almost turning deadly, has not taught him anything...Not to mention an angry daddy Madagascan fossa, who hunted Zander down with a 50 caliber pistol, and would still kill Zander if he could find him.\nAnd wearing dental plates and a contact lens, and having a missing testicle, a scared lip and a clicking jaw...all compliments from Cheesah Meerkat, don't seem to have rang the door bell (\"Duh...Ding-Dong\") loud enough for Zander Rat to get the picture either.\nIn November of 2013, a meerkat couple, Zhang and Annika, had to protect their son, Raphael, from Zander Rat's destructively lustful fetish for cub penises, which would have rendered Raphael's most personal, private and secret part of his genital, perpetually unconcealed against Raphael's will. Zhang Meerkat had to come close to killing Dr. Rat to keep his meat hooks off of little Raphael's bottom. That's why Zhang's younger brother, Cheesah, less than half of Zander Rat's age, had recently laid a hurting on Zander Rat really bad, which laid up Zander in a hospital bed just before Christmas of 2013.\nAnd when Zander recovered about a month later in January 2014, he found his car had been vandalized, and the interior ruined from the top being down in the rain.\nIt's most likely the beating that Cheesah Meerkat gave Zander Rat has still not taught Zander to leave his paws off the pee-wees, and not to medal around down there where it's none of Zander's business. \nBut everything still worked out good for the Meekat Family.\n\nTHE END \nContinues on http://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=548147\n*There were some underprivileged meerkats and other animals, who were living in Angola, at the time they were doing without reliable vihicles, who would have appreciated having those cars Zander Rat tore up as a teenager.\n\nSEXUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS\n\nZHANG AND ANNIKA like a lot of foreplay, and they get it every night and then some, except when Zhang is out on his job as an assistant locomotive operator for two days at a time. But when Zhang returns home when he has a few days off, he and Annika have sex like there's no tomorrow. And they really get it on good.\nAs for genital details, Annika's pussy is the wet and oily type, not too tight, but firm.\nZhang's penis head has more of a drawn out \"long taper\" look than what's average for a male meerkat...the way it also is on his younger brother Cheesah. The sheath is slightly long, and the scrotum is average. Zhang's penis has only a modest amount of oil and smegma production. In the sexual relationship, it is Annika's genital that brings most of the oil to the table.\n\nRAPHAEL is still just a boy meerkat, still in that stage of life being fascinated about \"little pee-pee\" he calls \"Little Pokey\". On occasion, Raphael would play with himself, like we all did when we were his age.\nRaphael's penis has a head like the head of the penis his oldest uncle, Moze, has. When it gets erect, the bottom of the head swells up a lot, causing the pee opening and point to get pushed upward, making Raphael's penis look like it's face is up level inline with it's dorsal plain, looking straight up. To put it another way, when Raphael's penis is hard, he can point his penis at something in front of him, but at the same time it looks like little pee-pee is looking up at the sky because it's face it turned up on top of itself.\n\nA drawing from\nnelson88\n\tnelson88\n, drawn by Victor, shows Raphael's penis when it's that way.\n\nSexy Play Time by moyomongoose\n\nIn the drawing, little pee-pee is pointed at the ceiling, but little pee-pee is looking at his owner's belly...The penis of his uncle Moze is the same way.\nAt times, Raphael does imagine, \"Poor stinky Pee-pee has his blank Pee-pee face (where the eyes are imagined to be if it had them) distort skyward when he gets hard, and looking up with only his little Pee-pee hole mouth pointing forward and spitting forward\"... But Raphael also figures, \"As long as Pee-pee is feeling good while Pee-pee is hard, and Pee-pee is having fun while Pee-pee is getting played with, then Pee-pee doesn't mind his little Pee-pee face momentarily becoming the top of his little Pee-pee head, and looking only upward while he's hard\". After-all, that's how nature blessed it.\n\nCircumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 11] by moyomongoose\n+15\nA Cute Feature of Raphael Meerkat's Pee-pee by moyomongoose\n\n \nBear Pee-pee and Meerkat Pee-pee [Page 2] by moyomongoose\n+5\nBear Pee-pee and Meerkat Pee-pee [Page 3] by moyomongoose\n+5\n\nBear Pee-pee and Meerkat Pee-pee [Page 5] by moyomongoose\n+5\n\nThe eyes are only something Raphael imagines when he's playing with it. Raphael's Pee-pee doesn't really have eyes.\nWhen it gets flaccid again, the point droops back down, and Raphael's little pee-pee can look at what's ahead of himself again...that is until he slips back into his sheath and gets covered up. \nThe head and sheath lining have a higher level of erotic sensitivity* than what most male meerkats have, inducing greater sexual pleasure* from rubbing, touching, massaging, etc. Raphael's penis, like his Uncle Cheesah's penis, also has a much higher than average oil and smegma production* (stinky little cheese / popcorn dick). It can be said, \"Nature has been good to Raphael\"*.\nDad and son are uncircumcised, with sheaths slightly long for a meerkat*.\n*Dr. Zander Rat would have mess up a really good penis, with what he was about to do to Raphael Meerkat on that November evening in 2013.\n\nDR. ZANDER ISCELBERG RAT MD has a typical rat / rodent penis. Like all other males in his family, Zander is circumcised...so short in fact, the head is longer than what is left to the rest of the penis. Zander's dried, katrinized surface is so built up, he just about has to take sandpaper to it to feel an orgy (Dead Dick Zander). Zander is a rat with a really messed up dick.\nBack during the time of Zander's dysfunctional marrage and live-in relationships, he never fathered any offspring (Thank God. They are better off never being conceived). Presently, Zander does not have much of a sex life, except to rarely see prostitutes, who pull away before Zander can climax (takes almost forever), then demand more money from him. Zander Rat's pathetic excuse for a sex life also includes cub porno sites, stalking cubs in the parks and on playgrounds when mom and dad aren't watching, hanging out down the street from elementry schools at 3:00 in the afternoon, loitering in public restrooms, and getting off on the dicks he does forced circumcisions on. Zander is one chronically sick rat...Someone you'ld like to throw under the bus...It's a wonder he's even still alive today.\n\nEND OF SEXUAL DESCRIPTIONS\n\nTHE END\nContinues on http://inkbunny.net/submissionview.php?id=591766\nBad Karma is Not Kind by moyomongoose\n+13\n\n\nMoyomongoose 2013 Public Domain\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \npage",
"writing_bbcode_parsed": " HISTORY OF THE CHARACTERS - 29 CHAPTERS (following the description):
CIRCUMCISION ATTEMPT
This story has been written from summer of 2013 to December 2013.
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Description: Hospital Visit - The setting is in Salem India, on the evening of 11/30/13.
Zhang Meerkat and his wife, Annika, had no idea what they were going to be up against when they had to take their son, Raphael, to the hospital emergency room on the evening of November 30, 2013. Raphael Meerkat had what Zhang and Annika had first thought was a cold, until pneumonia symptoms showed up, and Raphael complaining of feeling weak, and of his chest "feeling buzzy" when he coughed.
Shortly after Raphael was admitted into the hospital, the doctor who was assigned to treat him showed up. Raphael's parents sensed that something didn't feel right about this big, brown rat. They also noticed he was circumcised, which they didn't pay much mind to, because, among friends of their family, are two circumcised civets* and a circumcised fossa* who's closest friends jokingly call him "Ding Bell", because his flared shape penis head would shake around, looking like a ringing bell, when he walked.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat", he introduced himself. "And I take it this is the little one we'll be checking for pneumonia this evening".
"He's has a rattle in his chest when he coughs. And he says he feels weak", Raphael's mom, Annika, told Dr. Rat.
"What is that plastic thing?", Zhang asked. "And what's with the knife?"
"Oh. This is a circumcision clamp." Dr. Zander Rat explained. "Before we do anything else, that nasty skin cover needs to come off your son's penis. By the way, you yourself should also consider getting..."
"QUE O INFERNO?! (WHO THE HELL?!)" Zhang cut Dr. Rat off in mid sentence, as Raphael began freaking out, screaming and crying, scared half out of his wits...The last thing a little boy meerkat with pneumonia needs.
The acquaintance between the Meerkat family and Dr. Rat got real ugly real quick. Annika demanded a different doctor for her son as Zander Rat argued how he thought it is the thing to do.
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"BACK OFF! AND I MEAN NOW, RAT!", Zhang shouted.
But Dr. Rat ignored Zhang as he set the scalpel on the gurney to have a paw free, and retracted Raphael's sheath, poking his little meerkat penis all the way out, and trying to get the clamp bell over Raphael's penis head as Raphael began kicking and fighting it.
"STOP THIS! NOW!", Annika screamed.
As Raphael struggled, he kicked the scalpel Dr. Rat set on the gurney. Dr. Rat had to let loose of Raphael's penis, allowing it to sheath back in, so he can catch the flying scalpel.
It was at that point, Zhang Meerkat quickly came around the gurney and gave Dr. Zander Rat a hard shove away from Raphael, almost knocking the doctor down, then roughing him up.
"WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE?!", Dr. Tavi Mongoose, who was treating a heart patient, called out.
"WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! DR. ICE BERG! WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?!", Dr. Clyde Wolf answered.
"Yea. Zander the Sander", said Nurse Teisha Civet. "Why does he always pull that crap?"
Zhang Meerkat hollered at Zander Rat, "STAY AWAY FROM MY SON OR I'LL KILL YOU, YOU CREEP! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING!", as Zhang began backing him away from Raphael.
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"They must be stopped!", said Nurse Civet. "Someone will be hurt!"
"NO! Let him have at it.", said Dr. Wolf. "I'd like to see that meerkat nail the living shit out of Zander Ice Berg".
Zhang continued backing Dr. Rat away, telling him, "Those things tougher than you even dream of being. I've laugh at, voce pedaco de merda (you piece of shit)!"
Then Zhang continued to cuss Dr. Zander Rat out in an Angolan dialect of Portuguese, that being the language of Angola, Africa where Zhang and Annika were born and raised.
Annika was busy calming Raphael down. "It's all right, meu bebe (my baby). It's all right" Annika assured Raphael, as she was hugging and patting him. "Papai e Mamae irao mante-lo seguro (Daddy and Mommy will keep you safe). It's OK. Daddy's taking care of him. Right now".
Unbeknown to Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat, Zhang Meerkat has been through bad war time experiences at a very young age which renders him at times not operating on a "full deck of cards". Zhang also has had martial arts training at a young age. And in addition to holding a 2nd degree black belt, Zhang has a temper. At this point, all Zander Rat has to do is take a half step back toward Raphael's direction, or run his mouth one more time, and Zhang Meerkat would turn Zander Rat into a corpse real quick. It had now escalated into a volatile situation as Zhang was on the edge of hooking up Zander Rat with a ride in a hearse and a closed casket funeral.
Other doctors, hospital staff and a few patients looked on intensely, waiting for something to happen to Dr. Zander Rat, whom none of them liked. Zhang Meerkat then stared Zander Rat down, preparing at any second to go ballistic on him. Zander thought of using his scalpel as a defense weapon, but couldn't get up the nerve to do it. Had he tried it, Zhang could have snatched it away from Zander and rammed it up Zander's ass before Zander ever knew what happened. Annika had finally gotten Raphael calmed down, and came over and held paws with Zhang to calm him down. And hoping to hold Zhang back from making a mistake he'd later regret. Annika, like any other wife, does not want her husband in prison on a murder conviction.
Dr. Zander Rat then dropped his circi-clamp and scalpel, and went running off, hollering for hospital security. Zhang, still holding paws with his wife, told Zander to go to Hell.
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Dr Zander Rat ran away not a moment too soon. Zhang Meerkat was only two seconds away from delivering a reverse spin kick to Zander Rat's chest. Zhang would have caved Zander's rib cage in like a cardboard box, instantly killing him. And all the other doctors in the hospital would not have been able to save Zander.
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Zander would have spent that night in the hospital's cold storage morgue with a wide open chest and a tag on his toe...and Zhang Meerkat in jail (In the Furry World, jail is jokingly nicknamed "the zoo").
Although circumcision is widely practiced in the meerkats former homeland of Angola, Zhang and Annika were from the Cunene Province of Angola (near Namibia), where, unlike other parts of the country, circumcision is not traditionally practiced. And they certainly did not want it for their son, Raphael...nor did Raphael.
A different doctor was assigned to treat Raphael, Dr. Clyde Wolf MD.
"Please don't cut my pee-pee", Raphael timidly asked Dr. Wolf.
"I'm not like Dr. Rat", Dr. Wolf assured Raphael. "I can promise you, as long as you are in my care, nothing's going to happen to your little boy thing".
Raphael, as well as his parents were so relieved to hear that. Dr. Wolf and an attractive female fox nurse, Nurse Sheryl Fox, were very caring and friendly. Dr. Wolf alleviated Raphael's fear of doctors that Dr. Rat inflicted on him earlier that evening. Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox, and the Meerkat Family got along well, and Raphael took a liking to Nurse Fox.
At one point Raphael told her, "Nurse Sheryl. I like you. You're pretty".
Sheryl Fox replied, "Aww. That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all evening. Thank you, Raphael".
After an examination, a couple of tests and an X-ray, Raphael's illness was confirmed as pneumonia. Dr. Wolf even showed Raphael the X-ray and told him it was a picture of his lungs, and pointed out the spots representing the infection at the top of his right lung. Raphael was fascinated by it. Dr. Wolf administered an antibiotic shot to Raphael's haunch, which he didn't like very well, then prescribed medication for Raphael to take twice a day. Raphael was then released to go home later that night.
"That rat who first saw us. He has no business as a doctor. You are by far a better doctor", Zhang told Dr. Wolf, as they were about to leave.
"Well, Thank you", Dr. Wolf replied. "And I apologize for what you all were put through with Dr. Rat. I'm giving the apology on behalf of the hospital because you'll never get one from him".
"And you've been so kind...Obrigado", Annika said to Dr. Wolf .
"Oh?", Dr. Wolf pondered.
"In our former homeland, it means thank you", Annika answered.
"You are most certainly welcome", Dr. Wolf returned.
The Meerkat Family and Dr. Wolf then bid each other bye, and everything turned out well.
Hospital security did not press assault or threat charges on Zhang Meerkat, considering the circumstances. Zhang was let off with a warning instead. And he was lectured about a hospital being no place to be shouting and making loud noises.
As for Dr. Zander Iscelberg (Ice Berg) Rat, he was given a good lecture by the senior doctor in the doctor's lounge that evening. And when it was his next time to come back on shift, Administration warned Dr. Rat that any more stunts, like the one he tried to pull on Raphael Meerkat, will get him up before a medical board inquiry, and a possible loss of his doctor's license. In their jurisdiction, forced circumcisions are considered unethical.
Dr. Zander Rat came within two seconds of dying that evening, and had no clue of it. And Zander still goes on as an arrogant, stupid ass rat.
*The two civets and the fossa, who are among friends of the Meerkat Family, had years ago, been in the hospital (the civets had major illnesses, and the fossa was hurt in a construction accident). Unbeknown to the Meerkat Family, they had the misfortune of having an encounter from Dr. Zander Rat.
HISTORY OF THE CHARACTERS (A LITTLE OF WHAT MAKES THEM TICK)
Chapter 1. Introduction to Zhang's Family
ZHANG MEERKAT, male, born in Angola (Africa) on May 1st, 1986, age 27, is Raphael's dad.
Zhang came from a poor family, dirt poor. So poor, if it only took a nickle to go around the world, his family couldn't have gotten out of sight.
Zhang was born to his dad, Bron Meerkat, and to his mom, Lacara, having two older brothers, Moze, the oldest, then Jorad. And later, a younger brother, Cheesah, was born.
The locals spoke an Angolan dialect of Portuguese, which is the language of Angola. But they, and many others they knew, could also speak English. Many of the locals would often speak Angolan Portuguese mixed with English.
During that time, Angola was ravaged by poverty. And an ongoing civil war, in which the UNITA movement, which branched off from the then already dismantled FNLA, always attempted to seize power from the present MPLA government, often erupting into paramilitary confrontations, was no help to the nation's economy either. The political unrest had existed since 1975 between separatist groups that fought in the 1961 to 1974 war for national independence from Portugal. The local anthro-animals of the Cunene Province of Angola were also well aware that the UNITA rebels had been getting help from the then apartheid South Africa, against their non-apartheid MPLA government presently in power. In fact, a city, although a very far distance to the west, Lubango, had fallen under South African control in 1979.
On Janurary 12th, 1979, Bron Meerkat and his wife, Lacara Meerkat, were still in their late adolescent age when they were married, which was a few weeks after it was known that Lacara was pregnant with Moze. Although there was the concern over their cub being born in a country experiencing civil war, Bron and Lacara always kept that out of mind the best they could and went on with their everyday lives.
Being that Bron had developed hip dysplasia when he was a cub, thus rendering him unable to work most jobs, Bron and Lacara regularly received what help and charity both sides of the family could spare. Lacara's mom and dad, Zeth and Mylah, who were still raising younger brother Amos and younger sister Beth, would help the family a lot, including helping Bron and Lacara get their house built during February and March of 1979 and completing it three months later in April. Some help would also come from Bron's side of the family as well, though Bron was not from the local area, therefore his family wasn't nearby.
Bron and Lacara's home, like other homes typical of that area, was a dirt floor, tin roof, clay wall, bungalow style house in the Angolan countryside in the southern province of Cunene, not far from the Cuando-Cubango Province.
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The house had no glass in the windows..There were curtains instead, as well as curtains in place of doors.
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There were no utilities in the part of Cunene where they lived, thus the house, like other homes, had no phone, electricity or piped in water.
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The timing was just right on getting a wood stove for cooking meals....The cafe' in the village three kilometers away was at that time replacing their old wood stove with an LP gas stove. The cafe' owners agreed to sell the old stove to Bron and Lacara on credit. A friend of the family who owned a truck hauled it to the house for them, and it was installed under a low walled porch overhang on the west side of the house. However humble it was, it was home, it provided shelter, and it was a fairly quaint and nice house for the kind of house it was, and for the area of countryside it was in. After-all, Bron and Lacara knew some neighbors in the community who had less of a house than they had to call home.
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A genet family, who were long time friends with Lacara's Granddad Dominique and Grandma Gloria, also helped the Meerkat Family, including helping with Bron and Lacara's home. Dominique Meerkat, his son Zeth and Sanchez Genet use to work together on the sugar cane plantations back during the old forced labour days before Angola's war for independence from Portugal began back in 1961.
On February 21st, 1979, on an old blanket, on the dirt floor of the only bedroom of Bron and Lacara's new house, Lacara gave birth to the first cub of the family, a male, who Bron and Lacara named Moze.
Of all members of the Meerkat Family at that time, Granddad Dominique (now a great granddad) and his wife Gloria were the only family members who owned a car, although Dominique had given the car to his son Zeth and his daughter-in-law Mylah to use, being that they were still raising Amos and Beth. The car was a then 25 year old, 1954, Opal, Rekord, Olympia station wagon Dominique and Gloria had owned since 1961.
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In the following year, 1980, Bron, with the help of Sanchez Genet, built a nifty, little, tin roof, storage shed which was an "A" frame structure supported from two trees, walled at the back end and half walled in front.
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Of course, the day the shed was built, there was conversation between Bron and Sanchez about Angola's ongoing civil war. At that time, UNITA rebel forces had been seizing parts of the Cunene Province, although nowhere near the part of the province where the families of Bron and Sanchez lived. One of UNITA's allies, a unit of the army of then apartheid South Africa, still held the city of Lubango which was a long distance to the west.
At ages one and two, Moze always looked forward to having Granddad Zeth and grandma Mylah drop by for a visit...that is when ever they had money to put gas in the car. The grand parents were fond of their little grandson Moze. And for Moze, being that Lacara's parents had the family's only car, that usually meant a trip into the village (about 3 km away), which was a real treat. There were times Zeth would take pictures of Moze and the family with an old, 1930, Leitz, 35 mm lens camera that his dad Dominique had given him, which before that was given to Dominique by his dad. The nearest place to get the film developed was in Ondjiva, 70 miles to the south. The pictures taken at about that time would be the last though. In the following year, the shutter on the camera wore out, and no parts were ever available to get it fixed. The family had never had another camera since.
There were times Moze's Great Granddad Dominique and Great Grandma Gloria would use the car and drop by to visit Bron, Lacara and Moze. There was also a narrow gauge branch of the CFB railway that ran through the village, which still at that time used steam locomotives. Many times when the grand parents or great grand parents would take the family into the village, they would wait at the train depot a while so Moze can watch a train go by.
When Moze was a year and a half old, his little penis poked out of sheath for the first time during a visit from the great grandparents.
Mose came running out of the bedroom and past the old ragged bureau in the living room, pointing to his erect penis that was poking all the way out with it's little head and point flexed upward, proudly proclaiming, "Mamae Mamae! Olha o que eu tenho!...Papai Papai! Olha o que eu tenho!"(Mamma Mamma! Look what I got!...Daddy Daddy! Look what I got!).
Bron and Lacara, upon noticing their son's little discovery, looked at each other and giggled.
As Dominique and Gloria came from the kitchen into the living room, Moze climbed up onto the old blue striped sofa, sat with his legs spread out with his little penis pointing upward.
"Grande Papai Grand! Grande Mamae Grand! Olha o que eu tenho! Olha o que eu tenho!"(Great Granddad! Great Grandma! Look what I got! Look what I got!), Moze called out as he pointed to his penis, still erect and poking out.
"Amigo ao longo da vida do nosso grande filho grand. Ele descobriu isso" (Lifelong friend of our great grand son. He has discovered that), Dominique laughed to Gloria.
"Ah, isso ser tao bonitinha" (Awww, that be so cute), Gloria giggled.
That was Moze Meerkat's first introduction to his little pee-pee.
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There were also those times Bron's side of the family would come and visit, although not as often due to the travel distance and transportation not always being available.
When Moze was three, that was in the year 1982, when UNITA was pushing major guerrilla offenses into parts of the Cunene Province. Although the initial homeland hadn't seen any of that action, the local animals felt safer carrying guns with them where ever they went, in case of the unforeseeable event they would encounter UNITA rebels, or if the worse nightmare scenario ever happened of coming under fire from South African Army forces.
Whenever Bron, Lacara and Moze went to the village with the grand parents or great grandparents, there would always be loaded guns in the car...just in case.
Moze was always told, "Filho. As armas, voce deixeo seu patas off-las. (Son. The guns, you leave your paws off them)".
On a trip to the village, little Moze Meerkat asked, "Por que temos as armas? (Why the guns?)"
How do you explain to a three year old meerkat cub why you carry guns everywhere you travel?
But it was agreed by everyone to explain the truth to Moze as to why. They figured with a civil war going on, Moze would mostly likely sooner than later see enough to figure out what is going on.
By 1983, much of the UNITA offensive had been driven out of Cunene by MPLA government troops, thus making life in the homeland once again a little safer. And that was a Godsend for Bron and Lacara. Because not only was there a concern for the safety of their son Moze, then age four, this was also the time a younger brother came into the family. On March 3rd, 1983, Jorad was born on an old blanket, in the very same dirt floor bedroom where older brother Moze was born four years earlier.
Watching his younger brother being born was certainly an amazing experience for Moze, which during Jorad's birth, Moze asked, "TODOS os filhotes vem fora de uma buceta?!" (Do ALL cubs come out of a pussy?!)".
Among the animals in the homeland, someone being born wasn't really anything that was hidden from the cubs. And with the house having only one bedroom, Moze had many times seen his mom and dad having sex together.
As time went on, Moze and Jorad always enjoyed each other's companionship as they would play and do a lot of things together. And there were many times Jorad would tag along with his brother Moze when he went out collecting wild greens and grass hoppers for Lacara to cook up with some rice for dinner.
There was also that moment of self discovery for Jorad in December of 1984, when Jorad was three months away from turning two years old. Bron was out riding with Sanchez Jenet looking for work that day.
Lacara and Moze heard Jorad in the living room, saying, "Ele e bonitiiiinnnnha" (He is cuuuuute).
Moze and his mom found Jorad sitting on the living room dirt floor, against the table, with his little penis erect and poking way out of sheath, and got a laugh when Jorad looked up while pointing at his penis and said, "Olha!...Ele e meu peu-peu!" (Look! He's my pee-pee!)...It didn't take Jorad Meerkat rocket science to figure out what it is.
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And it did have fun getting played with by it's owner, which was no different than what any other young meerkat would do.
Other joyous occasions during the year of 1984 was Lacara's brother Amos getting married, and only a few months later, becoming the dad to a son and a daughter who were born at the same time.
Also, Bron's relatives had sent a letter announcing that one of his sisters had a daughter.
In 1985, there was one visit when Dominique purchased a used toy car from an emporium store in the village for Moze, then age 6, and Jorad, then age 2. It was one of those old Japanese made, toy cars made from stamped tin, with a body style like the old, big, fastback cars of the early 1950s. It was about 25 centimeters (10 inches) in length with real hard rubber wheels. Moze and Jorad were really delighted about the toy car their great grand dad bought for them. Dominique had purchased a few toys in the past for Moze and Jorad, but this one would be the last...Later that year Dominique had succumb to pancreatic cancer that he had been unaware of. By the time Dominique saw the doctor at the village hospital, which was not much more than a substandard clinic, which was a one story, adobe wall, tin roof, wood floor building, the cancer was already too far advanced to do anything for him. Dominique requested to be at home to pass away, and within a week, Dominique Meerkat died at home, with his relatives by his side, and leaving Gloria to be a widowed meerkat. Everyone in the family, including the two great grand sons, took it hard over Dominique's death.
There is a community worship center in the village that has it's own cemetery, and that is where Dominique Meerkat was laid to rest.
As for the car (the real car), it had to be registered and re-tagged in Zeth and Mylah's names. After all, a car can not be registered in the name of a deceased meerkat.
Early in 1986, it had been rumored that hostilities were ramping up again between UNITA rebels and the MPLA government. Some local animals had been talking about carrying guns for protection again, but so far, it had not come to that.
It was also the year Moze, going on age 7, would be of school age, but Moze would not be attending school. Moze would be helping with the family income. Although Bron did occasionally find some work he could do in spite of his hip dysplasia putting him at a great disadvantage, Moze still had to help his dad bring in family income whenever he and his dad could get a ride into the village and find what ever work they can get. Where they lived, programs like welfare, disability, Social Security and food stamps were non-existent...there were no social safety nets.
It was on the 21st of February of 1986, Moze celebrated his 7th birthday. It was not the typical birthday party how much of the world knows it, with the cake, candles, ice cream, chips, soda (Moze and Jorad had never even tasted soda before), balloons, horns, party poppers, gifts and so on...For that kind of party, it takes more money than those living in a poverty stricken community have. The celebration consisted of Zeth and Mylah taking everyone to the village, having some shared meals at the cafe' and having pastry or pie, among of which is their well known, homemade persimmon pie. The cafe' never had soda, but the cubs did like iced tea. Although there was no electrical grid in the homeland to run an ice maker, the metal fabrication shop on the edge of the village had an industrial generator that was run off of a twin cylinder steam engine to power their tools and equipment. An agreement had existed between the cafe' and the shop that the shop would freeze ice for the cafe', and the cafe' would always give 50% off on meal prices for the employees of the shop. And among the birthday festivities, playing hide and seek was always fun with other cub friends and cub relatives who attended. For the family, spending money to eat out at a cafe' was a luxury which was something the family seldom ever did, thus when they did, it was a really big treat.
About a week and a half later, March the 3rd, Jorad celebrated his 3rd birthday...celebrated at the village in much the same way.
About the time of Jorad's 3rd birthday was also the time Lacara was beginning to notice she was pregnant with her third cub.
It was just a few days shy of two months later, on May 1st, 1986, Moze and Jorad witnessed their, then youngest, brother being born on an old blanket in the same dirt floor bedroom Moze and Jorad had been born in. Bron and Lacara decided on the name 'Zhang' for the newest member of the family. Being that Jorad was still nursing at three years old, which is normal for many 3rd world societies, Lacara would let 3 year old Jorad and new born Zhang nurse together until Jorad was eventually weened from the teats.
As the rest of that year continued, Moze and Jorad would play with their brother Zhang and keep him entertained. When Moze was with Dad at the village, or at some other location where he and Dad were able to find work, it was Jorad, Zhang and Mom who were at the house. This was about the time Jorad was also weening from Mom's teats, to leave Zhang to nurse from Mom alone.
In 1987, Angola's MPLA government launched a crackdown campaign against UNITA. It was looking like the rebel movement would finally be crushed once and for all, thus putting an end to Angola's many years long civil conflict.
May 1st of 1987 was Zhang's first birthday, in which grand parents Zeth and Mylah, with Great Grandma Gloria, took the family into the village to celebrate Zhang's birthday at the cafe'.
In the weeks to follow, Bron and then 8 year old Moze had been getting a ride to the village with Sanchez Genet where Sanchez, Bron and Moze found a temporary job lasting for several weeks. It was spraying weeds along the narrow gauge rail line for the CFB railway, including trimming tree limbs from out the way of the trains and helping to replace rotted ties, and it paid pretty well too. Because of Bron's hip dysplasia, he was assigned most of the weed spraying which was done from a motorized rail buggy. A family not having a car would usually miss out on a work opportunity like this one, which is why it is such a blessing to know someone who does have a car...although Sanchez Genet's old, ragged, Wartberg Kombi station wagon was at that time barely holding up and was on the verge of falling apart, but it would still run. Although still living a life of poverty, life had been getting good for the locals, as well as for the Meerkat Family.
A month after turning one year old, Zhang had his moment of his own sexual discovery. Bron and Moze were out with the maintenance crew for the railway that day. At home, Lacara and Jorad, then age 4, heard Zhang in the bedroom giggling and laughing. When they went into the bedroom to see what Zhang was giggling about, they saw Zhang with his little penis sticking erect way out of it's sheath. Zhang was pushing and wiggling the head of his penis around with his paws, giggling, laughing and having himself a good time. Zhang's penis would frequently spring up from having the head stimulated, then bob back down. When Zhang noticed his mom and older brother watching him, he looked up and grinned as Lacara and Jorad chuckled.
That was the day Mom and next older brother Jorad found out that Zhang's penis has a longer tapered shape to it's head than what an average male meerkat has. Zhang Meerkat's little pee-pee head HAS now been seen.
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Around the end of June of 1987, Bron, Lacara and the sons had gotten a ride with some linsang friends into the village. While in the village, the family went into a hardware store so Bron can get some nails to nail some loose ceiling planks back into place at the house, and Lacara wanted to get some seeds to grow some cantaloupes.
Upon entering the hardware store, they noticed a gathering of various animals...mongooses, civets, genets, a hyena, and a serval, who were engaging in a discussion with the cheetah who owned the store. When Bron inquired to what it was about, the other animals said that there had been speculation going around that there was a large build up of South African Army forces in the area of Rundu, Nambia near the Angolan border.
"Algumas delas sao preparacoes for airstrikes, eles dizem" (Some of it is preparations for airstrikes, they say), the cheetah said.
"Ataque de aeronaves?!" (Attack by aircraft?!), a civet asked.
"UAU!", the serval exclaimed.
"Definitivament nao e bom" (Definitely not good), Bron mentioned, as everyone knew South Africa had been an ally of UNITA.
"A counteroffensive at the crackdown on Unita. Todo mundo sabe disso" (...Everyone knows that), the cheetah replied.
"A guerra civil. No mes de Maio, we thought it was over with" (The civil war. In the month of May...), the hyena added.
"Sim. Will it ever be?" (Yes...), Lacara asked, as though she already knew the answer.
A mongoose had noted that Rundu was far to the east, thus meaning their prime objective would have to be somewhere far east of the local homeland...That was about the only good news to that situation.
"Mavinga...Jamba", a linsang mentioned the Angolan towns far to the east that would be north of Rundu.
"Sim", the mongoose replied.
The linsangs who the meerkats got the ride into the village with heard about the military build up in Rundu while they were in the cafe'.
Needless to say, there was a somber mood during the trip back to the house.
A little more than a month later, on August 4th, 1987, South African forces invaded across the border from Rundu. Fortunately for the local community, the invasion was far away, in the cities of Mavinga and Jamba in the southeast corner of the country, as the animals at the hardware had figured it would be about a month ago. A few days later, Bron and Moze heard news of the South African invasion while they were at the village, prepping custom shelving for painting that the metal fabrication shop had made.
During the rest of 1987, the Meerkat Family and other locals would get news of what was to be known as 'the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale' over car radios, and from other animals who regularly travel everyday, such as truck drivers and train operators of the trains that would stop in the village. For the next few months, they would hear about the MPLA 21st Brigade being driven back, the South African Army running low on ammunition at one point, air strikes, an important bridge being destroyed, and the heavy losses suffered by their country's military forces. There wasn't much the local animals could do about it, except to be thankful they were not living in the southeast part of the country where it was going on.
However, there was a short while that small number of UNITA rebels did come within 30 km (20 miles) of the local community. It was believed by many of the locals that they were sent out recons. Many of the locals who had access to transportation grabbed up guns and ammo and set out to hunt them down. Among those who went out on those patrols were Zeth Meerkat, Bron Meerkat (you don't need two good hip joints to fire a gun), Amos Meerkat and Sanchez Genet and his brother and nephew.
As a result of the overwhelming participation of the locals, a few UNITA rebels had been taken out, and what few of the rest who strayed near the community were driven back east.
Bron and Sanchez noticed a type of rifle they've never seen before that was taken from one of the fallen rebels. A serval, who was very familiar with firearms, had identified it as an M-16.
"O armas. Partir da nacao poderosa? De atravessar o oceano a oeste?" (The gun. From the powerful nation? Across the ocean to the west?) a civet, who was somewhat familiar with firearms, asked.
"O grande nacao corporativa?" (The big corporate nation?) Sanchez Genet added.
"Sim", the serval answered.
"O armas e Americano", Sanchez replied.
"Sim sim. Fabricado em Americana", the serval affirmed.
It was only a few days later that two other rifles that were taken from fallen rebels were also confirmed as being M-16s.
From that point on, the animals in the local community suspected that big corporate country across the ocean to the west as aiding UNITA.
Then, in the middle of December, when Bron, Lacara and the sons went to the village with Zeth and Mylah, they couldn't help to notice that everyone seemed to have a sense of relief and was in a happy mood. At first the Meerkat Family didn't know why, as the radio in the old Rekord wagon had quit working a month earlier. But from those in the village, they had heard that it was a week ago that a large Caribbean island country across the big ocean to the west had sent military help to Angola. The locals later learned that the leader of that country was an eccentric coatimundi, with a long chin haired beard, and would often be smoking a cigar. They were now hearing news stories about the UNITA offensive being stopped. And in the following month, January 1988, everyone heard about the attacks launched by the UNITA that had failed, and the South African Army running out of supplies. For the local animals, what had been a feeling of despair was now replaced by a feeling of optimism and national pride.
When the family celebrated Moze's 9th birthday at the cafe' in the village on February 21st 1988, there was some conversation that came up among the adults about the war, while the cubs enjoyed the sweets, treats and festivities. It was a rainy day that Moze turned nine years old, so everyone remained in the cafe' as several adults at one table were talking about how UNITA and South African forces were still getting their asses kicked by the Cuban forces that came to the aid of their country. Kwasi Civet made mention that he and Jumanne Mongoose had been out to the southeast part of the country, and at a distance from one of the UNITA held areas, they were able to spy on them with a pair of binoculars.
"Voce tem sorte, que eles nao viu voce" (You have luck they did not see you), Bron said to Kwasi.
"Isso que eu sei" (This I know), Kwasi replied. "No entanto, o que vimos, eu vou direi" (However. What we saw, I will tell).
Kwasi Civet then told how he and Jumanne Mongoose, while taking turns with the binoculars, saw two raccoons and a possum who seemed to be in a position of coordinating everything.
"Especie de animais en Americana", Zeth promptly replied as Mylah nodded in agreement.
"O marsupial e guaxinins. Parece que eles eram agentes de inteligencia. Certamente da uma nacao diferente" (The marsupial and the raccoons. It seems that they were intelligence agents. Certainly from a different nation), Jumanne Mongoose said.
Then Kwasi Civet noted, "E ouvir isso. O marsupial e um gauxinim. Eles foram circuncidado...O que ISSO te diz" (And listen to this. The marsupial and one raccoon. They were circumcised...What does THAT say to you?).
"Voce acredita que eles sao animais Muculmanos da Libya ou Somalia?" (You believe they were Muslim animals from Libya or Somalia?), Lacara asked, as she is vaguely familiar with the customs of north African countries.
"Nao nao nao. Americanos", Sanchez Genet replied seemingly on que.
"Eles eram especie de animais em Americana. Eles nao sao especie animais de Africana como nos samos" (They are species of animals in America. They are not animal species of Africa as we are), Zeth informed Lacara.
"Eles eram Americanos", Sanchez Genet affirmed.
Then Kwasi Civet laugh and volunteered a detail, "Ha ha...O um guaxinim. O cabeca dele penis. Lo ganchos con uma curva" (Ha ha...The one raccoon. The head of his penis. It hooked with a curve).
Everyone, especially the females, got a good chuckle out of hearing that bit of information.
"Ah sim...Eles eram Americanos", Sanchez reiterated as he too chuckled.
"Nao so de Americano", Jumanne Mongoose mentioned. "China ajuda a Unita tambem" (China helps Unita also).
"Sim", Kwasi replied. "Unita tem armas chinesas, eles dizem nos" (Unita has Chinese guns, they tell us).
Zeth Meerkat gathered his thoughts for couple of seconds, then made the somber statement, "Ha mais envolvido nesta guerra do que sabemos" (There is more involved in this war than what we know).
By the time Jorad was celebrating his 5th birthday on March 3rd of that same year, everyone would hear news reports and conversation about the war taking a toll on UNITA. And when Zhang celebrated his 2nd birthday two months later, May 1st, it had been reported that UNITA had suffered heavy losses, and the South African Army's supplies in their Angolan campaign had been exhausted
By the end of August, UNITA had been stopped, although they still had their stronghold areas. The South African Army pulled out of Angola, and the Cuban troops who were aiding Angola also pulled out once everyone was confident that things would be peaceful for the time being.
Later that year Bron and Moze found a wooden South African Army ammo crate, with a hinged lid, which made a good storage chest to keep tools in.
In the year 1989, Jorad had turned 6 years of age, and was getting old enough to go out with his dad Bron and his older brother Moze to help bring in family income. Like his brother Moze, there would not be the day Jorad would see the inside of a schoolhouse.
When ever there was a ride available into town, Bron would go with one or both of the older sons to look for work. When no ride was available, Bron would have to stay home with Lacara and Zhang while Moze and Jorad woke up at dawn to walk to the village. Having hip dysplasia, Bron could not walk the three kilometers on the way to the village, but he always did remind his sons to ask around for a ride into the village for the next day so Bron could get a chance to find work.
On an early summer weekend in December of 1989 (December through March is summer in the southern hemisphere), the Meerkat Family got a ride with Sanchez Genet and his family out to a pangolin couple who owned a mango grove. Sanchez Genet's old, 1950s model, rusted out, Warturg Kombi station wagon was crowded with all who was riding along.
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The mango grove had produced a good crop, and at a stand the pangolins had set up at their place, they had plenty of mangoes they were selling for cheap. The genets and meerkats stopped by and got enough mangoes to fill a few wood crates they had bought along...and those were really nice mangoes too.
On the way back, Zhang, then age 3, and Sanchez Genet's grandson, Ojo, then age 4, were riding on the cargo floor behind the rear seat where the boxes of mangoes were. As the car went bumping along the dirt road, Zhang and Ojo complained that the floor felt like it was springing up and down, as everyone else in the car was wondering what they meant by that. It quickly became obvious what was going on. The entire rear cargo floor suddenly began to drop out of the bottom of the car. Zhang and Ojo cried half scared out of their wits. Moze quickly grabbed Zhang over into the read seat. Jorad and Ojo's dad quickly grabbed Ojo into the rear seat. Sanchez realized what was going on and slammed on the brakes. With the car still in motion, the entire rear cargo floor tore away and mangled up under the rear bumper, along with the crates of mangoes. Zhang and Ojo were pulled out of harm's way without a second to spare. By the time Sanchez got the car stopped the car had no bottom from the rear suspension to the back cargo door. Everyone scrambled out of the car as it had filled up with road dust from where the cargo floor had dropped out of it and mangled and dragged against the dirt road.
The adults and older cubs comforted and calmed Zhang and Ojo as the dust cleared away, just before everyone surveyed what happened to the car. The meerkats and genets could clearly see that the floor now ended under the back of the rear seat with only a rim of rust around the inside of the body where the cargo floor use to attach to the car...The cargo floor was a mangled wad of rusty sheet metal laying on the dirt road 30 meters behind the car, along with mashed mangoes and splintered crates scattered everywhere. The gas tank did stay with the car though, still attached by the filler tube.
Even though a Wartburg has a full separate frame, the rear of the frame ends between the rear wheels and does not extend back past the rear suspension. They are made so the back of the body overhangs beyond past the frame...So there wasn't even a frame where the cargo floor fell out. Anything behind the back seat after the cargo floor fell out, though still in the car, would be resting directly on the road.
The Meerkats and Genets were not really worried about the mangoes. They were just thankful no one was hurt, and thankful the gas tank didn't blow up when it was dragging along the road in the car. But there was still yet to be another scarey close call. Where the problem with the car happened was on curve in the road. And while the meerkats and genets were figuring out how to secure the gas tank up off the road so they could get the car home, a hyena driving an old International Harvester pick up with no front brakes came around the curve approaching from behind. The hyena locked up the rear brakes, which worked off the parking brake cable. He steered away and barely missed Sanchez Genet's car as Sanchez dashed back into the car and slammed the door just in time to avoid being struck by the truck or getting the driver's door torn off. The hyena's truck did a 180 degree spin out on the dirt road as it came to a stop beyond Sanchez's car, facing the opposite way from which it came.
After everyone calmed down, the hyena offered to tow the car for them with a chain he had in the truck. The gas tank was removed from the car and placed in the bed of the hyena's truck. Then it was agreed to tow the car to Bron and Lacara's place, because they had some board planks stored up in a porch loft that another cargo floor can be made from.
Bron and Lacara rode in the cab of the truck with the hyena while everyone else rode in the bed, and Sanchez rode in his car to steer it as it was being towed with the chain.
It was late in the day, so the Genet Family slept over that night with the Meerkats.
The following morning, Sanchez Genet's car was fixed with two lengths of bamboo set apart for a cargo floor frame. One end of each bamboo pole was secured through holes that were made in the threshold structure that was still in solid shape under the rear cargo door, with the bamboo ends against the inside of the bumper. The other ends of the bamboo poles were wedged in between the ends of the frame and sheet metal floor above the rear suspension. That made the rear frame extension the car didn't originally have. The gas tank was fastened onto the bamboo with hemp rope and bailing wire. There were two pinholes in the tank that had to be repaired with sheet metal screws and teflon tape. Then some of the board planks that Bron had stored were nailed across the bamboo to make a new cargo floor out of wood (being careful not to nail into the gas tank). It wasn't exactly a typical car floor, but it worked, and Sanchez Genet was delighted with it.
Throughout the year 1990, Bron and Lacara, like many others they knew, were really relieved about the positive developments that everyone had been hearing about regarding the war. To start with, It didn't seem like South Africa was going to be involved in anymore fighting in Angola. The local animals had been hearing about South Africa having a different leader, and of a movement that had started in that country to end it's apartheid rule. And the development that everyone felt so thankful for, was that UNITA was now making moves to abandon being a rebel militia, and began talks with the MPLA to become a political party within the government. That certainly was something Bron and Lacara considered a Godsend...especially being concerned for the safety for their eleven, seven and four year old cubs.
In the following year, 1991 was the first government election in which there were UNITA party candidates. The voting precinct for the part of the Cunene Provence where the Meerkat Family and friends lived was set up at the CFB railway passenger depot in the village. And needless to say, Bron, Lacara, and everyone else they knew, voted straight down the ballot MPLA.
The election however, did produce a disastrous result...MPLA did win the seats of government, but it wasn't long before accusations began between MPLA and UNITA, which ranged with everything from election fraud to UNITA accusing MPLA of not holding to promises they have made. Before the end of the year, UNITA resumed the civil war against the government as they had been fighting before.
By 1992, there were the reports of the civil war going on, just like it had always been before.
Two weeks before Moze's 13th birthday, Lacara found out she was pregnant her forth cub. And March 29th, 1992, on an old blanket, on the dirt floor of the one and only bedroom of their home, Lacara gave birth to a forth male cub with her husband and three other sons by her. It was agreed that the newest member of the family would be named Cheesah.
That was the year Jorad turned 9 years of age, and Zhang turning 6. And it was the year Zhang began to go out at times with one or both of his older brothers, or with his dad, into the village to find work. Most jobs for a 6 year old cub were not very heavy jobs. Jobs that consist of harder work are for those who are older.
And when Bron and the older sons were at home with Lacara and Cheesah, Cheesah would always get love, attention and playing from the other members of the family. He being the cub of the family, always enjoyed being the center of attention.
Zhang would still be at home most of the time with Mom and cub brother Cheesah. Dad and older brothers Moze and Jorad were still the ones going out the most to seek work.
There was a period of time, in 1993, that the family members had been unsuccessful finding work. Food and what little money the family had was running low, although, there are still eatable plants, nuts and berries that grow wild, and bugs are always a part of the diet for meerkats as well. There was usually enough food to eat, and water was drawn from a nearby creek. But during times when food was scarce, the cubs were allowed to eat before the adults did. The cubs need to grow...the adults are already grown.
The opportunity to work finally picked up again starting with a morning that Moze and Jorad, who were then ages 10 and 14, walked to the village and noticed the serval who was in charge of the CFB railway warehouse needed some temporary help unloading two boxcars that were dropped off on a siding. There was already an adult mongoose and an older adolescent genet working that job, but the serval told Moze and Jorad that he could use two more helpers. So the meerkat brothers received instruction from the serval, and went to work following the lead of the adult mongoose. The job wasn't really all that hard. The boxcars were along side a loading platform
up even with the floors of the cars, and the platform was under a roof that provided shade.
When the job was done, they were paid well...working for the railway always pays better. And Moze and Jorad were also able to get a ride home. By that time, one of Sanchez Genet's sons, Sefu, was working a permanent job at the metal fabrication shop and was using his dad's car, and it was at the end of the work day when Sefu was getting off.
On the way home, Sefu's dad's old Wartburg wagon reminded Mose and Jorad how close they came to loosing their brother Zhang, and Zhang's friend Ojo, that time the cargo floor fell out of it a few years earlier, which bought up a conversation of how well that wood plank floor in the back of that old Wartburg was still holding up. Mose and Jorad even looked back at the floor...and yup...the rear cargo floor still looked like the floor of a boxcar, or the wood plank floor of the cafe' in the village.
Once they got home, and Sefu Genet was droping Moze and Jorad off in front of the house, Bron and Lacara were so happy that their sons were able to find work...and good paying work for the railway warehouse at that. But Moze and Jorad didn't keep any of the money they earned that day. There wasn't much food at the house, and a family of six meerkats does have to eat. Lacara collected that day's earnings from her sons and asked Sefu Genet if he could take her to the village. At the village, Lacara bought food for the family, including three, 100 pound bags of whole grain rice. Unlike cubs who live in 1st world countries, who would have a fit, a cow and a rage over Momma taking THEIR money, Moze and Jorad never did complain. The brothers knew all to well how poor the family was, and that a family survives when all it's members pull together.
Meerkats Hard Way of Life in Angola by moyomongoose
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Early one morning in August of 1993, Moze and Jorad had gotten a ride with Sanchez Genet into the village to look for work. It being the Southern Hemisphere, August is around the end of winter, although winter in Angola is not the harsh winters other parts of the world know.
"Na loja de metal. Para vocês dois. Eu vou mencionar uma palavra boa. (In the metal shop. For both of you. I will mention a good word)", Sanchez told the meerkat brothers as he droped them off at the village cafe'.
Moze and Jorad had always thought how nice it would be if they could get hired onto a steady job with the metal fabrication shop.
"Aqui. Para você. Pegar algo para comer. (Here. For you. Get something to eat)", Sanchez said as he gave Moze and Jorad some money to get some breakfast with.
"Obrigado. (Thank you)", said Jorad.
"Muito Obrigado. (Thank you much)", Moze added.
As Sanchez drove to the metal shop to go to work, Moze and Jorad ordered some breakfast at the cafe', and keeped an ear open for anyone needing help that day. Rosie Hippo, a waitress at the cafe' who is a long time friend of the Meerkat Family, promised Moze and Jorad she would inquire around to the other customers that they were looking for work. Rosie also, like she has always done, gave Moze and Jorad their hot tea and a pastry for free.
As the meerkat brothers were finishing breakfast, Rosie came to their table with some good news.
"Moze. Jorad. Dois fotógrafos de uma editora. O equipamentos de câmera, Eles precisam de ajuda pra carregar. Você pode ter um trabalho hoje. (Moze. Jorad. Two photographers from a publisher. The camera equipment, they need help to carry. You can have a job today)", Rosie told them.
Moze and Jorad thanked Rosie as an otter and a weasel approached their table.
"Hello, Uh, I mean ola. Ola...Me, uh, Oliver Otter. Voce suricatos...uh...Voce tem algum traballo? Mucho, uh, muito, uh uh, mucho salario.", the otter attempted to introduce himself in Portuguese and offer a job to the meerkats.
"It is not 'tem algum'. 'Search for work' is said as 'procura de trabalho...And it's 'trabalho', not 'traballo'", the weasel corrected the otter. "Now observe, Oliver. I'll show you how it's done.
"Seu Eu...uh uh uh...Eu Seu Vince Weasel. Por favor Eu...know...voce", The weasel attempted to say 'pleased to know you' to Moze and Jorad, but came over as 'please, I in you'.
"If English you can speak, so can we. Portuguese, I see you do not speak well", Moze said to the photographers as Rosie Hippo giggled.
"Oh great! We are from the U.K.", Vince Weasel affirmed. "Yes. We do speak English".
"The English, me too can speak", Rosie informed Vince Weasel with a smile. "You should have told to me so".
Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter introduced themselves as free lance photographers on assignment for a British magazine publisher, They said they would need help carrying photo equipment, and they were willing to pay very well. Vince Weasel even offered to treat Moze and Jorad to supper at the cafe' when they return to the village after work that evening.
Moze and Jorad wasted no time accepting that offer as they paid their tab and were on their way.
Moze and Jorad were really impressed by the brand new Mercedes TN utility van the photographers had. It is very seldom the local animals ever see such a nice vehicle where they live, much less ever get the opportunity to actually ride in one. The van rode so quiet and smoothly, and had that new car smell, and had air conditioning that actually worked. And the professional grade photo equipment was also something like the meerkats had never seen before...At the time the Meerkat Family didn't even own a camera.
"We're doing some shots of some of the majestic countryside you all have sixteen kilometers west of here", Vince Weasel, who was driving, informed the meerkat brothers as they left the village heading west.
"All we need is help carrying our equipment up and down mountainsides", Oliver Otter added. "I'll tell you ahead of time, some of it is going to be really steep".
"Where you are talking about, I know of", said Moze.
"Moze, you seem to still be an adolescent...and Jorad...you're what...eleven, twelve?", Vince Weasel began to ask.
"I am age ten", Jorad answered.
"You can see our photo equipment", Vince mentioned as the van continued to carry them down the narrow dirt road to their destination. "Are you two sure you'll be able to carry this stuff?"
"Many hard jobs we've done, and mountains we always walk up and down", Jorad assured Vince. "We are use to it".
"This will certainly be an experience you can tell the other cubs about when school starts again", Oliver Otter suggested.
"Nao. We do not go to school", Moze replied.
"You don't go to school?", Oliver asked.
"Our dad. He has bad hips. For our dad to find work, it is difficult", Moze answered.
"To help our family, it is up to us", Jorad added.
"A cub not going to school is unheard of in the UK where we are from", Vince Weasel added. "Hasn't you're family applied for assistance...you know...welfare or something like that".
"Huh?", Jorad responded.
"Welfare? What is that?", Moze asked.
Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter then explained to the meerkat brothers how social assistance programs work in developed countries such as the UK where they are from.
"That, they actually do?", Jorad asked surprisingly, still hardly believing what Vince and Oliver had just told them.
"Giving money away? They really do that? What you just told us, we do not have here", Moze affirmed.
"Such a thing as that, I never heard of", Jorad added.
Vince and Oliver had heard of cubs in the work force in 3rd world countries before, but actually witnessing it seems to bring it to another level of reality.
So as they continued their ride, Vince and Oliver and the meerkats exchanged stories of their experiences in the countries they live in, which both photographers and meerkats found to be intriguing.
At one point during the ride to the job site, Vince Weasel mentioned, "I hear you all have been having trouble with rebel militias in this country. Is that something we need to keep an eye out for where we're going?".
"Vince and I were concerned about that when we accepted this assignment", Oliver Otter added.
"Here, for now, it has been peaceful.", Moze assured Vince and Oliver. "But in the southeast of the country, there you do not want to go. It is dangerous there".
"East of here, there is much fighting with Unita", Jorad added.
"Unita?", Oliver asked.
"Unita guerrillas. They are the rebels", Moze explained.
"Well...Thanks for the heads up about the southeast part of your country", Vince told Moze and Jorad.
After about 40 minutes of navigating along rural, winding, mountain, dirt road, they finally arrived to the job site.
"Here we are", Vince Weasel said as he slowed down and steered the van off the road and across a large meadow.
Before long, Vince and Oliver were getting photos of the meadow, distant mountains, exotic flowers, cliffs, and of bird's eye views from the cliff tops. Where they went, Moze and Jorad would carry their heavy, cumbersome equipment for them, and at times help them set it up, then take it back down to move to another spot. There were a few locations on the tops of cliffs where a 3+ meter (10 foot) pivotal boom assembly was set up to place a remote controlled camera on. The base of the boom was weighted down with sandbags, then the boom mounted camera was extended out beyond the cliff to obtain a view like you were in an aircraft. There was definitely some work involved in setting up that boom assembly, then dismantling it to move to another spot.
Then they would go down the mountain side to get pictures of a creek with it's waterfalls that flowed over boulders covered with moss and ferns among the palm trees and palmettos.
Going back up the mountain, Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter would get worn out, But it didn't slow down Moze and Jorad that much. The meerkat brothers were use to walking up and down mountains.
By evening, Vince and Oliver got the photos they came to get, then it was time to pack up the van, see about getting Moze and Jorad paid, and go.
"We seem to have dropped an adapter somewhere", Vince Weasel said as the last of the equipment was loaded into the van.
"We had it with us coming up the mountain", said Oliver Otter.
"Then it's somewhere here in the meadow. We all need to split up and look for it", Vince Weasel announced.
Shortly after everyone began walking around the meadow in search for the adapter, Vince Weasel said to Oliver Otter, "Oliver, go look in the van. It may have been misplaced in the van".
After Oliver got into the van, he called to Vince Weasel, "Vince, you need to see this".
"Keep looking for that adapter. We need to find it", Vince said to Moze and Jorad as he went to the van, and the meerkats continued looking in the meadow for the adapter.
>Rur-rur-rur VAROOOOOM<, the van sounded off, and Vince Weasel and Oliver Otter speed off in the van across the meadow then speed away down the dirt road heading west, without Moze and Jorad being paid for their day's labor.
It was then, Moze and Jorad figured out there was no missing adapter. They both knew then they were played for a couple of suckers.
"Cabeças de merda! Eles planejaram isso desta forma!. (Shitheads! They planned it this way!)", Jorad retorted.
"Nós nunca vê-los novamente, eles fariam bem em esperança. (We never see them again, they would do good to hope)", Moze said as the sound of the departing van can be heard fading in the distance.
The only thing left to do was to begin the 16 kilometer walk back east to the village...And they were nowhere near home. Home was east, not west, of the village.
It was already nightfall by the time Moze and Jorad reached the village. Sanchez Genet had been waiting up for Moze and Jorad since he got off from work at the metal shop.
Moze and Jorad were relieved to see Sanchez still sitting in his car parked in front of the cafe', which had closed for the night a short while earlier. They had thought they were going to have another hour of walking before they were to get home.
When Moze and Jorad told Sanchez what the photographers had pulled on them, Sanchez told them, "O que eles fazem contra você, para eles essa coisa vai acontecer também. Se uma semente ruim que você planta, uma coisa ruim voce vou colhe. (What they do to you, for them this thing will happen too. If a bad seed you plant, a bad thing you will reap.)".
During the ride to take Moze and Jorad back home, Sanchez told the brothers of how that had once happened to him before he got a permanent job at the metal fabrication shop. Sanchez also told Moze and Jorad of how their Great Granddad Dominique Meerkat had been cheated out of a days pay on two occasions when he was younger. It's like when it happens, what can you do?
Sanchez also advised the brothers that it is good when ever local businesses need help, such as the railway depot, the cafe' the thrift stores, the clinic, the car parts yard, or the metal fabrication shop. He told them that they will not cheat someone out of their pay like outsiders passing through could do.
Back at the house, Bron and Lacara were a bit agitated over two swindling scoundrels cheating two of their sons, ages 10 and 14, out of a hard earned day's pay...especially being as poor as the family is. The only thing they could do was assure Moze and Jorad that it does happen, but fortunately it doesn't happen often.
Days later, when Waitress Rosie Hippo at the village cafe' heard about what the two photographers pulled on Moze and Jorad, she swore that if they were ever in the cafe' again, she would know an otter and a weasel who will get hot coffee..."accidentally"...spilled in their laps and all over their genitalia.
"O que eles fazem contra os meus amigos, eles também fazem isso para Rosie. (What they do against my friends, they also do it to Rosie)", Rosie Hippo said.
Toward the end of 1993, Cheesah at almost a year and a half old, had his moment of seeing "Piu-piu Pequeno" (Little Pee-pee) stick his head out for the first time. It was in the evening when everyone was at home. It was just before nightfall, and the coal oil lamps and lanterns located around the house had already been lit. Mom had a pan of water on the wood stove under the porch overhang to make tea for everyone. Bron and Moze had a homemade checkerboard, that was marked out on an old piece of cardboard, on the old, ragged, living room table, and had a game of checkers going with 12 nuts and 12 washers for game pieces. Cheesah came walking in from the bedroom, hiding his genitalia with both paws.
Moze asked, "Cheesah, o que voce esta querendo?" (Cheesah, what are you up to?).
"PIU-PIU VER VOCE!" (Pee-pee sees you!), Cheesah loudly proclaimed as he suddenly moved his paws away, and his hard little penis went >BOING<, and stuck it's head up so proudly.
Bron and Moze laughed as Cheesah laughed along with his little penis poking it's head out.
Then there was that buttered popcorn smell, typical of the genitalia sex scent of those kind of animals. But on Cheesah, it is very pungently strong.
"Ah. Piu-piu fedido" (Oh. Stinky pee-pee), Moze made the observation as he and Dad laughed.
Cheesah thrusted his pelvic out forward with little meerkat pee-pee extended way out there, and said, "Piu-piu diz Ola" (Pee-pee says Hello), as everyone laughed.
"Eu sei que ele diz" (I know he says), Moze laughed, "Por ele fedor" (By his stink).
"Meu piu-piu fedido?" (My pee-pee stinky?), Cheesah asked.
"Natureza abencoada seu piu-piu, meu filho" (Nature has blessed your pee-pee, my son), Bron assured Cheesah.
With that said, Cheesah joyfully trotted out to the carport like, porch area where Jorad and Zhang were playing with the toy car their late great granddad Dominique had bought for the cubs 8 years ago.
When Cheesah, again hiding his penis with his paws, got the attention of Jorad and Zhang, he suddenly reveled his penis, and exuberantly proclaimed, "PIU-PIU VER VOCE!".
The brothers thought it was so cute and funny, they rolled laughing.
"Ele e piu-piu FEDIDO" (He's a STINKY pee-pee), Jorad said as he could smell Cheesah's strong sex scent.
They could also hear Moze and Dad laughing from the living room, and Mom asking from the kitchen what the laughter was all about.
Then Jorad's big headed, meerkat penis poked out with an erection.
"Meu piu-piu ver SEU piu-piu" (My pee-pee sees YOUR piu-piu), Cheesah giggled to his brother Jorad as both of their penises were sticking out.
"Sim. Ele fazer" (Yes. He does), Jorad chuckled back to Cheesah.
"Meu piu-piu tambem" (My pee-pee too), Zhang added as his penis was also poking out erect, making it three meerkat cub penises sticking their heads out of sheath as though the penises were having a pee-pee convention.
Cheesah then joyfully scampered back indoors, and through the living room, past Bron and Moze, and into the kitchen to go show it to Momma...with his penis still poking it's head out, as though little pee-pee was leading the way where ever Cheesah ran through the house.
As Lacara was filling a tea infuser with tea leaves, Cheesah called out, "Mamae! Mamae!", as he stood on the dirt, kitchen floor, with his paws hiding his penis.
When Lacara turned and looked, she got a laugh as Cheesah dragged his paws downward, his penis springing up, >BOING<, from behind the paws, and Cheesah proclaiming, "PIU-PIU VER VOCE!"
Then Lacara pretended to talk to Cheesah's penis to amuse Cheesah, saying, "Veso que voce tambem. Voce o piu-piu bonitinha" (I see you too. You're a cute pee-pee).
After Cheesah finished giggling, he pointed to Mom's pussy, and asked, "As femeas tem um piu-piu?" (Do females have a pee-pee?).
Cheesah had many times noticed pussies on females before.
"Nossa buceta E o piu-piu" (Our pussy IS the pee-pee), Lacara assured her son Cheesah.
"UAAAAAU" (WOOOOOW), Cheesah expressed with amazement as his little pee-pee was still sticking his head way out erect.
Then Cheesah told his mom, "Mamae...Piu-piu diz Ola a buceta de mamae" (Momma...Pee-pee says Hello to momma's pussy).
Lacara laughed, and replied to her son, "Buceta tambem diz Ola a Piu-piu de meu filho" (Pussy also says Hello to Pee-pee of my son).
Cheesah then went into the living room and took a seat on the sofa next to Moze and Dad playing checkers. And Mom brought in some hot tea from the kitchen for everyone as Jorad and Zhang came in to also have tea.
Cheesah's little pee-pee was still sticking it's head out, and upward, and proud as he sat on the sofa with his cup of tea.
Bron advised Cheesah to be careful not to spill any hot tea on that newely discovered penis of his.
Because Cheesah's penis permeated the living room with his strong, pungent sex scent, the curtains in the windows were pulled aside to air out the house (Windows have no glass. The curtains are the windows).
At bedtime, the lamps and lanterns are extinguished, except for a lantern that hangs from the bedroom ceiling, and a coal oil lamp on the living room bureau. And they are both turned down low.
And being that the only dirt floor bedroom the house has is shared by all family members, everyone could tell by the smell when Cheesah's little stinker pee-pee stuck it's head out...After all, because this was the first night Cheesah's pee-pee stuck his head out to have a look at the world, little pee-pee was often wide awake all night that night.
Cheesah's penis looks about identical to the penis his older brother Zhang has.
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Identity of the Meerkat Pee-pees [Page 11] by moyomongoose
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On New Years Day of 1994, Lacar's mom and dad, Zeth and Mylah invited family and friends over to their place for a get-together. Zeth and Mylah were the only family members who had a car, so they provided the transportation. The meerkat cub's Aunt Beth and their Uncle Amos and his wife Aunt Lubaya were also there, with cousins Sengo (M), Jatoo (M) and Nantale (F). Great Grandma Gloria was there minding other cubs for friends of the family. And Sanchez Genet with some of his relatives were also invited as close friends of the family, among of who were Zhang's friend Ojo Genet, his sister Janina and cousin Shemsa.
There was cold tea, cooled in a creek spring not far from the house, bugs with rice, fish, nuts and berries, and Mylah had baked a cake. Most of the cubs who were there, including Moze, Jorad, Zhang and Cheeash, had never seen a cake before, and they had thought Mylah was baking some bread. But once the icing was on the cake, and it was served, the cubs really liked it.
Most of the cubs went outside to have a cricket game, those of which being Jorad, Zhang, Ojo, Janina, Shemsa, Jatoo, Nantale and several of the recently introduced cubs Gloria was minding. An old board made a good cricket paddle, and a mango pit was used for a cricket ball, and the cubs had a great time.
There was one slight mishap however. It was when Jorad pitched the mango pit cricket ball to Ojo who was up at bat. Ojo smacked the mango pit - or rather, cricket ball good and hard and really sent it flying...right into the driver's side vent glass of that old Rekord Olympia wagon owned by Granddad Zeth and Grandma Mylah, that Dominique left to them years ago. The vent glass was broken, but because cars were not equipped with tempered glass when that car was built, the glass cracked into larger pieces and did not fall out.
Those cubs who were involved in the game were called into the house to sit an hour of time out. Then they were given a good lecture and told the next time it happens, the cricket paddle will be use for a paddle, but not as a cricket paddle. When the cubs resumed their cricket game, this time it was further from the house and cars.
The vent glass was repaired with some duct tape on both sides, so the pieces of glass would never fall out.
Zeth and Mylah didn't have any duct tape at their house, but Sanchez Genet was able to spare some duct tape that was used to seal up the edges of that wooden floor in his old Wartburg station wagon.
There would be times Moze, Jorad and Zhang would tease Cheesah about the way his penis gave off that pungent sex scent. Early in 1994, the older brothers invented a nick named a phrase for Cheesah that went, "Cheesah esta besta de pipoca" (Cheesah is beast of popcorn). The sex scent of those kind of animals smells like buttered popcorn, and when it is said in Portuguese, it does have a jingle to it.
Cheesah would always get mad at his brothers for it, and would retort, Nao rir de meu piu-piu!" (Don't laugh at my pee-pee!).
There were times Bron and Lacara would get onto the older sons about it, but occasionally, Cheesah would still be teased about that.
Sometimes Cheesah would think he was being teased, then accuse one of the older brothers of it. Like the time the potty shanty needed to be re-roofed. Bron, Moze and Zhang were in the village getting what work they could get for that day, so that left Jorad, then age 11 to re-roof the potty shanty, with Cheesah, then 2 years old, to assist him. The potty shanty was a small "A" frame structure roofed with palm and palmetto fronds, which were tied to the stick framing with vines...It's where the family members go to poop and pee.
Jorad could not reach the top of the shanty, so Cheesah would stand on Jorad's shoulders and tie in the upper roofing fronds as Jorad would instruct him.
While Cheesah was standing on Jorad's shoulders, tying the upper fronds in place, Cheesah's little pee-pee got a hard-on and stuck all the way out of sheath, just over brother Jorad's head, and - WOW - little Cheesah Meerkat pee-pee was really stinky like buttered popcorn that day.
"AHHH! Cheesah! Get seu Piu-piu back in sheath! E fedido!" (...Is stinky!), Jorad complained to Cheesah as he was looking up at the bottom of his cub brother's hard penis.
"Esta rindo meu piu-piu?" (Are you laughing at my pee-pee?) Cheesah scorned.
"Nao. Eu sou aquele que e cheira-lo" (No. I am the one who smells it), Jorad protested.
The situation was soon remedied by Jorad and Cheesah walking around in the cool creek for a few minutes where the water came up to Cheesah's waist...A penis in cold water calms down and goes back in, and a meerkat male's penis is no exception. Once Cheesah's penis was flaccid and back in sheath, he and hid older brother finished the re-roofing job on the potty shanty.
Shortly after nightfall one warm evening in the month of March in 1994, there was a thunderstorm approaching from the west. The storm was about a half hour away as the family was sitting at the kitchen table, having nuts and berries and hot tea. And looking out from the doorway that leads outside to the porch overhang where the cooking stove is, clouds can be seen flashing with lightning above the horizon in the night sky, although thunder could not yet be heard. However, the night breezes had already began blowing that usually herald the approach of a big storm.
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By the time the family bedded down for the night, the storm was close enough for thunder to be heard as the smell of fresh rain was already in the air. The coal oil lamps and lanterns were extinguished, except for the lantern that hangs from the bedroom ceiling, and the coal oil lamp on the living room bureau. The family usually sleeps cuddled up together on a spread of blankets on the dirt floor of the bedroom (There is no bed like the developed countries know. The blankets on the floor is the bed), but on this night, the cubs bedded down on a separate spread of blankets, away from Mom and Dad. That was because Bron and Lacara were wanting to have sex, thus the cubs would sleep where they are out of the way. It was no big tabu for the cubs to be in the same room when Mom and Dad are having sex. There is only one bedroom in the house for everyone to share, and the cubs have seen Mom and Dad having sex many times before.
By the time the storm had hit and was raging outside with lightning, thunder, hard wind and pounding rain, Bron and Lacara were at it having sex, really loving on each other and feeling so good...By now Bron's meerkat penis was really deep into Lacara's meerkat pussy, as they were hugging, kissing and telling each other, "Hmm...Amo-te" (Hmm...I love you).
As the storm raged outside, and Mom and Dad continued having sex, the brothers were cuddled up in a huddle in the other side of the bedroom. As they laid on their spread of blankets, they would occasionally peek back at Mom and Dad, then smile and whisper funny things to each other like they sometimes do.
The brothers giggled as Moze whispered to them, "Este será um irmão ou uma irma?" (Will this one be a brother or a sister?)
About that time a 'hot cell' of lightning activity in the storm passed overhead with lots of lightning and thunder-bangs, striking really close, and lighting up the windows bright blue as though it were day time. There would be a bright flash - boom. A closer bright flash - bang. A distant bright flash - - boom rumble. Then a close one - BANG.....A REALLY CLOSE ONE - B A N G. That one struck 50 meters from the house. The cubs were so frightened, they jumped up and piled in with Mom and Dad.
"Estamos seguros em ó casa" (We are safe in the house), Lacara assured the cubs as Bron Meerkat pulled his penis out of his wife's pussy.
Then again, BRIGHT BLUE FLASH - BANG. Then the cubs snuggled even closer to their Mom and Dad.
"Nossos suricatos são gatos assustados" (Our meerkats are scaredy cats), Bron said as he and Lacara laughed while Bron's penis went back flaccid and slipped back into sheath.
During the storm, the cubs felt more secure snuggled up to Mom and Dad. There were always other nights Bron and Lacara could have sex, so the family slept cuddled together on that stormy night.
During the following month of April, there was big fish, probably about 10 pounds or so, that would occasionally come into a wide pool in the creek in the wooded area behind the house. For weeks, the brothers had been trying to catch it with a stick and a length of builder's twine for a pole and line, with a homemade hook fashioned from a small nail, and grass hoppers for bait...all of which was to no avail as they never could catch that fish.
One day, while Bron and Moze were working in the village, Jorad, Zhang and Cheesah were at home, out in the woods collecting bugs to be cooked up with some rice for dinner that evening. Near the creek, the brothers saw that the fish had returned to the creek pool. Zhang made the suggestion of getting their homemade fishing rig from the house and have another go at catching that fish. Jorad agreed on the idea, so Jarod picked up the box of bugs, and he and Zhang headed back to the house with little Cheesah tagging behind.
"O peixe é aqui! O peixe é aqui!" (The fish is here! The fish is here!), Jorad announced to Lacara as he placed the bug box on the kitchen counter, and as Zhang started toward the tree supported shed to get the fishing rig.
Lacara called Zhang back from the shed, then told her sons, "Hoje teremos peixe" (Today, we will have fish).
Then she had them follow her into the living room. In the top draw of that old, light blue, ragged, living room bureau is where the guns are kept.
"We will get the fish with this. This will not fail", Lacara told her sons as she got out the old, G3A3 Portuguese war rifle that her dad, Zeth had given her, then loaded three rounds...more than one in case there was a miss.
"Nao dar ista a Zhang ou Cheesah. Isto noa e um brinquedo. VOCE usa-lo" (Do not give this to Zhang or Cheesah. This is not a toy. YOU use it), Lacara instructed Jorad, being the oldest, as she pawed the loaded rifle over to him.
Lacara also reminded Jorad to always be careful how he carries a gun, and where where he points it. And she also instructed Zhang and Cheesah to stay behind their brother until they are sure he is not going to fire anymore rounds, reminding her sons, "Quando você puxa o gatilho, você não pode parar o bala" (When you pull the trigger, you can not stop the bullet).
As Lacara sent the cubs to go get the fish, she told Jorad, "E não atire no meio do peixe. Que é a carne. Atire a cabeça" (And do not shoot the middle of the fish. That is the meat. Shoot the head).
Seven minutes later, Lacara heard >POW<. Then a 2nd >POW<, this time followed by the cubs cheering...she knew then, they finally got the fish. An sure enough, several minutes later, the cubs returned to the house, Jorad carrying the rifle, Zhang carrying the fish with most of it's head blown off, and Cheesah tagging along behind.
"Esta noite nos comer peixe. Estou muito orgulhoso dos meus filhos" (This night, we eat fish. I am very proud of my cubs), Lacara praised her sons as she took the fish to the kitchen to begin to prepare it. Then she instructed Cheesah to turn the bugs loose so they don't die and spoil, then instructed the cubs what was not going to be cooked of the fish that day was to be cured so it would keep for other meals.
As Jorad and Zhang cleaned the rifle to be put back away, they enjoyed the aroma of the cooking fish, as they were ever so anxious for it to be ready. When Bron and Moze returned home from the village that evening, they too, expressed their pride in the younger cubs for getting that fish. During the family get-together almost three months earlier was the last time the family had fish to eat, but that night, the family had fish for dinner.
Later in 1994, Great Grandma Gloria had passed away in her sleep during the night. At the time, she had been living in with her Son, Zeth, and her daughter-in-law, Mylah.
It was Mylah who found Gloria passed away shortly after dawn. Being it was a natural death, no autopsy was performed. However, autopsies are almost unheard of anyway, and considering that Gloria Meerkat had a recent history of symptoms associated with heart problems, the doctor at the village hospital concluded that she may have passed away from a heart seizure.
Gloria was missed by the family and by friends very much. She was laid to rest beside the grave of her late husband, Dominique.
Also in that year, the animals in the homeland had been hearing that UNITA and MPLA had agreed to a peace treaty, the Lusaka Protocol Peace Accord. The first members of the family to hear about it were Moze and Jorad, when they were in the village looking for work for that day. When the rest of the family heard about the peace accord from Moze and Jorad when they got home that evening, they were optimistic that this could finally mean the end of the civil war that had been going off and on for what had been then 19 years. But the hope for the end of the war wasn't long lived. Tensions again arose between UNITA and MPLA, the peace agreement collapsed, and in 1995, UNITA was again at war against the nation's government.
Chapter 2. The War
One winter morning, late in the month of June of 1995 (Southern Hemisphere, but still near the Equator), when Zhang was age 9, the homeland was invaded by UNITA guerrilla fighters from a region of the country in the mountains to the north, as well as some from the southeast corner of the country which was still mostly UNITA controlled. The invaders consisted of various civet species, colobus monkeys, galagos, and miscellaneous other species including pangolins, and they were leaving no survivors in their wake. Months earlier, there had been a peace accord (the Lusaka Protocol) agreed to among several separatist movements who fought against Portugal for Angola's independence, but that peace accord had collapsed. Since Angola's independence in 1974-75, there had been 20 years of power struggle, which had been an ongoing series of civil war fighting waged against the MPLA government by those loyal to UNITA. That movement was fully intent on seizing control of the country, and it wasn't long before the invaders were joined by forces from Cabinda, a small country to the north that was not at that time recognized by the UN as a legitimate country. As it already was, the UNITA had in years past, with the help of what had been apartheid South Africa, controlled territory far to the east around Mavinga and Jamba. However, the UNITA invaders could no longer rely on South Africa as the ally they had in past years, as that country had pulled out of Namibia years earlier and had issues of their own abolishing their apartheid rule.
But in spite of South African troops being out of the picture, the rebel insurgency still had the homeland in the Province of Cunene where Zhang's family lived badly outnumbered and desperately needing everyone, regardless of gender, health condition or age, who can hold and fire a weapon. And no one in the that part of the country could rely on much protection from the country's military...The military was doing all it can do to defend the rest of the country. So the need for those who can fight meant owners of nonessential businesses had to close shop to go fight, and cubs who were going to school had to pull out of school, along with their teachers or school masters, to go fight in the war. Even the leaders and law enforcement officers of towns, leaders of provinces as well as the leaders of the country along with other elected officials picked up weapons to go fight. "Everyone who can hold and fire a weapon" meant "everyone who can hold and fire a weapon", with only few special exceptions.
While the UNITA invaders had only a limited amount of assault vehicles and other military equipment, the anthro-animals of the southern part of the country had less than that. All they had for military weapons were old civilian firearms that had been in their families for generations, and very few Portuguese G3A3 assault rifles taken from fallen Portuguese during Angola's War for Independence years earlier. What they had for grenades were homemade explosives and dynamite, some of which was old. And their military transport were their own personal vehicles, nearly all of which were in ragged mechanical condition. The populations of the country's southern provinces were basically a rag tag, civilian army with an unwavering loyalty to the country's non-apartheid Labour Party presently in power, the 'Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola' (MPLA). And there was no option of surrender or negotiation which no one wanted anyway...That was because the UNITA invasion was a genocidal one as was evident when those who had cars with radios that worked had already heard reports of extermination campaigns being carried out in a few of their northern villages, and knew their only two choices were prevail or be killed...and the 2nd choice was certainly not a viable option.
Members of Zhang's family who were called upon to help defend the homeland were Zhang's dad, armed with a Portuguese G3A3, in what ever way he could serve with his hip joints being bad, and Zhang's two older brothers and Zhang himself. Cheesah was only 3, and Lacara, the mom, had to stay home to care for him. Zhang found himself helping to defend the homeland in a guerrilla combat war, as a 9 year old cub, not much older than Raphael would be in the year 2013. At his young age, Zhang, who was issued a 4/10 gauge shotgun and rifled slugs, got the experience of firing on other living beings, and at age 9, having two kills to his credit. And a time or two, Zhang had a close scrape with death himself from enemy fire. This is where a cub really learns to grow up, and learns to grow up fast. Maybe even too fast.
Zhang, as well as others, was well instructed in martial arts when there was time for it, because there wasn't the guarantee of a firearm, or ammo, being available. In some parts of the country, there was a shortage weapons. Some meerkats and other animals in the southern provinces were fighting with weapons, ammo and grenades (the real ones) that were taken from fallen enemy fighters.
Not long into the war, it was realized that pangolins and various civet species who are citizens of the southern provinces were mistaken for UNITA fighters, and as a result, came under friendly fire from those who did not know them. This was soon remedied by issuing strips of cloth for their allies to wear either as a bandana or tied around an arm to identify who they are. Sometimes the cloth wasn't easy to come by, but strips of cloth were always available torn from furniture or old blankets. Sometimes cloth was taken from the upholstery of their old ragged cars if no other source was available.
The UNITA forces began trying to confuse the civilian fighters in Cunene by having some of their own civets and pangolins wear bandanas and arm cloths so they couldn't be identified as an enemy by the local fighters. But that idea proved to be a folly, and it wasn't long before the UNITA leaders abandoned it. Because it was a guerrilla war, their own fighters wearing the cloth strips caused them to come under friendly fire from their own forces.
One hot July afternoon, only a few weeks into the war, Zhang saw his next oldest brother, Jorad, take a sniper shot in the chest. Zhang immediately dropped his weapon and ran over crying to Jorad, who was still conscious, but laid dying. Immediately, the adult meerkat who was with Jorad and Zhang threw himself to the ground to shield the cubs from further gunfire with his own body, as he frantically tried to locate the sniper.
As Jorad was moaning, "Estou a sangrar...Estou ferido gravemente (I'm bleeding...I'm hurt badly.)" another round ricocheted near the meerkats, followed by the distant sounds of muzzle fire and projectile crack, as Zhang laid with his brother, Jorad, hugging him.
The adult meerkat finally spotted the pangolin sniper and took him out with a fatal 30.06 shot to the forehead. The adult meerkat knew the pangolin was a northern fighter by him having no bandana or arm cloth...and from the obvious fact the pangolin had just shot Jorad.
Jorad gave his last farewell to Zhang. Then said to Zhang in a weak voice, "Zhang, I love you. And mom and dad. And our brothers. Say good bye for me to them. Tell them I love them."
Then Jorad passed away. Zhang cried bitterly, embracing his deceased brother for a while before he and the adult moved on. Jorad's body was picked up for burial that evening.
Zhang also saw two cousins die in that war. One, who was his Uncle Amos' oldest son Sengo, he saw actually get shot, the way he saw his brother die, and one on his dad's side of the family he came up on as she laid unconscious and dying.
Later during the war, Zhang earned a metal of honor when he was blazed in the thigh while helping a wounded fellow meerkat to safety.
In November of that same year, which is shortly before summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the northern forces were well on their way to being defeated. It was then, Zeth, Zhang's grandpa on his mom's side of the family was killed while helping to drive the last of the invaders back to where they came from. As with the death of her 2nd son Jorad, Lacara along with the rest of the family also took the death of her dad very hard.
Within a week of Lacara's dad's death, the civilian fighters in Cunene finally prevailed, and the UNITA fighters were drove back north into their mountain homelands and back to other places they had came from.
During this most recent flash point in the ongoing civil war, the animals Zhang and his family knew had only encountered UNITA forces. It was fortunate the better trained and well equipped South African army had no longer been involved in the war. Had that been the case, the outcome for the untrained, poorly equipped locals would have been a really disastrous situation.
Once the UNITA rebels were driven away, the locals did not continue to pursue them. Doing so would have only meant more guerrilla fighting and bloodshed by going after them. Besides that, the rebel animals took such a loss of life among them during the later part this round of the war, and another invasion would be a mistake they weren't about to repeat anytime soon.
Then it was only a couple of months later, in January of 1996, which is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the MPLA government had defeated the remaining UNITA forces further north.
One of their first priorities was to conduct a campaign of locating and disbanding the rebel guerrilla militias so they would no longer be a threat to any other animals again. Former rebel leaders who were captured were either executed or imprisoned for their roles in the attempted insurrection, and also for the genocide campaigns and other war crimes committed against the citizens of the country. There were a few of the former rebel leaders who had fled the country and never were found. And many rebel leaders had fled back to the southeast corner of the country around Mavinga and Jamba which were still in UNITA control. However, the government did offer large bounties for their capture. As for their militia compounds throughout the country, they were burned and bulldozed under, and their abandoned war equipment was seized and placed into service in the Angolan military. However, UNITA still had it's stronghold of control in the southeast corner of the country which still remained a challenge for Angola to contend with. But in spite of a state of civil war since 1974 that still continued to exist, everything was at least under control...for now.
Chapter 3. Life Goes On
Zhang stayed with his martial arts training well after the encounter the locals had with UNITA rebels, and Zhang eventually achieved 2nd degree black belt. As a young teen, Zhang made progress in controlling a lifelong temper he always had, with the help of his parents and his martial arts instructor.
Three years after the local community had to fight off rebel forces, the year now being 1998, Zhang's family was beginning to fare more prosperously. The country still had ongoing trouble from UNITA forces from time to time in parts of the country as Angola's civil war still lingered on. Although the country continued to have it's problems, the way of life had been getting better as oil drilling and diamond mining had improved the country's economy.
Moze was 19 then, Zhang was 12 and Cheesah was 6. It was decided by Bron and Lacara that Cheesah would get the schooling they themselves and the older brothers never had. School was about 16 kilometers (10 miles) away, which was a good drive, or walk, along those substandard dirt roads where they lived.
Lacara's mom, Mylah, had recently given Lacara and Bron her old station wagon upon Mylah moving in with her son, Amos, and his wife. Lacara's dad had died in the war three years earlier, and her mom could no longer continue the upkeep on the car. At that time, that old, 1954 Rekord Olympia wagon had been passed down through the family for the past 37 years.
Mylah had considered giving the car to Lacara's sister, Beth, or to brother Amos and his wife. But Mylah felt a place in her heart for the fact her son-in-law, Bron, has hip dysplasia, so she gave the car to Bron and Lacara.
"Uau. O boter velho que pertenciam ao Grand Dad Zeth" (Wow. The old car that belonged to Grand Dad Zeth), Moze said, looking over the car.
Lacara told her oldest son, Moze, "Quando meu pai era um adolescente, seu great grand dad Dominique had este boter" (When my dad was an adolescent, your great grand dad Dominique had this car).
Lacara's mom, Mylah, then proceeded to tell Moze, Zhang and Cheesah about the time when their great grand dad acquired the car.
"Quando o pai do Zeth...seu grande pai grand...compru este boter, o boter was only sete years of age" (When the dad of Zeth...your great grand dad...bought this car, the car was only seven years of age), Mylah began.
"Great Grand Dad had muito dinheiro naquela epoca?!", Zhang interrupted with enthusiasm.
"Uau! Grande Pai Grand era rico?!" (Wow! Great Grand Dad was rich?!), Cheesah added.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha", Bron laughed, then told his sons, "Nao nao nao. Uma raposa de Portugal precisava vende lo rapido. He sold it para barato" (No no no. A fox from Portugal needed to sell it quick. He sold it for cheap).
Then Mylah told the three brothers, "Escutem, and I will tell you" (Listen, and I will tell you).
Mylah told her grandsons, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah, about the war for Angola's independence from Portugal that started in 1961. She told them of how the fox who owned the car was among those of the Portuguese plantation field bosses who quickly fled the country back to Portugal when the violence started to sweep through Angola. Great Grand Dad Dominique and Grand Dad Zeth were taking part in a protest march in the city of Menongue against Portuguese occupation when they noticed the fox, who was desperate for money for a plane ticket out of the country, going around the Menongue Airport announcing that his car was for sale really cheap.
Mylah continued telling the brothers the story as she had heard it from her late husband and in-laws, how their Great Grand Dad Dominique and Grand Dad Zeth had saved some money from working for a sugar plantation under the recently abolished, forced labour law.
She told them, "Seu grande pai grand ligou para a raposa. Ele disse, 'Eu vou compra o boter. Vou compra lo. Aqui, Eu tenho dinheiro'" (Your great grand dad called to the fox. He said, 'I will buy the car. Will buy it. Here, I have money').
The story goes that Dominique Meerkat didn't have...or wasn't willing to give...near as much as the fox was asking for the car. But what Dominique would give for the car would be just enough for the fox to buy a plane ticket back to Portugal, so the fox accepted what Dominique offered for the car, then the fox gave Dominique the keys. The fox already had the title in the glove compartment with his signature on it. Great Grand Dad Dominique got a, then seven year old, 1954 Rekord Olympia station wagon for really really really cheap, that was then in immaculate condition. And the fox was able to board a plane bound for Portugal.
Mylah finished the story with telling the brothers how surprised the family was when Dominique and Zeth arrived to the house with such a nice car like the ones the plantation bosses can afford. The story has it that Great Grand Ma Gloria had at first thought perhaps Great Grand Dad Dominique had stolen the car, until her husband Dominique and her son Zeth explained how they got such a nice car for cheap, assuring Gloria that the car was legitimately acquired.
That was the first time the brothers heard that story, and they enjoyed it quite well.
BTW: In the Angolan dialect of Portuguese, a car is often called a 'boter' in place of the use of the word 'carro'.
After 37 years, the car was nowhere near being in the pristine condition it was in when Dominique Meerkat first got it in the year 1961.
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The first few months after Lacara's mom gave Bron and Lacara the car, it required a lot of work to keep it running. The car didn't even have it's rear seat...The upholstery from the rear seat was needed for arm bands and bandanas to identify friendly forces during the war three years earlier. When ever the family went somewhere together, the brothers, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah would sit on the floorboard which no longer had it's carpeting or rubber mat (whichever the car was originally equipped with). The car just had a bare metal floor with a lot of it's paint worn away and a couple of small rust holes you could see the road through. The ignition switch was turned on and off with a screwdriver, the driver's window was rolled up and down with a pair of vice grips, the radio was missing, and the passenger's door had to be pulled just the right way to get it to latch shut all the way. The car still had it's original, teal color, factory paint which was pitted and chalky with surface rust showing through, some of the chrome trim was gone, all hubcaps except for one were gone, and the doors showed signs of rusting out down at the bottoms.
There was a branched out crack on the passenger's side of the windshield, a broken right taillight lens, and the left taillight had a wiring problem and did not work. The turn signal switch assembly in the steering column was broken and did not work, and the vent glass on the driver's door was still broken and held together with duct tape on both sides from that time Ojo Genet batted a mango pit into it at a family reunion four years earlier.
There was a little bit of lifter tap in the motor, and the transmission would keep a loud drivetrain howling noise going up a mountain on those old dirt roads, or during acceleration. However, the car was good on gas, didn't burn oil, tires held air OK although badly worn, and was fairly reliable once the family got the bugs worked out of it.
As for air conditioning, the car never was equipped with it. That old car was a blessing to have, and the family was very thankful to have it. Because before Bron and Lacara even had a car, Cheesah would have to walk three hours each way to school and back every day, leaving for school before dawn and getting back home late in the afternoon, except for the times friends and family who did have cars could give him a ride...The luxury of having school buses did not exist in that part of the country.
Before the family got the car, there were those times during rainy or cool weather, Cheesah was able to get a ride aboard a train to the village on the way home. Five kilometers (three miles) from the school, there is about a two kilometer stretch of dirt road (a little over a mile) that runs side by side with a narrow gauge branch of the C.F.B. Railway through a mountain pass. For about 130 meters of that pass (400 feet), the road cut in the mountainside becomes so narrow, the road narrows down to only one lane and shares a 3 meter (9 to 10 foot) wide right-of-way together with the narrow gauge railroad tracks...both road and tracks overlapping together where it is hardly wider than a parking spot from rock wall to cliff, plus it's on a curve. On one shoulder of the track and roadway overlap is a sheer rock face going up. And on the other shoulder, 3 meters over, is a sheer drop going down a long way, with no railing or guardrail to stop anything from going over the edge. The speed limit on that 130 meter long stretch for both automobiles and trains is 10 km/h (6 MPH) so in case a train and a car met on that 3 meter wide road cut, they can both stop in time to avoid a head on collision. And also so any pedestrians would have plenty of time to stand against the rock face to allow the train to pass by. There were times a train would happen along when Cheesah was walking home along that narrow stretch of mountain pass. If it was a cool or rainy day, and if the train was going in the direction of the village, the engineer would feel sorry for the little, six year old, meerkat cub walking in the rain out in the middle of nowhere, then stop the train and offer Cheesah a ride to the village. That would always cut a lot of walking distance off of Cheesah's journey home from school. The mountain pass was 11 kilometers (6 1/2 miles) from home...From the village to home was only a 3 kilometer walk (2 miles). Plus the engineer would let Cheesah ride in the cab of the locomotive, a narrow gauge version of the Garrett, articulating, steam locomotive with the two sets of drive wheels...which was a real treat for a six year old meerkat cub.
A narrow gauge Garrett is shown:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h2hRMpMX3KM .
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OfyLBmA-NHY .
And the heat from the engine's firebox always felt so good after getting wet on a cold, rainy day. Before they got to where the mountain pass widened again, and where the tracks and dirt road separated from each other, you could look out the left window of the engine and see the rock face close enough to reach out and touch it. And from the right window, a bird's eye view of what is beyond the sheer drop. The engineer maintained the train at 10 km/h, and tooting the whistle every 10 seconds to warn automobiles not to venture onto the 3 meter narrow portion of road cut in the way of the approaching train. Once they were past that 130 meter long stretch of narrow road cut, the train would run between 50 and 65 km/h (30 to 40 MPH) on the way to the village.
Shortly before Bron and Lacara got the car, there were only two times Cheesah didn't get that train ride on a cold, rainy day. One rainy day was when Cheesah and a linsang cub had 45 minutes detention after school for talking in class. School normally dismisses shortly after noon. But on that day, the train had already gone by before Cheesah got to the mountain pass.
On another rainy day on the way home from school, the train was running an hour late that day. And by the time the train arrived at the pass Cheesah had already walked half way home in the rain, and was at a point nowhere near the railroad tracks. But it was shortly after that the family finally had a car...Needless to say, Cheesah was very thankful for that.
Having a car also made finding work for Bron and the older sons less difficult...that was when work was available. And being without a car use to be especially a hardship on Bron due to him having hip dysplasia.
The speedometer didn't work in that old car either. But with the dirt roads being the way they are, you couldn't drive fast enough on them to really need a speedometer anyway...In many places, you're lucky if you can get up to 50 Km/H (30 MPH).
Lacara's younger brother Amos, and a few friends of the family had proposed the idea of some of the adult males taking the car to north of Menoque to get some work at the sugarcane plantation during the harvest season. The rumor had been going around that a wealthy rat family in Egypt who for years owned 80% of the sugarcane plantation had finally bought out the remaining 20% from the other shareholders who use to disapprove against any wage increases for the workers.
Amos Meerkat and the family friends told Bron and Lacara that "O velho rato pai" (The old papa rat), as they referred to the plantation's owner, now pays the workers good wages since he now owns the plantation outright.
But Bron and Lacara did not agree to lone out the car. Menoque was a long drive from home, and that would deprive Cheesah transportation to and from school while the car was away. And Bron could not easily do without the car with his hips the way they are.
There were times, however, although it was seldom it ever happened, Bron and Lacara wouldn't have money for gas for the car until Bron or one of the older sons could get some work. During those situations, Cheesah would still have to walk to and from school until there was gas in the car again. But in spite of those hardships, at least someone in the family would go to school and have a chance at a decent education the other family members never had.
Zhang, like his parents and his older surviving brother, had no formal education, and Zhang was completely illiterate until age 12, and his older brother, Moze, wasn't literate by much. But friends of the family who had a knowledge of literacy began teaching Zhang how to read and write, as well as improving on Moze's literary knowledge.
In the following year of 1999, the country had still experienced some occasional military intervention due to the collapse of the Lusaka Protocol Peace Accord several years earlier. However, those issues were mostly going on in the major cities, thus leaving many of the rural areas of the country largely unaffected.
In the year of 1999, Moze (then age 20 and married) had been working for an oil company seismic crew, searching out possible drilling sites around the areas of Caiundo and Capico, which was northeast of home. One job site was within 40 kilometers of the city of Menongue, where Mom's side of the family is from. Moze and others on the crew never did go into Menongue though. Due to the military intervention going on at that time against remnants of FNLA and UNITA, it was safer to stay out of the large cities if you didn't have to be there.
As a result of Moze working for the oil company, this was the first time any of the family members had a good, steady paying income going, which was a blessing to Moze and his wife, Leia...Oil companies do tend to pay pretty well. Moze was also able to get fairly nice car that was in much better condition than his mom and dad's old Olympia. But it was still an old car with a few issues. It was a 1970 Opal Rekord Station Wagon.
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The car had no rust to speak of, and some dings here and there that could be noticed only if you were up close to the car. It's factory original, black paint wasn't chalky or bleeding rust, but it did have little discoloration due to age. The brakes had to be pumped to stop the car, and like the car his parents had, it too had worn tires. The car also had two bullet holes, one at the bottom of the driver's door, and the other one in the left fender behind the front wheel.
Moze and Leia found out from the Linsang they bought the car from that the bullet holes were a little souvenir the car received from the civil war when the homeland was invaded four years earlier. For Moze, the bullet holes in the car reminded him of younger brother Jorad, Grand Dad Zeth, and two cousins the family had lost in that war.
Moze's parents and two brothers were really impressed by how much nicer Moze and Leia's 1970 Opal Wagon looked when they showed up with it at their place. After everyone talked a while and admired the car, they all went out for a ride in it, with Moze driving, Leia riding up front, Bron and Lacara riding on the back seat, and Zhang (then 13) and Cheesah (then 7) riding in the very back. Zhang and Cheesah would refer to their older brother's car as 'the new car'...even though at the time, it was a 29 year old car.
A year later, April of 2000, just before Zhang turned 14, Lacara had a heart attack. Being that their part of the province had no ambulance service or phone service, the family took Lacara by car to the only hospital the community had available, which was a substandard medical clinic in the nearby village, not much better equipped than a field hospital. But it was better than staying at home to die. The nearest really decent hospitals were in Ondjiva, which was the capitol of Cunene, being the only real city in that province, and the other being in Menongue, in neighboring Cuando-Cubango Province. Both cities were in average of 160 kilometers (100 miles) away, which would have been more than a three hour drive on the dirt roads. Many members of the Meerkat Family had never in their lives traveled that far from home before, thus had never even seen those cities. Moze had once been within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Menongue while on the oil company seismic crew. Moze never actually been in the city, but from high ground with a pair of binoculars could barely see some of the city's taller structures and see planes approaching and leaving the Menongue Airport from far away on the horizon. However, the medical clinic in the nearby village, although as basic as it was, did provide Lacara with the best care they had available.
Moze and his wife, Leia, had their new born daughter, Dora, at the time, but still donated everything they can to go to pay Lacara's medical bills. Zhang had found a job as a metal worker apprentice, a week before he turned 14, with help from a vocational program that Sanchez Genet told him about at the metal fabrication shop. Zhang kept none of his pay from his job. He gave it all toward paying for Mom's medical treatment. Dad helped the best he could, being disabled. Younger brother Cheesah, then age 8, offered to drop out of school and try to find work so he can help. But Mom and Dad wouldn't allow it. No one in the family had a formal education. And if Cheesah could complete his schooling, at least one member of the family will have a decent education.
A few days after Lacara had her heart attack, it didn't look like she was going to make it. Her husband, Bron and her three sons, Moze, Zhang and Cheesah were at her bedside. So was her mom, Mylah and her brother, Amos and sister, Beth. Lacara told them that if the worse came, she'll be in a better place with her 2nd oldest son, Jorad, and her Dad, Zeth. Fortunately however, it would be many years yet before Lacara was to be reunited with Jorad and Zeth. A few days later, and with medical treatment provided from the clinic, Lacara's condition improved and she finally made a full recovery. Within a couple of days, Lacara was released from the clinic with some heart medication to go back home.
Chapter 4. Zhang Meets a Female
It was two years later, 2002, Zhang noticed an artwork wall mural being painted by an attractive, female meerkat, who was commissioned to paint it. The smooth, stucco walled building was painted to make it look like the wall was part of the stone laid sidewalk with jungle scenery beyond it. Zhang and the female artist, Annika, became acquainted after Zhang stopped to admire the painting. In the weeks to follow, Zhang, then 16, and Annika, then 23, became close friends. Zhang showed an interest in art, and asked Annika if she teach him some about it. So during the following year or so, Annika would occasionally let Zhang come over for art lessons to her studio in the nearby village where she lived.
Annika had more work opportunities, painting murals and doing portraits, in Ondjiva, which was a 140 kilometer (85 mile) drive to get there. The anthro animals in Ondjiva had the money that many of the animals in the nearby village didn't have for those services...and by then, the cities were not such dangerous places to visit anymore.
One day, Annika invited Zhang to ride with her to Ondjiva in the old, ragged, Russian made, Moskvitch she had.
"Zhang, before you get in, hold this over the carburador for a couple of minutos", Annika said as she got a small piece of cardboard out of the glove compartment and pawed it to him.
After Zhang opened the hood and got the top off of the air cleaner housing, he noticed the choke plate was missing from the carburetor.
"Entao este. It's the choke", Zhang chucked as he briefly held the piece of cardboard up.
"Sim (yes). Since my family had the boter, it was never there", Annika replied as she started the car.
After a couple of minutes of holding the cardboard over the carburetor while the motor idled, it was warmed up and ready to drive. After Zhang got the air cleaner back together, closed the hood, got in and put the cardboard back into the glove compartment, Zhang and Annika were on their way to Ondjiva.
Zhang and Annika had a lot of conversation on their way to Ondjiva.
At one point Zhang commented how smooth he thought the car rode.
Annika then pointed out that it might seem to ride smoother because as they got closer to Ondjiva, the road was in better condition.
When Zhang talked about the station wagon his grand mom gave his parents, Annika told Zhang that her Moskvitch automobile was driven by her parents for years, then given to her when her parents got a different car.
A short while before they arrived to Ondjiva, the dirt road left off where substandard paved road began. This was the first time in Zhang Meerkat's life he had ever seen a paved road.
Once they arrived in Ondjiva, Zhang was amazed seeing a town that was larger and more modern than their nearby village.
"Voce parecia surpreso" (You look surprised), Annika said to Zhang as they continued riding into town.
"In Ondjiva, this is my first time", said Zhang. "Other than our village, a town like this, Eu nunca vi antes" (...I've never seen before).
Annika gave thought to how it was no surprise to her, as she was aware of many others in their community who have never traveled more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) or so away from home in their entire life.
"Longe de casa (away from home), this far I have never been", Zhang mentioned.
With that said, Annika offered to ride around and show Zhang the town a while.
Later, at a cafe', Annika had several customers who had her draw portraits of them as Zhang watched her. Annika's work was very good, and she was paid well for the portraits she did too.
Before Zhang and Annika headed back home, they had dinner at the cafe' in Ondjiva. Normally, it's the male who buys dinner for the female. But Annika knew Zhang didn't have any money, and Zhang was only 16 then, so Annika paid the bill...which Zhang thanked her very much for, "Obrigato, Muito, Annika".
For Zhang, that day was quite an experience, and he could hardly wait to tell Mom, Dad and his brothers about his trip with a friend into Ondjiva.
There were times that followed that Annika had Zhang come along with her to Ondjive, which each time, Zhang considered it a special treat.
By the time Zhang was 18, and Annika 25, they were dating, and there was now a strong love bond between them. Zhang would still come over for art lessons, and by this time, they would spend some quality time together.
One evening, in mid April, after Annika had just turned 26, and Zhang was a couple of weeks from turning 19, the two of them were laying on a large, roll out mat, on the stone slab floor of the porch atrium that adjoined Annika'a studio. As they were sipping on Merlot wine and watching the stars come out, Annika snuggled up to Zhang as they were both laying on their backs. Zhang put a paw around her. Then Annika rested her paw on Zhang close to his genital. Zhang reached his paw he had around Annika far enough to reach her pussy, as Zhang's penis started poking his head out, and popping out further and further in timing with Zhang's heart beat. Zhang was rubbing at the edge of Annika's pussy, a little timid to go the rest of the way over onto her.
"It's OK Zhang", Annika softly told him. "Your paw. Bring it over more. Va em frente (Go for it)".
Now Zhang was gently rubbing the right side of Annika's pussy as his penis was just about completely extended out and hard, but still going at it a little timid.
"Talvez isso ajude (Maybe this will help)", Annika said, as she began passionately massaging Zhang's penis head.
Zhang's penis immediately stood out straight, hard and as far out as it can go. Zhang felt good all over from the erotic tingle he felt all around it's little head. His knees wobbled in and out, his feet jittered and he felt those butterflies in his lower ventral area. At one point, Zhang thrusted his pelvis up and down in a motion like he was having sex, while Annika continued giving little penis his head massage. Zhang massaged Annika's pussy, squishing it around, rubbing his paw deep in the clef, pulling it open, then pushing the labial halves firm against each other bulging the middle of Annika's pussy outward, and then tickling the entrance to Annika's vagina until Zhang could feel Annika's pussy puking oil out onto his paw. Zhang wasn't timid by then, and Annika was lovin' every second of it. So was Zhang.
Then Annika turned on her side with her ventral facing Zhang. No one had to tell Zhang what next to do. Zhang turned facing Annika, embraced her up against him, pushing his hard penis into Annika's pussy, as Annika also embraced Zhang. Zhang's penis didn't find Annika's vagina right away. Zhang moved his penis head up and down inside Annika's pussy clef, frantically trying to find the vagina. Then Zhang felt it...The penis found it. Then Zhang went in as deep as his penis can go, as both Zhang and Annika were having sex like there was going to be no tomorrow, and feeling like they were in Sex Heaven if there were such a place.
At climax, Zhang rejoicefully called out to Annika, "Amo-te! Amo-te! Amo-te! Amo-te! Ohhhh! Annika minha garina! OUUUU! Amo-te! Amo-te! (I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! Ohhhh! Annika my girl! OUUUU! I love you! I love you!)", then Annika kissed Zhang all over his face, neck and chest, then tightly embraced him.
This was Zhang's first time at having sex. For Zhang a whole new world had just opened up to him...A whole new beautiful world.
With the coal oil lamps dimmed way down low, Zhang and Annika had sex off and on through out the rest of the night, until dawn. At one point during the night, Zhang and Annika fell asleep while they were still copulated together, with Zhang softly telling Annika in his sleep, "Sim. Amo-te. Sim. Amo-te. (Yes. I love you. Yes. I love you)", and slept copulated for more than an hour, then being awakened after Zhang's penis went flaccid, slipped out of Annika's pussy and back into Zhang's sheath.
In the days to follow, Zhang and Annika would get together again to have sex. Then came the time they were doing it almost every night.
On May 2nd, 2005, one day after Zhang's 19th birthday, Zhang proposed to Annika, Annika accepted, and on that same day, the two happy meerkats sought a justice of the peace, and got married. From that day on, Zhang and Annika Meerkat are husband and wife, with a love bond you couldn't tear apart if you tried.
That evening as Zhang and Annika arrived in Annika's car to Zhang's parent's place, Bron and Lacara noticed their son, Zhang, riding in an old Moskvitch being driven by a female they've never seen before.
Zhang's family was unexpectedly, but pleasantly, surprised when Zhang introduced Annika to them and announced they've become husband and wife. That would now leave Cheesah being the only brother still living at home with Mam and Dad.
Annika's husband now lives with Annika, instead of with his parents Bron and Lacara and younger brother Cheesah.
In spite of Zhang having had a hard life growing up, or maybe because of it, Zhang is an achiever and a go getter with a strong sense of ambition.
With Zhang out from under Mom and Dad's roof, that left Bron, in spite of his having hip dysplasia, being the only wage earner of the household...that is whenever he could find work he was capable of doing. And because of the fact that Bron was now having to at times use a walking cane, it didn't make finding work any easier. With Moze and Zhang being "out of the nest", Cheesah going to school, and Jorad being had died in the war of 1995, that left only Bron (partially disabled), Lacara and Cheesah (then 10 years old) residing at the household. However, Moze, Zhang and other relatives did help out whenever they could.
Another source of assistance the local inhabitants began to receive was from United Way humanitarian workers who would occasionally come by, giving food and other help to those who needed it. They were usually a female wolverine, a male stoat, and a young male fox who had recently joined United Way. Although the wolverine and the stoat were longtime veterans of doing humanitarian work, the young fox was still getting some of his first paw looks at what life in the third world is really like. The young fox also found it almost incomprehensible that many of the locals had never been to school a day in their lives, and couldn't even read or write their own names.
Bron, Lacara and other family members considered the assistance from United Way a Godsend, as it relieved a great burden of concern over the family's welfare. The 4 wheel drive SUV with the United Way logos on the doors was always a welcome sight when ever it showed up.
The young fox, who's native language was Dutch, had mastered English well, but he still had difficulty speaking in Portuguese, and the Angolan dialect threw him off even more. However, being that Bron and Lacara could also speak English fluently, and Cheesah's English at that time was fair, and the wolverine spoke English and Portuguese fluently, and the stoat spoke Norwegian, English and Portuguese fluently, it was agreed that the conversations among them could be spoken in English.
There were also friends of the family who, like Bron, Lacara and Cheesah, received the much appreciated assistance in the way of food, fuel vouchers for those who had cars, offering assistance with home repairs, and other help where needed.
Grandma Mylah Meerkat also received food assistance from United Way which she was very thankful for. Since her husband, Grand-dad Zeth Meerkat, was killed in the 1995 war, it had been a hardship on Mylah. And the workers did take time out to offer Mylah transportation assistance. Mylah greatly appreciated that, being that she had gotten too old to drive and had given her car to her daughter Lacara and son-in-law Bron.
The young fox who had recently joined United Way was totally overwhelmed that the local animals who lived in the area never had electrical service, phone service or municipal water, and that some had never owned a car before...Not to mention none of the locals knew what a cellular phone or a personal computer even was (there weren't the towers around for internet and phone service anyway). Of course there was always radio to listen to if you were lucky enough to have a car with a radio that worked. All this was a difficult thought for the young fox to wrap his mind around being that, in his country, he had grown up with those luxuries and had always been use to taking them for granted.
As for the Meerkat Family and other local animals in Cunene, the quality of life had been getting better than it had been in years past.
Chapter 5. Introduction to Annika's Family
ANNIKA MEERKAT, female, born in nearby Cuando-Cubango Province of Angola (Africa) on April 17th, 1979, age 34, is Raphael's mom.
Annika came from a lower middle income family, born to her dad, Banga, and to her mom, Murua, having two older sisters, Nafula, the oldest, then Abina. And later, a younger brother, Najja, was born.
Annika was 2 years old when younger brother Najja was born. Because Najja was the only male sibling among three sisters, and the youngest, Annika and her two older sisters use to tease Najja when they were all at cub age, except Nafula didn't tease Najja very much. She was becoming an adolescent about the time Najja was getting old enough to be teased. Abina and Annika were the ones who did most of the teasing...that is until their parents, Banga and Murua, put a stop to it with a paddle.
Chapter 6. Annika's Experience of the War
On that June morning of 1995, when the northern rebels invaded the homeland, Annika was 16. The part of the country Annika help to defend didn't see as much action as Zhang had seen. There was the time, about half way through the war, Annika, and another female meerkat her age, Zella, was up on a bluff that overlooked a small jungle area and an open plain beyond. Annika and Zella were sitting on a boulder that was on top the bluff when a chunk of rock popped only inches from Annika's paw, accompanied by a ricochet noise, and followed by the close sounds of muzzle fire, and projectile crack. As the two meerkats scurried behind the boulder, another chunk of rock blew out of the boulder near Zella's head, with the sounds of ricochet, muzzle fire and projectile crack. Annika, then Zella, saw them...a colobus monkey and a galago crouched behind a mound. A brief exchange of gun fire took place with Annika blasting the galago through the chest with her 20 gauge shotgun. The colobus monkey immediately turned tail and ran away, disappearing into the patch of jungle. Minutes later, Annika spotted the fleeing monkey out on the open plain. He was almost a half mile away, and Annika's 20 gauge wouldn't reach him. Zella's weapon would. She had an AK-47. Zella fired several times before she and Annika finally saw the colobus monkey fall with his chest blown out.
The AK-47 had been taken from the dead body of one of the invaders. She was using it until she could no longer get ammo for it. Then she would go back to using her 32 caliber rifle.
In November of that same year, after the northern provinces were defeated and the fighters driven back to where they came from, Annika and her brother Najja, then 14, received honorable mentions for outstanding service.
Annika also received martial arts training during the war, and stayed with it after the war until she achieved green belt.
Chapter 7. How Annika Fared After the War
Annika, like quite a few other school age meerkats and other animals, didn't go back to school after the war. Because the war went well into November of 1995, and almost every animal from age 7 through 77 was called upon to fight, it was too late for schools to conduct the 1995 - 1996 school year. During that year, many school age animals got jobs and didn't bother returning to school during the 1996 - 1997 year.
The last grade Annika attended before the war was 10th grade. Instead of going back to school, she pursued being a free lance artist instead. Annika made a good living being commissioned to do wall murals, portraits and other art work. For many buildings in the nearby town, or what could be called a town, the murals were a vast improvement. Many of those buildings had walls made of stacked stone, or wood frame from raw timber with corrugated tin walls. Some of the better buildings were stucco or clay wall, but still looked rather shabby.
However, most of Annika's work opportunities were in Ondjiva, which was 110 kilometers (70 miles) away. Luckily Annika did have a car. It was an old ragged Moskvitch, but it always did make it to Ondjiva and back OK.
In Ondjiva, Annika got to be well known for her exceptional work doing portraits of the wealthy and somewhat wealthy anthro animals who were living in the Cunene Province. Annika would be paid well for portraits and novelty paintings she'd do for them.
It was when Annika was doing a wall mural for a cafe' in the nearby village, a cute, 16 year old, male meerkat, Zhang, stopped by to admire her work. That's when they became acquainted, later became friends, at even a later time fell in love, and when Annika was 26, and Zhang turning 19, they got sexually involved with each other, and shortly thereafter got married.
The tail end of Chapter 4 of Zhang's history tells that story.
Chapter 8. The Country Experiences Political Troubles
It was well into June of 2005, Zhang and Annika had been married for over a month.
There had been a trend toward their homeland of Angola becoming politically unstable over the past month, and it wasn't getting any better. Large numbers of other species of anthro animals had immigrated to Angola, from areas north of Cabinda that were experiencing political corruption and other problems. The immigrants who came to Angola wanted a share of control of the country the governing anthro animals wouldn't let them have. Zhang and Annika's families had been hearing about riots in a few major cities far to the north because of the situation. But fortunately, those riots were nowhere near the Cunene or Cuando-Cubango Provinces where they lived. The animals in those provinces just wanted to go about their lives and be left alone.
However, there were some immigrant animals who had settled into Cunene and Cuando-Cubango, and had brought their problems to Cunene and Cuando-Cubango with them. Throughout the rest of the summer, whenever Zhang and Annika went into town, they would often encounter a genet, mongoose, civet or some other of those immigrant animals who would try to make an issue with them about "how certain animals are trying to hold all the power in Angola".
During a visit in a nearby town, Zhang thought he was going to have to fight off a palm civet who was talking that way and blaming meerkats and mongooses for the country's problems, when Zhang told him, "Why can't you get a life?"
It was good for the palm civet he didn't try anything. Had he did, Zhang having cubhood war experiences, could have easily snapped and went ballistic on the palm civet. And with Zhang being 2nd degree black belt, and still having a temper issue, Zhang could have easily messed up that palm civet really bad.
Both Zhang's and Annika's families would also have similar stories to tell of their encounters during their trips to a town, about an occasional disgruntled immigrant who would openly blame meerkats and various other species of animals for the country's problems.
It was worse further north. Train crews with the narrow gauge railroad, and route truck drivers, including Annika's brother Najja, would bring back stories of how bad it had gotten in the major cities in the northern provinces. They would tell of how the 'blame game' in those cities was so bad, there would be animals of one species who would get blamed for all the trouble going on, who in turn would blame animals of other species for all the trouble.
As for the agitating animals who immigrated to Angola, those of which who settled into the area where Zhang and Annika's families lived, their numbers were few, the locals knew who they were, and the locals began to make it clear to them, "Uma atitude con voce, voce trazer aqui? Norte voce melhor leva lo...Extremo norte longe deste lugar" (An attitude with you, you bring here? North you better take it...Far north away from this place).
The Angolan dialect Portuguese may have sounded awkward to them, but they did get the picture from the locals quite clear. Those of the immigrant animals who decided to stay in the local area eventually mellowed down quite a bit...Those who did not, headed north as the locals suggested. After all, there were things in those major cities to the north that simply did not fly in Cunene or Cuando-Cubango.
Early in the month of September, Annika found out she was pregnant with Zhang's cub. Zhang and Anika felt like this was the best blessing they've ever had, and both of their families were thrilled to hear news of it.
When Bron, Lacara, Cheesah, Annika and Zhang was visiting with Annika's family, Lacara asked, "O filhote (The cub). Have you thought of some names?"
Members of both families began offering suggested names.
Zhang told everyone, "Whether the cub is male or female. Of course, we don't know yet".
"Voce sabe, Zhang?" (You know, Zhang?), said Annika. "I somehow feel like its a boy".
Bron asked Zhang, "Son, when is the cub due? Voce e Annika sabe?" (Do Annika and you know?)
"Nao fazemos, Pai" (No we don't, Dad), Zhang answered. "Annika and I have been together each night. Just when it conceived, we nao know".
"We figure Novembro, is what Zhang and I are guessing", Annika added.
"Setenta e cinco dias for us meerkats" (75 days...), said Murua, Annika's mom. "Novembro. That would be about correto".
Two days after the visit with the relatives, riots began flaring up in many cities over the power struggle between the animals who were native to Angola and those who had recently immigrated into the country. Then a new problem for the country also appeared. A pangolin, who called himself, "Sar Al Binar" had mustered huge cult following in the far western part of the country near the Atlantic coast, and was threatening to wage a holy war on the country. Most of the country had for generations adhered to Christian and family values, and Pangolin Sar Al Binar had made public statements that his agenda is to destroy that whole way of life. However, it didn't appear like he had near enough followers to pull it off.
Zhang and Annika, along with everyone they knew, were keeping up with news reports on where the country was headed. As a nation, the country was literally falling apart. But then came the worse news of all. Out of the northern provinces had once again formed a large paramilitary revolution from the old FNLA and UNITA movements. In a matter of days, they had taken over some northern provinces, and the rebel leaders issued a declaration claiming the territory they've taken to be the sovereign state of the Republic of North Angola. And they had also began make preparations to conduct another invasion into the Southern homeland provinces. and a much bigger invasion, with more allies than the one 10 years earlier.
During another family get together, the families discussed moving to a different country. Annika even mentioned concern for her unborn cub .
"If things get muito ruim (...really bad). The chances of our filhote (cub) surviving. What would they be?", Annika asked.
"The way this country is getting. It will nao longer be a safe place to live", Banga, Annika's dad, said.
"It's already gotten that way", said Bron", "You can see that. Just look around".
"What does this mean? There will be another war?", Cheesah, then age 13, asked, remembering the war when he was age 3, and remembering his older brother Jorad and his grandfather Zeth being laid into their graves.
"Ia, filho. Parece assim. Nao e bom" (Yes, son. Seems like it. It's not good), Bron answered his youngest son.
It was then decided by both families, that research should be started right away as to looking for another country to immigrate to.
After days of research, Southern India is what the meerkats decided on to be the most ideal of those countries that were willing to take them, And although the meerkats, being Angolan, spoke Portuguese, they were also able to hold a conversation in fluent English. And English is a common language spoken in India, therefore, there wouldn't be a language barrier when they arrived there. It would mean leaving jobs, leaving those cars behind that could not make a long trip, possessions and homes. Not to mention Zhang's younger brother, Cheesah, will have to pull out of school five years early. School was to start next month, the Angolan school year running from October to July. That would leave Cheesah with only a 7th grade education, unless he can get into India's school system. But all those things were on their way to being gone anyway with the way events were going. The main concern at this point was to get out of the country while they still can.
Chapter 9. Fleeing the Country
By the time conditions within the country began to rapidly deteriorate, the families already had the passports they needed, being that they filed application early on when the first signs of the country's recent troubles began. Over a period of several days, the families packed what their vehicles could carry, and had been making travel arrangements. Being that the nearest phone service was in the nearby village, making those arrangements would not have been possible had it not been for the generosity of long time linsang friends who owned the cafe' who let them use their business phone to make the necessary calls and inquiries. And there was a long wait to use the phone on each of the days the family made the three kilometer trip to the cafe'...Other families who resided where there was no phone service were also using the phone at the cafe' to make arrangements to leave Angola. Even the cafe' owners and a hippo waitress, Rosie, had gotten passports to leave the country, although it meant walking away from a business they've built up over the years. The arrangements the meerkats were finally able to make were to drive out to the sea port town of Port of Beira in Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean coast. Once there, they were to contact a freighter Captain, Yannas Fossa. The meerkat families would travel aboard Yannas Fossa's vessel, an India bound freighter. The able bodied males would work aboard the freighter while the able bodied females and older cubs would help with cooking and cleaning as payment for the ride over.
When they sold their homes for what they could get out of them, they didn't get a whole lot. It wasn't like the homes could stay on the market for months. Plus hardly anyone was buying real estate because of the turmoil the country was in. If anything, lots of other animals were also selling their homes in order to leave the country. The family, along with just about everyone else they knew, had to settle for selling to investors who came from the cities of Menongue and Ondjiva. Those were investors who were buying up what land and homes they could, trying to put their money into tangible assets in fear that the Angolan currency might become worthless.
Once the homes were sold, and those vehicles that could make it to Port of Beira were packed, there was one thing not left overlooked. The family did take a short while to visit the graves of their deceased loved ones for the last time.
After the grave visits, the last thing left was to close out their bank accounts, make currency exchanges for Indian currency and currency exchange for travel expense going through Zambia and Mozambique on their way to the east coast. Upon entering the bank, which was their last visit to the nearby village, members of the meerkat families noticed the bank's employes and customers seemed to be in a somber mood, and quiet enough to clearly hear the building's well worn, wooden floor creak as it was being walked on.
"Everyone so gloomy? Why?", Chessah asked.
"In provinces north of here, animals from North Angola crossed over. Our southern provinces. They are now under attack. It started only a while ago" , a meerkat at a teller desk answered.
"A lot of our fellow creatures. They are leaving the country", a loan officer who knew Annika's family told them. "You all are doing the right thing by leaving. I'm about ready to get my family. And we too will leave".
"It's horrible", said Murua.
"The country getting like this. We never thought we'd see it", Banga replied.
"No one ever thought it would", The loan officer added.
Other customers in the bank began talking about their experiences, and that they were also leaving the country.
There wasn't a lot of foreign currency left at the bank, but Zhang, Annika and their families were able to make exchange for some of the Zambian and Mozambique currency needed to get them across the continent. However, the bank had no Indian currency to exchange for them. And in their small town, that was the only bank within an hour's drive.
"When you do get to India, exchange your Angolan currency for Indian currency soon as you can", another bank employee friend of Annika's family said. "This country could fall any time. Then Angolan currency will be worthless".
As the families left, they bid "Adeus" and thanked them for everything, then they got into their cars, and they were on their way down the dirt street, headed for the highway going east out of the country. For many members of the Meerkat Family, this would be the first time in their lives they would travel more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from their place of birth. On their way out of town, it became evident that others had the same idea of leaving, as they saw other vehicles loaded with belongings headed east like they were. There would still be about 480 kilometers (300 miles) of driving through neighboring Cuando-Cubango Province before they would reach the Zambian border.
For much of the family, this was quite an experience in itself to have traveled so far from the place where they were born and had called home.
Traveling accommodations were a bit crowded because of personal belongings that were also packed inside the cars.
The only place in Moze and Leia's Opal wagon for their daughter to sit was on Mom's lap...There was stuff also on the front seat.
Najja's truck was so loaded, there was also stuff packed on the passenger's seat and on the passenger's side floorboard.
Bron and Lacara's wagon was packed so full of stuff, Cheesah had to ride on the front seat squeezed in between Mom and Dad...and a 1954 Rekord Olympia is not a very wide car.
Zhang, Annika and her sister Abina was also riding with a car full of belongings.
So was Banga and Murua's car full of stuff.
And Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 was packed full as well.
Two of the station wagons in the convoy had roof racks, and they were loaded with everything that can be loaded on them.
There was to be yet another family group traveling with their vehicles loaded the same way, including relatives from Yousaf and Leia's families. They would be making the trip a day behind.
After hours of driving, the Meerkats didn't have many kilometers left to travel before reaching the border into Zambia. At this point in their journey, the road out of Angola had become incredibly crowded. They've never seen this many vehicles on the highways before: cars, trucks, vans, buses, bicycles, taxi scooters and even a few wagons drawn by non-antrho beasts of burden. Animals of about every species the family knew of were in that exodus on the way out of the country. And the dust was terrible as the highway leaving Angola, like many others, was a dirt and gravel roadway. As the meerkat family's convoy of cars neared the eastern border, heading out of Angola, they noticed the side of the highway going east out of country was crowded with the exodus of fleeing vehicles, including their own. And at times, they would see vehicles on the shoulder of the highway that had broken down. The side of the highway coming in from the east, going back west into Angola, didn't have a single vehicle on it. After a while, the meerkat families finally made it to the Zambian border, and at least getting out of Angola was a welcome sight. They've now gotten that far. The eastbound side of the highway was backed up with so many vehicles leaving the country, a hyena and a cheetah at the check point, going into the next country, just waved them on through as long as a vehicle didn't look suspicious to them.
This was the Meerkat Family's first time out of the country, except for Annika's brother, Najja, who had before made deliveries for customers in and out of Namibia with his truck. Once in Zambia, they found out that driving in that country was done on the left side of the road, unlike in Angola where traffic travels on the right, which did take some getting use to. The highway past the Zambian border was a better roadway than the dirt and gravel road back in Angola. At least it was substandard asphalt paved, although unmarked, barely wider than one lane and with occasional potholes anyone driving on it would have to watch out for. It was a very good road compared to the dirt, rocky and mud roads the meerkats have known all their lives.
Chapter 10 The Road Trip.
As the family continued on their way east, there were fewer vehicles on the road with them due to many refugees traveling off to different destinations. Many of those fleeing Angola either had different destinations to other countries within Africa, or to different sea ports to board different ships to different continents.
At the end of each day, the family would keep their cars going through the night. During the trip, they would take turns driving while others slept along the way so they could keep going until they reached Port of Beria.
Yousaf and Nafula's Renault was always the last car. This was because it and Mose and Leia's Opal were the only two cars that had properly working taillights.
Najja's truck had only one taillight with no brake light.
The left taillight on Bron and Lacara's car had a wiring problem, leaving only the right taillight with a broken lens working.
Banga and Murua's car had either a bad light switch or bad ground where the taillights would stay lit only half the time.
And the taillights on Annika's Moskvitch never had worked during the years she has owned the car.
Mose and Leia's car had to be the lead car because of a problem with the brakes, so that left the Renault being the tail car.
And even at that, the lights on Yousaf and Nafua's Renault were turned on and off by attaching a wire with an alligator clamp to the hot lead of the battery...They had to open the hood each time to turn the lights on and off.
During the 2nd day of the road trip, on the way through Zambia, the meerkat families stopped at a few banks along the way and tried to exchange their Angolan currency for Indian currency, or for any country's currency that will still be accepted for exchange in the event Angola was taken over. But none of the banks would exchange it. It was beginning to look as though the family was not going to be able dump the currency everyone knew was becoming worthless.
At one bank, a genet teller got her manager, a serval, to see what he can do for them.
"I'm really sorry", the serval told them. "No financial institution in their right mind will accept Angolan currency with that country about to collapse".
Some of the family members explained their situation to the serval, and expressed concerns about arriving to a new country, being broke.
The serval told them, "Here's what I can do. We don't have Indian currency. But I can exchange to you Zambian currency, allowing 20% of what your Angolan currency is now worth. It's the best I can do. Any bank in India will exchange our currency. I'll just dump off the Angolan currency into an investment, but I'm still taking a financial risk".
"We're really going to take a big loss on that deal", Zhang noted.
"Son, it's all we got", replied Bron. "Part of something is better than all of nothing".
So it was decided by the meerkats to take the serval up on his offer. Zhang, Annika and their families would not be going to India rich. But at least they would not be broke.
Bron, being poor all his life like the rest of the family, never owned a motor vehicle before the Rekord wagon his mother-in-law gave to him and his wife. But the 51 years of wear on the car became obvious while still coming through Zambia, about an hour's drive before they got to the Zimbabwean border. The engine in that old, beat up Rekord station wagon developed a sharp clacking sound.
Cheesah, who was sitting on the front seat, squeezed in between his parents, asked, "Esse barulho vindo de o boter. What is it?" (That noise coming from the car. What is it?).
"A connecting rod bearing in the engine. I think it's gone out, Son", Bron told Cheesah as he flashed the headlights to get Najja's attention to pull his truck over and stop.
"Bron, voce certeza?" (Bron, are you sure?), Lacara asked, hoping Bron was wrong.
"Estou certeza. Soa como uma haste" (I am sure. Sounds like a rod), Bron replied as he prepared to pull the car off the road behind Najja's truck.
As Najja pulled over, he flashed his lights for Moze, who was driving the lead car with his wife Leia and daughter Dora, to pull over. Then the other three remaining cars with Zhang, Annika, Abina, Banga, Murua, Nafula and Yousaf pulled over to the shoulder of the road behind Bron and Lacara's car.
"Qual e o problema?, Banga asked Bron as he walked up to Bron's car, still idling and engine clacking. "Oh nao. That don't sound good".
"Sounds like a connecting rod. I think it's getting ready to go. .", said Bron as other family members came walking up.
"Bron, If seu boter doesn't make it, Lacara, Cheesah, and you can ride with us", Banga offered. "It might be a little crowded".
"At least seu boter does have a back seat", Lacara jokingly said to Banga as others laughed.
"Cheesah could ride with Annika, Abina and I", Zhang said as Annika nodded in agreement.
"I could make room on my flat bed for your belongings", Annika's younger brother, Najja, told Bron. The truck was already pretty well loaded. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ajn6sZmvTWw .
"Well, let's see how far este velho boter will make it", said Bron.
It was decided to let Bron drive up ahead of Moze and Leia's car, so if his car had anymore trouble, the others would know to stop. Moze and Liea's Opal wagon was to follow behind Bron and Lacara's car, but maintaining a good distance because of a bad master cylinder that required pumping the brakes to get the car stopped.
Everyone got back into their vehicles and continued their journey.
As the family drove on, the clacking in Bron's station wagon got progressively louder.
"How far will it go, Dad", Cheesah asked Bron.
"Nao Eu sabe, Son. There's no way to tell", Bron answered. "It can go anytime. And I've seen them run for months that way".
About a half an hour later, the meerkats got the answer to Cheesah's question of how far will it go. That's when the rapid clacking gave way to a loud "BOOMP". The rear wheels locked up (rear wheel drive). Bron pressed the clutch petal, disengaging the rest of the drive train from the locked up engine and allowing the rear wheels to turn again. The meerkats in the the other vehicles could see steam coming from Bron's car, and knew to pull over. Bron's car had finally quit running.
"Para este boter. O fim da estrada" (For this car. The end of the road) Bron said as the car coasted to a stop off the side of the road.
When Bron got out and raised the hood of his car, he could clearly see a connecting rod driven out through the side of the engine, and steam and coolant blowing out.
"Looks like it's gone it's last kilometer, Dad", said Zhang after he walked up and had a look at the engine.
"Nao Eu posso queixar. Tem sido um boter bom" (I can't complain, Son. It's been a good car), Bron told Zhang. "I just wish it had not picked now. Nao a time like this to quit on me".
"A good boter it has been", Lacara added. "Tres geracoes, it has been with our family" (three generations...).
The arrangements that were discussed earlier, when Bron's car was first showing signs of trouble, were carried through with. And a note was put on the car to let the grand parents and parent's siblings know every thing was OK. They were traveling in a different group, about half a day behind, and everyone knew they would recognize Bron's car and be concerned. Along with transferring belongings from Bron's car, they also collected the gasoline from the fuel tank for the other vehicles. They had nothing for a siphon hose, so a hole was made in the bottom of the tank with a hammer and a screwdriver (metal tank), then wallowing the hole out bigger with the screwdriver. Then a beat up, old gas can that Najja had in his truck was placed under to catch the stream of gasoline. When the can would fill up, a rag was held tightly on the hole while the can was being emptied into other vehicles.
"Pai. Leia e Eu tenho um pode agua com um bico" (Dad. Leia and I have a water can with a spout), Moze called out to Bron as Leia held the can up so Bron could see it.
"Traze lo aqui" (Bring it here), said Bron.
Both cans were alternately placed back under the tank of Bron's disabled car and the process was repeated until the tank had emptied out. A moment was also taken to collect the marker light bulbs and headlights to change out on the other 6 volt vehicles that needed them. Being that their vehicles had the old style, round, sealed beam, glass headlights, they were interchangeable.
And the battery in Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 had not been holding a charge very well lately. That became more so obvious when Yousaf couldn't get the car to crank anymore. When Yousaf turned the key, the solenoid would make a rapid clicking sound.
"Being that my boter nao runs anymore, the battery we can put in seu boter", Bron offered to Yousaf.
"My boter. It has a seis volt system", Yousaf mentioned. "Obrigato a mesmo" (Thank you the same).
"My Rekord is seis volt also", Bron replied, that being a sigh of relief to Yousaf and Nafula.
Fortunately, the electrical system in Bron and Lacara's disabled Rekord wagon was a 6 volt system like in Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4, so the batteries were able to be swapped out. They had to set the battery from the Rekord so it sat crooked in the Renault in order to get one of the cables to reach, but once the battery was changed out, Yousaf and Nafula's car was able to start.
The last of the belongings in Bron's car were loaded onto Najja's, already loaded, 1962 Thames K series flatbed, and some belongings into Moze and Leia's car, with 5 year old daughter, Dora, riding on Mom's lap. Their Opel station wagon didn't have room to take on any more luggage.
After everything was tended to, Cheesah wanted to see the blown engine in his dad's car. Thirteen year olds have a way of being curious.
"We don't have time for that, Cheesah", Bron told him. "Get over there with your brother and Annika. You're riding with them".
"Cheesah! Anda SO." (Cheesah. Come on-SO), Zhang called with Angolan dialect emphasis 'SO' to his younger brother, motioning him over with his paw. "Get over here."
Cheesah got in with with Zhang and Annka. And Bron and Lacara got in with Annika's parents, Banga and Murua. Annika's sister Abina, got in with Zhang and Annika to make room in her parent's car for Bron and Lacara.
Just before they got back on their way, Annika's oldest sister Nafula and her husband Yousaf, asked everyone to travel at a slower pace, because they've also been having problems for the past 30 kilometers with their Renault trying to overheat http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPoID2GWopM .
The meerkats continued their journey, on their way to Port of Beira, abandoning Bron's old station wagon on the shoulder of the highway. A note for the other group of relatives had been placed on the windshield, and the old battery from Moze and Liea's car was left on the passenger's side floor board. The key to the doors, and the screw driver used to turn the ignition switch was left on the dash. And the title was placed on the driver's seat with Bron and Lacara's signature signing the car off to whoever wants an old, beat up, 1954, Rekord Olympia station wagon with a blown engine.
Moze and Liea's Opal wagon was always the lead car because of the problem it had of having to pump the brakes to stop the car. The meerkats figured a car with bad brakes shouldn't be behind the other vehicles. The next vehicle to follow was Najja's old Thames truck http://youtube.com/watch?v=wunPE65r3dE , then Annika's 1967 Moskvitch http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjA5bxm1dng , then followed by Banga and Murua's 1972 Toyota Mark II Wagon with the vibration in the front wheel, and the last vehicle, Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 which had developed an engine temperature issue http://youtube.com/watch?v=ng6qJEiTkqw .
As the journey continued, Bron and Lacara noticed that Banga and Murua's car wasn't doing much better. http://youtube.com/watch?v=IxLlfSGZzl8 . The clutch was showing signs of wear, there was an intermittent vibration from one of the front wheels.
"Your car. I hope it holds up better than mine did", Bron said to Banga.
"Well, the clutch slips a bit. That's been going on three months", said Banga. "But it's the wheel. I'm worried about THAT. It only started since we began this trip. And it's gotten worse".
In other parts of the world, those old cars the meerkats were driving would be valuable to antique car collectors. But where they had come from in Southern Angola, they were just old, beat up cars that had been around almost forever, and far from being in pristine condition.
A part of the Meerkat Family's road trip to Port of Beira took them through a Northern part of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), and through some mountainous terrain. Like in Zambia, traffic there also travels on the left side of the road. From there on, their trip went pretty much without vehicles breaking down. And by this time, they were driving on roads, such as Route A3 toward Mutare, that were far better than the roads they knew back in Angola, which were dirt, and what few that were paved were full of pot holes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E1dKQCPY6Ok
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dfBjbpRGR_U
These were well built asphalt roads, smooth and with no potholes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zL6Atzgnquo
Although the roads had no pavement markings, they were plenty wide enough for vehicles to navigate with lots of room...except for on the bridges. When the meerkats arrived into the city of Mutare, they were impressed with how much more modern and beautiful it is than the poverty plagued towns and villages they knew back in their old homeland. And it wasn't very far before they would be crossing the border into Mozambique.
While in Mutare, the meerkats stopped at a petrol station and fueled up their vehicles. As the rest of the meerlats were fueling their vehicles, Bron had noticed that Moze had the hood up on his car a lot longer than it would take to check the oil.
"Is everything OK, Son?", Bron asked as he noticed Moze was tending to something with cap off the car's distributor.
"It will be, Dad", Moze answered as he was rubbing a small piece of emery cloth between the points. "It's these old points. Trying to get more life out of them. They should have been replaced a long time ago".
"We did hear your boter backfire a few times. It was as we slowed down to pull in here", Bron added as Cheesah came over to check it out.
"This time, it looks like I'll have to re-adjust the dwell. I'll need something for a feeler gauge", said Moze.
"Cheesah, go to the attendant. Ask for a book of matches", Bron told his youngest son.
"Uma pacote de fosforos? (A packet of matches?)", Cheesah questioned.
"Just do as I'm telling you. You'll learn something in a few minutes", Bron told him. "Ir busca la SO. Ir, ir."(Go get it-SO. Go, go).
So Cheesah went and got the matches as he was told, and after a minute, came back and pawed the matchbook over to his dad.
"This is the universal feeler gauge", Moze told younger brother Cheesah as Bron pawed them over to Moze.
As Moze adjusted the dwell with an allen wrench from his tool box, and with the matchbook cover as a feeler gauge, Bron and Moze explained the procedure to Cheesah.
Before long, Moze had everything put back together and ready to go. Moze didn't do anything with the timing. The meerkats have always timed their cars by ear anyway. If it was close, it was good enough to drive down the road.
There was also the matter of the left tie rod end on Annika's Moskvitch being held together with bailing wire. Due to the many kilometers of driving since they left Angola, Annika had Zhang check it for her, and so far it had been holding together OK.
As the family went in to get some things to eat along the way, Cheesah was still amazed by the electric lights he had been noticing in the buildings they stopped at along their journey. Although Bron, Lacara, the grandparents and some of Annika's family had seen electric lights in the more developed parts of their old homeland, the rest of the family members had never seen them in buildings until they began the trip. What little bit of lighting that worked on their motor vehicles was the only electric lighting most of them had been familiar with. Zhang had seen electrical service in the metal fabrication shop where he got his apprentice training. And he had used power tools and equipment and worked by electric lighting. But the shop had their own industrial size generator to run large machinery with. And a 220 volt, 50 cycle, step down transformer was also wired to the generator for paw held power tools. All of which was powered up by a large, twin cylinder, double stroke, steam engine that had one of those old type, riveted boilers with a wood burning fire box. However, Zhang's younger brother Cheesah had never known that electrical service or electric lights even existed in buildings. Where the family was from in the Cunene Province of Angola, a power grid did not exist. It had always been sunlight by day, and coal oil lamps, candles or moonlight by night, except for motor vehicle lights and onsite generated power for industrial purposes.
Once the meerkats were on their way again, it wasn't long before they got onto the Beira Road just out of Mutare, which took them onto Route EN6 into Mozambique. Like it was, traveling through Zambia and Zimbabwe, they were to continue driving on the left side of the highway, which had been proving difficult because that put the driver's side of their vehicles away from the center of the road, with the exception of Najja's old Thames flat bed. It was built with the driver's side on the right. Now, most of their road trip was behind them. That part of Mozambique is not very far of a drive between it's west border and Port of Beira. The meerkats were happy to find that Route EN6 going through Mozambique was also a well built road like A3 and the Beira Road were, when they came through Zimbabwe. Some time later, the asphalt pavement left off where concrete highway began. Although the concrete portion of the road was one of the country's older stretches of highway that had occasional patch repairs now and then, it was still fairly smooth, and decent to drive on. It was originally built to the old 3rd world country standards, barely wide enough for two lanes with no markings on it, and no place to pull off except into knee high weeds and jungle growth. Palm trees leaning over the highway from the groves and jungle cast shadows of their palm fronds down onto the concrete surface making the highway appear to have palm frond pattern all over it. And the sound of driving over the expansion joints making that steady rapid "clip clop clip clop clip clop" rhythm, that in combination with the rickety hum of the four cylinder engines their old, ragged cars were equipped with, was soothing to those who were not driving to fall asleep by.
A few hours before sunset, local thunderstorms began moving through. There was a really big storm the family drove right into, with lots of rain, hard winds and lightning, and some of the lightning striking pretty close.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RsucJ5NA5m4 .
Najja's truck didn't have windshield wipers, so everyone had to pull off onto the shoulder the highway in a spot near those knee high weeds and stop for a couple of hours until the storm passed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiAdq26XOqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXG9Lws_-4
Because of the amount of time Annika's car was turned off waiting out the storm, the engine would have to warm up again before they could continue on their way. Ever since Annika owned her ragged, old, 1967 Moskvitch, the choke plate had been missing off of the carburetor. A small piece of cardboard was always kept in the glove compartment to use as a temporary choke. After the storm had left, Zhang had to raise the hood and take the top off the air filter housing, and hold that piece of cardboard over the throat of the carburetor while Annika idled the engine until it warmed up. ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=2_vd70JwbyE shows a rickety sounding 1968 Moskvich engine idling. Annika's car doesn't look as nice as the one in the video though.) Once the engine was able to run without the cardboard being held over the carburetor, Zhang put the air filter housing back together, closed the hood, got back into the car, put the piece of cardboard back into the glove compartment, and everyone continued on their way.
Shortly after nightfall, as Annika was driving, Zhang had gotten the radio in her old car to work. Sometimes the radio would play, and sometimes it would not. Annika's car, being older than both Zhang and Anika, had a radio from a different car that was one of those old push button kind. When Zhang tuned it onto a beautiful Angolan folk song
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vS_SSXB5yks ,
Annika asked him to leave it tuned there, but reminded him not to turn the volume to high because Cheesah and Abina were asleep on the back seat.
"It's one of my favorite songs. Back in the homeland, we use to listen to it", said Annika. "But I know it can't be coming from Angola".
"We're to far away to pick up a signal from Angola by now", replied Zhang. "Besides that, in Angola, there may not be anymore radio stations left. Those that are, would still conducting emergency broadcasting tonight".
"Those who did not make it out of the country. I really feel for them", Annika added.
As the song played, Zhang and Annika thought about how peaceful it was, the family riding through the warm night in those old vehicles of theirs with the windows down, averaging about 70 kph (45 mph) on that old, narrow, concrete highway that was still wet from freshly fallen rain along some stretches, as they saw the night sky occasionally being lit up by distant thunderstorms, with the car radio making a short crackle from the static of each distant lightning strike. Quite a contrast from what they knew had to be going on back in Angola.
Zhang and Annika heard Cheesah's voice from the back seat, so Zhang looked back to check on his younger brother when he said in his sleep, "Mmph. Eu quero foda voce. Amo-te".
Annika's sister, Abina, was awaken by what Cheesah had said and thought it was she, Cheesah was laying the love lines on, until she noticed he was still asleep. Zhang and Abina noticed Cheesah, was evidently having one of those sexy dreams. That was obvious by Cheesah's penis poking all the way out of his sheath, erect and occasionally bobbing upward then dropping back down again.
"Hey, Cheesah", Zhang, almost laughing, called to his brother as Abina chuckled, "In that dream of yours. Who you having sex with?".
Cheesah responded, while still half asleep, with, "Uhm...Sim...Hmmm", then dozed back off to sleep to the song on the car radio and to the rhythm of the car traveling over the highway expansion joints.
"I thought the love he wanted to make, he wanted to make to ME", Abina said with a smile, then observed as she giggled, "Ooo! Cheesah piu-piu pequeno esta pulando novamente! (Ooo! Cheesah's little pee-pee is hopping up again!)".
"I can well imagine Cheesah's dream. Must be a GOOD one", Zhang laughed.
Annika turned the interior light on and took her eyes off the road only long enough to glance back at her young brother in law.
"Aww, let him sleep, Zhang", Annika said with a chuckle. "I know it must be a really sweet dream he's having".
"I guess you're right", Zhang agreed with his wife as they both smiled to each other. After all, no one was really concerned about Cheesah having a wet dream all over the back seat of Annika's car and on Abina. At age 13, Cheesah was a couple of years away from that yet.
"Mmm, your brother's sex scent. It is strong", Annika said to Zhang as Cheesah's smegma had put an odor in the car, smelling like popcorn butter and epoxy.
"Cheesah's little xixi menino, among us four brothers. His scent has always been the strongest", Zhang replied with a smile as he rolled the window on his side the rest of the way down.
"Moze, Jorad and I use to tease Cheesah about that. We had a nickname for him.", Zhang told Annika.
"That is?", Annika asked as she rolled her window down more.
Zhang whispered in Annika's ear, "Cheesah esta besta de pipoca", as Annika lit up with a smile.
"Aw, that's cute", Annika said, then giggled. "I bet he did not like it".
"Oh, he would get mad at us for it", Zhang replied.
"What did they call him?", Abina asked her sister.
"I'll wait and tell you later. When we leave the car", Annika answered Abina. "So Cheesah don't wake up and hear it".
"Good idea", Zhang added.
In English, that nickname is, "Cheesah this popcorn beast"...or, "Cheesah this beast of popcorn" (genital smell of meerkats).
Zhang and Annika continued to watch the distant thunderstorms light up the night sky, with the radio picking up the lightning static, as they continued riding along that long stretch of old concrete highway. The other family member's vehicles were also holding up so far without any more mechanical problems. Then Zhang began to doze off to sleep, to a another Angolan folk song on the car radio.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8orzq4lDTPo
The Mozambique radio station they were within signal range of seemed to have been playing a lot of Angolan songs that night. The old car being equipped with a column mounted gear shift and a front bench seat made it easy for Zhang to cuddle up beside Annika with no console or floor mounted lever in the way. As Zhang finally fell asleep and laid his head on Annika's side, Annika then put a paw around her husband and continued driving with the other paw on the steering wheel.
There was yet one more issue with the vehicles to take place before the road trip portion of the journey was to be completed.
It was still in the predawn hours, with about an hour's drive before they were to reach Port of Beira. Zhang had by then taken over driving so Annika could get some sleep. The next vehicle ahead of Annika's car was Najja's truck, which Bron was driving so Najja could get some sleep riding with Banga, Murura and Lacara.
Suddenly, there was the loud noise of an unmuffled four cylinder engine from Moze and Liea's car, which was the lead car in the group. Najja's truck swerved to the right side of the highway (the oncoming lane in Mozambique), then Zhang saw a muffler tumbling down the highway, making a spread of sparks in the night each time it hit the pavement. Zhang was barely able to swerve to miss it with the car's tires squealing.
"What is it, Zhang?!", Annika said as she was awakened.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?!, Cheesah exclaimed as he awoke.
Abina immediately looked out the back window as she awakened and saw the muffler get knocked into the weeds off of the bumper of Banga's car.
"DAD HIT SOMETHING!" Abina exclaimed as Annika looked back to see what was happening.
"It's the muffler from Moze's car. His car just lost it's muffler.", Zhang said as everyone could hear the loud engine noise emitting from Moze and Liea's Opal station wagon up ahead.
When Yousaf and Nafula rode past in their Renault, the muffler had already come to rest in the weeds off of the highway.
The family pulled over and stopped long enough to see if everyone was OK, and swapped their experiences of the incident. Besides mentioning how fortunate it was no one got hurt, Moze bought up the point that it was good it wasn't another car that quit running...Especially that Banga's car has a vibrating wheel, and Yousaf's car has been running hot.
Banga admitted he was about to fall asleep at the wheel, and it was striking the muffler with his car that got him wide awake.
In spite of how tired Banga was, he was going to continue to drive. But with some pleading from his offspring, Nafula, Abina, Annika and Najja, and from his wife Murura, as well as from Najja and Lacara who were riding with him, he decided to let Murua take over driving before continuing on their way.
Needless to say, for the rest of the way to Port of Beira, Moze and Liea's Opal wagon was the loudest car in the group, sounding off like and old World War I bi-wing airplane as it went down the road.
Chapter 11. Arrival into Port of Beira
After days on the road, it was shortly after dawn when the Meerkat Families arrived to Port of Beira, Yousaf and Nafula's Renault 4 barely made it with it's sewing machine like sounding engine running hot, and it's radiator beginning to boil over. Moze and Liea's car came through town sounding off without a muffler, giving the locals an early wake up call that they didn't care for. And that vibration in the front wheel of Banga's Toyota wagon had by now became consistent and had gotten worse.
With the directions the meerkats had, they were able to find the Sea Port OK, as well as where they were to meet up with Yannas Fossa.
"Trenger du hjalp?"(do you need help?), a small black bear asked as he approached the meerkats on the dock.
"Nos nao falamos sua lingua" (we do not speak your language), Lacara replied.
"Jeg kan ikke forsta du" (I can not understand you), said the bear.
"Nos falamos Portugues. And we speak English", Bron, shrugging his shoulders, told the bear.
"Oh. I am Norwegian. But I can also speak English", said the bear. "I had asked if you needed assistance".
"We sure do", said Bron. "We're suppose to meet Captain Yannas Fossa. He is at this sea port, we are told.
"Star of Antananarivo. Yannas Fossa", the bear affirmed with a smile.
"I am Audin Bear", the bear then introduced himself to the meerkats.
After the meerkats introduced themselves to Audin Bear, Bron told him, "I take it you know Captain Fossa".
"EVERYONE knows him. He is quite a character, but you'll like him", Audin told the meerkats.
"His freighter is moored not far from here". Audin continued as he gave further directions where to find Yannas Fossa's freighter, the Star of Antananarivo.
"Well, I have to return to my ship", Audin Bear told the meerkats as they thanked him for the information.
Once the meerkats further inquired around for Yannas Fossa, it was obvious that just about everyone knew him, as Audin Bear had told them. The meerkats could see that Captian Yannas Fossa had quite a reputation with shore workers and seafarers. It seemed that everyone they asked, including a mongoose shore worker they talked with for a while, told them, if you are on Yannas Fossa's bad side, he's your worst night mare. But if you are on his good side, he's your best friend, and will do just about anything for you.
Cheesah, forgetting the language difference, told the mongoose, in Portuguese, about how he will try to stay on Yannis's good side.
"I don't speak Portuguese", The mongoose replied, recognizing what language it was.
"Oh, sorry. I sometimes forget", said Cheesah. "I think I'll try to stay on his good side".
"That must be Yannas coming this way now", Moze told the families, as he pointed out a fairly well built, male fossa who was approaching them.
"He's one of Yannis's crew", the mongoose told them as he headed back to his work area.
The fossa overheard Moze Meerkat. " I'm not Yannas. I'm Joel Fossa", he said introducing himself. "I'm first mate on Yannas Fossa's crew...And I take it you all are the refugees from Angola we are to take to India?"
"Yes we are", Bron answered. "We also have others. By morning, they should be here".
"Your captain. We heard a lot about him since we arrived here", Annika added.
"He's a very likable Fossa", Joel replied. "Provided you're honest with him, and don't try to take advantage of him".
As Joel Fossa took the meerkats to see Captain Yannas, the families told of their road trip and how their country of Angola had become politically unstable, and of the paramilitary invasion going on there.
"We've been hearing about that", said Joel. "I'm glad you were all able to get out when you did".
"Believe me. You're not the only one who is glad of that", replied Banga.
"Well, there it is", said Joel. "Star of Antananarivo. That's our vessel."
There, was moored an old freighter, that looked like it had seen some years and a lot of sea voyages. But it appeared to be well kept up. It had a good coat of paint of black, white and red hull with white upper structure, and was in fairly immaculate condition for and aged old sea going vessel. It was one of the old kind still left in service that hauled large machinery and other cargo in wooden crates down in it's hull...unlike the kind that are built now days to carry everything in modern cargo containers.
Joel pointed out the Indian flag on the freighter's stern. "She use to be registered in Madagascar. Hence why she's named after Madagascar's capitol city." said Joel. "Two years ago, the ship's corporate owners had our ship operate out of India, and registered it as an Indian Vessel."
"Why would they do that?", Cheesah asked out of a thirteen year old's curiosity.
"Corporate?...Who can figure them?", Joel replied. "We had an all fossa crew until then. The best crew this ship's ever had. Captain Yannas and his family, and I, took up residence in India to keep our jobs aboard the Star of Antananarivo".
"I take it your old crew did not", said Moze.
"They chose to stay in Madagascar and look for different jobs", Joel answered. "The rest of our crew we now have are native resident of India who hired on after the registration change. At times, Yannas and I have to get after some of them for one thing or another".
As everyone climbed up the gangway to the deck of the freighter, a feeling of excitement mounted. Although the meerkats have been in small river vessels before back in Angola, this was their first time aboard a large, sea going vessel.
"You must be the refugees", a large, burly built, male fossa called out as he greeted the meerkats out on the deck. "I'm Yannas Fossa".
Then the meerkats introduced themselves, and Yannas and Joel introduced the meerkats to the rest of the crew.
"THERE is a crew member for you. You can be friends with him on the way over", Lacara said to Cheesah as she pointed out a young fossa about Cheesah's age, and as some of the crew chuckled.
"Oh, he's not a crew member", Yannas said to Lacara. "He's one of my sons, Habbar. He wanted to come along with me on a voyage".
Then Yannas invited everyone to the ship's galley where everyone got better acquainted. Yannas had some food ordered up, and got out couple of cases of beer for who ever wanted some.
"We enjoy a drink now and then while at port", said Yannas Fossa. "But when we're out at sea, this stuff stays locked up".
The meerkats had stories to tell of their road trip, Angola's national troubles, and of the war with the northern provinces ten years earlier. Yannas and Joel had stories to tell of their experiences out at sea, and ports they've been to around the world. Yannas Fossa had some to say about how the corporate owners of the ship never been aboard a sea going vessel in their lives, and how they know nothing about navigating one.
"Those corporate know-it-alls would get lost on a pond in a row boat", said Yannas.
Moze, Zhang and Yannas had a lot in common, being the tough types. And Yannas, like Bron's sons and family, also came from a dirt poor family where he had a hard life growing up near Toamasina, in Madagascar. Zhang, Moze and Yannas had lots to talk about. They were about like drinking buddies from the get go. However, it didn't take much beer to get Yannas and his crew, or the meerkats in a festive mood. It was seldom any of them drank alchol beverages. That was because the captain and crew of the Star of Antananarivo never had alchol while out at sea...a rule Captain Yannas Fossa strictly enforced. And because the meerkats had always been so poor, back in Angola they seldom had enough money to spare for things like alchol beverages.
After they had a couple of drinks, Yannas would occasionally say something in Malagasy or French, and a merkats would remind him, "We don't speak French", or just simply say, "Nao compreendo". And a meerkat would occasionally tell Yannis something in Portuguese, and Yannas would reply, "I don't speak Portuguese" or "Tsy azoko". But they all did speak English.
It was a festive atmosphere as they were playing some Malagasy folklore music from some CDs that Yannis Fossa had aboard the ship.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7rVLPBqCH3w -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6L7u3pvqXaE to mention just a couple.
Some of the tables and chairs were moved aside to make an improvised dance floor, and everyone had a good time. Zhang and Annika danced to some slower songs Yannas had chose for them, out of concern for the unborn cub Annika was pregnant with.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ajlVbrqjbx8 -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ejQik8Uer3U -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mlG87ZE06BU -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AIhNGxODaTA .
Habbar Fossa, Yannas' son, got out a checker board, and he and Cheesah enjoyed several games of checkers.
A few photos were taken of the occasion such as of Zhang, Moze and Yannas. And of Cheesah and Habbar standing side by side with paws around each others shoulders, and various candid shots of the others...with Yannas Fossa's camera. The meerkats never owned a camera, so Yannas did promise to later send the meerkats some prints.
It was getting late in the day, so the rest of the day was spent with Yannas Fossa giving the meerkats a tour of the ship.
Late in the evening, it came time to discuss business. Captain Yannas Fossa informed everyone that the Star of Antananarivo was to set out to sea for India the morning after tomorrow. That would allow plenty of time to get the meerkat's vehicles loaded aboard the following day, and for the rest of the relatives to arrive in a few hours. Yannas also mentioned, that in the morning, he'll assign jobs that the able bodied males will have while on the way to India, and on the way there, there will be a stop in Madagascar. Then the meerkats were shown their sleeping quarters, and a place to bath. It had been the first time they've had a bath and slept in a decent bed since they've left Angola. They've been sleeping in their cars while others took turns driving on the way over.
At about 5:30 in the morning, other vehicles were arriving. It was the rest of the family members. Those were the siblings and surviving parents of Banga, Murua, Bron and Lacara, as well as Yousaf and Leia's relatives. The rest of the family got out of bed and went out to greet them, and the arriving family members were introduced to Yannas Fossa and crew.
"That's what I call a big crew", First mate Joel Fossa said as he noticed how many meerkat family members had just arrived.
"Well. We have a full house sailing with us now", Captain Yannas Fossa laughed.
Lacara's mom, Mylah, told her son-in-law, Bron, how worried everyone was when they saw Bron's abandoned station wagon on the roadside in Zambia, until they got out and read the note on the car explaining everything. Mylah added that she was so happy that everyone was OK.
"That old, one ton truck of yours. I thought you were going to drive it here", Bron told his brother-in-law, Amos.
"I started the trip with it", said Amos. "We lost it on the way. About 300 kilometers before we saw your car. One of the axle shafts came out of the rear end. It's sitting on three wheels as we speak. On the side of the road, back there in Zambia".
"We thought a tire would go flat on us", Yousaf's mom, Zoe, mentioned as Yousaf's dad, Oswald, pointed to the right front tire on their Opal Kapitan, which had a strip of rubber hanging from it.
"Just as we got into town, it started slapping the road, Oswald said.
"We should be thankful though. These old vehicles we still have. They did make it here.", said Banga.
"That reminds me," Yousaf added. "About one of the tie rod ends on my car. It needs to be rewired back together. But for now, I have to get this running hot problem fixed".
"A wired tie rod end. You car too?", Zhang replied to Yousaf.
"I have one like it on MY car. It's the same way", Annika added as Zhang and Yousaf chuckled.
"Stay on top of that you should. Never let a tie rod fall apart on you", Oswald reminded them.
"Yannas", Joel called to him.
"What is it?", Yannas asked.
"I hope those meerkats find a better way of life in India than they had in Angola", said Joel.
"I hope so too, Joel", replied Yannas. "I hope so".
Chapter 12 The Voyage
At dawn, everyone had a good breakfast, then Yannas Fossa assigned the males their work assignments for the duration of the trip. Part of Cheesah's area of responsibility was cleaning the restrooms. He didn't like it, but someone has to do it. Some of the females shared in kitchen work and other domestic type work. And Yannas reminded his son, Habbar, to get some of his school work done that day. Being that Yannis's sons like to come along aboard the ship at times, Yannis's cubs are home schooled.
At about noon, Yannas Fossa set some time aside to get the Meerkat's vehicles loaded into the deck of the freighter. A car was driven into a cage like structure, then lifted onto the ship with one of it's cranes. The car was then driven onto the deck. Then the same was done for the next vehicle. When Banga began to drive his vehicle over to the ship, the car lost one of it's front wheels. Banga's car slid to a stop on it's three remaining wheels, and dragging on a front spindle and control arm where the wheel came off. As Banga was sitting in the driver's seat, saying, "Perdeu uma roda! Uma porcaria! (Lost a wheel! Crap!)", the wheel rolled off the edge of the dock and, "SPLASH", in into the water.
"That's another vehicle on three wheels", said Amos Meerkat.
"The vibration in the wheel on the way here. I think that's what it was all about", Bron said to Banga.
"Blown wheel bearings", said Banga. "I'm irritated over it. But at least the car got us here".
"I just thank God it fell off HERE. And not while we were coming down the road", Murua added.
It was decided that Banga Meerkat's car, being that it also had a slipping transmission, wasn't worth taking along. So it was left for Port Authority to dispose of it how they saw fit. Yannas Fossa arranged for a wood shipping crate for the contents from Banga's car. It was like pulling whales teeth to get one, but Yannas did manage to get one.
On the following morning, the Star of Antananarivo was pulling out of port.
"For an old ship, it sure runs quiet", said Cheesah.
"We're being pulled out by tug boats right now", replied Cheesah's new found friend, Habbar Fossa. "Our ship isn't running yet. When we get away from everything, then the ship will run on it's own."
Once out in the open water they were on their way. A few of the meerkats, at the ship's stern, looked back to watch the African Continent slip out of sight. Bron came to the stern of the ship and reminded those looking back of the Biblical principal of looking ahead while at the plow.
"We should look ahead, not back", Bron said. "There's a better way of life where we are going".
The Star of Antananarivo made it's stop in Madagascar to deliver infrastructure supplies. The voyage was certainly an experience for the meerkats, and it was the first time they've ever seen Madagascar, although they were not allowed to leave the ship, as their travel arrangements didn't include setting foot in that country. But they did enjoy seeing the country's beauty that could be seen from the deck of the ship.
That evening, while still at port in Madagascar, there were a few times that Cheesah's parents, Bron and Lacara, had to get on to Cheesah for blinking lights on and off aboard the ship. Yannas Fossa, would get after him for it too. But they didn't go hard on him for it. They realized how fascinated Cheesah was with flipping a switch on a wall, and a room would light up, then get dark again.
During the time Cheesah was still blinking lights aboard the Star of Antananarivo, two shore workers, a Malagasy civet and a ring tailed mongoose, would stand on the dock and occasionally notice one of the ship's portholes (a ship's window) lighting up and blinking.
"Someone on that ship keeps blinking lights", the Malagasy civet said to the ring tailed mongoose. "Ever wonder what that's about?"
"I don't know", the mongoose replied to the civet. "I wouldn't think old Captain Yannas Fossa would have hired a crazy on his crew".
"Yea, I wouldn't think so either...THERE IT GOES AGAIN!", said the civet about the time Cheesah blinked another light.
At dawn the following morning, The Star of Antananarivo pulled out of port in Madagascar and continued on it's way to India.
Since the voyage began, the meerkats always noticed a shoulder held missile launcher hanging on a wall in the galley. The meerkats knew what it was because they've seen war in their former homeland of Angola.
One evening, when everyone was sitting down to dinner, Moze Meerkat asked Yannas,"What's the missile launcher for?"
"I'm surprised you knew what it was", Yannas replied.
"We've seen our country war torn before", said Moze. "That's not the first one of those I've seen".
"It's to deal with pirates...", Yannas Fossa answered.
"Ocean robbers?!", Nafula gasped.
"If you prefer to call them that", said Yannas. "Joel and I, and two of my other crew members know how to use it. If we're attacked by pirates, that's what's waiting for them".
"Along with the rest of our arsenal as well", Joel Fossa added.
"We have several assault rifles", said Yannas. "One AA-52, four AK-74s, two Daewoo K-2s, and one Uzi. We also have two sniper rifles, a Serbian made M-92 and a Turkish AMR. The sniper rifles and the missile launcher would be used against their mother ship if we're attacked".
"I just hope we don't run into any ocean robbers...or uh, pirates", said Annika. "After we left Angola, we had our share of adventure".
"And at times, MORE than our share. And while we were still living there too", Zhang added.
"Do you think we'll see any!?" Cheesah asked.
"I've never seen pirates in these waters", Yannas answered. "But if you ever get up around off the coast of Somalia, those waters are infested with Somali pirates. And it seems like the baboon and jackal pirates are the worst out of all of them".
"Somalia is in REAL rough shape. One of the poorest countries in the world. A collapsed banking system. Hardly a central government", said Mose.
"It's sad too", said Bron. "To live that kind of a life of desperation. And we would think WE had it bad".
"The trawlers from rich countries. They have robbed their fishing from them too", Lacara noted.
"We ourselves are no strangers to living in a poor country... And being taken advantage of", said Annika.
"No offense intended, Captain Yannas. And I don't like saying this", Liea added as she felt a bit uneasy about making the comment in the presents of a ship's captain. "But the Somalis seem to be victims their selves. Just like the ships they raid".
Yannas Fossa paused for a moment, then explained, "I myself grew up in hard poverty in rural Madagascar. And like Angola and Somalia, Madagascar isn't exactly a 1st world country either".
Then Yannas continued, "Before I was born, my dad use to pull tourists around in a rickshaw in our nearby town of Toamasina for a living. One day, a drunk tourist wolverine hit my dad with a car, then drove away. My dad's legs were messed up and he was disabled walking with a cane for the rest of his life. I've known what it was as a cub to go hungry, and to be driven by desperation. I've seen the time my dad was caught stealing off of a market vender's table in Toamasina so the family could eat. The vender was an old ring tail mongoose who knew our family. He felt enough compassion for us to give us some food to take home, and didn't have my dad arrested, which was very kind of him. I've known well what hard times were".
Then Yannas motioned his paw toward the missile launcher hanging on the galley wall and continued, "But if we're ever attacked by pirates, my first concern is for the safety of my crew and the safety of any passengers I have aboard this vessel".
As everyone finished eating, they still enjoyed good fellowship and conversation, but it was agreed that the subject about 'those living in 3rd world countries becoming sea pirates out of desperation' was to further be avoided.
Although Yannas Fossa did not share the same pity that the Meerkats had for those anthro-animals who turn rouge out of desperate circumstances, he did consider that life experiences for the Meerkats may have differed some from what he himself had known. Yannas realized a hard way of life can shape how someone feels about situations differently than if they had grown up wealthy. That may have been why Yannas did not come down hard on Liea Meerkat for referring to Somali pirates as 'victims', in spite of the fact that sea pirates are a captain's worse night mare.
Later during the voyage, the half grown cubs, Cheesah Meerkat and Habbar Fossa, experianced a bit of anatomical curiosity about each other, being of different species and design. It was when Cheesah was cleaning the restroom, and Habbar came in to pee. Cheesah noticed Habbar completely unsheath himself back to the base to pee.
"O QUE ACONTECEU, HABBAR!" Cheesah let out, "Your poor little dickie. What happened to it?"
"What are you talking about?" Habbar asked as he continued peeing.
"Eh estranho...uhh...strange looking. Looks like behind the head was wrung...And like it's face pushed flat", Cheesah answered.
Habbar laughed then said to Cheesah, "All us male fossas are built by nature this way".
Cheesah noticed how Habbar's penis, starting from the base, had a long smooth lining, then a divided cluster of barbs, then a short smooth area, then a bulged place behind the head with more barbs, then the diameter going down small at the neck, then the back of the head flairing out like the shape of the end of a trumpet or like a bell, and the front of the head being nearly flat, with the pee opening protruding a little below center.
"Sure looks strange", said Cheesah.
"Not if you're a fossa", replied Habbar as he finished peeing and shook it, with the flair shaped head flopping up and down like a ringing bell. "Other species say we're blessed to have a pee-wee like this", Habbar continued. "When I have time alone, having a pee-wee like this is sure fun to play with".
Trying to find the right words, Cheesah began, "So...the captain...uhh..."
"Captian Yannas Fossa. My dad. He has a pee-wee just like mine, but bigger", said Habbar. "My two brothers, my uncles, my male cousins. All us male fossas are made that way".
"I'll sure say this. Yours is the first fossa dickie I've ever seen out of it's sheath", said Cheesah. "Espantoso".
"Eshun-toozoo?...or what ever you said", Habbar replied.
"Oh. Amazing", said Cheesah, "It's amazing. I've never seen a dickie like it".
"I've never seen one poking out on a meerkat", said Habbar.
"I'll let you see mine. If you want to", Cheesah offered.
"I am curious", said Habbar.
Cheesah placed his paws to each side of his sheath, and with the thumbs and index digits, pressed his sheath back, revealing the full length of his penis, having a moderatly long sulcus, and a head formed into a point with a graceful sweep to it, and with the point extending out past the pee opening, looking like a little pointy nose on it.
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"Oh, I've seen one like that before", said Habbar. "A mongoose friend of mine has a pee-wee that looks a lot like yours...except I recall his pee-wee having a more chubby looking head than yours has".
"Well, MINE is not that chubby", Cheesah replied. "There's some mongooses I know. Two of them do have dickies with chubby heads. One other mongoose I know, his dickie has a long narrow head like mine".
"So like with us fossas then", Habbar replied. "On my dad's pee-wee, where the pee hole is, the point extends out further than mine does and curves down some. And my older brother Haja has a pee-wee with a puffed face and has a big point where it's pee hole is".
Cheesah then volunteered the info, "My brother Zhang's dickie has a head like mine. And the dickie my oldest brother Moze has, actually looks up at the same time it points ahead when it gets hard".
"Look up and point ahead?", Habbar chuckled.
Cheesah explained to Habbar how the head on Moze' penis deflects upward when it gets hard, then added, "And my deceased brother, his dickie had a big plumpie head".
"The sqeezy head kind", Habbar giggled.
"I did squeeze it once when I was a small cub", Cheesah volunteered as he and Habbar laughed.
"I bet your brother was starttled", said Habbar.
"Took him by surprize anyway...He did jump.", Cheesah replied as he and Habbar again laughed..
Habbar mentioned to Cheesah, "For some reason, until now, I've always thought what a pee-wee looked like on you meerkats was completely different from the pee-wee's I've always seen on mongooses".
"I don't see why. Mongooses and us are related species...Herpestidaes, my dad told me", said Cheesah.
"I guess that explains why it looks a lot alike on your kind and on mongooses", said Habbar. "It is a cute design. But do all you male meerkats pee-wees give off such a strong scent? I can really smell it since you poked your pee-wee out to show it to me...It's like popcorn".
"Not all of us. You might say my little dickie is extra blessed. In the...uh...scent department. When he pokes out, he really knows how to make his presents known", Cheesah replied as he and Habbar chuckled.
"One of THOSE kind of pee-wees", Habbar continued chuckling. "A stinky dinky".
"When I was younger, my brothers use to tease me about it. They would call me the popcorn beast", Cheesah told Habbar as they both laughed.
About that time, Yannas Fossa came in to use the restroom.
"Ce qui se passe en enfer ici!? (What in Hell is going on here!?)" Yannas asked with overtones of concern, so startled he spoke his inquiry in French, as he saw his son and Cheesah looking at each other with their penises still extended out.
The first thought that ran through Yannas Fossa's mind was, "Don't tell me I've taken a meerkat cub aboard who is turning my son gay".
Habbar quickly explained to his dad what they were doing.
Then Cheesah told Yannis, clearly and slowly, "Eu-sou-eh-teh-raw-sehk-soo-ahl".
"I don't understand it if it's in Portuguese", Yannis reminded Cheesah.
"I'm heterosexual", Cheesah told Yannis, then he verified what Habbar had explained.
Yannas thought it over a few seconds then said, "Hmph...Cub curiosity...Well, that's far enough. You two don't need to get carried away with it. Draw those things back into their sheaths before they start getting hard".
As Yannas unsheathed himself to pee, Habbar and Cheesah glanced over, then Habbar wispered in Cheesah's ear, "I told you my dad has one like mine but bigger". Then the two cubs chuckled.
"OK, Habbar. That will do", Yannas said as he glanced over at the two cubs, while he was still peeing.
After Yannas finish peeing, and shook it, with it's flair shaped head flopping up and down as would a ringing bell, Cheeash thought to himself, "A bigger bell head, looking like it's going, ding-a-linga ding-a-linga ding-a-linga...I guess if dickies could get dizzy, a fossa's dickie definitely would be, the way that head shakes around".
Yannas sent Habbar back up to the bridge house so Joel, who was at the helm, can continue teaching him about nautical navigation. And reminded Cheesah that he still had the passage ways to sweep after he got the restroom clean.
Yannis then turned toward Cheesah, him knowing what meerkat sex scent smells like, and said, "Oh, and Cheesah. I'm not saying this to embarrass you...but uh...well...you should wash that little thing of yours more often...WITH the sheath pulled back out of the way. You got this whole restroom smelling like popcorn".
"Yes sir, Captain", Cheesah replied with a smile.
"Ha ha. Cub curiosity", Yannas laughed as he left the restroom. "I guess we all had our turn at it while growing up".
Chapter 13. Life in a New Homeland
After days out on the Indian Ocean, The Star of Antananarivo arrived to it's destination, the port city of Karaikal, in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu. And it was a good thing the Meerkat Family had a fluent knowledge of the English language. Because the first thing asked by the immigration official, who was a bear of small build and humble demeanor, was, "Fala Ingles?", him knowing they were Angolan.
"We do speak English. Yes.", Lacara answered. And her answer was also affirmed by the other family members.
The immigration process was then continued, and in a short while, completed, then the meerkats were sworn in as citizens of India.
As for those old vehicles the meerkats brought over from Angola with them, there wasn't hardly any import duty charged on them. Customs took one look at how old those vehicles were, and at the condition they were in, and declared their values as being next to worthless. However, the meerkats were advised to have some repairs made to the vehicles, such as Najja's truck not having windshield wipers, Moze's Opal wagon having bad brakes and now missing it's muffler, and a fair size list of various other safety issues needing to be fixed on the vehicles.
There were more safety issues with the first group of the family's vehicles that left Angola. Out of the four vehicles that made it to India, none of them had signal lights that worked...except for Yousaf and Nafula's Renault. The left signal did work, but the right signal did not. And there was the horn in Najja's truck that didn't work, and no brake light.
Almost half the tires among all the vehicles were bald, and some had inner plies showing through. And that bad front tire on Oswald and Zoe's Opal Kapitan had already gone flat during the voyage aboard the ship.
And the mink, who's job it was to catch discrepancies on imported motor vehicles, REALLY took issue when he looked under Annika's Moskvitch and noticed the left tie rod end being held together with bailing wire.
"Who owns this car?", the mink called out.
"It's mine", Annika said as she approached him.
"This excuse for a tie rod end", the mink admonished Annika. "You can call a tow truck and have it towed to a garage to get it fixed, and fixed right. But you're not DRIVING it there like THAT".
Zhang and Annika argued the issue of needing the car towed until the mink finally told them, "Hey look. I can reject this car from even being here in India if I want to. It's getting TOWED to a garage, NOT driven there".
Then the mink saw the wired tie rod end on Yousaf and Nafulas's Renault and told them, "ANOTHER ONE?! No way. You're not Driving this car to a garage either, Get it towed there".
Another customs agent, a mongoose, told Zhang, Annika, Yousaf and Nafula about a reputable automotive shop that was nearby so the cars would not have to be towed so far. So that's where the cars were towed to have their tie rod ends replaced, among a few other repairs that should have been done years ago.
Then there was the second group of the family's vehicles, that made the road trip across Africa a day behind. Those vehicles had also been unloaded from the Star of Antananarivo, and just as many problems were found with those vehicles as well.
The mink who inspected the Meerkat Family's cars said to Captain Yannas Fossa, "Yannas, I can't believe you actually transported those death trap cars into this country".
"Well, Navin, so I did", Yannas Fossa proudly replied.
"Damn anyway, Yannas!", Navin Mink retorted then walked away.
The repair shop that Annika's car, and her sister and brother-in-law's car, were towed to was run by two otter brothers Havish and Sayed. And they were surprised to see the old Russian made car coming into their shop.
"A Moskvitch. You don't see those every day", said the younger brother Sayed.
Then the Otter Brothers were even more surprised when the other vehicles came in for repairs, such as Najja's old truck, the Renault 4 and the old Opal. The vehicles from Yousaf and Leia's families also came into the Otter Brother's shop, such as a Wartburg wagon that idled and popped like a dirt bike, an Opal Kapitan with layers of cardboard and a few old pillows on the back seat to cover the seat springs that were showing through the upholstery, and a Morris Minor with a half rotted piece of plywood sealed with tar to replace a broken rear side window, to name a few.
Some of the cars were still packed full of belongings that were not yet put in storage.
"Sayed noticed a few cans of 30-W, non-detergent, motor oil behind the front seat of the Wartburg wagon.
"I'm just curious", said Sayed, "I know this car has a two stroke motor. Why the motor oil?".
Sayed's older brother laughed, then told him, "You can use that for two stroke oil. I used it in a moped a lot when you were still a cub".
Leia's dad, Sieheib, who owned the Wartburg, then said to Sayed, "Where we are from, two stroke oil is hard to find. But like your brother says, the thirty weight oil works".
"Three cylinders and only seven moving parts", Havish added.
"That it is", Sieheib confirmed.
Sieheib then noticed the Otter Brothers gazing at a big sheet of rusty metal, with tar around it, over the rear of the roof of his car.
"I see you wonder why the patch is there", Sieheib told the otters.
"It has crossed my mind a time or two", Havish replied.
"If you like, I can tell you", Sieheib offered.
"Sure", Havish said.
Sieheib explained how his Wartburg use to be a camper special, station wagon with the retractable canvas rear roof section when it was a new car many years ago. By the time any of the meerkats ever owned it, that canvas roof section had been long rotted out. Sieheib continued how what replaced the canvas for years is that large piece of rusty sheet metal. He explained how the metal patch had been hacked out of the side of an old wrecked panel van, by pounding a hatchet through it with a mallet. Then the metal had been beat out flat, then installed on the Wartburg with screws and wire, then sealed with tar.
"It always had leaked a little in a hard rain, but not too bad" ,Sieheib mentioned like a small roof leak was no big deal.
"Well. As long as it works, I guess", said Sayed.
The brakes on the Morris Minor was a scarey story. Years ago, rain water had gotten into the brake fluid reservoir and rusted the master cylinder and brake lines, and there was no money or means to get parts. That dilemma had been easily remedied by rigging the parking brake lever so it would not remain up when it was released. If you wanted to stop the car, you simply pulled up on the parking brake lever as you pressed the clutch petal, and that gave you rear cable operated brakes with no front brakes...That was the brakes. To release the brakes, simply let go of the lever. Needless to say, Havish and Sayed Otter saw it necessary to completely rebuild the entire brake system on that old Morris.
"Incredible...Simply incredible", Sayed Otter had to say about how the brakes were on the Morris.
At least this was a time when the meerkats did have enough money to afford the proper repairs so badly needed on their cars.
The older brother Havish exclaimed to the meerkats, "My goodness! These old cars. They're worth a lot to any collector, you know".
Being from their old homeland, the meerkats had no understanding of what Havish Otter was talking about. They've never heard of anyone collecting old cars back in Angola. Some of those old cars were passed down from generation to generation, and to them, an old car was just another old car.
"We don't wish to sell them", Lacara said to Havish. "We need them to get around in".
Upon hearing Lacara's reply, the Otter Brothers just simply looked at each other with bewildered expressions.
Havish and Sayed, had never expeirenced what it was to be so poverty stricken, that all you have for a car is a makeshift masterpiece your grandparents once drove, and to be thankful to have it. The Otter Brothers also had no understanding how someone can have a fifty year old car and not realize it's value.
When Sayed was about to repair the brakes on Moze and Leia's car, he noticed the two old bullet holes in the left door and fender.
"Did someone own this car who had a drug deal go bad?", Sayed halfway joked.
Upon hearing Sayed's question, the family suddenly got quiet as a somber feeling seemed to set in.
Moze then asked Sayed to step aside, and that he wanted to talk with him.
"Those bullet holes, they are from a civil war our old homeland had. That was about ten years ago", Moze began as he explained to Sayed about the war, then continued about how because their old homeland province wasn't very populated, everyone including cubs, the elderly and females had to help fight.
"In that war, we lost a twelve year old brother when I was only nine. I was with him when he died. A grand dad and two cousins, we also lost", Zhang added as Moze nodded in agreement.
"My son, Jorad, he would be twenty two right now", Lacara mentioned.
"Oh, I didn't know. I had no idea. I'm really sorry", Sayed Otter said as the family accepted his apology.
Sayed's older brother, Havish, also gave his condolences for the family as well.
Havish and Sayed have heard about countries before where cubs have been on the battlefield. But hearing about it was nothing like personally meeting those animals who actually have testimony of being there as cubs.
Later, when Sayed Otter was replacing the left tie rod end on Annika's car, he asked, "I hear you all came from Angola?".
"We did. Yes", Bron affirmed.
Then Sayed asked Annika, "And you drove this car with that tie rod end across Africa?".
"Well, yes. It's been that way for a couple of years", Annika affirmed.
Sayed then mentioned to Annika, "Ma'am, it's a wonder you didn't have it come apart on you on the way over. It could have gotten you or someone else killed".
Havish, who was changing out the tie rod end on Yousaf and Nafula's car, commented to the meerkats, "You all must be mighty brave, or dare devils, to be driving these cars the way they are".
Havish and Sayed could hardly believe that the other vehicles were also driven across the African continent in the condition they were in.
This was a different way of life for the meerkats, as well as other things that would take some getting use to, including the culture, the music and the seasons being opposite to the months in the Northern Hemisphere, although both Southern India and their old homeland of Angola are pretty much in warm year round climates.
However, they didn't have to get use to driving on the left side of the road by now, as they do in India. They experienced a lot of left lane driving coming through Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, on their way from Angola to Port of Beria. But the driver's side being on the left of their vehicles did present some inconvenience driving around India's wild traffic. Najja's truck was the exception. Being a truck meant for use in Kenya, it is a right paw drive vehicle. And in addition to inconvenience, under India's motor vehicle laws, the Meerkat Families cars had to have a small sign displayed, or letters painted, on the rear to warn other drivers, which read, 'left paw drive vehicle'. There was also some concern as to how long the meerkats would be allowed to continue driving their left paw drive cars on India's roads. They were told that it would not become an issue before the Angolan tags on their cars were to expire. Then other animals told the meerkats that because their cars are so old, they would be exempt from any regulations against driving a left paw drive vehicle on Indian roads. However, Yannas Fossa promised the meerkats that he would speak about the matter to an attorney friend of his, Attorney Ebeneezer Weasel.
Yannas assured them, "If they try to stop you from using your cars when your Angolan tags expire, Ebeneezer should be able to find what exceptions your cars would fall under".
"Son, the tag on your car. It will expire in two months? Will it not?" , Bron asked his oldest son, Moze.
"The end of November, it will be expired. Yes", Moze replied.
Yannis then told Bron and Moze, "I see other left paw drive vehicles around here occasionally. I notice they are always old vehicles. I'll get with Ebeneezer and have him see what he can do for you".
With that the meerkats thanked Yannas for offering the help.
The Star of Antananarivo was scheduled for extensive maintenance work, so Yannas Fossa would have two months off with leave pay while the vessel was in down time. Yannis offered to help the meerkats get settled in during his two months off.
With the meerkat's vehicles unloaded from the ship, immigration procedures completed, and their Zambian currency exchanged for India currency, most of the relatives were able to find work. Although the jobs some of them found were not very good jobs, and didn't pay well, they did have an income. A few of the family members got better jobs, getting hired on working at the sea port. As for Moze, he got a job with a construction contractor. Najja put his beat up old truck to work, being in business for himself as a local hauler. Whether a family member found a good job, or a not so good job, or not yet found a job, they were grateful the country they now live in wasn't on the verge of exploding into instability and collapse like the country they just left.
Chessah wanted to get hired on with Yannas Fassa's crew aboard the Star of Antananarivo, but at age 13, he was considered too young. And there was also the matter of Bron and Lacara wanting to get Cheesah enrolled in school. With Angola in collapse, it was unlikely Cheesah's parents could get a transcript sent from the school there. However, the school administrator they went to see was able to administer an aptitude test to determine what grade they could place Cheesah in. Once Cheesah resumed his schooling, and his niece, Dora, began attending school, Cheesah was amazed with how different the school building in the City of Karaikal was from his old school back in Angola. It's a nice building with air conditioning, electric lights, running water, tiled floors, restrooms with toilets and sinks. and even a cafeteria. And there were actually buses to take students to and from school.
Cheesah remembers the times, where they lived in Angola, there were no such thing as school buses. Before his parents had a car, he had to get out of bed and begin walking to school at 5:00 o'clock in the predawn hours, then arriving home at 6:00 o'clock in the evening. It was 16 kilometers each way, and over one mountain ridge. Even though his parent's old Rekord wagon was next to being a piece of junk on four wheels, the car had really been considered a blessing to have, up to the time the engine blew a connecting rod on that trip leaving Angola. Even so, the family was still grateful they had that car for the years they've owned it.
And the school in Karakal had something Cheesah and the rest of the family had never seen before...lap-top and desk top computers. Cheesah didn't even know what they were at first.
At one point, Cheesah asked, "We get to watch tape in this school?" ('Tape' being an Angolan word for TV) when he thought the lap-tops were television sets.
The rest of the students wondered what Cheesah was even talking about.
But in the months to follow, Cheesah was well on his way to being computer savvy.
The school Cheesah use to attend back in Angola had walls constructed of stacked rock with clay for mortar, and a leaky corrugated tin roof supported by rough timber rafters that were not even milled into lumber, and it had no glass in the windows...only curtains that would wave as the wind blew through. It had no electricity, drinking water was drawn from a nearby creek, there was a designated tree away from the building for the "potty" area, and some classes were held outside (weather permitting).
And Annika's dad, Banga, told of what little education he had, back in the days when Angola was known as Portuguese West Africa. The school building was a large, makeshift tent supported from trees in a meadow near the edge of the jungle. For school desks, you picked a place to sit on the ground. And the chalk board was a spread of sand, on the ground, inside the tent, the teacher would write in with a stick as the students gathered around to learn. Banga's school allumni still remember that sand spread as "O kota placa de areia" (The old sandboard).
And cellular phones were a story in itself. The meerkats have never seen those before either, and never even had land line phones where they were from. And once they understood what cellular phones were, those meerkats who could afford a cellular phone, got one. The method of carrying them ranged from a clip on the back of the phone attached to fur hairs, to a pouch and belt worn around the waist, to a flip phone closed down on a necklace. Annika's brother, Najja, being self employed, saw the benefit of having one as a business phone. To some, these new phones were also somewhat of a novel toy.
As for housing, a lot of the families started out sharing apartments or renting shanty houses, and later, getting to a point where they could do better. Being that Annika was pregnant, Yannas Fossa offered to put her and Zhang up at his house to live with his family, which is a good drive inland from Karaikal, and out into rural country, in the mountains near Yercaud. Zhang and Annika have never been in that nice of a house before, and never even seen such a house back in their old homeland, much less been invited to live in such a place. Yannas introduced them to his wife, Sthella, his 1st and 3rd sons, Haja, age 16 and Mario, age 8, and the youngest member, daughter Malala, age 6. They already knew 2nd son Habbar, age 14. Arrangements were made for Cheesah so he can stay over, on some of his days off from school, at Yannas Fossa's place, with Annika and older brother Zhang. Cheesah and Yannas' 2nd son Habbar had become very close friends, and Cheesah was becoming friends with the other two brothers as well. Cheesah's place of residence was still with his mom and dad in Karaikal.
While staying at Yannas Fossa's place, Zhang would look for work in near by Yercaud and in the next town, Salem, a larger city, but with not much success. In fact, for three days in Yercaud, Zhang would encounter a beggar, who was an old ragged lesser panda. When the panda would ask Zhang for money, Zhang would simply reply, "Find me a job, and I'll give you a paw out"...His way of telling him, "I don't have it to give".
One day, in a cafe in the nearby City of Salem, Zhang met a panda named Kim Sou. During their conversation, Kim Sou Panda found out that Zhang had recently immigrated with his family to India, and was looking for work without much success in finding a job. When Zhang found out Kim Sou was a martial arts instructor who ran a martial arts school in Salem, Zhang told Kim Sou about himself holding a 2nd degree black belt.
"I can use an assistant instructor", Kim Sou told Zhang. "It won't pay much, but it will get you by until you can find something".
"And I can use a job", Zhang replied. "I accept your offer".
After they left the cafe, Kim Sou began to have Zhang follow him on foot to his school.
"Riding's better than walking", said Zhang as he offered Kim Sou a ride in the car Yannis Fossa had loaned to him.
"Oh, thank you Zhang", Kim Sou replied as he got into the car. "My car is in the shop waiting for a part to come in".
At the martial arts school, Kim Sou had Zhang show him some moves to see what Zhang can do. Kim Sou was well pleased with what he saw, and Zhang was hired on.
"The school only runs two days per week", Kim Sou told Zhang. "And I can't afford to pay you much. This school doesn't by any means make my rich. But it is something until you can find a profitable job".
"I'm just grateful to have the job" Zhang replied. "Besides, during the time I'm here, I'd feel honored to pass along some knowledge to those who want to learn".
"That's why I keep this school open instead of going into something else or getting a full time job" said Kim Sou. "My heart's in it. I like what I do"
Annika and the Fossa Family were happy for Zhang that he did at least find something, even though it was temporary until Zhang could find full time work. And with Kim Sou being 5th degree black belt, Zhang learned a few moves from him he had not until then known, plus some Aikido moves that Zhang's instructor back in Angola did not teach him. Zhang's martial arts training was for war time, to be use against invaders when there not enough guns to go around. The object to Aikido is not to kill, so in Angola, it was never taught.
During the late morning of November 23, Annika called Zhang into the bedroom she and Zhang were using.
"Get Sthella. Have her bring some old sheets or towels in here", she said to Zhang. "The cub is about to be born".
"This is a blessed day!", Zhang told Annika as he went running to get Sthella, and to break the news to everyone.
Zhang and Yannas' family gathered in with Annika, Sthella bringing in the old sheets. Yannas' three sons had witnessed the miracle of their siblings being born. Malala had not because of her being the youngest. But this was the day they will all witness a new born meerkat coming into the world. Cheesah was staying with them that day, and was standing in the doorway.
"You can come on in Cheesah", Zhang said to his younger brother. "You're about to witness yourself become an uncle".
"Well, we're already uncles", said Cheesah, "Dora", referring to the five year old daughter of their brother Moze and sister-in-law Leia.
"You'll be his uncle also, right?", Annika asked Cheesah.
"Sure will!", Cheesah answered with enthusiasm.
It was at that moment Annika passed fluid.
"I feel the cub coming through", Annika said just before fur and afterbirth can be seen pushing out of her clef.
It was Zhang who began holding the new born on the rest of the way out.
As Yannas cut and tied the umbilical cord, and Sthella gave the little one a wipe down, Zhang said to Annika, "Do you remember, when we were still in Angola? You said you felt like he was going to be a male?"
"Yes. I do remember saying that", Annika answered as she was regaining her breath from giving birth to their cub.
"You were right", said Zhang. "We have a son".
Annika was the first to snuggle their son, as he found the strengh to reach out with his little paws, and grab Mom's fur, and hugged her. Then Zhang gently hugged him, and eventually everyone else had a turn holding him. Even tough old Captain Yannas Fossa gently hugged the new born meerkat cub. As Cheesah held him, he said, "Hey. How's my little nephew?"
Then he was given back to Annika so he can nurse. There was no crying or pitching a fit, as those are not the ways of new born animals.
Everyone gave suggestions as to what to name Zhang and Annika's newest family member, but Zhang and Annika decided to name their son Raphael. Yannas Fossa even broke out the finest wine he had for everyone to celebrate the occasion. There was even a music CD played which included a really good Malagasy / French tune, http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fPxPcfKgMI .
Yannis had wines he had picked up at various ports he's been to in many parts of the world. What Yannas broke out that day was wine he reserved only for special occasions. And this was a special enough occasion.
The next day, Zhang and Annika took Raphael to Salem to have it on record that Raphael is a native born citizen of India.
Within a few days, Zhang was blessed with a good job opportunity. He was able to get hired on as a yard worker with the railway, at the Salem Railway Junction. Annika and the Fossa Family were thrilled to hear about Zhang getting the job, and Zhang's former employer, Kim Sou Panda, wished Zhang well with his new job. The railroad paid well, and in a couple of months Zhang and Annika, with their son Raphael, had their own place, renting a fairly nice, modest home in the town of Yercaud. They were even able to help a couple of family members who weren't yet prospering so well. Cheesah and his niece, Dora, were now enrolled in school. Yannas Fossa let Zhang and Annika borrow an old Lexus the Fossa Family no longer used. That old 1967 Moskvitch that had belonged to Annika, since before her and Zhang were married, was by now literally falling apart, and had finally quit running. Zhang and Annika really liked the car Yannis loaned to them. And it had a lot more "zip" and get up and go.
As Raphael got up to ages 2 and 3, he enjoyed playing with the other cubs. Cheesah, then age 16, and Raphael would go over to play with Yannas Fossa's sons and daughter. Sometimes Moze and Liea would bring Dora, then age 8, to play.
Chapter 14. Life Gets Better for the Meerkats
A few years later, Zhang put in for a position that became available where he worked. It was for an assistant locomotive operator trainee for a newly commissioned express train run. Zhang had the most seniority among the others who also put in for it, and it was Zhang who got the position. As an assistant locomotive operator, Zhang would earn a lot higher pay, plus working fewer days, than if he had stayed as a rail yard worker. Zhang's crew would relieve the crew of an eastbound bound express train in Erode in the late afternoon, then running the train the rest of the way to Chennai, near India's east coast. The crew would spend that night in Chennai, then, at 7:15 the following morning, they would begin the westbound return run. When they arrive at Erode around noon, they are relieved by the crew who would run the train to it's western turn around point in Coimbatore. http://youtube.com/watch?v=fYA3FJPJ9ul .
.After work, Zhang would then ride a commuter train back to Salem. Annika would drive down from their home in nearby Yercaud to pick him up at the Salem station. Zhang would have a day off, work two days, have two days off, then work two more days each week, and still bring home more pay than working in the rail yard six days per week. With Zhang's higher pay grade, it was only several months, he and Annika were able to put a down payment on the purchase of a nice home in the mountain rural countryside. And it isn't more than several kilometers from where Yannas Fossa and his family live. At the closing of the sale of the house and land, Zhang had difficulty reading the paperwork in a timely manner. Because Zhang never learned to read or write until age 12, he is still a very slow reader. So Annika read the sale contract, escrow agreement and legal description out loud, The realtor, Jaharh Linsang, explained the contract as Annika read along, then Annika and Zhang signed off as the buyers.
The meerkats even began to receive mail from relatives who never made it out of Angola a few years earlier.
This was the first time since they had left Angola that mail was again allowed to go out of the country.
From what the relatives wrote to them, Angola had now become a peaceful place to live and began to prosper very well. The political issues that use to plague the country had been resolved, and those who were in power of the country since the northern provinces took over, had been overpowered by the rest of the population there. Many of the northern leaders who took over the country had been arrested for war crimes, and a democracy government is back in power. And the best news from the relatives was that The State of North Angola was no more. It is once again Angola as it was before the trouble erupted.
It's good to hear from the other meerkat relatives, although those of the family who came to India don't plan on going back. But they do stay in touch with their relatives abroad.
Zhang and Annika also got a decent reliable vehicle, and it was a one in a lifetime deal too. An elderly widowed palm civet, who's husband recently passed away, had a utility vehicle she called a jeep. Her late husband left it to her and she was selling at almost a give away price. When Zhang and Annika, taking along Raphael, then age 6, went to see the so called jeep, the widowed civet mentioned that it had some collectable value to it, but since her husband died, she just wanted to get rid of it. When the Meerkats saw the vehicle, they found out what the widow palm civet was calling a jeep, was a 1970, five door, hard body, Land Rover, in pristine condition, in dark green, with a white top. It had 4 wheel drive, in line 6 cylinder engine and a manual transmission.
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It was the ideal rugged, well built, go any where, nostalgic, family wagon, built to hold up and last. And unlike the cars the meerkats were now replacing, the steering wheel was on the right side, which is better suited for driving in India.
"The only thing missing, is it use to have the safari roof panel above the regular roof", the widowed palm civet told Zhang and Annika. Then she continued, "Birds use to build nests up under it. My late husband and I would tell them not to build there, but they'd do it anyway. Then they'd expect us not to drive it, telling us they were scared that their young would fall out while going down the road. So we fixed that by taking it off and getting rid of it".
Little Raphal was even hopping and climbing over the seats in glee and astonishment.
"I can hardly wait for the other cubs in school to see our new car!" Raphael exclaimed as he took a place on the driver's seat and reaching up holding the steering wheel, barely being able to see over the dash. Raphael had recently started school at that time.
Zhang and Annika hopped on that deal right away.
"And the engine. It can warm up on it's own. We won't need to hold a piece of cardboard over the carburetor", Zhang said jokingly as Annika chuckled and hugged him.
The widow palm civet was puzzled by Zhang's comment until he and Annika explained how Annika's Moskvitch automobile was.
Then she too laughed, then told Zhang and Annika, "This old jeep treated my late husband and I very well. And as long as it's taken care of, it will treat you just as well as it treated us".
"Hey look. It don't have the fast numbers", Raphael announced as he pointed at the speedometer, noticing it only read up to 75.
"Well, the fast numbers, we don't need them, Babe", Annika replied to Raphael.
"We seldom drive faster than seventy five kilometers per hour anyway, Son", Zhang added.
"Oh my!", the widow palm civet exclaimed. "I almost forgot to tell you. That speedometer is not in kilometers. It's in the old English miles per hour".
"I see that now", Zhang mentioned as he saw MPH, instead of KPH, printed on bottom of the speedometer.
"So seventy five to this speedometer. It's going pretty fast", Annika added.
"My goodness yes", the widowed palm civet answered. "You run this to seventy five, you'll be going almost 120. This kind of speedometer can easily fool you, being use to kilometers.
"We usually drive at seventy or eighty on the open highway. So in miles, that would be....?", Zhang asked.
"Well, if you run it to forty five, that will give you seventy kilometers per hour. And running it to fifty will give you eighty", the widowed palm civet explained.
For Zhang and Annika, getting accustomed a speedometer they were not use to was only a trivial matter. They really liked that Land Rover, and so did Raphael, especially after the meerkats, with the widowed palm civet riding along, took it on a test drive. When they got back from the test drive, Zhang went over to the car that Yannas Fossa had been letting he and Annika borrow, and got the checkbook from the glove compartment. The widowed palm civet received a check in the amount she was asking for the Land Rover, and Zhang and Annika received the title to the vehicle, signed off to both of their names, and a written bill of sale. The deal was done.
Now that Zhang and Annika were the proud new owners of the Land Rover they had purchased, the first thing to do was to return the car that Yannas and Sthella Fossa had been letting them use. Annika drove the car back to the Fossa residence, as Zhang and Raphael followed in the Land Rover. When Yannas and Sthella saw Zhang and Annika's newly purchased vehicle, they were really impressed, which of course, was followed by an hour visit, talking about old Land Rovers and other old vehicles while Habbar entertained Raphael, before the meerkats went on their way.
For most of the remainder of that day, Zhang, Annika and Raphael cruised around Salem, and stopped in at a few places, before they headed back to their house in Yercaud.
Although Zhang and Annika had the Land Rover registered in both of their names, this was the first time Zhang, then 22, ever in his lifetime had a motor vehicle with his name on the title. And it was among the first of the vehicles they and the other family members had that wasn't either beat up or a falling apart piece of junk.
On a Saturday morning, about a month later, there was a knock on the front door of Yannas Fossa's house. It was Yannas' wife, Sthella, who answered the door.
There stood a male skunk of humble demeanor, who introduced himself as Seymour, and announced, "I noticed the old Moskvitch automobile around side of your house. Would you be interested in selling it?".
The skunk then reached into a pouch on a belt around his waist and got out a business card and pawed it over to Sthella.
The card indicated Seymour Skunk to be a dealer of restored antique automobiles.
"It belongs to friends of ours", Sthella Fossa informed Seymour Skunk. "If you want come inside and wait, I'll call them".
Once inside, Yannas offered the skunk a drink while Sthella made the call.
Sthella was able to reach Annika by phone and told her there was a skunk who wanted to buy the old Moskvitch...which had been sitting up long enough, among the palmettos and banana trees, to have a couple of flat tires and weeds grown up around it.
Annika said she would like to sell that old car. It was one of Zhang's day's off from the Indian Railway, so Zhang, Annika and Raphael got in the Land Rover and promptly arrived to Yannas and Sthella's house with the title to the car.
Once everyone got introduced, Seymour Skunk offered 5,000 rupees for the old Moskvitch, which Annika was about to gladly accept.
"Wow! Five thousand!", Zhang responded with surprise.
"He's gonna buy our JUNKY car?!", Raphael asked.
Then Yannis told Annika, "Hold up a minute. Let me talk to him".
Yannis then had Seymour follow him alone into the den and began discussing the offer on the car.
Annika could hardly believe anyone would offer that much money for her old broken down car that no longer ran.
"He must want my old car really bad", said Annika.
"Or he's crazy", Zhang laughed as Annika and Raphael laughed along with him.
Yannis Fossa and Seymour Skunk haggled about the offer over in the den for about seven minutes.
When they came back into the living room, Seymour told Annika, "I'll gladly give you 35,000 rupees for that old car".
"Thirty five thousand", Annika asked. "For my old broken dow....".
"Annika! Annika!", Yannis called her attention as he motioned her to stop talking.
Seymour reached into his belt pouch and got out his checkbook and a pen. Seymour wrote out a check for 35,000 rupees, and Annika signed the title of the old Moskvitch over to Semour Skunk.
Needless to say, Zhang and Annika thanked Yannas for haggling with Seymour to get his offer up 30,000 rupees higher...a big difference between that and the 5,000 Seymour originally offered.
After Seymour Skunk left, Zhang remarked, "For that old broken down car. Thirty five thousand rupees. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't have believed it".
"I know", said Annika. "But I'm not complaining".
Yannis and Sthella then told Zhang and Annika that there are antique car enthusiasts that pay good money for rare and old cars. Yannis told Zhang and Annika that for a car like the old Moskvitch Annika had, Seymour Skunk was taking advantage of them by offering only 5,000 rupees for it, in spite of the condition it was in.
"The five thousand he would have given you for that car would have been nothing compared to what he'll sell it for after it's restored", Yannas had mentioned.
Zhang and Annika had no idea old cars like that were worth anything. Back when they were living in Angola, they've seen lots of cars as old as 60 years old that were falling apart but would still run...and some that would only barely run.
To everyone where Zhang and Annika grew up, an old car was just another old car, regardless how old or how rare it was. Some of those old cars back in the old homeland had been around seemingly forever.
And there were some of those cars that were passed down from generation to generation to the animals who presently drove them. Many animals in the southern part of Angola drove the very same cars that their parents and grandparents use to drive. And when those cars quit running, an engine, transmission or other parts were taken from another car that no longer ran to get that car going again, so someone in an upcoming generation could someday have a car to use. Only when a car was literally falling apart...that is actually rusting apart into pieces, was it no longer kept running.
Later that day, Seymour Skunk returned with a rollback wrecker truck, driven by a helper, a stoat, and picked up the old Moskvitch.
No one would have guessed it was only six years earlier that the meerkats had lost everything they owned except for their ragged vehicles and what they could haul in them, fleeing a country that was falling into a state of collapse and violence.
In the recent years, life has been good to the meerkats, and more so to Zhang, Annika and Raphael.
Chapter 15. A Little About Raphael Meerkat
RAPHAEL MEERKAT, male, born near Yercaud, India, in the State of Tamil Nadu, to Angolan parents, on November 23rd, 2005, age 8, is Zhang and Annika's boy.
At Raphael's young age, most of what will be his history is still yet ahead of him. Raphael is a playful, inquisitive young meerkat who likes companionship, loves his friends and relatives, and loves, honors and obeys his parents, and like his parents, God fearing and a love for the creator. The lifelong love bond between Rahpael and his parents is a very strong one. Hardly a day goes by without Raphael, at least once, hugging his parents and telling them, "I love you, Mama", "I love you, Dad". And it's always the highpoint in Raphael's day when either Zhang or Annika would pick him and hug him, and snuggle him, and love on him, and tell him, "Raphael, you're my boy. I love you", and then hug him again. There are some nights, that Raphael's parents would decide, instead of having sex that night, they would allow Raphael to sleep with them, snuggled up between Mom ans Dad. And if you were to ask Raphael, "Raphael, what movie picture hero would you want to be like?", the answer he would give you would be, "I just wana be like my Dad".
Raphael likes helping his dad, and learning things, when his dad is working on projects or doing maintenance on the family vehicle. And Zhang likes having his son with him, helping him. Zhang has been a good teacher to his son. Since age 7, Raphael has known how a gasoline engine works, and how to change spark plugs, do an oil change, check filters and maintain the fluids on their Land Rover wagon. Zhang even taught Raphael how to drive the family wagon, with the driver's seat pulled all the way foward so Raphael's feet can reach the petals. The stipulation to that was, that Dad or Mom would be with Raphael, and only on the secondary dirt roads, and no speed above 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour).
There were a few small knocks in life that Raphael had already experienced. There was the time Raphael was caught by Zhang watching a television show ran by two hairy trolls who were a bad influence on cubs. Raphael was told before not to watch that show, so Zhang, letting his temper get the better of him, threw a bottle of flowers through the picture tube, and told Raphael there would be no more television in the house. When Annika got home, she made Zhang take the family into town and buy a new television.
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There was the time Raphael had a problem with some bullies at school. Part of what started it was over the fact that Raphael has that extra strong penis scent like his Uncle Cheesah has. Other cubs would call him names like "stinky dinky", "popcorn popper" and "pee pee pee pee pew-ee boy".
Zhang taught Raphael some of the Aikido he learned from Kim Sou Panda years earlier. Zhang wouldn't teach Raphael the other martial arts, which had lethal moves in them, until Raphael got older. Aikido is turning the opponent's strength against their self, so Zhang figured that would be safe enough to teach a cub. Once Raphael got good at what his dad taught him, the bullying stopped almost overnight. Raphael got respect after that, and even the bullies were later in Raphael's circle of friends.
And there's a more recent time on November, 30th, 2013, when Raphael had pneumonia. The evening his parents took him to the hospital to get treatment, the doctor, creepy, old Dr. Zander Rat, was Hell bent on circumcising Raphael against his will. Raphael's parents protected him from any harm being done, including his dad coming close to killing the doctor over it. Thus Raphael's little meerkat pee-wee was spared from Dr. Rat's clamp and scalpel. A different doctor, Dr. Clyde Wolf, was then assigned to Raphael's case. And that incident was only a week after Raphael's 8th birthday. What a screwed up 'belated birthday surprise' getting his penis sheath sliced off would have been.
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When Zhang and Annika told Yannis and Sthella Fossa about it during a visit, Yannis said, "If it had been any of our sons, Haja, Habbar or Mario, that rat would already be dead".
"And my husband would not have given a second thought about killing him either", Sthella Fossa assured.
"My husband almost did kill him", said Annika.
"That's right", Zhang added.
"Back in our homeland, that doctor you're telling me about would eventually find himself on a bonfire out on a beach one night", Yannis said to Zhang and Annika as Sthella nodded in agreement.
"We call it Island Justice", Sthella added. "And it is said, garbage is cleansed by fire".
Raphael's uncle, Cheesah, was now a 21 year old, strong, young adult meerkat, and had earlier learned martial arts from his older brother, Zhang. When Cheesah heard about the ordeal at the hospital, he wanted so badly to "beat the rat shit" out of the doctor who tried to circumcise his nephew. Some of the other family members wanted a piece of Dr. Rat's hide too. But Zhang and Annika insisted that the matter is already resolved.
However, less than a month later, Cheesah came over from Karakal to visit Zhang, Annika and Raphael. Raphael had the Christmas 2013 and New Years Day 2014 holidays off from school, so Cheesah and Raphael went to see Habbar Fossa, now 22, so the three of them can go to the City of Salem for the day.
Cheesah and Habbar had some free time as well. Habbar has a job as a ship's officer aboard his Dad's freighter, and the Star of Antananarivo wasn't scheduled for another run until the end of that month. Cheesah was hired on as a yard worker at the Salem Rail Junction and was to begin work the following week. Cheesah's older brother, Zhang, being an assistant train operator, put a good word in for his younger brother where Zhang himself use to work.
On their way into Salem, Habbar even took along a small "boom box" radio / CD player of his, and Cheesah brought some of his Angolan music CDs with him from his parents house in Karikal. Unlike the old folk songs, Cheesah's CD collection has the exciting stuff the young anthro-animals are crazy about and like to listen to.
Cheesah's dad and two older brothers would jokingly tell Cheesah, "That sounds like the kind of music that comes out of Luanda" (Angola's capitol).
Cheesah's dad and brothers never did make a big deal over it. The family had never been into narrow minded thinking, and they figure various animals like to listen to various styles of music.
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Habbar would carry his boom box up on his shoulder, playing Cheesah's CDs, as he, Cheesah and Raphael would walk along having a good time and shuffling along like they were dancing. Habbar Fossa even bought along some Malagasy hit tunes,
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which they did more of a slow groove to.
The three of them noticed an ice cream parlor just down the sidewalk as they were getting down on it with a really good tune they had going http://youtube.com/watch?v=A91nBwyqEd8 , hopping, grooving, dancing and having them selves a blast. The fossa and the two meerkats were about to go in to get some ice cream, when who would be coming out of the ice cream parlor with a cone of pistachio ice cream, was a creepy old rat.
Raphael began pointing to the rat and frantically calling it to Cheesah's attention.
Habbar, taking notice, turned the volume down on the boom box so Raphael can be heard.
"That's him!", Raphael gasped. "Uncle Cheesah! Uncle Cheesah, that's him!"
"Who's him?", Cheesah asked his nephew.
In a low voice, as not for the rat to hear him, Raphael pointed out the rat and told Cheesah, "That's the rat who tried to cut the skin off that hides my pee-pee's head".
"You thinking of doing what I'm thinking?" Habbar asked Cheesah.
"Damn right. Let's follow him", Cheesah replied as Habbar turned the boom box off so the rat couldn't hear that he was being followed.
The three youths followed the rat on foot to the parking lot of the nearby hospital.
Just as the rat was about to get into an odd ball looking 1950s European sports car of his, Habbar Fossa set the boom box down and called out, "Dr. Zander Rat".
"Who called me?", The rat casually asked as he turned around, still licking on his cone of pistachio ice cream.
"ELE SER ZANDER RATO!" (He be Zander Rat!), Cheesah shouted as he came flying into Dr. Rat with a jump side kick, breaking two of the rat's ribs as his pistachio ice cream cone was sent flying, followed by a heel kick in the balls before Cheesah's feet ever touched back down onto the pavement, then followed by a few rapid jab punches and a front snap kick in the face and mouth while Dr. Rat was still collapsing on his way down to the pavement, all within a matter of seconds. Cheesah's speed, accuracy and co-ordination was like that of a zipping squirrel. Cheesah learned the arts very well from his older brother, Zhang...Bruce Lee would have been impressed had he been in the Furry World.
Dr. Rat laid on the parking lot, cold cocked lights out, with his face battered and bloody, his lower lip busted wide open, one crushed gonad, two broken ribs, jaw broken in two places, a dislocated neck, the cornea jarred loose from his right eye and eight of his teeth knocked out onto the pavement. When Dr. Rat woke up, moaning in excruciating pain, he recognized Raphael, and then knew what the beating he just received from Cheesah was all about.
Loud enough to make sure Dr. Rat clearly heard it, Cheesah told Raphael, "If that perverted rat ever comes near you, or even looks at you, you just let me know".
"I sure will, Uncle Cheesah!", Raphael exclaimed bright eyed and exuberantly.
Then Cheesah told Dr. Rat, "You're lucky, freak. I could have stopped your clock if I wanted to. You don't EVER mess with my family...OR with their sex parts, you perverted creep".
Of course, Raphael put his two paises worth in, telling Dr. Rat, "When I grow up big and strong like my uncle, I'm gonna do it to ya too!".
"You tell 'em, Raphael!", Habbar added as Raphael looked up to him and smiled.
Zander Rat still laid helpless on the pavement, near his car, as he tried to roll side to side in a fetal position, gasping and moaning in a world of hurt. Habbar, Cheesah and Raphael stood around, staring down at Zander. Nearby was Habbar's boom box where he had set it down, along with eight of Zander's teeth scattered out on the pavement. Also nearby was Zander's cone of pistachio ice cream that had landed up side down on the warm pavement, with the brown sugar cone still standing pointy side up, after it went flying in a spin out of Zander's paw when Cheesah kicked him. Not so nearby was Zander's clip on wallet. It flew a long way when Cheesah kicked and broke Zander's ribs.
When hospital security guards came out into the parking lot, Habbar snatched up the boom box and the three youths fled the scene, then a short while later, they went to the ice cream parlor.
While they were there, having some ice cream, a hospital security guard, who was an otter, along with two law enforcement officers, a wolf and a bear, had Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael come outside from the ice cream parlor so they could talk with them about the assault and battery incident in the hospital parking lot.
Quite naturally for an 8 year old, Raphael mentioned, "Our ice cream's gonna melt".
Of course, it was Dr. Rat's word alone, written on paper before undergoing anesthesia in the O.R., against the three youths who denied they had anything to do with it. None of the security guards actually saw it happen, plus the parking lot security camera system was down (lightning struck it two days earlier), and there were no witnesses, so no charges were pressed. Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael were told about Dr. Rat's condition. Then they were let off with a warning, during which, the three of them were trying to hold back from giggling and grinning about it the best they could. The three of them had a good laugh, giving each other the "high fives" and the "high tens", once they were back to their table, finishing their ice cream. Needless to say, Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar never mentioned a word about the incident to Zhang, Annika, Bron, Lacara, or to Yannas Fossa and his wife.
The beating Cheesah gave Dr. Rat laid the doctor up in a hospital bed, with a neck cast, on a bed pan, with his face stitched, and his mouth wired shut eating through a straw for almost a month, including Christmas of 2013 and New Year's Day of 2014. Plus the one crushed gonad had to be removed, and there was the dental work that was yet to be done on his remaining teeth, including dental plates. And Dr. Rat now wears a contact lens on his right eye.
Zander Rat was also told that when Cheesah delivered that snap kick to Zander's mouth, it almost severed his spinal cord when his head popped back dislocating his neck. That would have paralyzed Zander Rat from the neck down for life.
"You're a very lucky rat", Dr Tavi Mongoose told Zander. "You have no idea how close you came to that young meerkat making you a quadraplegic. Maybe you should leave your paws off of the genitalia of your patients, huh?"
At the time, Zander could only reply, "Ummmmph!", through the straw in his wired shut mouth.
Dr. Wolf would always rub it in Zander's face by turning the television on in Zander's room each morning to "The Meerkat Friends Variety Show", hosted by meerkats, knowing Zander didn't want to be reminded of meerkats...especially of the meerkat who laid a good hurting on him out in the parking lot. And also knowing Zander couldn't get out of bed, and was unable to move his neck in the cast or talk with his mouth wired shut on a straw.
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And Zander Rat didn't get a break on those mornings Dr. Wolf was not on shift at the hospital either. Dr. Wolf would leave instructions with a nurse to turn The Meerkat Friends on in Zander's room the following morning.
"It's Part of his therapy", Dr. Wolf would tell a nurse. "I personally prescribed it".
Zander had no way of turning off the television or changing the channel. It was a half hour of Hell in the hospital bed each morning, being reminded of the meerkat who put him where he was. Zander could only bounce his butt up and down on the bed pan and go, "Ummmmmmmh!" through the straw out of frustration.
Dr. Zander Rat will always have to set dental plates in his mouth and instal a contact lens in his right eye every morning, plus look at a nasty lip scar in the mirror...not to mention missing one of his testicles. For the rest of Dr. Rat's life, it will constantly and naggingly haunt him as being "compliments from Cheesah Meerkat".
Dr. Rat's wallet was never recovered either. It was the the kind that clips into the fur hairs. Cheesah kicked Dr. Rat so hard in the chest, the wallet wet flying across the parking lot. A fox eventually found Dr. Rat's wallet and walked off with it.
And Dr. Rat's sports car had the convertible top down when Chessah gave him that beating. For the following two days, while Dr. Rat was still bedridden, one of those monsoon rain storms came through. And because Dr. Rat wasn't very well liked, no one "thought of" putting the top up for him until the rain had passed.
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A couple of days later, Cheesah, Habbar and Raphael came back into Salem. They were curious if the top was still down on Dr. Rat's car during all that rain a few days ago, so they went by to check out. When they got to the hospital parking lot, they noticed the top was up, but busted out laughing as they could tell from all the condensation inside the windshield and windows, the car had been rained in.
Noticing the car's circular grill (1954 Lancia Aurelia PF 200),
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Habbar said, "That rat must have chose that car because the grill looks like a mouth getting ready to suck a dick", followed by Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar laughing at Dr. Rat's car.
"So that's a pee-pee sucker car!", Raphael laughed as Cheesah and Habbar laughed even harder.
As the three noticed there was a bad, afternoon thunderstorm approaching about 40 minutes away, Raphael said with a devious smile, "Uncle Cheeeeesaaaah...You think we should put the top down? It needs to dry out?"
"It don't hurt for it to dry out!", Habbar Fossa quickly and gleefully replied as the three of them laughed.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRDisKk9Z7Q .
So Cheesah and Habbar put the top down. And before they left, Cheesah gave the right quarter panel of Dr. Rat's sports car a good, hard Tae Kwon Do side kick, caving in a big dent just ahead of the rear wheel..
Twenty five minutes later, as the storm got closer, a security guard, a lesser panda, noticed the top had been put down, so she put it back up.
Ten minutes after that, as the storm was just about to hit, Dr. Clyde Wolf, who did not like Dr. Rat at all, was coming on shift. Dr. Wolf took a minute to put the top back down, then went into work, thus, Dr. Rat's car got rained in again.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbhMXSgiUi8
A few days after Christmas, the boys returned with a can of magenta color, spray paint that Habbar had purchased from a hardware store. Cheesah, Raphael and Habbar got a good laugh as Habbar spray painted on the right front fender, and on part of the driver's door, of Zander's car, 'Zander is a wiener'...misspelling 'wiener' of course. Before discarding the spray can, Habbar smacked a dent in a front wheel cover on Zander's car with the bottom end of the can.
http://moyomongoose.deviantart.com/art/Zander-Rat-s-Ca...
Needless to say, when Dr. Rat recovered from the hospital almost a month later, and the next time he saw his car, he was not a happy rat. After Dr. Rat saw the quarter panel of his car that Cheesah had kicked in, he had assumed another car had backed into it and the driver left without saying anything. And Zander about had a cow when he saw the graffiti that Habbar had painted on the fender and door. Then Zander about had another cow over the dent in the right, front wheel cover.
Zander promptly had a vandalism report filed and requested to see security video tapes to find out who dented the quarter panel of his car, and who painted the graffiti, and who dented the wheel cover. At the time, it was thought the dents and the graffiti were unrelated incidents. Dr. Rat was anxiously anticipating on having someone in court over his car being damaged. But at the time Cheesah Meerkat and Habbar Fossa damaged Dr. Rat's car, it was before the parking lot security camera system had been repaired from that time when lightning struck it a month earlier. Thus no video footage ever existed of Cheesah kicking in the quarter panel, or Habbar spray painting the side of Dr. Rat's car and denting the wheel cover...Speak about the most rotten luck.
Zander did remember the top being down on his car the day Cheesah attacked him. But Zander had no idea the top was put up, then put down by Cheesah and Habber, then put up again by a security guard, then put down again by Dr. Clyde Wolf. The security cameras were still down when all that went on too. All Zander knew about the top being down was that the interior of his car was wet and full of mildew.
Hard knocks, like anything else, is a part of growing up, and a part of life. Some are unavoidable. And there are those who bring them on their selves.
Among the good times in Raphael's life, are times Zhang would get permission, from his boss with the railway, to let Raphael come along on a run aboard the train...That is provided that Raphael's grades are good enough for him to take a couple of days off from school, or when school is on break.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VTXkYwfIGp0 .
It was made clear to Raphael that the controls aboard the locomotive are to be touched only by his dad, Zhang, and the chief locomotive operator, Benjamin Binturong. However, Raphael is allowed to sound the horn. Zhang would get Raphael up to the locomotive's control console so Raphael can reach the switch to blow the horn. And on the newer WAP-5 locomotives, it didn't take Raphael long to figure out how to get the low and high tones from the horn. There would be times Benjamin would allow Raphael to wave the green signal flag, from an open door of the locomotive, with Zhang holding Raphael's paw so he don't fall out (or Benjamin holding Raphael's paw when Zhang is at the controls), while pulling out of the crew relief point in Erode, and pulling out of Chennai on the return run the following morning. Raphael always gets a thrill when ever he can come along with his dad aboard the train. Then on Raphael's next day at school, he always tells stories to his fellow students, as they gather around to hear about the train run with his dad.
Raphael once asked his dad, "Dad, did they have trains in Angola?"
"Yes we did", Zhang answered his son. "But they were not as nice. Not like the ones we have here in India".
Zhang told Raphael of the two times he had been aboard a train as a cub in Angola. It was a narrow gauge railroad that still used steam locomotives that didn't go very fast. And for passenger cars, it was a homemade, wood frame and corrugated tin coach body, built on an old flatbed car chassis, with no glass in the windows and hard wooden benches to sit on. In some areas of the coach floor, you could barely see the tracks and train wheels below through the gaps between the floor planks.
Raphael has always had a fascination for trains, and has recently said he would like to be a locomotive operator when he grows up. Young ones have many things they say they want to be when they grow up...Only time will tell.
Chapter 16. Introduction to the Rat Family
WORD OF WARNING: ZANDER RAT'S HISTORY HAS SOME REALLY CREEPY STUFF IN IT.
HERE'S WHERE IT GETS SCOUNDRELOUS AND UGLY.
INCLUDING ZANDER RAT MOLESTING CUBS AND STEALING FROM CHARITY.
THERE IS ALSO A CAR CHASE ALMOST TURNING DEADLY.
AND THE REMEMBRANCE OF A HIGH SPEED CAR WRECK, FROM YEARS BACK, IN WHICH SOME FRIENDS OF THE RAT FAMILY HAD DIED.
DR. ZANDER ISCELBERG RAT MD, male, born at his parent's lavish, granite and marble stone built mansion estate in Northeast Egypt, not very far from Al-Minya (you might as well say, born on silk sheets and with everything pawed to him on a silver platter), on April 1st (April fool's day) 1958, age 55, is single.
Zander Rat came from a very wealthy elite family, born to his dad, Hanan Iscelberg Rat the III, deceased since 2005, and his mom, Judith Iscelberg (Rhostin) Rat, now age 88. Zander has two older siblings, older brother Hanan Iscelberg Rat the VI, now age 62, and older sister Givol Fennbecker (Iscelberg) Rat, now age 59.
The Iscelberg Rat family estate is a lavish, majestic, three story, stone palace like mansion in Northeast Egypt, located on 24 acres of waterfront property on the Nile River. The palace itself covers approximately four acres of land, about the size of a downtown city block and is large enough to accommodate three or so generations of the family, as well as provide live-in quarters for the hired servants. And the estate also has gardens, vinyards, a tennis court, a hedge maze, four, eight car garages, a twelve slip boat house and other amenities. Zander's family has been wealthy, illuminati elites for countless generations (the "old money").
Back during the 1950s, their was much concern among the Iscelberg Rat Family over the changes and uncertainty Egypt was going through at the time. In June of 1956, Britain had relinquished all military presents in Egypt via a 1954 treaty between the two countries, thus giving Egypt it's full independence.
This was also at the time Hanan III's youngest brother, Hebron Iscelberg Rat, was graduating law school at Oxford in the UK.
Hanan's next youngest brother, Louie, was out of the country at the time, brokering deals on rare and expensive, collectible automobiles...some of them worth millions. Louie Iscelberg Rat also owns many car dealerships throughout Europe, Australia and Western Asia, selling brands like Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Land Rover and Mercedes Benz...So Louie does get out of the country quite a bit.
However, now that Egypt gained it's independence, there had been stories heard of the government expelling Jews out of the country, seizing their bank accounts and confiscating belongings they own within Egypt's borders. It became obvious those stories were not idle rumors when a steady decrease in Saturday attendance started being noticed at the synagogue.
This was a grave concern to Hanan Iscelberg Rat III and his wife, Judith, as well as to other members of the family. Hanan and Judith's first born son, Hanan VI had already been born by then, but at only two years old at the time, was too young to realize the gravity of the situation.
Hanan III's dad, Hanan II, who at that time was still head of the Iscelberg Rat Estate, had mentioned after a puff on his cigar, "My dad and my Grand Dad Adin told me how the way of life improved in Egypt when the British took the country away from the Ottomans. That happened seventy five years ago - before my time, you know. But today, I see Egypt stepping backward toward it's old ways again".
Shefra, Hanan III's mom, acknowledged to her husband, Hanan II, "Even in our generation, we've never seen anything like this".
Chaim and Chanita, Hanan II's brother and sister-in-law, acknowledged it wasn't the same Egypt they grew up in.
There was one fortunate side to all of this for the family though...Out of their multi-billions in bank accounts, bonds, investments, businesses, corporate shares, real-estate holdings, etc, only a small percent of it was invested within the borders of Egypt. Most of the family assets had always been in foreign cash reserves, investments and property outside of Egypt. Thus if the day ever came that the family would be ordered to leave Egypt and leave their belongings behind, only a small percent of the family's wealth and property would be lost. So far, the family was never faced with that contingency.
An aardwolf friend of the family once asked Hanan II and his son, "How would you all get by if the government forced your family to leave the country?"
Hanan II simply answered, "We have enough in foreign assets to go to any place in the world we want. We could purchase a palace tomorrow and begin living in it if we want to".
"We could almost buy a small country if one ever was for sale", Hanan III added. And he wasn't saying that too facetiously.
Truth was, the Iscelberg Rats already owned several vacation mansions in various, pristine parts of the world, including a private island resort in the Indian Ocean.
Egypt's newly independent leadership had also began clamping down on Masonic Lodges and Shriner's Temples throughout the country. Many of the Iscelberg Rat males, along with many friends of various animal species who are of Jewish, Muslim, and Coptic Christian faiths, as well as other faiths and even a few Atheists, were Shriners and Masons in the El-Minya, Egypt area. In both the local chapters of the temple and the blue lodge, there were already discussions about secretly holding underground meetings if being members openly would no longer be possible. And there was the possibility that fund raising and charitable events would someday have to be held under a 'different shingle' than 'Shriner' or 'Mason'.
Many animals in the temple and the lodge would say, "I can see the day coming when we will have to act outside of Egyptian Law to continue having these meetings and events".
The year 1958 was the year Hanan III and Judith's youngest cub was born who they named Zander, after Judith's great grand dad. It was on April 1st Zander was born, then on April 8th Zander was Pharisaically circumcised on the eighth day in keeping with the law of their faith. Even the inner sheath over the head was also removed...Male rats have an inner sheath under the outer main sheath covering the head of the penis.
Uncircumcised Rat by IscelbergRatFamily
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Their daughter, Givol, was one year old then. Hanan VI was age seven then, and was surprised watching younger brother Zander getting circumcised during the breis ceremony. Until then, young Hanan VI had no idea there was a sheath covering the little wee-wee that got cut away. He had always thought he and other males in the family, as well as other circumcised animals he had seen, were born that way.
The year 1958 was also the year even more concern for many animals in Egypt, including the Iscelberg Rat Family. This was the year Egypt and Syria formed a union which was named the United Arab Republic.
There were animals in the country who believed it to be a good thing, and with a mood of euphoria among them. And there were those who were very skeptical what the new UAR was going to turn out to be, with a ominous mood among those animals. The Iscelberg Rat Family didn't like the idea of Egypt and Syria becoming the UAR either.
Also, a new national anthem had earlier been adopted for Egypt and the new United Arab Republic. That ominous feeling really set in on the Iscelberg Rat Family, as well as with their hired servants, as they all watched the television news coverage from out of Cairo of the old, green, national flag with it's crescent and three stars coming down, and the new, red, white and black flag with it's two green stars ran up the flagpole...During which time, that new anthem had played:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxC3WNBqB0&spfrelo...
It was to antiquate the old anthems Hanan III and Judith had known when they were cubs, one of which the country used for about 15 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBB12eIUlkQ&spfrelo...
As well as an earlier anthem the country went back to using in the late 1930s...which was the anthem Hanan III's parents Hanan II and Shifra, and also Judith's parents Gan and Pauline grew up with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSLaArpCyw&spfrelo...
In 1960 Egypy's old anthem eventually phased out.
In January of 1961, Hanan III and Judith Iscelberg Rat and the cubs, then ages 9, going on 6, and going on 3, took a trip to Menongue, Angola to check on the 80% of a sugarcane plantation Hanan III had purchased years ago. Along with them them came Hanan III's dad and mom, Hanan II and Shifra Rat, to check on how things were going on a coffee bean plantation they owned near the Province of Cunene.
Transportation for that trip for Hanan III and family was a 1959 Cadillac convertible in indigo black (the color that had the blue and purple casts in it when the light hit it just right) with white and black interior. Hanan III's brother Louie located the car for him, and had it sent to Menongue, Angola waiting on the family to pick it up upon their arrival by private plane. Even though it was a two year old car, Hanan III liked the big fins and torpedo tail lights. Yasin Genet came along to chauffeur the car for the family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5YxxigUbfY
Hanan II and Shefra had their vintage, 1937 Horch 853 convertible transported by cargo plane to Angola for that trip, which they had Husam Fox chauffeur for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4DvHjYWF8&spfrelo....
It was at a general store one evening, around dusk, near Menongue that Zander (then not far from age three) found out that circumcision does not equal "being born that way".
In the store, an old Jambo song was playing over their radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZzh62PPiY&spfrelo...
The ordeal at the store that evening started out with Zander laughing at the Angolan species animals; meerkats, genets and mongooses, because the Rat Family had nice, beautiful cars, and most of the Angolan animals didn't even have a car. A genet had an old 1914 Ford, about to fall apart, with the front fenders rusted away, a board supported from the firewall holding up the radiator, and a roof made of barn tin and tar supported by scrap lumber. The Angolan animals had a weekend off from the sugarcane plantation and were crowded in that old 1914 Ford to take the trip to their homes, with several animals standing on the running boards for the ride. Zander thought that ragged, old car, with all those animals crowded in and on it's running boards, was so funny and busted out laughing at them.
"Ha ha ha ha ha. Look at that silly car!", Zander laughed and pointed. "We got a NICE car".
Zander continued to keep it up...that was until Daddy Rat paddled Zander for it.
Three minutes later, when Zander calmed down from the paddling, the old 'Sugarbush Song' played on the store's radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg8BNliL3fc&spfrelo...
That's when Zander noticed, while Daddy and Mommy were able to buy the best candy the store had for Zander and his siblings, The Angolan cubs had to settle for cheap candy their parents could only afford, plus they had to share it.
"Ha ha ha ha ha", Zander laughed. "You n***** animals get junky candy, an' ya hafta share it too" I got GOOD candy aaaallllll to myself".
Then Zander stuck his tongue out at them and went, "Mnnnnn".
Zander got a paddling for that also. During the paddling, Zander accidentally dropped his candy on the ground.
Then Zander really cried when Daddy Rat told him, "I'm not getting you another candy. I believe Yushura punished you for laughing at those poor animals by making you drop your candy".
Now the meerkats, genets and mongooses began laughing at Zander...instead of Zander laughing at them.
Shortly before the local animals were getting ready to leave inside of and on the running boards of that crowded, ragged, old, Model T Ford to go home for the weekend, a cute, jazzy, French song began playing on the store's radio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGstAoBBFUA&spfrelo...
As Zander looked around at the Angolan animals who came in close proximity to the family, he began to notice he could not see the pee-pee heads on any of the males...just a sheath and ball sack.
"Haaa ha - ha ha ha - haaaaa. You got your pee-wee-doooos cut off. You ain't got no pee-wee-do heads", Zander pointed and scaughed at the Angolan animals.
The Angolan animals were giving Zander dirty looks about that time.
Then a genet cub, slightly older than Zander, who could speak broken English, approached Zander, and told him, "Pee-pee me got. Pee-pee too got head. Pee-pee me daddy got, an' pee-pee me brother an' nother brother got".
Zander didn't believe the genet cub until he pulled back his penis sheath, reveling his genet penis head and barbed sulcus to Zander, and said, "Seeee? Me do got pee-pee. Pee-pee no cut off".
That's when it hit Zander like a 90 mph freight train that Zander should have had, by nature, a penis sheath like the Angolan males have, but it was cut away on Zander and his family.
"WAAAAAAAAA!", Zander screamed in a tantrum, throwing himself on the ground, and beating the ground with his feet and paws. "MY PEE-WEE-DOOOOOO - WAAAAAAAAA - MY PEEEE-WEEEEEEEE-DOOOOOOOO - WAAAAAAAAAA".
The meerkats, genets and mongooses were REALLY laughing at Zander now. Now it was not Zander doing the laughing.
The genet cub's mother called to her son, "De la, afaster. Para O boter, Venha Aqui" (From there, move away. To the car, come here).
When the genet cub came as his mother had called him, then stepped up for him a place on a running board of the old Ford, the rest of the Angolan animals boarded the car and they all took off for home, still laughing at Zander. A meerkat who had and old rusted out, 1931, Ford pick up, also crowded with passengers, had to lead the way for the the other local animals riding the Model T...That's because it was getting dark, and none of the lights on the Model T worked, and at least one headlight was working on the meerkat's pick up.
Daddy Rat REALLY paddled Zander a GOOD one this time, for embarrassing Daddy Rat in the presents of the Angolan animals who worked the sugarcane fields for him.
Needless to say, form that point, through the rest of the family's visit in Angola, Zander was one miserable rat cub.
Several occasions, when Yasin Genet would be chauffeuring the family in that 1959 Cadillac convertable down those Angolan dirt roads, Zander would murmur, "Goyim animals got a pee-wee-do cover and I don't - Whyyyyy?"
That's when Daddy Rat would reach over from the front seat of that 1959 Cadillac convertible and 'Jap-slap' Zander a few times.
During the family's trip back to Egypt aboard their private plane, it was still grinding on Zander about being circumcised, and how Daddy Rat dealt with Zander over it...From that time on in Zander's life, Zander somehow hated Angola.
Later in 1961, the United Arab Republic formed by Egypt and Syria collapsed only three years after it was started. Syria succeeded from the UAR, thus Egypt was again a separate, independent nation.
Chapter 17. The Rat Family Encounter with the President
In the year 1964, Egyptian President Nazztah Aardwolf issued a decree, outlawing organizations of the Shriners and Masons in Egypt. Fellow shrine and lodge members of the Rat Family had seen this coming quite some time. And as Egypt's federal government began shutting down shrines and blue lodges throughout the country, the local Shriners and Masons of El-Minya were already making arrangements with the local Rotary Club, who would allow them to continue to operate and hold charitable events under the disguise of their club.
Also, Hanan II and Hanan III were long time major contributors to the El-Minya Police Benevolent Association, as well as good friends with many of the politicians of the area. And for years, Hanan II has personally known the governor of the Governate of Minea (Governate is like a province or state). Many of the family's friends in high places had given their assurance, without actually coming out and saying so, that they would keep a blind eye turned to Shriner and Masonic activities, as long as those activities were discretely kept at a low profile.
Funds from Shriner's carnivals, presented as Rotary Club carnivals of course, would have to be secretly sent out of the country to be dispersed to hospitals for the treatment of burnt and crippled cubs. Contacts had already been made with animals in London, who know the family, to receive and appropriate the funds where they are to go.
And by this time, Jewish synagogues had already been shut down by order of the Egyptian federal government since more than a year ago. Rabbi Squirrel, along with what few who were left in the congregation, had agreed on a decision to hold Saturday services as "house synagogue" services. Congregation members would take turns lending the hospitality of their homes for worship services to be held.
By the way, June 28th, 1964 was the day of Hanan VI's Bar-Mitzvah. The congregation use to observe a cub's Bar-Mitzvah at the synagogue, but with that shut down, Hanan VI's Bar-Mitzvah was held at a fellow congregation member's home.
Rabbi Squirrel had said of that idea, "Where there is a sincere will, Yashura will provide a way".
Late one Sunday morning, in October of 1964, a Rolls Royce limousine, baring fender mounted flags of the Governate of Minea, accompanied by armed hyenas on motorcycles for protection, pulled up to the grand entrance of the lavish granite and marble palace of the Iscelberg Rat Estate.
As the limo's chauffeur, a genet, opened the door for it's passengers to exit the vehicle, Rashon Civet, one of the Rat Family's butlers, announced that Governor Sazim Mongoose had arrived.
"Allow him in, Rashon. I'll inform my dad", said Hanan III.
"Very well, Sir", Rashon Civet replied as he opened the massive double doors to the estate's entrance.
As Rashon welcomed Governor Mongoose and two of his aids accompanying him, another mongoose and a linsang, Hanan II entered the palace's spacious front entrance foyer, at the same time extinguishing a cigar he had been smoking.
"Sazim. Hello", Hanan II greeted.
"Hi there, Hanan, It's been a while", Sazim Mongoose replied as the two animals shook paws and began conversation.
Then the cubs came running to the foyer, Hanan VI who was then age 13, Givol who was then age 10, and Zander who was then age age 6.
"Governor Mongoose!", Hanan VI exuberantly called out.
"How's everything going, young Hanan?", Governor Mongoose asked.
"Very fine, sir", Hanan VI replied.
"Hello Governor Mongoose", Givol greeted with a smile and a cute little wave.
"You grown much bigger since I've seen you last", The Governor said to Givol.
"HI ya, Shazam", Zander addressed Governor Mongoose.
"ZANDER!", Hanan III called out to his youngest son.
"What?", Zander asked.
"You address Governor Mongoose properly", Judith reprimanded Zander.
"But Grand Dad said Shazam, hello", Zander mimicked his grand dad.
"How would you like to have you grand dad whump you one time?", Hanan II asked Zander. "Don't you mimic me".
"Well, cubs will be cubs", Governor Mongoose said. "I have two of my own you know".
"Yes, I know", Hanan II replied, "But, Sazim. Zander needs to learn respect".
"YOU called him Shazam. See? Just now", Zander retorted to his grand dad.
"The governor and I have been friends for a long time", Hanan II told Zander.
"Your grand dad is right, Son", Sazim Mongoose told Zander. "With long time friends, It's different".
"I know what Zander will understand", Judith said as she took him into another room.
Moments later, you could hear >whop whop whop< "WAAAAA ahaa ahaa ahaa ahaa ahaaaaaaaa"
"You going to stop acting like a little wise guy?", you could hear Judith asked her son.
"Yeeaaaa", Zander cried.
"That's not the way I want to hear it", Judith replied.
"Yes, Mame", Zander cried.
"That's better", said Judith.
Then Judith marched Zander back to the foyer and told him, "I think you owe Governor Mongoose an apology now".
"I'm sorrrry", Zander said, still snibbling from the spanking he got.
"I'm sorry who?", Judith asked Zander.
"I'm - I'm sorry Governor Mongoose", said Zander.
"Apology accepted, Son", Sazim Mongoose replied. "I thank you very much".
After all that was out of the way, everyone went to the dining room to have snacks, treats and some coffee or tea. Hanan II also saves fine wine and cognac for such occasions, but for only those who the family knows well. Alcohol beverages are illegal in Egypt, but the Iscelberg Rats, as well as Governor Sazim Mongoose and other friends of the family in high places, do tend to bend that law just a little.
After about 40 minutes of socializing, there was an important matter to be addressed.
Sazim Mongoose announced to the family, "There is a reason for my visit here today. A delegation from your family will need to travel to Cairo tomorrow. President Nazztah Aardwolf requires the presents of some of you at five o'clock".
"The President!", Hanan II exclaimed.
"Why would he want to see us?", Hanan III asked.
"Are we getting kicked out of the country?", Chaim, Hanan II's brother, asked.
"I hope not, Uncle Chaim", Hanan III replied.
"I don't believe it's about that", Sazim Mongoose assured the family. "The president wouldn't have someone visit him personally just to expel someone out of the country".
"Can we come with you tomorrow?! To see the president?!", Hanan VI asked with much enthusiasm.
"Pleeeease!?", Givol added.
"Wowwww!", Zander further added.
There were many times the cubs have noticed President Aardwolf on their wall size, cinema screen television, with his large snout and predominate bottom jaw, and wavy neck mane and wavy fur on top his head.
"No you can't", Hanan III told the cubs.
"Awwwww", the cubs contested.
"It's no place for you cubs", Judith explained.
"That's right", Hanan II added. "We have no idea what this thing is going to be about".
Governor Mongoose then acknowledged, "With the political climate of the country, bringing the cubs along definitely would not be advisable".
As everyone discussed plans for the tomorrow's trip to Cairo, it was decided that Hanan II and his brother Chaim would make the trip. Hanan III had volunteered to come along also.
"How about your brother Hebron?", Chanita suggested to her nephew Hanan III.
"He should be with us too, Son", Hanan II added.
"I agree", said Chaim. "Hebron's background in law could be an asset to us in this matter".
Right away, Judith phoned her brother-in-law Hebron, who lived in Luxor to the south of them, and told him what was going on. Hebron Iscelberg Rat certainly was surprised to hear what Judith had to tell him and agreed to come along with them.
After Judith got off the phone with Hebron, she called Louie, who also lived in Luxor. It came as a surprise to Louie as well, and at the end of the conversation, he wished everyone the best of luck.
It was going into evening by the time logistics for the trip were finalized, and everyone agreed it was getting late. Sazim Mongoose wished the best for everyone as he and the two governor's aids with him were leaving. And that night, the Rat Family got to bed early. It was expected to be a long day tomorrow, and the cubs were to have school the next day.
The following day, Monday, after Judith wished the males luck with President Aardwolf, she had Yasin Genet chauffeur her and the cubs in the Rolls Royce limo to drop the cubs off at school, an elite private school, definitely not the public school system. Then she had Yasin take her to run some errands she wanted to do.
Hanan II, Hanan III and Chaim would have Husam Fox chauffeur them to Cairo in Hanan III's Cadillac limo...Rabbi Squirrel was coming along also, and with the Cadillac being a bigger car than the Rolls, there would be more room for the four of them.
About mid morning, Hebron Rat arrived from Luxor to the Rat Family Estate near El-Minya, in a Mercedes limo, driven by Zahid Jerboa. Brother Louie was also with him to come along on the trip. Shortly after Hebron and Louie's arrival, they began the trip to Cairo, with Hanan's limo leading the way, and Hebron's limo following.
Hours later, the five Iscelberg Rat males and Rabbi Squirrel arrived in Cairo. There was still a while before the meeting time of 5:00 pm, so Hanan III and Hebron had their chauffeurs stop in at high class bistro to get something to eat. It was one of those places that had no prices on the menu, everything was a la carte, and if you were not rich you don't show up there, much less go in. While they were there, Hanan II treated Rabbi Squirrel to what ever he wanted on the menu, which Rabbi Squirrel greatly appreciated.
Not long before five o'clock, the family delegation made their way to the Abdeen Palace where they were to meet President Nazztah Aardwolf. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by dignitaries in the way that diplomats and ambassadors would expect to be welcomed.
"Many welcomes my friends. I'm Yusef Lion", a Barbary Lion greeted the Iscelberg Rats and Rabbi Squirrel.
"The pleasure is ours as well", Hanan II replied, being first to exit the limousine.
After they were acquainted, Yusef Lion, accompanied by two caracal cats, showed their guests around the palace as they engaged in small conversation. Then after a short while, the lion had everyone follow him out to a lavish courtyard with it's extravagant gardens...And there he was...President Nazztah Aardwolf.
"Hello. I have been expecting you", Nazztah Aardwolf greeted the guests as he shook paws with them. "Of course, I need no introduction, as you all already know who I am".
"We're delighted to meet you, Mr. President", Hanan II replied.
"While you are my guests, you may address me as Nazztah. That would be good", said Nazztah Aardwolf.
"Very well", replied.
After everyone took seats at the wrought iron and brass, patio chairs and tables, Nazztah said to Yusef Lion, "Yusef, let's have some treats and coffee".
"Jahad", Yusef called one of the caracal cats. "Get the servants to bring some coffee and treats for the President and our guests".
"Right away, Sir", Jahad Caracal answered as he went to summon some servants.
So far what Nazztah Aardwolf to talk about was small conversation...getting acquainted.
Several minutes later, a mongoose butler, a mongoose maid and a linsang maid arrived with trays carrying pastries, fruit, berries, unleavened bread and rich, aromatic coffee...There was no wine or cognac here, which was illegal under Egyptian law.
"Will that be all, Sir?", the butler asked.
"That will do", Nazztah answered. "Thank you".
Nazztah offered to let one of the members of the Rat Family choose his mug of coffee for him, in which he would take a first drink before the others, to assure them none of the coffees had been spiked.
"I am sure you are wondering why I've asked you here", Nazztah Aardwolf mentioned.
"That has been on our minds", Hanan II replied.
"You do know that animals of you religious faith have been getting expelled from Egypt since...Oh say...eight years ago", said Nazztah Aardwolf.
"We have been painfully aware of that", said Rabbi Squirrel.
"There's a story I have to tell that is like our situation", Nazztah began. "There was once a bee hive in southern Africa, and a community of meerkats who lived nearby."
The rats and squirrel listened intently as the aardwolf continued, "As we all know, insects are a part of a meerkat's diet...The story goes that the meerkats figured out a way to eat the bees in the hive without getting stung. And they found the bees to be so tasty and satisfying. However, the meerkats soon found out there would be no more honey. They chose to eat the bees one time, when they could of had a lifetime supply of honey".
"And how that relates to us...", Hanan II pondered.
"That is this", Nazztah answered. "I could choose to have you and your family expelled from Egypt, with a one time confiscation of your assets..."
"Only a small percent of what we own is in Egypt", Hanan III interjected.
"Your billions in assets and properties in this country is only a small percent of what you have?", Nazztah Aardwolf asked with surprise.
"That is correct", Hanan affirmed.
"If what you have in this country is only a small percent of your wealth, I believe I could not fully comprehend the wealth and assets you must own around the world completely", Nazztah said in amazement. "The taxes Egypt alone collects from what you generate each year within our borders is a fortune in itself".
Then Hanan II summarized, "Your saying if you expel us from Egypt, Egypt looses a huge source of tax revenue each year".
"Exactly so", Nazztah Aardwolf answered. "Egypt can either eat bees one time, or she can enjoy honey for as long as you continue to prosper in Egypt as well as your family does...Your investment strategies, not even our best financial experts have been able to crack how you do it".
"I take it we need not fear being expelled out of the country", Hanan II mentioned.
"You are guaranteed to be allowed to remain in Egypt as long as you desire to", Nazztah Aardwolf assured the Iscelberg Rats. "With the same respect as anyone else enjoys who lives here. You have my word on that".
At first President Nazztah Aardwolf wasn't going to grant Rabbi Squirrel and his family immunity from possible expulsion from Egypt, until the family delegation pleaded and convinced Nazztah Aardwolf to grant him and his family the same immunity.
Nazztah Aardwolf invited his guests to visit and socialize a while longer. Then as it got late into the evening, the family delegation thanked Nazztah Aardwolf for the immunity he granted them, and Nazztah wished them a safe trip home just before they entered their limousines to leave.
Later that night, when Hanan II, Hanan III, Chaim, Hebron, Louie and Rabbi Squirrel returned to the Iscelberg Rat Estate, the rest of the family were relieved and delighted when they were told what the meeting was about, and how well it went.
Chapter 18. School Days
When Hanan VI, Givol, and Zander were growing up, they attended a very elite private school, that had a high quality education curriculum, and had grades starting at preschool, and going all the way through 12th. There were also fellow students who were of other species in their school, who's parents were wealthy enough to send them there, but not from as wealthy families as the Rat Family, who were popular among the other students because of that.
Friday, February 4th, 1966, at school, two months before Zander turned age 8, and in the 2nd grade, the class was given their morning restroom break. There was an oriental linsang using the urinal next to where Zander was peeing. Because Zander, along with all the males in his family was circumcised, he was fascinated with seeing the linsang draw his sheath back to pee.
The linsang's attention was caught when Zander said, "Ohh! It's shiny!".
"What?!", The linsang said as he noticed Zander gawking at his penis, out of sheath, peeing. "Why are you stareing at my pee-pee?"
"What's that skin like?" asked Zander.
"None of your business!" The linsang told Zander as he turned his back to Zander, and Zander leaned around so he can still see it.
"ARE YOU QUEER OR SOMETHING?!", the linsang asked as he resorted to re-sheathing his penis, and continued peeing through his sheath, so Zander can't see it.
"I didn't know you could do that!" said Zander as the other class mates now noticed what was going on.
"Zander, leave him alone!", a male genet called out.
The females who were there, started giggling at Zander. Being that the animals don't wear clothes anyway, they all share the same restrooms, showers, etc.
"Hey, Zander! Why don't you look at some of these females instead of looking at Chaun Linsang?! You're gona marry Chaun or something?", a male palm civet called out as everyone busted out laughing. An otter and a mongoose were among the circumcised males in Zander's 2nd grade class, and even they were laughing.
"Zander would get a scent pouch in the deal!", the otter called out, getting everyone to laugh even harder, referring to the scent pouch linsangs have near the genital.
"He can marry the sharp ends of my claws and see how he likes it", said Chaun.
By the time everyone was leaving the restroom, heading back to class, Zander was so embarrassed, he felt like he could wear a paper bag over his face.
Back in class, Zander kept calling across the table to Chaun Linsang, and trying get an answer out of him as to what having a genital sheath is really like.
Chaun finally stood up in class, and hollered at Zander, "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! YOU DON'T HAVE A SHEATH COVERING YOUR PEE-PEE HEAD, SO IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
The class busted out in loud laughter, followed by the otter calling out, "Hey, Zander, Jollah Mongoose and I are circumcised too, but we don't go around asking those kind of questions".
"Well!", exclaimed the teacher, who was a persnickety poodle, "Enough on THAT subject. Let's get back to class material, shall we".
Zander making a schoolwide spectacle over Chaun Linsang's uncircumcised penis also had a bad ramification for older sister, Givol. The Friday it happened was the one day before Givol's 12th birthday...And a very special birthday it was...It was the day of her Bat-Mitzvah, which is when a female turns age 12.
That Saturday of Givol's 12th birthday, at the Iscelderg Rat Estate after Sabbath worship services, everyone began the observance of Givol's Bat-Mitzvah. It started out pleasant...However, many of the cubs in the congregation who attended were also students of the elite private school that Hanan VI, Givol and Zander attend.
Just as Givol's Bat-Mitzvah was going along, a gerbil cub mentioned, "Gee, Givol. Your brother was sure nosy about Chaun Linsang's pee-dee-pee-dee-do at school yesterday, wasn't he?"
"HEY!", Givol protested. This is MY Bat-Mitzvah!".
"SAMUEL!", the gerbil's dad reprimanded his son.
"He he he. Maybe Zander wants to play with it", Samuel Gerbil's younger brother giggled.
"Uhhh, not exactly THAT", Zander opened his big mouth, which got all the cubs who were there laughing and making other comments.
As parents were getting their cubs back under control, Givol began crying.
Rabbi Squirrel called for the attention of the cubs and told them, "Let's not have any of that kind of talk here, cubs. This is a Holy ceremony".
As the situation was back under control, Judith came over to comfort Givol.
"It's OK, dear. Everything will be OK", Judith told her.
"Mom...Did Zander have to pick the day before my Bat-Mitzvah to?...You know?", Givol cried.
"All that stuff's over now...OK?", Judith assured her daughter.
"OK", Givol sobbed as she dried up her tears and regained her composure.
Before long, Givol's Bat-Mitzvah was going along as planed very pleasantly.
A short while later four male chipmunk cubs went into one of the palace's bathrooms that was nearby. One of them had a circumcision in a way that he still had some of his sheath.
Givol's Bar-Mitzvah had so far been going along smoothly again...That was until everyone heard, coming from the bathroom with the door open, one of the chipmunk cubs shout, "I'M CHAUN LINSANG! SEE MY PEE-PEE! SEE MY PEE-PEE!".
"SOMEONE GET THOSE CUBS OUT OF THE BATHROOM!" Hanan III called out.
By that time the rest of the cubs were laughing again as Rabbi Squirrel was trying to restore some sense of order.
As several adult animals went to go get the four cubs, Givol cried, "Zander turned my Bat-Mitzvah into something creepy...Booooo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo".
"It's alright, honey. It's alright", Judith assured Givol.
As the adult animals led the chipmunk cubs back into the family room, Rabbi Squirrel ordered the young pranksters to have a seat on a sofa.
"Listen! Cubs! We're not having any more of these antics!", Rabbi Squirrel demanded.
"Hey, Zander! What were you looking in bathroom at school yesterday?!", a female dormouse cub called out as Rabbi Squirrel whirled about to see who made the remark.
"Uhh...Nothing really", Zander blurted, not having sense enough to keep his mouth shut.
"I know!", a male Jerboa cub called out. "A pointy nose worm with a hoodie!"
As other cubs busted out in laughter, Rabbi Squirrel announced, "I think some of you parents need to be correcting your cubs".
Everything quickly got back under control when parents began taking their cubs into other rooms and spanking them.
Givol, in tears, grabbed up a piece of cake, and approached her younger brother Zander with it.
"THANKS A LOT YOU CREEP! YOU RUINED MY BAT-MITZVAH!" Givol cried at Zander as she whacked him up side the head with the cake.
"It only comes once in a lifetime", Givol cried as she ran to the next room, up the palace's spacious, grand stairs, and to her room to cry over her Bat-Mitzvah becoming a social disaster.
By this time, everyone had heard what Zander had done at school the day before.
"Zander, you should be ashamed of yourself!", the female jerboa cub's mom told Zander.
There were other remarks like, "Zander, you pervert", and "Your parents should seek help for you".
Then Zander's uncle Herman on Zander's mom's side of the family exclaimed, "Zander, ya lousy bastard! You ruined you own sister's Bat-Mitzvah! How could you!"
"That's not doing any good, Herman. Please don't rub it in", Judith asked her brother.
"OK, OK, Judith. I won't.", Uncle Herman replied.
After Judith came upstairs to Givol's room and got Givol calmed down, many of the guests downstairs had already left. But there were still quite a few attendees, including Rabbi Squirrel, who were still present when Judith and Givol came back downstairs. This time when everyone continued with Givol's Bat-Mitzvah, everything went along peacefully and pleasantly without anymore problems. And to make sure it stayed that way, Zander was warned by the other males that if he so much as uttered a peep for the rest of the observance, Zander would be taken outside and get the living shit beat out of him...And it was said to him in those exact words too.
By the time Zander was going into the 3rd grade, he would frequently ask his other male school mates personal questions like, "What's it like not being circumcised?", or questions about the genital anatomy of species that were not of his own species. The answers he got were always, in so many words, "None of your business". Zander once asked a male fossa school mate, "What does it feel like to have a funky penis like the ones you fossas have? Is having one like that really fun to play with?" The young fossa gave Zander an angry look, sharp clawed Zander across the face, then told him, "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!".
Those questions often got Zander beat up by his fellow students, and quite often got Zander's parents called to the school to have a talk with the school administrator.
Chapter 19. Zander Rat, a Jerk and a Creep
During the last quarter of 8th grade, a month after Zander turned 14, he got the notion in his mind he wanted to try his paw at being a school bully. That didn't go over so well with Zander's fellow students as there were no bullies in that school and no one cared for it either. Zander didn't have the nerve to pick on anyone, except for one student. He was a Malagasy civet named Hassar. Zander picked Hassar out to torment and harass because Hassar was born somewhat mentally challenged and was not a good fighter. The rest of the students were appalled at Zander for it, and thought what Zander began doing to Hassar really stunk on ice. Zander all along thought he was being considered bad ass cool by everyone, until several students ganged up and began beating Zander with every inch of his life.
Then they told Hassar, "If you ever get any more trouble from Zander Rat again, just let us know and we'll take care of it for you".
That afternoon, after school, several other students beat Zander bad enough to put him in a hospital for three days. Needless to say, Zander was a bully for only five minutes before his fellow students quickly put a stop to it. Hassar always knew he had good friends, and it became apparent that day.
Zander's family didn't care for those ways much either. Especially his older brother Hanan IV, who would get really angry with Zander over it. But Zander was family, and they say blood's thicker than water.
As a teen, Zander seemed like he had no sense of responsibility, and couldn't be relied on for anything. He'd invite friends over to his dad's estate for parties, and leave several rooms of the estate in a major mess, and with things broken, for the house servants to clean up. In early June of 1972, a week after graduating 8th grade, Zander and his friends got into Daddy's wine cellar, got drunk, and made a game of swatting at fish in the Nile River with expensive tennis racquets and ruining them...Oh well, Daddy will buy new ones. On a few occasions Zander would take a boat out, and when he returned it to the boat house, he did not secure it. One of Daddy's speed boats Zander let drift away was hit by another boat eleven hours later, totaling both boats, during the night, further down the Nile. Later in the summer vacation from school of 1972, Zander and some friends took Daddy's yacht out on the Nile without Daddy's permission or knowledge of it. Zander's unruly crew included an assortment of, a male mongoose with blue and green fur dye down his back and tail, wearing lots of gold jewelery. And there was a female jackal with several pierce rings in her ears, lower lip and three in the right side of her pussy with a heart tattoo on the left side. Then there was a male linsang with the fur on top of his head dyed fluorescent pink and a peirce ring in his toungue and one in the end of his genital sheath. There was the female rat with a snowflake tattoo on her nose. And her fiancee, a male rat with a nose ring and a jingle bell pierced through the end of his tail. Then there was the male fox. He was a real work of art. He had rings pierced down both ears, one in a toe on his left foot, three in his chin, and he had the hair on top his head trained out to be long with it partly hanging in his face and dyed lime green, and wore several long gold necklaces. The fox was was circumcised as a new born (which was fairly frequent in their country). Back when it was done, he was not lined up before he was stitched. As a result, the fox's penis laid, rotated over to it's left side. The fox also had a rose tattoo covering the face of the penis head, and a ring pierced in the head. All these anthro animal youth friends of Zander either lied about their age to get their tattoos and pierces, and some knew an artist who was willing to hook them up for a price. The only thing that stopped Zander from getting any of that stuff is that he knew Daddy would beat the shit out of him for it. The fox bought along a bag of weed aboard Daddy Rat's yacht, making him the most popular, for that day, among that crazy crew. Zander and his friends partied hardy out on Daddy Rat's yacht, cruising up and down the Nile, running the yacht stoned and reckless and everyone having multiple partner sex out on the deck. After everyone had their day of fun in the sun, the stoned, motley crew bought Daddy Rat's yacht back, and Zander did not secure it.
"Ha ha ha...Uhh...Shouldn't you tie it back up?", the fox asked him as he swayed around stoned.
"Nah...Eh...The butler will get it.", Zander replied half stoned.
Twelve days later, Hanan Rat the III's yacht was found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel, with a quarter bag of dope aboard. Hanan reported it stolen the day it drifted off. And Zander denyed to his parents any wrong doing.
Zander also acted like a smart ass jerk toward the estate's domestic hired help, considering them substandard to his family and himself. The rest of the family, however, treated them with decency and respect.
When Zander was 15, his older brother, Hanan the IV, then age 22, beat the shit out of Zander, literally, for sexually molesting and injuring a 12 year old male cousin, causing him to be sterile for the rest of his life. Hanan IV would not allow Mae Mongoose, one of the maids, to clean up the crap off the floor Hanan literally beat out of his younger brother, Zander. Hanan forced Zander to clean up his own shit instead. Zander's parents later took Zander to see a shrink over the incident.
At that time, Hanan IV was already married to his wife, Joan, and with a daughter, Wanda. And Givol was pregnant from her husband, Joseph Finnbecker Rat. Out of concern for their little ones, it was made crystal clear to Zander Rat, that he would get every bone in his body broken if he dared to come anywhere near his nieces and nephews before they became adults. And when Givol's cub was born, it was a male, Joey Finnbecker Rat Jr.
Eight days later, Zander Rat was forbidden to attend little Joey junior's circumcision ceremony (a custom observed by the family linage).
In addition to the regular penis sheath, male rats also have a 2nd inner sheath fold, beneath the regular sheath. When the outer sheath is retracted, the inner sheath of the male rat is shaped like a vase when it is not being retracted to reveal the head (one sheath inside the other).
During a circumcision ceremony observed by the Rat Family, the outer furry sheath, as well as the vase shaped inner sheath, are both removed, leaving the head continually exposed (sort of like a double circumcision, leaving no sheath at all).
The entire family attended Joey Junior's circumcision, but it was off limits to Zander.
Chapter 20. Zander Gets a Mopar
Zander had no appreciation for the things his parents would by for him either. When Zander was 16, his dad bought for him a 1971 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda that Zander wanted
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wGXvKzKfHrw and
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mpf8lGt9gs0 .*
It was a three year old car at the time, and had been seized from it's original owner in a drug raid. It was lime green, with the "billboard" style quarter panel decals, "shaker" style hood scoop, rear spoiler, and it had set of aftermarket blacked out mags. Uncle Louie Rat was a car dealer, and had connections with those who were able to locate one, and get it in from the U.S. Louie Rat had to pull some real strings to make that one happen. Zander didn't have it long before he was racing up and down the highway in competition with his motley friend's cars, showing off and seeing how hard he can push it. One day Zander was out cruising with his green haired fox friend riding along (the one with the rose tattoo you know where), who bought along a few joints for him and Zander to toke on.
Even though the laws against marijuana use is rarely enforced in Egypt, it still wasn't exactly a smart move on the part of Ferris Fox and Zander Rat to be cruising in a car down the highway while stoned.
"Heeyy...How do you like it?!", Zander asked as they were crusing along at 160 kph (100 mph) down a stretch of desert highway, both of them half stoned, and playing one of Ferris Fox's British punk rock, 8-trac tapes, "Blast - Damned Flame", so loud it would just about run anyone out of the car.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=llaDswZVdLY .
Ferris Fox would occasionally play air guitar with a joint hanging out of his mouth as they sped down the highway with the 8-trac player blasting away.
"Wow!...Awesome ride! Never seen a cool car like this!", Ferris Fox eventually replied, then taking a toke off of a joint.
"Hu hu...Probably the only car like it in Egypt", said Zander. "My Uncle Louie got it...from the U.S. There's lot's of these kind-a cars over there".
Ferris noticed the speedometer, then told Zander, "Hey...Heeyy, Zander, Your speedometer is waaayyy off, or I'm real stoned. We're going a lot faster than 100 kilometers per hour".
"Hu hu hu hu hu", Zander laughed.
"What's so funny?", Ferris laughed as he passed the joint to Zander.
"Hu hu hu...It's in miles per hour, not kilometers", Zander replied. "My dad told me to be careful with it. Hu hu. He said a speedometer like this can fool you".
"Oh oh oh! Ferris! Get the owner's manual out of the glove compartment and read it". Zander said to Ferris. "Hu hu...It's really loopie".
Ferris did as Zander had told him to do.
"Woaha wow yo hey! How can anyone read THIS?!", retorted Ferris as he, at first, held the manual up side down, until he noticed the pictorial illustrations.
"Hu hu hu hu", Zander laughed, "It's sure not written in Arabic script that WE can read, is it? That's the way they write over in the west".
"Craaazzzy", Ferris replied as he put the manual back away.
"Hey! Ferris! Wana see what this car can do?!" Zander asked exuberantly.
"Go for it", replyed Ferris.
Zander downshifted from 4th to 3rd and floored it. The two motley friends were thrilled by the hard acceleration. Then Zander threw it into 4th, barking the tires, as he held the twin, four barrel carburetors wide open.
"Ferris, you ever seen anything this fast before?" Zander asked as he got it up to 160 miles per hour.
"Ha ha ha ha ha...Wow! Awesome!...No I haven't, Zander. This is really cruisin' ", replied Ferris Fox.
"Uhh...Watch what it can really do", said Zander as he continued holding the throttle wide open, trying to wrench every bit of the 427 horse power he could get out of it, the engine buzzing like a chain saw motor, as the speedometer had gone long past it's numbers, going on to where 170 would be.
"Heyo. Uhh. Zander, I 'm not too stoned to see you're red lining this thing. You're gona blow it up", Ferris told Zander.
"It's OK, Ferris. I know what this car can do", Zander replied.
BOOM went the engine, blowing apart at 170 miles per hour, and locking up so hard, the transmission shattered. Gears, bent shafts, synchronizer parts and chunks of clutch housing and transmission casing went tumbling down the road, and the drive shaft tore loose and flew out from under the car. Oil smoke trailed behind like the contrail of a rocket.
"Woah! What the Fuck! Like...End of ride!", Ferris Fox exclaimed, with a smoking joint still hanging out of his mouth, as Zander's car began it's coast from 170 down to 0.
Zander could only say, "Huuuhhh?" as he was still stearing the coasting disabled car.
"I told you, Zander. You were gona blow it up", Ferris reminded him after the car stopped, and as the two of them, sharing their last joint, began their long walk to anything resembling civilization.
They were both so stoned, Zander never turned off the ignition and took the keys with him, and Ferris Fox forgot his 8-trac tape. As they abandoned the car, the 8-trac player continued to play the loud punk rock music Zander and Ferris had been listening to before the car's engine blew up.
Chapter 21. Other Cars Daddy Bought for Zander
A few weeks later, Uncle Louie found a 1970 BMW 2800 at a dealer auction
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UO1iWY-abkU .*
Louie Rat heard about Zander blowing up his Hemi Barracuda, so Louie bidded on the BMW and got it for Zander. It was a 2nd owner repo, in pristine condition, cream color with seats upholstered with a material similar to soft leather. Zander had it for about three weeks, then he set it on fire on the side of the highway, and made up a story, an electrical short under the dash caused the fire. Zander did so because it wasn't a car he really liked, and he figured Daddy would get him different one. And Zander figured right. Believing the "under the dash fire" story, Daddy asked his brother Louie to locate another car for Zander. Zander said he would like to have a Porsche, so that's what Louie kept a look out for. Two weeks later, here comes Uncle Louie, driving up to the estate, in a Shiny red 1973 Porshe 911 Carrera
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vgCvaKj5rYo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AaiE05WlZzE .* Louie blows the Porshe's fancy horn, and when everyone comes outside, he announces, "Here's Zander's car!", as he gives the horn another blast.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxXbpaBYB6c .
"Oh boy, oh boy!", exclaimed Zander as he was like a cub on Christmas morning. While Zander's dad was paying Louie for the car, Zander hopped in and took off with it. He never thanked Daddy or Uncle Louie. And never asked Louie if he needed a ride home. Zander just sped on down the highway in his new Porsche, wanting to see how fast it can go.
The following year, Zander, then age 17, wanted to get more performance out of that Porsche. Zander had heard some myths about aviation gasoline, and thought he'd like to try it. There was a small municipal airport about 40 minutes drive from the estate. Zander's dad owned a Cessna twin engine plane and a Lear private passenger jet at the airport, so he knew the fuel attendants there. When Zander explained what he wanted to do, the attendants, both of them bears, tried to talk him out of it, and told him he would ruin the engine. Zander dissagreed with them, and insisting for 20 minutes that he heard airplane gas makes a car run better. So how do you argue with a know-it-all? The two bears finally went ahead and let Zander "fill 'er up". As Zander filled the tank, various species of other anthro-animals stood around and gawked at Zander Rat like he must have lost his mind. One of the bears shrugged his shoulders and said, "We tried to tell him".
"Wow! This gas DOES make it run stronger", said Zander as he sped away from the airport on a full tank of aviation fuel. And it did run better. That Porsche went screaming down the highway like it never had before. About 12 kilometers down the highway, Zander heard a "poop-pop" sound come from the engine as he continued speeding along.
"Hmm. Must need a tune up", Zander said to himself.
Then the engine started started more popping, sounding, "rrrrrrrrrr pop rrrr poop rrrrrrrrrrrr poop pop pow rrrr bang rrr pop pop rr pop bang boom pow", as it began blowing thick white smoke out of the exhaust.
Then Zander's Porsche rapidly began loosing power, as it sounded like a string of lit firecrackers going off and would barely run. Finally, it quit running all together. Zander, stranded on the side of the highway, attempted to restart the car, but it would only crank and not fire over. Zander finally ran the battery dead trying to get it started. There were no cell phones in the year 1975. So Zander had to get out and start walking. A binturong in a Volkswagon stopped by and gave Zander a ride to the estate. Zander didn't even thank the binturong. In fact, Zander acted like the binturong owed him that ride.
The mechanic, Charlie Weasel, who's expertise was exotic cars, who tore down the engine to Zander's Porsche, told Zander's dad that every valve in the engine was burnt, two of them burnt down to only a stem, four of the pistons had holes burnt in the tops of them, the cylinder walls scored and an exhaust manifold was cracked from excessive heat. The engine couldn't be rebuilt. It had to be replaced. Daddy went ahead and gave the OK to put a new engine in the car, being that he felt Zander didn't know better about putting aviation fuel in an automobile. Zander questioned why that gas didn't work in a car if it will work in an airplane.
"You see what airplane fuel did to your car don't you?", Charlie Weasel told Zander Rat.
"But what stops it from burning up an airplane?", Zander retorted.
"An airplane is designed for it. A car is not", Charlie tried to tell Zander as Charlie was getting short on patience.
"But then what made it burn up the motor in my car?", Zander continued.
"YOU STUPID FOOL JACK ASS! CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TELL YOU?!", Charlie shouted at Zander.
"That doesn't answer my question", said Zander.
"I guess you think you know more than this mechanic does, I suppose", Zander's dad told his son.
"Thank you", Charlie told Zander's dad.
Zander shut his mouth after that.
Four days after the Porsche was repaired, Zander was showing off with it, to his linsang friend, who was riding in the car with him. Zander lost control of the car and crashed it, totaling the car out. Zander busted his nose on the stearing wheel and had to be treated at the hospital. And his linsang freind had his parents try to sue Zander's dad by faking an injury.
Zander graduated in Class of 1976. Zander's dad had gotten Hanan IV and Givol expensive brand new cars of their choice as a graduation present back when they had completed school, and Zander was to be no different. Zander's car of choice was a 1976 Ferrari 512, in red
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The day Zander graduated, Daddy pawed the keys to a brand new, 1976, red, Ferrari 512 over to his son Zander. Zander can really burn up the highway with that one. Three months after Zander had the Ferrari, he loaned it to a civet freind who totaled it at over 355 kilometers per hour, literally tearing the car into fiery chunks and fragments, getting himself instantly killed and learning a hard lesson he'll never live to remember that a car is not a play toy. The civet's parents began filing a big law suit against Zander's dad, Hanan III, for the loss of their son, but instead, accepted an out of court settlement for five million pounds, Hanan had offered them. Admitting that five million pounds will not bring their son back, Hanan III offered his condolences toward the Civet Family. The family's attorney advised them that Hanan's generous offer was way more than what they would have walked away with had they followed through with the law suit.
Hanan III replaced Zander's totaled out Ferrari with a 1970 Datsun, 180B...in the 4 door hatchback version...Ugly looking car, and a slow one at that.
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Daddy didn't mind getting Zander the car, but he was through getting Zander cars that are costly and nice. And anymore fast cars for Zander were out of the question also.
Chapter 22. Zander Steals From the Shriners...Anonymously known as the Rotary Club
Now that Zander was graduated, Zander's dad taught Zander about the family's real estate business. Hanan Rat III also showed his son "the ropes" of bidding on tax foreclosed homes, acquiring rental property and how to squeeze the the most money out of tenants.
"This is where the real school begins, Son", Hanan would tell Zander when he taught him those investment secrets to acquiring more wealth, and the dos and don'ts about corporate share holding, and other secrets of how the rich get richer. Those are the illuminati secrets that are usually not revealed to just anyone. However, one thing Daddy Hanan could never get Zander interested in was the European Classical, Polka and Yiddish style music like the rest of the family listened to.
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However, Zander, along with his motley friends he always hung out with, were into British punk rock music whenever they could get their paws on 8-trac and cassette tapes that had those recordings. In Egypt, that kind of music was hard to come by because it was frowned upon by Egyptian mainstream society in those days. Zander's family members, as well as the servants and other hired help, referred to it as "noise" instead of music. http://youtube.com/watch?v=WMql1o5by8Q .
When ever Daddy Hanan would get tired of hearing it, he would give a house servant, or the chauffeur, a pay bonus to collect Zander's tapes while he was away, take them far away, and dispose of them as they saw fit. When Zander could not find his tapes, he would assume that he had misplaced them, or that some of his motley friends walked off with them. Everyone knew when Zander discovered some of his tapes missing. They could hear him throwing stuff around in his room looking for them.
Another issue where Zander and Daddy were on opposite pages was when one of Hanan's business associates, a makak named Omar, invited Zander to come along with him to the U.S. and visit the Bohemian Grove.
Omar Makak is a member of the club, and Zander once told his dad, with gleeful joy, how much he would love to go with Omar to visit the grove and participate in the homage ceremony to the great stone owl, Moloch.
Hanan warned his son, "If you even so much as go near that grove, you'll no longer be allowed to return to this estate ever again".
Omar Makak had tried to get Hanan to become a Bohemian Club member. But Hanan made it clear to Omar, that although the Iscelberg Rat Family are among the elite aluminaties, they would have nothing to do with the Bohemian Club. Hanan III always had his mind firmly made up that the things that go on in that grove are of evil doing.
Zander had only dysfunctional relationships during his early adult years. Some were marriage, and some were live in arrangements, and most turned violent. Out of all his relationships, Zander fathered no offspring.
During one warm night of the Summer of 1981, when Zander was 23 years old, he broke into the local Bahia Shrine Temple, which of course was under the facade of a Rotary Club Chapter to avoid detection by the Egyptian government. Zander gained entry through the rear emergency exit door, which was an open inward door secured with a wood bar and brackets that were not very strong. All Zander had to do was shove against the rear door several times, and he was in. He knew this, because his dad and older brother were Shriners, and members of that temple. There were several occasions when Zander was invited to Shrine meetings when Zander's dad tried to encourage him to join the Mason Lodge. However, Zander's dad did realized that decision has to be of one's own free will. Those were the times Zander took notice of how poorly the rear door to the Shrine Temple was always secured.
Zander already knew what he wanted. He heard his dad and brother, over the past several days, talking about how profitable the Shriners fund drive carnival had been. It didn't take long for Zander to find what he was after. He then grabbed an old duffel bag from his car, then packed it with every bit of what was over 17,000 pounds that had been collected by the carnival for burnt and crippled cubs. Before Zander left the temple, he found some of those four inch round, colourful, embossed aluminum, stick-on Shrine emblems. Zander thought a few of them would look cool across the back of his ugly, old, Datsun 4 door hatchback. So he grabbed a bunch of them on his way out then stuck five of them on his car. Displaying one of those emblems is a definite no-no with serious consequences unless you are a Shrine member, which Zander was unaware of. But there was a concern more grave than that. Zander took the risk of the emblems being seen by a following motorist on his way home...All it would have taken would have been one "good Samaritan" cellphone call to Egyptian authorities about those emblems, and it would have been "game over" for everyone. Then off for home Zander Rat drove through the night, with over 17,000 pounds of cash he had stolen, which was meant for burnt and crippled cubs. And with Shrine emblems he had no business having in his possession.
Come morning, about 45 minutes after sunrise, the Rat Family was just sitting down to have breakfast, when they were startled by the sound of a mob of fellow anthro-animals literally smashing the Hell out of Zander's car with a tire iron, axe, baseball bat, sledge hammer to name a few. When Hanan III got up from the table, and ran outside to the driveway where Zander's car was being smashed, he noticed the angry mob were fellow fraternity members from over at the Shrine Temple.
"Hanan!" Carl, a big brown bear called out, as he was still holding the wrecking bar he used to help smash Zander's car with, "It seems your son has stolen the 17,000 pounds we've raised for the cubs at the carnival!".
"Carl Bear, you just don't know that!", Hanan retorted with some doubt. "Was the temple robbed?!"
"You want to have a look at this, Hanan?!", Vince Mongoose, still holding a baseball bat, yelled out as he motioned Hanan to have a look at the back of Zander's car.
As Hanan came around to the back of the smashed remains of Zander's car, he saw the five Shrine emblems that were still where Zander had stuck them to the back of his car the night before.
Carl bear reminded Hanan, "If the wrong animal saw those emblems on your son's car last night, Nazzah Aardwolf''s boys would have us all put in the zoo".
"I need not remind you we operate this thing underground", Vince Mongoose added.
"I am really sorry about this! This is getting straightened out right now!" Hanan immediately assured his fellow Shrine members, then stormed back to the mansion, calling for his son, "ZANDER, YOU STUPID ASS SON OF A BITCH! WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE! YOU GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW!"
By now, other family members had gotten up from the breakfast table and began coming outside.
"What's going on Dad?", Hanan IV asked Daddy Hanan. "What's with everyone from the Shrine being here? And Zander's car."
Sister Givol Rat and son-in-law Joseph Finnbecker Rat stood together on the front lawn with their son, Joey Jr., then age 8, gazing in disbelief, not knowing what to make of the situation. Even the house servants, chauffeur and other hired domestic help came out to see what was going on.
Then Hanan IV's wife Joan, holding their three month old son Hanan V, and daughter Wanda, then age 10, came out to find out what was going on.
And of course, Hanan III's wife, Judith, came out rambling on, "Hanan, what's going on? Aren't those the Shrine members? Why are they here, Hanan? GASP! Zander's car! Hanan, tell me! Is everything alright?!"
"It's under control, Judith", Hanan assured her. "Everything will be alright if you just let me take care of it".
Then Zander came diddy bopping outside, then to his shock and dismay, noticed the Shrine members, holding destruction implements, standing around, and some jumping down from off the top of, his smashed up car, with all the glass knocked out of it, the driver's door torn off, the three remaining doors sprung completely around backward, the rear hatch lid twisted, one windshield pillar torn away from the firewall and pulled straight upward, and not a square foot of sheet metal that wasn't ripped or caved in. What Zander saw going on clued him in on what the situation was about. Although he had no idea, until now, he was ever going to be caught.
"What's the meaning of this, Zander?!" Daddy Rat Demanded.
"Uhhh...Meaning of what", Zander responded with his voice nervously quivering, as he glanced over at the smashed remains of what was once his car..
"Don't you dare lie to us! We'll beat your ass...Hanan's son or no Hanan's son", Joel Genet warned Zander as he swung a steel pipe down onto the already battered hood of Zander's car.
"Joel! Please! Allow me to handle this!", said Hanan.
"Yeeeaaa", Zander mouthed off to Joel Genet.
"SHUT IT NOW!", Hanan told Zander. "WHERE IS THE MONEY FROM THE SHRINE TEMPLE, ZANDER?! AND I AM REALLY PISSED AT YOU!"
"I wasn't at the Shrine Temple for the longest time. YOU know that", Zander lied.
"Explain the Shrine emblems on you car", Vince Mongoose demanded of Zander.
"Hey! I bought those at the corner store", Zander insisted.
"YOU CAN'T JUST GO INTO A STORE AND BUY THOSE, DUMB ASS!", Carl Bear hollered at Zander as he began running toward Zander with every intention of hurting Zander, and hurting Zander really bad.
Zander went running from Carl, Zander being so scared he peed as he ran. Zander then began trying to hide himself behind family members, in the same way a frightened cub would hide behind Mommy, hoping they could convince Carl to stop chasing him.
"KEEP YOUR DISTANCE FROM THE CUBS, ZANDER, OR GET YOUR BONES BROKEN!...REMEMBER?!", Hanan IV warned his brother.
"I'll LET EVERYONE TEAR YOU UP IF THAT MONEY DOESN'T SHOW UP NOW!" Hanan III warned his son, Zander.
That got Zander's attention real quick, and he led his dad to where he had the duffel bag of money hidden in his room. Hanan had Zander carry it out to where Gabriel Binturong took custody of it.
"We're going to count it when we get it back to the temple. You better hope it's all here", Gabriel growled at Zander as he snatched the duffel bag away from him.
Vince Mongoose collected up the Shrine emblems Zander was not suppose to have, including peeling the five of them off of the back of the remains of Zander's car...And not a moment too soon. Zander had planned to give out the rest of the emblems to his motley friends that day.
"Shit...Shit...Shit...How did they know?", Zander pondered out loud.
"The Shrine Temple has security cameras. We're not stupid like YOU are", Hanan answered his son, then stormed back into the mansion to finish his breakfast.
Police were, at first, going to charge Zander with breaking and entering, burglary and grand theft. However, it was made official for the record that the incident was resolved within the organization, and no charges were filed. Under Egyptian law, had charges been filed, Zander would have had a paw chopped off upon being convicted on the grand theft charge, in addition to a prison sentence (aka zoo) for that and the other charges.
The following morning, a news crew, consisting of a male jackal carrying a video cassette news camera, and a female hyena with a remote microphone, showed up at the Rat Family Estate. They both approached Rohj Civet, an oriental palm civet who is the family chauffeur, who was checking the fluid levels in one of the limousines, and began asking Rohj questions about Zander stealing money from the Rotary Club.
"I've nothing to tell you", Rohj promptly answered them.
The hyena replied to Rohj, "Certainly you would have something to share with..."
"I told you I have nothing to tell you", Rohj cut the hyena's reply in mid sentence.
Then they went over to Japeth Fossa, who was washing and detailing the limousine.
"Hello. What's your name", the hyena enthusiastically asked Japeth as the Jackel was recording.
"Japeth, don't talk to them! Go and get Hanan out here!", Rohj immediately told Japeth.
As Japeth ran to the mansion to to get Hanan, the jackal, who became agressivly cocky, badgered Rohj, "Come on! Why don't you talk with us?! You're not social, are you?!"
"For the third time, I've nothing to tell you", Rohj insisted.
A moment later, Hanan came storming out of the front double doors and down the porch steps of the mansion, with Japeth behind him. Japeth had already told Hanan what was going on.
Not only did Hanan consider the matter to be none of their business, the last thing Hanan wanted was a slip of the tongue accidentally leaking it out that it is actually Shriner's activity going on.
"GET OFF THIS PROPERTY NOW!" Hannan called out to the news crew as he quickly approached them.
As the jackal began recording, the hyena asked Hanan, "Sir, you must be Zander Iscelberg Rat's father. Can you tell us..."
"This matter is none of your business!" Hanan interrupted the hyena as he pushed the camera away, almost knocking it out of the jackal's paws.
"Hey! How would you like to pay for a camera, Sir", the jackal arrogantly asked Hanan.
"GET OFF THIS PROPERTY NOW BEFORE I HAVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES ESCORT YOU OFF OF THIS PROPERTY!", Hanan warned the hyena and the jackal.
The hyena and jackal got the message real quick and left. As they were getting back into their news van, Hanan further warned them not to come back. The incident was embarrassing enough to Hanan III as it was. The last thing he wanted was it getting into the news media.
This whole incident was also especially disappointing to Rohj Civet, the Rat family's limousine chauffeur. Rohj Civet was at the time a 33rd degree Free Mason, who was next to be considered for the position of Master Mason upon Heberen Iscelberg Rat's sponsorship to become a Shriner. Rohj had promised for some time to Hanan III, as well as to the members of the Mason Lodge, that he would encourage Zander to become a Mason, and mentor him along. It was believed by the family that it would help Zander to put his life in a positive direction. Now Rohj would have to break the news, at the next Mason Lodge meeting, that Zander Iscelberg Rat is not the kind of character the Lodge would want anything to do with. Rohj felt like he was eating his own words about the promise he had been making to Hanan III and to the Lodge all along, plus feeling like he had been made to look like a liar and a fool in the presents of the Lodge.
Two of Zander's uncles are also Masons. His Uncle Louie, the car dealer, was then a 33rd degree Mason. And his Uncle Hebron, the local prosecuting attorney, was the Master Mason presiding over the lodge where Rohj attends. Both were also very disappointed and embarrassed by what Zander had done.
Rohj later called Zander in private, and gave him a lecture on how his actions have 'tread on sacred ground' and how he betrayed and embarrassed the whole family by what he had done. During that lecture, Rohj also laid the guilt trip on Zander thick and heavy about what it is like to be a cub who has been burnt, or is cripple.
Hanan Iscelberg Rat III had to give an official apology at the next Shrine meeting for the actions of his son, Zander.
Plus Hanan III had to listen to one of those 'Riot Act' lectures from some of the senior Shrine members about how it is Hanan's responsibility as head of his household to maintain his family's respect for others, and to ensure orderly conduct within his family.
Needless to say, Hanan III was embarrassed because of the actions of his youngest son over the whole ordeal.
Chapter 23. Zander Sexually Molests a Fossa Cub
Early one afternoon in September of 1982, when Zander was 24 years old, he had been caught sexually molesting and hurting a young male Madagascan fossa. Because of a fossa penis head being flair shaped like a horn, Zander was fascinated with how Chad Fossa's penis head flipped around like a speed bag each time he slapped it.
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Zander was also fascinated with Chad's sheath, because Zander didn't have a sheath since 8 days old. Zander had used an old Zagnut candy bar to lure Chad out to where the attack took place.
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Chad Fossa, age 8, was in tears, crying, "Let me go! You're hurting my pee-pee! Let me go! It hurts!"
It was Chad Fossa's mom, Nirina, who caught Zander in the act of grasping the shaft of her son's penis behind it's aft barb cluster, holding it out of sheath and slapping the head around.
"TAKE YOUR PAWS OFF MY SON, VOUS AFFREUX MORCEAU DE MERDE! (...YOU UGLY PIECE OF SHIT!)", Nirina Fossa screamed as she came running to rescue her son.
"GET OUT OF HERE!", Nirina screamed at Zander as Zander stood there, looking surprised and dumbfounded.
Little Chad Fossa held his paws over both the head and first cluster of barbs of his penis, crying in tears, "He made my pee-pee hurt, Maman. Maman, ca fait mal (Mama, it hurts)".
"GET OUT OF HERE!", Nirina again screamed at Zander.
"It's not...Uhh. It's", Zander muddled, trying to invent an excuse. "It's not what it looks..."
Nirina picked up a rock and nailed Zander square in the face with it as hard as she can, knocking Zander to the ground. Zander began crawling away, then staggering away, then running away, like Nirina told him twice to do.
As Chad Fossa continued crying, Nirina hugged her son, assuring him the best she could, "Mama's here, my precious baby. Mama's here with you. Your pee-pee will be alright, honey. It's OK, baby. It's OK".
Nirina pick up her son, cradling him as only a loving mother could do, and carried him home.
When Nirina got Chad home, and told her husband, Jhi Fossa, what had happened, Jhi instantly stormed into the bedroom, went into the draw of a nightstand, and got out their 50 cal AE Desert Eagle pistol.
Nirina had a different idea, and phoned the law, reporting Zander for what he had done.
"Isn't he that looser the Iscelberg Rat family has?" Jhi asked as he was loading rounds into the clip.
"Jhi, qu est-ce tu fais?" (Jhi, what are you getting ready to do?)" Nirina demanded as Jhi slammed the loaded clip into the clip well.
"Ce qui aurait du etre fait il ya longtemps. Cest Zander, droit? (What should have been done a long time ago. It's Zander, right?)" said Jhi as he cocked a round into the chamber, the pistol making that cold metal "click-click" sound.
"Oui. Cest Zander. (Yes. It's Zander)", Nirina replied. "Jhi, plait ne pas (Jhi. Please don't). Let the authorities take care of him".
"His dad has so much pull, he won't see the first day in jail for it", Jhi retorted, then stormed out to the car, and drove off to hunt down Zander.
Jhi spent the rest of the afternoon looking for Zander Rat. He knew about some of the motley friends Zander hung out with as a teenager, and paid some of them an unpleasant social call. Zander's old time friends cooperated the best they could with Jhi's demands to learn the whereabouts of Zander. After all, Jhi was the was the one carring the gun. Zander's friends weren't of much any help, so Jhi left to go find some friends of his he could ask if they've heard about anything.
A binturong friend gave condolences to Jhi. "I heard about what happened to Chad today. That's a tough break", he said.
"Yeah. My son took it hard too", said Jhi. "If you find out where Zander is, Mussa, how about letting me know, OK?"
"I sure will, Jhi", Mussa promised. "Your boy didn't deserve to go through that".
"Thanks, Mussa. I appreciate it", Jhi said.
"HOLY SHIT! Looks like you got a peice that will do the job alright" Mussa Binturong told Jhi Fossa as he noticed it was a 50 caliber pistol laying on the front seat of Jhi's car.
"It will", replied Jhi. "And you know, Mussa. When I get him, I won't stop with one shot. I'm gona empty the clip on that shit ball".
"Can't say that I blame you", said Mussa. "But you shouldn't leave that gun where anyone can see it. They can give you the death penalty for having it, you know".
"Yes, Mussa, you're right", Jhi replied. "I guess I have been getting careless with it".
About an hour later, Jhi thought he might get the nerve to drive out to the Rat Estate, and blast Zander all over some of their expensive carpet and marble floor in front of his family if he's there. Jhi Fossa figured that 50 cal of his would do a thorough job of dealing with Zander Rat. http://youtube.com/watch?v=wR8sXWSlMyU .
On his way to the Rat Estate, two law enforcement officers pulled Jhi over, a bear and German sheperd, outfitted with their gun belts and clip on badges (made to fasten to the fur hairs). When they approached Jhi's car, they began asking Jhi questions regarding going out to the Iscelberg Rat Estate.
"So you know where I'm heading", Jhi affirmed.
"One of Zander's friends got scared and called", the sheperd replied to Jhi, as they informed Jhi that Zander's motley friend he had talked to earlier reported that Jhi was out to get Zander.
The officers had no idea Jhi had a gun in the car, which Jhi was concerned about the officers searching the car for. Egyptian law forbids the general population to own a gun. And with Jhi Fossa hearing rumors that having a gun carries the death penalty, he wasn't sure whether he was going to feel compelled to use the gun on the officers to prevent being caught with it, which Jhi knew would have gotten ugly real quick.
However, luckily for Jhi Fossa, the motley friend of Zander he questioned earlier was a big time, zoned out, air head, and forgot to give information to the police about there being a gun.
They didn't arrest Jhi considering the circumstances, but advised Jhi, "We're going to let you go on your way, but you need to go home and cool out a bit".
"I want that rat to pay for what he did to my son", Jhi told the officers.
They told Jhi that Zander had already been hauled away in a straight jacket to an asylum for his sexual assault on Chad...His parent's doing, in lieu of him going to jail.
"A nut house", Jhi replied. "A country club for crazies. A slap on the paw, and a little medication. What about my boy?"
"We're sorry, Jhi. It's out of our paws now", the shepard told him.
The law officers then let Jhi be on his way. And when Jhi returned home and told his wife about what he encountered, she said what Jhi had commented to the officers.
"A slap on the paw, and some medicine", Nirina replied.
After Zander was committed into the asylum, other young males of various species felt safe to come foward and testify what Zander had also done to them. Some of Zander's victims had sexual injuries ranging from distortions and lesions on their penis heads, to sprawled opened and torn sheaths. A few injuries were severe enough to temporarily cripple the victim...all inflicted by Zander Rat. Even some of Zander's victims who had been circumcised, Zander had managed to injure in some way.
The cubs who Zander had injured, had in the past, made up alibis to their parents about their sexual injuries, out of fear of Zander. Since Zander got put away, the cubs who Zander molested were no longer afraid to make the truth known. There were so many who came foward, it seemed like young males were coming out of the woodwork as special victim's officers began piling cub sex crime charges up on Zander, including a charge of "crime against religion".
A sex offender record would stop Zander from pursuing his dream of going to med-school and becoming a doctor, provided Zander didn't get 'death by stoning' for it, except Zander's dad was good friends with judges, attorneys and other elected officials. And Hanan III was a brother of the prosecutor, Heberen Iscelberg Rat PA, which also meant the prosecutor was Zander's uncle. Daddy Rat saw to it that all criminal charges against his son, Zander, somehow disappeared and mysteriously went away for good, so Zander can attend med-school, thus adding another pervert to the roster of medical doctors.
Upon Zander's release from the asylum, Hanan III had to go to the courthouse and post bail to stop his son from being immediately transferred to jail because of the criminal charges on him. Then Hanan had to go from there, to the asylum to pick up his son. Hanan did not choose to have the chauffeur take him in one of the limousines. Hanan drove his vintage 1957 Jaguar XK-SS instead, so chauffeur Rohj Civet would not hear things he had to say in private to his son on the way home about the situation. http://youtube.com/waych?v=20UHwyi0RKc .
When Hanan arrived to the asylum, Zander was waiting at the front gate.
"Dad, it's sure good to be out of THAT place. That place is looooney", Zander told his dad as he got into the car. "I see you took one of the Jags. Cool".
Hanan was a bit too angry with Zander to say anything as Zander shut the door and they headed for home.
"They give you some really loopy medicine in that place, I tell you", Zander told his dad, who was in no mood to listen.
A few minutes down the road, Hanan said to Zander, "Son, I believe you are aware there are tensions that have already existed between the general population and families like ours, here in Egypt, since our president was assassinated last year, and all that trouble going on in the Sinai Peninsula...You have been aware of that, haven't you?"
"Well...Eh...Yea, Dad", Zander Replied.
"SO YOU HAD TO GO PULL SOME SHIT LIKE THIS!", Hanan reprimanded his son.
Zander didn't have much of a response to the reprimanding. On their rest of the way home, Hanan told Zander about how he was going to "pull some strings" with the family's politician friends to try to get Zander out of trouble.
After Hanan and Zander arrived home, Zander's brother-in-law, Joseph Finnbecker Rat Sr., showed Zander a newspaper, printed two days after Zander was caught molesting the son of Nirina and Jhi Fossa. It hit Zander like a sack of bricks when he saw the front page headline, in Arabic script, "Iscelberg Rat Family Member Charged With Sexually Attacking Cubs". Under the headlines, centered on the front page, was a large picture of Zander Rat himself, and the half page article had details that many paperback novel publishers wouldn't print. Of course, the names of the victims, being underage cubs, were withheld.
"Oh, by the way, you also made it on television, Zander", Joseph told him as he snatched the newspaper back and stormed away.
Chapter 24. The Court Arraignment and it's Aftermath
It was only a few days after Zander was released from the asylum, he was bought up for arraignment on multuple cub sex crime charges. Zander and his family, the family relateted prosecutor, other attorneys, the judge and others of course were in court. The courtroom was a full house with Zander's molested victims and and their parents also being there, looking forward to seeing Zander get his just deserts. Everyone stands as it is announced, "The Honorable Judge Silas Opossum presiding". Then everyone is seated,
"This is the arraignment for the case of, The Anthro Animals of the Governorate of Menia vs Zander Iscelberg Rat", Judge Silas Opossum announces, then reading a very long list of cub sex crime charges on Zander Rat. "Counselor. How does the defendant plead?"
"Not guilty on all counts, Your Honor", replies Zander's attorney as gasping and murmuring can be heard from the parents of the victims through out the courtroom.
"The court calls the prosecution to present probable cause", says Judge Silas Opossum.
The prosecutor, a grey, circumcised rat, who is Zander's uncle, replies, "All charges are null pros, Your Honor".
"Zander Iscelberg Rat. All charges are dismissed. You're free to go", said Judge Silas as "clack" goes the gavel.
Through out the courtroom, there were angry outbursts from victim's parents, as Judge Silas tried to restore order. Special victim's officers, who arrested Zander, looked on, stunned in disbelief. Many cub victims and their mothers began crying, while Zander and his family were all smiles, congratulating the attorneys, and thanking their corrupt influential friends. When Zander shook paws with his Uncle, Attorney Heberen Rat, the victim's families then knew the arraignment was a rigged rehearsal. "YOU'LL LEAVE THIS COURTROOM AS A CORPSE, ZANDER!", a victim's dad shouted. "YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!", another dad shouted, as the courtroom quickly became an out of control free-for-all, and Judge Silas clacking the gavel, trying to restore order.
"YOU BETTER SEEK AN UNDERTAKER!", the dad, of a molested wolf cub, hollered in Hanan III's face. "THAT SHIT BAG FOR A SON OF YOURS IS ABOUT TO NEED ONE!"
"WHAT THAT CREEP HAS DONE IS SUPPOSE TO CARRY THE DEATH PENALTY HERE IN EGYPT...BY STONING", a mother Madagascan fossa screamed out.
Her friend, Nirina Fossa, replied, "BACK IN MADAGASCAR, WE BURN SHIT LIKE HIM TO DEATH OUT ON A BEACH!"
"ORDER IN THIS COURT, NOW!", Judge Silas shouted as he repeatedly clacked the gavel.
At that point, the court room was like all Hell had broken loose.
A daddy fox, almost in tears himself, and with court bailiffs trying to hold him off, got up in Zander's face, trying to maul him, and shouted, "A MONSTER LIKE YOU HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST! I'LL DROP YOU INTO HELL!"
A daddy otter, who's son had his inner penis sheath torn by Zander, pointed a 6 inch blade, fold up knife in Zander's face, hollering, "I'LL CUT YOU UP YOU SORRY PIECE OF SHIT! I'LL THROW YOUR PIECES IN THE NILE RIVER!"
The knife was confiscated by bailiffs, with some struggle, then the otter family was ordered to leave the courthouse. The rest of the Rat family were now being threatened. Judge Silas Opossum still could not regain order, as a lesser panda's dad was being arrested for telling Judge Silas he was as good as dead.
Zander and his family finally had to be escorted, under police protection, out to where Rohj Civet, their chauffeur, was waiting with their limousine for them.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mSs1RjH5nRE
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Law officers had to hold a mob of outraged parents at bay while the Rat family scurried into their limousine. Rohj Civet hurriedly closed the door behind them, and quickly got in behind the wheel. Once the family and chauffeur were in, Zander's dad told Rohj, "ROHJ, GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Rohj floored the accelerator, squalling the limo's tires as they went speeding off. Relatives of the victims hurled rocks at the limo as it sped by, doing sheet metal damage, breaking the windsheild and grill, and knocking off a sideview mirror, to what was then, a brand new 1982, high gloss black, Cadillac Fleetwood, stretch limousine. A lit Molotov cocktail bomb was also thrown at the limo, but missed and smashed onto the street into ball of fire.
Zander's mom, Judith, told Rohj, "If they get in the way, run them down! Just - don't - stop!"
Rohj had to turn a street corner around the court house grounds to get to the highway. As the limo sped around the corner, more victim's relatives hurled rocks, knocking off a wheel cover, puncturing the A/C condenser, and busting out a rear door glass. As Rohj Civet floored it out of the turn, heading for the highway, a daddy merekat, who's son was temporarily crippled from a sexual injury by Zander, flung a tire iron into the path of the speeding limo, meant to come through the windshield and take Rohj out, but smashing out a headlight instead. The tire iron flew up over the roof of the limo, and went bouncing and clanging down the street, along with broken headlight glass, as the battered limo sped away. The meerkat's brother emptied the clip of a 38 caliber pistol at the fleeing limo, as he stood in the street, managing to shoot a hole in the trunk lid, dinging the bumper in two places and shooting out the left tail light.
Relatives of the victims got into their cars and took off, chaseing after the Rat family limousine.
"HANAN, HANAN! THEY'RE COMING AFTER US! DO SOMETHING!", Judith exclaimed in panic as she saw the cars speeding up the street behind them.
"What CAN I do, Judith?!", Hanan retorted, then told Rohj, "Rohj! You really need to step on it! We're being chased!"
When the limo got to the main highway leading out of town, Rohj swung the corner wide and fast, without stopping, with the wheels screeching and the limo starting to swing out sideways. After straightening the limo back out of the slide, Rohj Civet punched it to the floor, rapidly wide open accelerating as hard as it can go, the 368 cubic inch engine reaching high RPMs before each gear shift of the limo's automatic transmission, and the speedometer needle quickly sweeping over to the high end. http://youtube.com/watch?v=V2homlJBbzY . In only a few minutes, they were out of town, speeding down open Egyptian desert highway. The chase reached speeds to well over 160 kilometers per hour, as Rohj tried to loose them, and having to watch the highway through a cracked up windshield.
"Just keep it wide open, Rohj!", Hanan III told him. "Don't slow down! Keep the accelerator to the floor".
Older brother Hanan IV was able to get through on the limo's mobile phone and call for help...There were no cell phones in 1982.
By now, a slight vibration could be felt coming from a front tire, and at 210 kph (125 mph) the limo's speed was well beyond the point when it's speedometer pegged out at 85 miles per hour.
"Rohj! Some of them are gaining on us! Can't you go faster?!", sister Givol pleaded.
"This is all the speed I can get out of it!", Rohj retorted. "I'm holding it wide open now! It won't go any faster!"
After about a few seconds, Rohj could hear Hanan IV tell his younger brother, Zander, "Thanks a lot for all of this, Shit Head...I hope you're happy".
Further down the highway, the Rat Family and Rohj noticed a couple of those in pursuit had to give up the chase, because their cars had boiled over with their engines overheated. But it wasn't long before a Volvo, driven by a binturong, who's nephew was one of Zander's victims, had caught up to the back of the limo. The binturong started repeatedly clacking bumpers with the limo, slightly stearing side to side, trying to throw the limo out of control. But the Volvo wasn't heavy enough, on it's first try, to run a full size, western built stretch limousine off the highway.
"Damn it! That binturong back there is trying to wreck us!", said Hanan III as everyone could feel the bumping and swaying.
"I can feel the rear end swaying", Rohj replied as he worked at trying keeping the limo straight.
It really started getting scarey when the tires of both vehicles could be heard chirping against the pavement at 210 kilometers per hour. And by now, the big, heavy limo started a rocking motion, and drifting all over the highway with a surreal, slow motion sensation. Rohj would let his foot off the accelerator for only a split second at a time before putting it back to the floor, trying to maintain control of the vehicle as he began to loose feel of the road.
"That son of a bitch is crazy!", Hanan retorted.
"It feels like I'm driving on ice! This limousine is starting to get away from me!" Rohj told Hanan as they were still speeding down the highway at 210 kph. "What do you what me to do?!".
"I don't know!", Hanan frantically answered, then after pausing a moment, said, "ROHJ! When he backs off for another hit, slam the brakes on him! I don't give a damn about the back of the limo!"
As soon as the Volvo backed off for another hit, Rohj locked the limo's brakes for a second, causing the Volvo to smash against the back of the limo. The binturong then dropped his car back 30 meters. That's when Rhoj slammed the brakes as hard as he can, all four tires smoking and screaming against the pavement, until the Volvo crashed into the rear of the limo, caving the Volvo's radiator into it's fan and engine, and smashing it's left front fender, into the left front wheel. The moment the binturong released the brakes, his car went spinning out of control with a front wheel locked up, tires smoking against the pavement, still at over 150 kph, then flipped over. As Rohj again floored the accelerator to flee the remaining cars, the Rat Family saw, from the limo's rear window, the Volvo rolling over and over and over, with glass, chrome and contents sprawling all over the highway and the Volvo's hood flying off. Judith and Givol gasped when everyone watched, in dismay, it's driver get ejected then hitting the pavement and tumbling down the highway like a thrown rag doll, as other cars swerved almost out of control at high speed, barely avoiding running him over.
"I knew someone was going to get hurt before this was over with!", Givol exclaimed.
Rohj himself witnessed glimpses of the roll over in the remaining side view mirror that wasn't knocked off by the earlier rock pelting.
As Rohj got the limo speeding down the highway back up to 210 kph, members of the Rat Family looked back at the overturned Volvo fade out of sight into a distant mirage, as they left it far behind, along with it's badly hurt driver laying on the highway, clinging to life in a cloud of coolant steam and tire smoke.
By this time, Rohj and the Rat family could hear that vibrating front tire making a low, but rapid "rap-rap-rap-rap-rap-rap" sound, along with the noise of small debris striking inside of the front fender well.
Several of those, who were chasing the limo, stopped to assist the injured binturong, and a few of them headed back to the city, speeding off to get help. Of those who decided to resumed the chase, it wasn't long before a couple of them began to gain on the limo, just as the binturong in the Volvo had done minutes earlier.
"That's all WE need", Rohj murmured.
"What is it, Rohj?", Hanan asked.
"We're not going to be going much longer. The engine is starting to run hot", Rohj explained to Hanan as he briefly pointed to the temperature light, lit up on the limo's instrument panel.
"I just don't know what we're going to do, Rohj", Hanan replied, trying to maintain a calm composure the best he could. "Let's slow down some. That might help. If the rest of them get too close, slam the brakes on them like you did the binturong".
Rohj slowed the limo down to 155 kph (just under 100 mph) as Hanan instructed him to do, but it didn't do any good. Within a few minutes, steam could be seen blowing out from under the hood as everyone could smell the odor of boiling coolant. By now, the pursuing cars had gained close behind the Rat Family limousine, with their drivers waiting for the limo to inevitably quit running.
It was about that time, police finally caught up and pulled everyone over, putting a stop to the chase. And not a moment too soon. In addition to the limo being on the verge of boiling over and burning up the engine, one of the limo's front tires was on it's way to going flat from picking up a peice of broken glass from the headlight the meerkat flung the tire iron into, back when they left the courthouse. Before the chase was stopped, the vibration that was felt in the limo was from "standing waves" on the deflating tire. And the rapping sound was the tire already showing signs of tread separation, with steel belting beginning to show, and could have blown at any time. And at 210 kph (125 mph), it would have been beyond Rohj Civet's ability to keep the vehicle under control...A stretch limousine flipping over, or crashing into roadside palm trees, at over 200 kilometers per hour would have gotten really ugly really quick...Not a pretty price to pay for a family member who can't respect the decent integrity of little cubs.
As Rohj prepared to change the punctured tire, the Rat Family got out of the limousine and had their first real look at the damage done to it. Rohj had to borrow a tire iron from one of the law enforcement officers to pry open the limo's smashed trunk lid from where the Volvo rammed it, before he could get to the spare and jack.
"I'm glad I thought of taking this one instead of the Rolls, "Daddy Hanan said, referring to their 1981 Rolls Royce ultra stretch http://youtube.com/watch?v=49H_sZfxba0 .
"It looks terrible! It's just awful, Hanan dear! What kind of bums would want to do this to one of our cars?", Judith carried on.
"Yea Yea Yea, Judith. I know", Hanan told his wife in a tone showing he was being annoyed by her, and then asked a law enforcement officer how badly did the binturong get hurt who was thrown from his car.
The officer told Hanan, "I heard on our radio it's not good. He has some broken bones, and it looks like he may have internal injuries. They said he's barely conscious. We have an ambulance on the way to..."
"...SHIT FOR BRAIN PERVERT!", brother Hanan IV hollered out as he repeatedly rammed Zander's face into one of the limo's quarter panel roof supports hard enough to slightly dent it. "YOU'LL GET US ALL KILLED!"
"HANAN! THAT'S ENOUGH!", Daddy Hanan Rat III called to his first son. "That's not doing any good".
"Doesn't do any harm either", brother Hanan IV told his dad as he turned loose of Zander.
Zander, looking stupid, and walking in circles, just held his paws on his bleeding nose, going, "Ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh ooo ouh", sounding like someone with a nose plugged up.
Everyone looked upon Zander with disdain, including his own family. Even Rohj gave a look, and briefly shook his head, as if to say, "How pathetic".
The Rat Family remembered all too well how Yomin Genet VI, one of Hanan III's business associates, died in a high speed limousine crash eleven years earlier. Hanan III told Rohj about it once during a driving safety lecture. It took place one summer evening in the year 1971, in Saudi Arabia, on one of those open desert highways that have no speed limit. Yomin Genet VI, his wife Marcie, and his cub son Yomin VII were out on a road trip in their, then brand new, 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mRP7qeSFLe4 .
Yomin VI had Yousif Mongoose, their chauffeur, run the limo at 230 kph (140 mph) as he always had done all along. Back in the day, many Cadillacs were equipped with a high compression, 500 cubic inch V-8.
On the day of the accident, the Genet Family limo sped past a slow moving truck as they were approaching a road side palm tree grove. According to the eyewitness testimony given by the driver of the truck, an Asian linsang, the limo had to be traveling at nearly 240 kph, and when the limo moved back out of the oncoming lane, the chauffeur apparently over steered it onto the sandy shoulder of the highway, causing the wheels to catch in the sand and throw the limo out of control. The linsang then recalled watching the limo slam into the palm tree grove at nearly 240 kph, shooting it's chauffeur out through the windshield, his body disintegrating against the palm trees, and the engine and transmission thrown out across the desert sand. The limo continued slamming through the palm trees, sheering a few of them down and tearing off the limo's mangled front section where the chauffeur sat. The passenger and rear section of the limo spun airborne diagonally along and across the highway at an incredibly high speed five feet above the pavement, then slammed into some palm trees on the other side of the highway, tearing off the rear section as the gas tank exploded. The Rat Family remembered the linsang telling of how when the torn apart remains of the limo flew airborne over the highway, he saw drive shaft sections, mufflers, exhaust pipe and other pieces and parts of the limo, chrome trim and broken glass flying and sprawling everywhere. And of the blood and cut up body parts of the limo's occupants that were thrown all over the highway. The linsang described the limo's fiery rear section as looking like a fiery comet speeding across the desert sand until it came to rest. The limo's mid section ended up as unrecognizable, mangled sheet steel smashed and wrapped into the palm trees. The front section, barely recognizable as a piece of a motor vehicle, came to rest in one of the highway's travel lanes. The battered up engine and transmission ended up 150 meters (450 feet) beyond the wreckage. And the highway was littered with blood, car parts, glass and mongoose and genet body parts, and two sheared off palm trees laying across the pavement blocking both lanes.
Remembering how Yomin Genet VI, his wife and son and chauffeur died, the danger Zander put the family in, and that front tire on the Rat Family limo almost blowing out at high speed, who can blame Zander's older brother for slamming Zander's face into their dad's limo?
After Rohj Civet got the flat changed, police provided the Rat Family escort protection to their home. It had been a scarey and surreal experience to both family and chauffeur.
Chapter 25. The Fallout and Repercussions
The following morning, Rohj Civet, out of concern for his own life because of the danger Zander put the family in, turned in his resignation and quit. Rohj and Hanan had already seen that morning's newspaper, showing a picture of the wrecked Volvo, with paramedics tending to it's injured driver in the background.
"I'm going to be on the level with you, Hanan. I can no longer feel safe working here for you anymore", Rohj said to Zander's dad. "And truthfully, if it was one of my boys your son got a hold of, I would not have been driving your limousine yesterday. This black footed palm civet would have been throwing rocks with the rest of them".
Hanan replied, "Rohj, I hate to loose you. You've been the best chauffeur I've had. And I'm truly sorry you were put through this".
Hanan made it up to Rohj by giving him a 5,000 pound severance payment, which was chump change to Hanan and family. And Hanan promised Rohj he would give Rohj a good reference when he looked for another job.
Rohj had been becoming prosperous by making use of the investment and corporate sharing knowledge Hanan III had taught him over the years. Those were secrets to financial wealth that Hanan's family doesn't share with just anyone. Many years ago, Rohj Civet was a homeless beggar who Hanan and family felt pity for and took him in. Rohj was faithful and loyal to the Rat Family, and Hanan III shared knowledge and "status quo secrets" with Rohj about acquiring financial wealth...That is provided Rohj gave his word not to share those secrets with those of middle and low income.
A gardener and two house servants also quit. One of the servants who quit, Gloria, a lemur, told Zander's dad when she picked up her last paycheck, "You do know, Hanan, your son fix it so this is now a dangerous place to work...You know that don't you?"
Hanan could only agree with her.
Zander had to leave the country for his own safety if he was to remain alive. The Egyptian Judicial System arranged to have Zander immigrate to Southern India under a special protection program agreed to by both countries. After arrangements were made with one of Judith's family friends in India for Zander to have a place to stay, and once Zander's passport was ready, Zander was flown to Southern India in a matter of hours aboard his dad's private jet, with dad and mom coming along...Nowhere near the kind of trip the meerkats were to have getting from Angola to India 23 years later. After they arrived in India, Hanan III and Judith discussed some behavioral issues with their son, Zander, while waiting at the airport for Judith's friend to arrive to pick Zander up. It wasn't very long before Judith's friend, Ruby Rat, showed up.
"Over here! Ruby!", Judith called out as she waved to get Ruby's attention among the crowd at the airport.
"Oh hi! It's been a while. How's everyone been doing?, Ruby asked as she came over.
"We've been all doing OK", Judith answered.
"Considering", Hanan gruffed as he glanced over at his son, Zander.
"Awww, Hanan, how could you?", Judith retorted. "That's so mean".
" Your brother-in-law, Louie, phoned me and told me about what Zander had done",Ruby told Judith. "And, Zander, you should be ashamed of yourself".
Zander had no reply. He just stood there embarrassed in the presents of the rest of the anthro animals at the air port.
"Hanan, can we continue this conversation in Arabic so the other animals here don't know what we're saying?", Judith asked her husband. "You can see Zander's getting embarrassed".
"I - will - not", Hanan retorted. "Let them know. I don't care. I don't really give a shit. Zander will just have to be embarrassed".
"Where did young Hanan and Givol go off to?" Ruby asked. "I'd like to meet them".
"They didn't come along on the trip", answered Judith. "They're at home".
"They were to pissed at Zander to come along" Hanan added. "I don't blame them".
"Ahhh, Hanaaaan. Come on", Judith begged her husband.
Ruby, Judith and Hanan talked a while longer before Hanan and Judith headed back to their private jet to go back home to Egypt.
As they were leaving, Judith said to Ruby, "Take care of our little cub for me".
"Mom. I'm a big rat, not a cub", Zander called back as he was leaving with Ruby.
"Just - Keep him out of more trouble", Hanan requested to Ruby.
Ruby had several friends in high places around Southern India, and had lots of connections who helped Zander get a high paying job, then helped him with some very profitable investments. Before long, Zander was able to get a home in a ritzy neighborhood in Salem, in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, that he picked up really cheap on a tax foreclosure auction. Zander also got a 1954 Lancia Aurelia pf 200, convertible, two seat, sports car, in metallic silver, he found at an estate sale. He was just in the right place at the right time on that deal, and had the cash with him to buy it. It was a really weird looking car with a bold circular grill, but it appealed to Zander, and it is a classic.
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Several months later, Zander began fulfilling his dream of going to med-school to become a doctor.
(This mess Zander dragged his family into happened 4 years before Zhang Meerkat was even born, and when Annika was only 3 years old.)
Meanwhile, back in Egypt, after Zander had left for India, the parents of Zander's molested victims were constantly showing up at the Rat Estate, demanding to know the whereabouts of Zander.
But Zander's family would only give answers such as, "None of your business! And leave us alone!", or, "Get off our property or we'll have you arrested!", or, "You have no business here! I think you better leave".
But Zander's family didn't say those things to Jhi Fossa, who showed up one morning, wielding that 50 cal Desert Eagle pistol, demanding answers. And it was full clip locked and loaded with safety off too.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ftTyvjmMfWE .
The Rat family and house servants went diving under furniture, females screaming, and some running through the mansion for cover, instead of mouthing off at Jhi as they did to the others. Holding the 50 cal pistol two paw hold with elbows locked, Jhi fired a shot, "FOOM", into a large, 1,200 year old, antique vase exploding it everywhere as it flew into pieces the size of potato chips, with the noise of loud gunfire echoing throughout the mansion, and the smoking shell casing bouncing off of a rosewood coffee table onto the black and white, checkered, marble floor. Jhi ran into a large family room and found Givol cringing behind a love seat.
"WHERE IS HE!?", Jhi demanded as he fired a second shot, "FOOM", blasting a chunk out of one of the mansion's beautiful, genuine marble walls, sending marble shrapnel into the cathedral style ceiling and nearby furniture.
Givol screamed in fear as she leaped up from behind the love seat and ran to a staircase atrium then up a flight of steps to the 2nd floor.
Jhi Fossa had only one reason for being in the Rat Family mansion. That was to get answers as to Zander's whereabouts, and blast a cantaloupe size hole through anyone who gets in his way.
Jhi heard Givol scream from upstairs, "EVERYONE OUTSIDE!".
"NO! YOU'LL BE AN OPEN TARGET OUT THERE!", a male voice replied as Jhi began to run up to the 2nd floor.
As the Rat Family and servants continued panicking, running and hiding throughout the mansion, Jhi shouted, "JE METTRAI ZANDER EN ENFER! (I WILL SEND ZANDER TO HELL!)" and fired another shot, "FOOM", barely missing Joseph Finbecker Rat Sr. as the round went ricocheting off the marble walls down a long hallway into the Rat Family's private library, followed by the noise of a massive chandelier crashing down in the library. Joseph Rat, fearing for his life, swiftly ducked into a nearby room and slammed and locked the solid, red oak door behind him. "FOOM FOOM", two shots Jhi fired into the solid, red oak door, blasting out two holes in it, sending wood shards flying into the room on the other side, pocking chunks out of a marble wall into shrapnel that barely missed Joseph Sr., and destroying the door with it's beautifully ornate pearl, bird's eye maple and ebony inlay.
It quickly became obvious to the estate residence that this was one fossa with a hot temper and was not the kind who played games.
Jhi then ran to a large, lavishly furnished, foyer area adjacent to some bedrooms up on the 3rd floor. From behind a locked bedroom door, Jhi heard Hanan's wife, Judith, on a phone calling for help.
"OPERATOR! OPERATOR! OPERATOR!", Judith screamed hysterically while frequently catching her breath. "GET ME THE POLICE!... THERE'S A MAD FOSSA IN THE HOUSE!... HE HAS A GUN AND HE'S TRYING TO KILL US!... WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!... IT'S THE ISCELBERG RAT ESTATE!... HURRYYYYYYYYY!"
Jhi Fossa fled the Rat Family Estate with his smoking gun when he heard that. Jhi may be a bit crazy at times, but he's not stupid. He knew when it was time to leave.
As Jhi ran through the grand entry foyer on his way out of the mansion, he, and a maid who was running for a place to hide, bumped into each other. The maid, a Malagasy civet, named Sharrah, was so terrified she fainted, passing out onto the floor.
After Jhi Fossa had left, the Rat Family and servants, seeing Sharrah laying on the floor, had assumed that the intruding fossa had shot and killed her...That was until she woke up, crying, still scared half out of her wits, and no gun shot wounds were seen on her, which was a big relief to everyone. Joseph Rat mentioned that if Sharrah had been shot with what the intruder was firing in the Rat Family mansion, she would have been blown apart.
None of the estate residents knew who Jhi was. All Hanan was able to tell the responding officers was Jhi's description, what happened, and that he thought it might have been a 357 magnum pistol that was used. Joseph speculated it may have been a 50 cal. The type of pistol was confirmed as a 50 cal when the officers collected the shell casings that were ejected from Jhi's gun. At one point, Hanan had to tell the officers that Japeth Fossa was not the intruder. Japeth had just started as the Rat Family's new limousine chauffeur since Rohj had quit.
After that incident, Zander's dad hired armed security to protect the family and the estate, and had construction started on a security wall around much of the acreage that surrounds the mansion, with all entrances key code accessible only, plus the installation of security cameras and outdoor lighting. The Rat Family never kept their own firearms easily accessible as they were only used for sport shooting events. But that had now changed.
Jhi Fossa had contemplated purchasing a 300 H & H mag, high powered rifle, with a long range scope, to pick off the Rat Family and security guards at a distance from the Rat Estate.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lAXELlxWgZ8 .
Jhi knew of some high ground, not far from the Rat Estate, where he could draw aim above that new security wall Hanan had built. But Jhi thought it over, how Nirina would loose her husband, and Chad would loose his dad, if one of those guards shot back and killed Jhi, or if Jhi got life in prison or the death penalty for it. And there was also the risk of sparking off a family war against powerfully wealthy, secret society, illuminates, as well as others among the ranks of the influential, dragging Jhi's loved ones into a living nightmare, with Jhi gone. So Jhi Fossa never followed through with that idea. Being with his family meant more to him than the satisfaction of revenge. Jhi figured God, whom he often referred to as "Zanahary" due to his Madagasy roots, will someday punish Zander, Zander's dad, their corrupt politician freinds and others for what Zander had done, and the rest of them for covering it up.
Three years later, in July of 1985, Jhi Fossa had a run in with Joseph Finbecker Rat Sr. Shortly before noon, Jhi, along with his wife Nirina, and his son Chad, then age 11, stopped in at a local hardware store to get some materials to repair a sink drain at their house. Joseph Rat with his wife Givol, and son Joseph Jr., then age 12, and daughter Julia, then age 2, were riding by in their chauffeur driven, Mercedes limousine, when "Joey" Sr. noticed Jhi Fossa driving the BMW he and his family were riding in. Joey Sr. positively recognized it was Jhi when they passed Jhi's car as it was pulling off of the street and into the hardware store parking lot.
"The Fossa driving that car!", Joseph Sr. called out, then told the chauffeur, "Mondo! pull into to that hardware store!
Mondo Mongoose turned the limo around then pulled into the store's sand and gravel parking lot just as the Fossa Family were getting out of their car.
"I have a score to settle with that Fossa!", Joey Sr. exclaimed as he leaped out of the limo.
"JOEY! LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE! IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS AGO!", Givol called to her husband.
"YOU'RE THE SHIT HEAD WHO SHOT AT ME AT MY FATHER-IN-LAW'S ESTATE A FEW YEARS BACK!", Joey Sr. hollered as he came running at Jhi Fossa and punched him once in the snout.
Much to Joesph's surprise, Jhi Fossa punched Joseph back the the face twice as hard, knocking the rat silly, then shoving him down across the rough gravel parking lot. Jhi then picked Joseph up in a neck hold and repeatedly pounded Joseph's face until the rat fell unconscious.
"STOP IT! STOP IT!", Givol screamed from inside the limo as 12 year old Joey Jr. was crying, and as 2 year old Julia hugged onto Mommy, half scared out of her wits.
Then Joey Rat Jr., still crying, got out of the limo, picked up a paw full of gravel and slung it at Jhi's car. That's when 11 year old Chad Fossa jumped out of his dad's car and started beating on Joey Jr., sending him back into the limo, crying even harder.
"DON'T YOU EVER THROW STONES AT MY DAD'S CAR EVER NEVER AGAIN!", Chad Fossa retorted to Joey Rat Jr. as the traumatized rat cub scrambled back into his mom and dad's limo.
As Jhi tossed Joey Rat Sr., still unconscious, back into his limo, Givol hollered, "YOU ALL ARE BRUTES! PRIMATIVE, HORRIBLE MONSTERS!"
Nirina Fossa ran up to the open door of the limo and told Givol, "YOUR HUSBAND DESERVED IT! AND YOU HAVE SOME MONSTERS YOURSELF, LIKE THE ONE WHO SEXUALLY ATTACKED MY SON!... VOUS SALOPE CHIENNE!"
"WHAT'S A LOPACHINEY!?", Givol replied.
"YOU SLUT BITCH!", Nirina answerd.
Givol Rat gasped in disbelief with her eyes and mouth wide open, as her husband still laid unconscious on the limo's floor, and her son still crying. Jhi slammed the door shut on the limo as hard as he can, then he walked over to the driver's door and knocked on the window. Mondo Mongoose lowered the powered window down only barely enough so he can hear Jhi.
Then Jhi told the chauffeur, "Get this shit charade out of here or you're the next one to come out of this car".
"Yes Sir!", Mondo replied, then drove the limo with it's occupants on the way out of the parking lot.
As the limo was pulling away, Givol lowered a window enough to shout back, "YOU'LL HEAR FROM OUR LAWYER!"
Givol then raised the window back closed as the limo left the parking lot and headed down the street.
Although Givol threatened legal action, a letter from an attorney never was sent to the mailbox of Jhi and Nirina Fossa. Joseph and Givol Rat were advised by their lawyer it would cost more in attorneys fees to sue Jhi and Nirina Fossa than what they could collect.
Joseph Rat Sr. later told his wife's uncle, Attorney Heberen Rat, the local prosecuting attorney, that he now knows it was Jhi who shot up the Iscelberg Rat Estate.
Heberen then told Joseph Sr., "Well, Joey, you know it's Jhi, and I know it's Jhi. But after three years, it would be difficult to prove it was Jhi Fossa who showed up with the gun on that day. They'd only throw it out of court".
Zander was always the "bad apple" of the Iscelberg Rat Family. And this incident was one of many examples of how other animals were dragged into the situations that Zander had caused.
There was another encounter in April of the following year, 1986, when Jhi Fossa and his family were at a large community market (flea market). Joseph Rat and his family, who dropped by to see what the market was like, noticed the Fossa Family from a short distance away. Joseph got the attention of the Fossas, then slowly raised a middle finger at Jhi.
"I can care less what it means, pal," Jhi called out to Joseph Rat as He, Nirina and Chad were giving the Rat Family dirty looks.
Then the Fossa Family continued to go about their business.
Joseph's wife, Givol, then pulled Joseph aside and gave him a good reprimanding over it, then scorned at him, "This kind of a vagabond market is not meant for the animals of our social status anyway".
Then the Finbecker Rat Family left the market with 13 year old Joesph Jr. in the lead, and 3 year old Julia Finbecker Rat toddling along behind them.
This encounter at the community market in El-Minya, Egypt, in April of 1986, took place at the same time when Lacara Meerkat, in the Cunene Province of Angola, was two weeks away from giving birth to Zhang. And it was on the same day Annika turned 7 years old, and when Zhang's oldest brother Moze was age 6 and when next oldest brother Jorad was age 3 (died in the war at age 12). It was 6 years before Cheesah was born. And it was also when Zander Iscelberg Rat, then age 28, in India, was close to completing his junior year of med school. At that time, even Moze and Jorad (in Angola) at ages 3 and 6, seemed like they had more common sense than Zander (in India) at age 28.
Chapter 26. Zander Rat in India.
It was in India, Zander Rat attended med-school and became a doctor, graduating with his doctor's degree in the class of 1991, which was one year before Cheesah Meerkat was born in Angola...who would be the same meerkat who would 22 years later fuck up Zander in a hospital parking lot in India.
Now Zander can pull almost the same perverted crap in India as he pulled in Egypt, but under the cloak of immunity...almost...by being a medical doctor. 'Almost', meaning that circumcision in India was still considered unethical, and in some places illegal, unless requested by the patient. But that didn't stop Zander Rat. He still pulled off doing unwanted circumcisions whenever there was no one around with authority above him to stop him.
On the days Dr. Rat didn't have an ER shift at the hospital, he would also attempt to circumcise his male cub patients at his office of medical practice, which was located in a rented store front in an old, ratty strip-mall that had that late 1950s architecture. However, that circumcision notion didn't go over well with the cubs or with the parents of those cubs. The parents would always take their ailing cubs and storm out of Dr. Rat's office to go seek a different doctor.
Dr. Zander Rat's circumcision fetish had also caused much friction between himself and the other doctors who will not do the procedure unless a consenting adult animal requests it. There in Salem, India, in April of 1992, a six year old male wolf cub was taken to the hospital by ambulance after he was struck on a bicycle by a car. Dr. Rat was among the doctors who were on emergency room shift that day. The wolf cub was not seriously hurt, but he did have a sprained knee and some small cuts and scrapes. At the hospital, the little wolf cub had a fellow wolf as his doctor, Dr. Clyde Wolf MD. The cub wolf and Dr. Wolf took a liking to each other, as did Nurse Sheryl Fox, as Dr. Wolf braced up the cub's sprained knee, and Nurse Sheryl Fox tended to the cub's cuts and scrapes. Immediately after the cub's knee was braced, Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox had to go assist other doctors who were struggling with a bear who had been off his epilepsy medication and was having seizures...and he was a very strong bear to restrain too. Dr. Zander Rat did not offer any help for the bear, but after the bear's crisis was under control, Dr. Wolf and Nurse Fox went back to see how their little patient was doing, only to find that he was missing. Out of concern for the missing wolf cub, other doctors and nurses helped to look for him, which meant they had to momentarily leave the patients they were treating in order to do so. Everyone looked in the treatment rooms, around outside, in the hallways, and even in the patient and visitor's lounge in case he may have wandered there wanting a snack or a soda. Even Hospital Security was called to look for the cub, although they knew he couldn't have gotten far away on a sprained knee...not on his own anyway. Twenty five minutes later, an otter, who is a hospital security guard, found the cub in a large, A/C mechanical, utility room, still laying on the gurney he was treated on, sedated and out like a light, and...circumcised...which he wasn't when he came in. While the little wolf cub was still knocked out, his little K-9 wolf penis was sticking out in the open air, laying flopped over naked in it's owner's belly fur hairs, with stitches around it where a sheath recently was. The cub's penis sheath was discovered where it had been tossed over near some A/C machinery.
"I'LL POUND THAT RAT INTO PULP!", Dr. Wolf raged, knowing from Zander's, then 1st year track record as a doctor, it had to be Zander who circumcised the wolf cub.
"Poor babe", Nurse Sheryl Fox sighed for the sedated and circumcised wolf cub.
"That lowlife rat sneaked him here to do this to him", Dr. Julius Orangutan scorned as the A/C machinery in the utility room continued running.
"We know now why Dr. Rat was not with us to help with the bear...He was doing THIS", said Nurse Cindy Panda, a lesser panda.
"Animals like Zander have no business being a medical doctor", Nurse Fox added as an intern wheeled the wolf cub out of the utility room and back to ER.
"WHERE IS HE! HE HAS AN ASS BEATING COMING! Dr. Clyde Wolf exclaimed as he began to set out to search the hospital hallways for Dr. Zander Rat.
Dr. Julius Orangutan talked Dr. Wolf out of searching for Dr. Rat, convincing him that Dr. Rat has mostly likely left to go home or to his doctor's office location after doing what he did.
"Searching the hallways in this hospital is not helping our patients in ER", Julius reminded Clyde. "They need us in ER".
Needless to say, the little wolf cub was hysterical over what was done to his penis when he awoke from the sedation, and his parents were highly pissed off over what was done to their son. The wolf cub did identify Zander Rat as the doctor who wheeled him out of ER when the bear was having the seizure, although from what the wolf cub recalled from there, Zander stuck him with a needle, then it was lights out.
At that time, Zander Rat had been a doctor for only a year, and he had already fixed it to where no one else liked him. Dr. Wolf didn't like Dr. Zander Rat from almost as far back as day one a year earlier, back shortly after Zander Rat first got his doctor's license.
That shenanigan Dr. Zander Rat pulled on the wolf cub in the A/C utility room did catch up to him though. Dr. Tavi Mongoose, who was a senior doctor by that time, came on ER shift the following day, Dr. Mongoose had already made several attempts before to get Zander Rat shut down for good as a doctor. And when he learned of what Dr. Rat had done to the wolf cub, he went straight to Administration and reported Dr. Rat for it, especially volunteering the information that it was done in an A/C utility room of all places. A week later, Dr. Zander Rat MD. was summonsed to to appear before a medical board hearing over it, which resulted in a 30 day suspension of his doctor's license. Plus, the wolf cub's parents had launched a law suit against Dr. Rat for it as well.
During the time Zander Rat's doctor's license was in suspension, he got really itchy to slice those penis sheaths off those male cub's little pee-wees. Not getting that opportunity for 30 days was really beginning to drive Zander up a wall. So Zander Rat invented some opportunities of his own.
Zander got the wheels clicking in his noggin, and thought to himself, "As long as there are school yards to hang around in that are full of little cubbies, and alleyways to hide in...why not".
It wasn't long before Zander was lurking around schoolyards, trying to lure male cubs with candy bars, hoping to circumcise one of them right there on the playground in front of the rest of the cubs. Zander figured on easily getting away before getting caught if he did circumcised a cub. But Zander quickly found out that idea didn't work the way he thought he had it planned out when the school principal and teachers ran Zander off before he had the chance to even lure a male cub.
After the 30 day suspension of Zander Rat's doctor's license elapsed, Zander figured he would confine his circumcising fetish exclusively to his doctor's office, and that way the other doctors would not find out, and especially Dr. Tavi Mongoose would not know to report him. But Dr. Zander Rat found out that he figured wrong when he attempted to do a few unwanted circumcisions at his doctor's office, which caused those patients to seek a different doctor. And when some of those patients who left Dr. Rat went to see Dr. Tavi Mongoose instead, and they told Dr. Mongoose why they had left Dr. Rat as their doctor, Dr. Rat was back before the medical board again.
And it wasn't long before Dr. Rat was again pushing his circumcision agenda on those patients who didn't want it, like he had been doing before.
In the years to follow, there would be more times Dr. Rat would be summonsed before a medical board hearing, which would in some cases would result in more license suspensions.
During one license suspension in the year 1998, Zander Rat started pulling that stunt of luring male cubs with candy bars at schoolyards again.
At one school, the principal who was a loin, and two teachers who were a bear and a wolf, got a hold Zander and roughed him up pretty bad, then stuffed Zander face first into a street side trash can with his legs and tail sticking up out of the can. When Zander got out of the trash can, he got the picture good and clear to stay away from that school.
At another school where Zander Rat started to wave a candy bar around, Zander found out that the police had been immediately called, so Zander scrammed away from that school in a big hurry.
So Zander Rat tried his luck in an alleyway between a cafe' and an emporium store, using a Zagnut candy bar as bait in hopes to lure a male cub to be circumcised. And Zander didn't have to wait very long. Along came a male genet cub, accompanied by a female bonovo cub, both on their way home from school.
As the cubs approached, Zander mumbled under his breath, "Ooooweee! I just GOTTA cut that fuzzy little sheath OFF of that little genet's cub pee-wee-do. I just gotta. I just gotta. I want his little, cub size peeeeeee-de-de head being out and showing full time. Ooooo, say bye-bye to your sheath, you teeny, little pee-wee-do down there between that little genet's legs. You're about to loose it. Ooooweee, ooooweee".
Then the cubs began to pass by where Zander Rat was still hiding in the alleyway.
"Hey! Lookie! I got some cannnndeeeee", Zander Rat called from the dark alleyway at the cubs, as he held out the candy bar in one paw, but had a brain fart and held up the scalpel in his other paw.
"RUN! IT'S THAT CREEP AT THE SCHOOL!", the female bonovo cub shouted.
As the cubs took off running, the male genet cub hollered, "HELP! CALL THE POLICE!"
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As Zander bolted after the cubs, a genet and a hyena, who were having a late lunch at the cafe', saw from the window what was going on and alerted a waitress to call the police.
A mongoose couple who owns the emporium store heard the commotion and realized it was being caused by the same rat who had been hanging around earlier, so they too called the police.
The cubs didn't have to keep evading that creepy rat for long. A police car soon arrived which two German Shepard police officers immediately bolted out of upon quickly braking the car to a stop, then chased after Zander Rat on foot.
Thanks to those who called the police on Zander, Zander never got his paws on the cubs, especially on the male genet cub Zander was so Hell bent on circumcising.
Zander had to break off the chase and flee from the police. Zander was chased by the police on foot across a grassy field toward a railroad line.
The only way Zander evaded apprehension was to dart across the path of an Indian Railways freight train. Zander barely made it across the tracks, almost getting struck by the train, but the two German Shepard police officers had to stop the chase because they didn't make it ahead of the train in time. After Zander ran clear of the train, there was a 2nd set of tracks where Zander tripped on one of the rails, thus falling face first and scuffing himself up on the ballast track bed, including putting some scuff scratches on the unprotected head of his circumcised rat penis (Yeow...That had to hurt). Zander quickly got back to his feet and continued to flee as the officers who were held at bay on the other side of the passing train could only watch.
Between the passing freight cars, they could see glimpses of Zander on the other side of the train, getting away. Before the last of the train had passed, the officers could see glimpses of Zander getting into his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sport car where he had parked it earlier on a roadside, then speeding away.
In spite of this close call of almost getting caught, Zander Rat had in the following years to come, whenever his doctor's license would be in suspension, would still, like a hard head, resort to luring male cubs with candy bars at school yards and from alleyways in hopes of circumcising one.
In February of the following year of 1999, during one of those license suspensions, Zander Rat was run off from hanging around...of all places...an orphanage. Zander had planned on cutting some sheaths off of some of those orphan cub penises. But it was made clear to Zander that he had better not show up there again if he knew what was good for him, thus the orphan cubs were kept safe from Zander and his scalpel.
In May of 1999, Zander Rat had his doctor's license suspended again. This time for three months. It was over circumcising a 7 year old, male, Malagasy civet cub who came into ER with a busted snout from fighting with an older cub.
During those three months, Zander Rat was just about climbing the walls over not having more opportunities to circumcise more cubs. So one afternoon, while sitting at home, sipping on a cup of coffee and watching television, Zander Rat hit on a really twisted idea...He then got into his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sport car and drove out to the special school for mentally handicap cubs.
"THOSE cubs should be eeeeazzzzy targets", Zander said to himself on his way to the school. "There not very smart and will fall for ANYthing...Hur hur hur...I'll get THEIR pee-wee-do sheaths".
Upon Zander's arrival to the special school, teachers and other staff immediately realized that the Lancia sport car and the Rat who had just stepped out of it, carrying a first aid box, had no business at the school.
"Some dim-wit cub pee-wee-do head gonna stiiiiiick oouuut, he he he", Zander muttered out loud.
However, Zander didn't think that for long. A beaver who was a grounds keeper for the school was within earshot of Zander, and heard what he had just said.
"THAT RAT'S AFTER THE CUBS!...SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR DICKIES!", the beaver called out as he pointed at Zander.
Immediately, teachers and other staff came running over and surrounded Zander. The beaver told them what he heard Zander Rat say. Zander stood there and looked stupid as other staff members got the cubs back at a safe distance. Then a clouded leopard who was one of the teachers, snatched the first aid box away from Zander.
"I saw him get out of his car with this", the clouded leopard said as she pawed it over to a staff member, who pawed it to the school principal, a binturong.
When Principal Binturong opened the first aid box, and everyone saw that it contained a scalpel, suture supplies and a circie-clamp, the binturrong, the clouded leopard, a wolf and a bear commenced pounding and mauling the shit out of Zander Iscelberg Rat with every strappin' inch of his life.
The special needs cubs were getting a kick out of watching Zander get beaten up, thus a fox told them, "Inside, cubs. Let's everyone get inside", as she ushered them into the school building.
After they were satisfied that Zander had enough, they dragged Zander over to his Lancia Aurelia sport car, which had the top down, and threw him into the driver's seat head first. Zander was up-side-down behind the wheel of his car, with the top of his noggin on the floor near the driver's petals, and his feet, tail and rat penis sticking up out of the car.
Zander Rat, who was really hurting bad, eventually got himself situated behind the wheel of his car then drove back home. Zander Rat didn't ever dare show-up at that special needs school again.
Among the victims of Dr. Zander Rat's circumcision fetish that got a lot of attention in the year 2000, was a 4 year old male kitten.
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The kitten's parents took him to the hospital emergency room to get stitches in his paw where he got it cut playing around with a broken bottle. Unfortunately for the little male kitten, Zander had emergency room shift at the hospital that day. And even though Zander was not assigned to the kitten's case, Zander moved in on the first opportunity he got when the kitten was unattended and circumcised him...sedating him first of course to keep him quiet.
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The penis of a male feline is built short with a short sheath to start with, and Zander had removed the entire loose skin from base to head. Zander had cut the base of the penis skin away from the surrounding skin that is not even the penis, all the way up to cutting the sheath lining completely off of the back of the head of the kitten's penis. When Zander got done, all the kitten had for a penis was just the head alone above the ball sack. The corona of the head was stitched directly to where the base had been removed. And because there was nothing left attached to the back of the head to run stitches through, stitches had to be ran through the head itself to attach it to the skin where the base no longer was.
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After Zander finished his dirty work, the other doctors noticed the kitten missing. They didn't have to look for him very long until Doctors Julius Orangutan and Tavi Mongoose found him in a side treatment cubical where Dr. Rat had left him still laying on a gurney, sedated, and missing his entire penis sheath. Dr. Tavi Mongoose mentioned right then about filing another malpractice report on Dr. Zander Rat and having him summonsed before the medical board again.
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Of course there was the usual hysterical screaming and crying from the cub, or kitten, when he awoke and found out what Zander had done to him. Once the drama unfolded in ER over what Dr. Rat had done, Dr. Rat made his convenient exit and left for the day. Needless to say, the kitten's parents were ready to kill someone over it, and were talking about law suits.
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With all inconsideration toward his victims and others, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. in the years to follow, would refer to the circumcision he inflicted on that kitten as his "master piece work of art"...although Zander never did get the picture that the nurses and fellow doctors were not amused by it.
Shown below are Doctors Kyle Genet and Julius Orangutan rebuking Dr. Zander Rat.
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There was an unwanted circumcision Dr. Zander Rat had done to a opossum cub in the year 2001. A opossum couple took their 7 year old, male cub to the hospital one evening with flu like symptoms and a really high fever. Zander had emergency shift that night and was assigned to the opossum cub's case. Right from the beginning, Zander was exhibiting a substantial level of incompetence in his attempts to diagnose the opossum's cub's ailment, and Dr. Julius Orangutan was about to take over, thus relieving Zander Rat from his futile attempts at diagnosing the cub. But knowing Dr. Rat, he simply could not leave the scalpel off of male genitalia.
"Ooooo, eggs over sausage. This one's gonna be different", Dr. Rat sadistically thought to himself.
Before Dr. Orangutan took over as the opossum cub's doctor, and while the cub's parents were in the waiting room, Dr. Rat wheeled the cub into an unoccupied treatment room, sedated the opossum cub, and circumcised him.
Dr. Zander Rat also, out of being a wise ass, cut and stitched the right side of the base of the opossum cub's penis a bit tight. Zander knew what circumcising one side tight would do because of the way much of a male opossum's penis is split down the middle with a clef.
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A opossum's penis is only suppose to split when it is hard, and the halves of the head normally stay together when flaccid. But when Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. got done with the little opossum cub's penis, the penis would continually pull itself in halves from the tension of it's own flesh. The left side of the head pointed straight ahead, and the right side of the head pointed 45 degrees outward and slightly down. The penis head was now continually exposed and would not go back together on it's own.
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After the dirty work on the opossum cub's penis was done, Zander wheeled the cub back into the main emergency room area for Dr. Orangutan to treat.
When Dr. Orangutan approached the opossum cub, he thought he noticed the cub was sleeping. Then he noticed the cub was sedated and freshly circumcised.
"DAMN IT, ZANDER, YOU SHIT FOR BRAIN!", Dr. Orangutan shouted. "Where is he!".
Dr. Dennis Fox and Nurse Teisha Civet came running over and noticed the opossum cub sedated with his circumcised penis split and pointing two ways.
"Zander again", Nurse Civet retorted.
"Where IS that rat", Dr. Fox exclaimed.
Dr. Rat couldn't be found anywhere. It was assumed he had slipped out and gone home while the heat was still on.
"He has always left and went home each time after pulling this kind of a stunt", Nurse Civet mentioned.
The only thing left to do at this point was to diagnose and treat the opossum cub, which is what Dr. Orangutan did, then prescribed some medication to clear up the opossum cub's illness.
When the cub's parents saw their son, they were outraged at Dr. Orangutan, threatening him with a law suit.
"I am NOT responsible for this! Why sue ME?!", Dr. Orangutan asked the cub's parrents.
"FOR THAT!", the cub's dad ranted at Dr. Orangutan, while pointing at his son's disfigured penis.
"You did this to our son. YOU are responsible", the cub's mother insisted.
"I did not do this to your son", Dr. Orangutan informed the cub's parents.
"He did not", Dr. Fox affirmed.
"The doctor who saw your son first is the one who circumcised him", Nurse Civet told the parents.
"And a hack job at that", Dr Fox added.
"You are of course referring to Dr. Rat", the cub's mother said to Nurse Civet, then told Dr. Orangutan, "Dr. Rat told us YOU did it".
"I can assure you I did not", Dr. Orangutan assured the cub's parents, as Dr. Fox and Nurse Civet affirmed.
"Well, we're talking to your hospital's administration in the morning, and get this sorted out", The opossum cub's dad said. "Then we are seeing an attorney".
A short while later, the opossum cub awoke from the anesthesia and was totally devastated over what had been done to his penis. And the things the cub said eluded to it messing with his mind even more over his, "Little Pee-pee stays pulled in half. It can't come back together".
When Zander Rat was summonsed in the morning to talk to the hospital administration, the opossum couple was there with their cub, and Nurse Civet and Dr. Fox were also present. Zander tried to lie to administration at first, blaming it on Dr. Orangutan as circumcising the opossum cub. But when they had Dr. Orangutan enter the admin office, and when the opossum cub testified that it was Zander who stuck him with a syringe and made the cub "go to sleep", Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. abandoned any further attempts real fast to continue lying about it.
Zander Rat was then scheduled to go up before the medical board again for another hearing. On the following day, the opossum cub's dad saw Zander Rat in town, and beat him up pretty bad. Dr. Julius Orangutan also had an issue to settle with Dr. Zander Rat...That was Zander lying about it and trying to put the blame on Julius Orangutan as the perpetrator who sexually hacked the opossum cub.
Three days after the inquiry with hospital administration, Dr. Orangutan caught Dr. Rat in a part of the hospital parking lot where the security cameras don't see. Julius Orangutan commenced pounding the Hellfire out of Zander Rat with every inch of his life. And Orangutans are really powerful animals when they are pissed. At one point during the beating Julius gave Zander, Zander was pounded so hard, he actually shitted while he was getting beat up.
It would not be the last time Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. circumcised cubs, but that was the only and last time he ever tried to claim and blame someone else as doing it.
The emotional trauma of the penis being robbed of it's sheath was bad enough on the cub as it was. But it was REALLY messing with the cub's mind about his penis also staying always split into two halves all the time.
The cub would lament over it, saying, "Pee-pee don't know himself split in half".
He would sometimes push the halves of his penis together, imagining that his penis was aware of what was happening only while he held the halves together, then would say to it, "My poor Pee-pee. You're back. It's gonna be alright, Pee-pee".
Then when he took his paws away, and his penis split back out divided again, he'd cry to the halves of his penis, "Come back and be my Pee-pee again".
The opossum couple, seeing the emotional agony their cub was going through, eventually took their cub to Dr. Orangutan's office location to see about getting Dr. Rat's damage to the cub's penis undone as much as possible. Unfortunately, Dr. Rat had cut every bit of loose foldable skin away from the cub's penis...On a male opossum, like many male animals, that length directly behind the head has unmovable skin as a long sulcus, and is not made to move loose and fold over. As a result of how Dr. Rat did the circumcision, there was no possibility of stretching a reconstructed sheath. However, Dr. Orangutan was able to do a small graft in order to relieve the pull on right side of the base of the penis, thus allowing the halves of the penis to be able to stay joined back together on it's own.
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A male opossum is OK with "little Pee-pee splitting his little head apart" when it gets hard. But when it's flaccid, any male opossum wants little Pee-pee to keep his little head together...That's just the way it is with opossums...Sort of a 'opossum thing'.
One afternoon, later in 2001, a male lion and his lioness came into the hospital emergency room with their 9 year old male cub who had a bad burn on his right arm. The cub had been burnt when he and a friend were fooling around with a sky rocket they had earlier stolen.
Dr. Zander Rat was on ER shift along with Dr. Tavi Mongoose that day, and Dr. Mongoose was assigned to the lion cub's case.
At one point while Dr. Mongoose was treating the lion cub, he had to leave the cub for a moment to assist another doctor who was treating a female binturong with a broken leg.
Dr. Rat didn't have a patient at the time (not that he always knows what he's doing when he gets one), so Dr. Rat made his move.
"I get to cut a liiiionnn peeee-weeee. Uncover that prickly head", Zander muttered under his breath as he approached the lion cub.
Zander started the conversation with the cub, "They told me to take over for Dr. Mongoose. Now we first need to get you sedated".
Before Zander could wheel the cub to a secluded place, he heard a female lioness ask, "Son. Has THIS taught you anything about playing with fireworks?"
"I guess so, Mamma", the cub answered as Dr. Rat turned around and saw both of the cub's parents who came to reprimand their son.
"And I'm disappointed about you and your friend stealing that sky rocket too", the cub's dad reprimanded.
And Daddy Lion was a big lion too. And Mamma was almost as big a lion as Daddy.
As the lions continued lecturing their son, Dr. Rat realized he would have been caught in the act by the those two big lions of trying to circumcise their son. Daddy was tall enough to have to bend down some to get through a standard doorway. That Daddy lion could easily snap Zander in two like a tooth pic, and Zander knew it. So Zander backed off, and no longer dared to even so much as think about circumcising that lion cub.
"Well, lets get your arm patched up little lion", Dr. Mongoose said as he returned.
"Didn't he say he's gonna be my doctor?", the lion asked as he pointed to Dr. Rat.
"He's not. I still am", Dr. Mongoose answered the cub, then told Dr. Rat, "Zander, you have no business near this patient...GET!".
Daddy lion then gave Dr. Zander Rat a stern look that scared Zander so bad, he had to quickly get to a restroom in order to avoid dropping a shit on the floor.
Dr. Rat didn't dare touch or come near that lion cub. Daddy Lion made sure of that. And Mamma Lion made sure of that. And Dr. Tavi Mongoose made sure of that as well. Dr. Zander Rat kept his distance during the time Dr. Mongoose completed treating the cub, and the cub being discharged from the hospital.
Early in 2002, at the hospital ER, Dr. Kyle Genet was assigned to treat a five year old, male jackal cub for a sprained shoulder from wrecking a go-cart.
Dr. Zander Rat also had ER shift at the hospital that day, and had recently been pulled away from his incompetent attempts at treating a civet for a job related chemical burn on his leg.
"I've got it, Zander. At least I know what I'm doing", Dr. Clyde Wolf taunted Dr. Rat as he took over treating the civet.
"That Rat was really beginning to scare me", the civet said to Dr. Wolf.
"He scares us all actually", Dr. Wolf replied as he began treating the civet's leg burn.
With nothing else to do, Dr. Rat began hanging around Dr. Genet as he was treating the jackal cub.
"Get away, you sicko", Dr. Genet warned Dr. Rat. "Go clean toilets or something...something you might be good at".
"He's...a doctor?", the jackal cub's mom asked Dr. Genet as Dr. Rat walked away.
"Unfortunately", Dr. Genet answered, then added, "And what ever you do, do NOT allow him near your son...believe me".
As Dr. Genet began to set the jackal cub's shoulder, Dr. Zander Rat came hanging around again, and Dr. Kyle Genet had to tell Dr. Rat again to scram.
The jackal cub's dad, feeling a bit uneasy, told his wife, "I'm going to the car for a minute, Dear. Fight that rat off if it comes to it, but keep him away from our son. I'll be back".
"OK", the cub's mom acknowledged as the dad left to go to the car.
A couple of minutes later, the dad came back, wearing a belt with a pouch on the side, then continued to stand by his wife as Dr. Genet continued to treat their son's sprained shoulder.
Moments later Dr. Genet had to walk off to get some extra fasteners for the sling he had just put on the cub's shoulder.
With Dr. Genet momentarily away, that's when Dr. Rat showed up like a pesky fly that won't quit, carrying a scalpel and a circie-clamp.
"What do you think you're doing", the cub's dad scorned at Dr. Rat as the cub became frightened.
Dr. Rat began pushing the gurney away with the cub on it.
"NO YOU DON'T!", the cub's mom retorted as she grabbed the gurney, stopping it.
"I'm warning you to leave us alone!", the cub's dad told Dr. Rat.
"Look", Dr. Rat began to argue. "Your son's not circumcised, and I'm fixing this now", Dr. Rat continued as he attempted to move the gurney.
The cub's dad then reached into the belted pouch he was wearing and pulled out a loaded pistol.
"GET AWAY FROM THAT CUB, OR THE NEXT BREATH YOU DRAW WILL BE IN THE PITS OF HELL, DOC!", Daddy warned Dr. Rat, pointing the pistol straight at Dr. Rat's head.
Dr. Zander Rat just about shit where he stood, with his eyes and mouth wide open, as he stared down the barrel of the jackal's loaded pistol.
"WOAH! WHAT'S WITH THE GUN!?", Dr. Genet exclaimed as he returned, dropping the sling fasteners.
"GET SECURITY IN HERE!", Dr. Wolf called out to a nurse.
Within moments, hospital security guards came rushing into ER and over to where Dr. Rat and the Jackal Family were.
Two guards, a male otter and a female fox, successfully talked Daddy Jackal into pawing the pistol over to them, thus disarming the volatile situation.
"He was gonna shoot me! He was gonna shoot me!, Dr. Zander Rat rambled on as he jumped up and down, pointing at the jackal.
"ZANDER, SHUT IT!", Dr. Genet called out.
"ONE MORE PEEP OUT OF YOU, ZANDER, AND I'LL FLATTEN YOUR ASS!" Dr. Wolf warned Dr. Rat.
"Zander's fetish again?", Nurse Linsang asked.
"I told Zander time after time to stay away. He's like a persistent fly that won't qiut.", Dr. Genet mentioned.
After the situation in ER was under control, Dr. Wolf, being the senior doctor in ER that day, sent Dr. Zander Rat straight to the administration office. Hospital security had also escorted the jackals to Admin as well. And other doctors and nurses who could be spared from ER at the time were also called to Admin to testify what they had seen happen.
With Zander Rat's reputation being well known for what it is, Daddy Jackal was not criminally charged, although they very well could have if they had chose to do so.
However, Daddy Jackal was told, "You are banned from returning to this hospital premisses ever again...except if you are in medical need. If you are not in need of medical attention, you don't come back here".
As for Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD., he was scheduled to go up before the medical board again for another hearing. And on the day of Dr. Rat's hearing two weeks later, his doctor's license was suspended for three months.
That jackal cub was among those cubs Dr. Zander Rat never did get to circumcise.
Chapter 27. Death of Hanan III
Early one afternoon, on September 26th, 2005, Dr. Zander Rat was setting a cast on a broken leg of a fox cub who had a bicycle accident. Zander was having the incompetent difficulty he often has, so Dr. Sharuel Bear was sent to relieve Dr. Rat of his patient.
"I can't believe this. How hard can it be to set a broken leg?" Dr. Bear retorted to Dr. Rat. "You've had eight years of med school like the rest of us, and had your doctor's degree for 14 years. You should know how to do this".
Dr. Wolf called out from the hallway, "Oh, but Zander Rat is good at doing circumcisions though!", after overhearing Dr. Bear reprimanding Zander.
It had been less than a week earlier Dr. Rat had performed his most recent circumcision. It was on an 8 year old fossa cub in which the scalpel slipped and put a permanent scar on the face of the cub's penis head. So not only was the fossa cub's penis always exposed, it was always exposed as a penis with a scar across it's face as well (Scar Face Pee-pee)...All done against the will of the family and the cub of course. Dr. Rat was already worked up and raring to cut the sheath off of another cub's pee-wee, so Dr. Rat chose to remain in the treatment room with the young, male, fox cub, in hopes that after Dr. Bear had completed setting the leg and left, Dr. Rat can get a circumcision in on the young fox. However, Zander's plan was thwarted when Nurse Teisha Civet stepped into the treatment room and informed Zander that he had a phone call in the doctor's lounge, and it was urgent. Thus the young fox was saved from having his little red rocket penis deprived of it's sheath.
When Zander Rat arrived to the doctor's lounge and took the call, it was his sister Givol calling from back home in Egypt, and sounding like she had been crying. Givol informed Zander that their dad had a major heart attack an hour and a half ago, and the doctors don't expect him to live. Givol then put older brother Hanan IV on the phone.
"Hello Zander", Hanan IV greeted his brother in a mournful tone.
"Yea...Hi, Hanan. Givol told me", Zander answered, still stunned by the bad news.
"We're at the hospital at Dad's bedside", Said Hanan IV. "Before Dad went back into a coma, he said he would like to have us all here".
I don't know about me being in Egypt though", Zander retorted. "Those cub's daddies. And those cubs are all big and grown up now".
"Look. Zander. That was 23 years ago. They said Dad is lucky if he makes it for a few more days. We all want you here", Hanan replied.
"But but", Zander began.
"Zander, I can send Dad's private jet there to Salem, India to pick you up. You'll be with us at Dad's bedside in a few hours", Hanan IV offered to his brother.
"But what about that whacked out fossa you all told me about?", Zander asked worriedly. "You know. The one who was shooting up the mansion, looking for me after I came to India."
"Again, Zander. Twenty three years ago. I'm sure he's cooled down after all these years", Hanan tried to reason with his brother. "That crazy fossa won't even know you're here. And after Dad leaves us, you'll be back in India right away".
"I'm just to scareeeed to be there though", Zander retorted.
"He's your dad, Zander. You're not going to be there for him?", Hanan asked his brother.
Various family members tried to talk Zander into taking the trip to Egypt to be there by Dad's bedside, but to no avail. So they talked a while longer before ending the call.
Grieved by the bad news about his dad, Zander took the rest of the day off.
Over the next couple of days, Zander and his family would frequently phone each other and talk a while. This is one of those times when family members stay in touch.
Three days later, well into the morning of September 29th, Zander was finishing breakfast at his favorite cafe before beginning his day. About a minute or two before 8:00 am, India time, as Zander was on his way to his car, his cell phone rang. When Zander answered, it was his mom, Judith, crying and telling her son Zander that Dad had just passed away at 4:46 am, their time in Egypt. That was only 15 minutes ago. Because of the difference in four time zones, it was already well into daylight in India.
Zander and his family talked a while, made funeral arrangements and set a time for the reading of the will and settling the estate. The family offered to have the family private jet (now belonging to Judith) fly Zander in to attend the funeral, but Zander still said he would be to scared of his grown cub victims and of their daddies to go to Egypt. They talked a while longer until Zander had to make some other calls.
Zander had a few appointments to see patients in his office that day, so he contacted them to postpone those appointments, and took the day off.
When Hanan Iscelberg Rat III, then age 82, was on his death bed, that was during the same time when the meerkats were on that September 2005 road trip leaving Angola on their way to the Port of Beira. In fact, at the moment Hanan III drew his last breath in the hospital in Egypt, that was only a few minutes after Moze and Leia's Opal station wagon lost it's muffler on that lone, narrow, concrete highway in Mozambique a while before dawn.
Just like Zander was never at his dad's bedside when his dad passed away, Zander never attended his dad's funeral, and was not present for the reading of the will either. Zander never left India that whole time.
On the morning of November, 23rd, almost two months after Hanan III's death, Zander Rat received a registered flat in the mail that he had to sign for at the postal facility. It being sent from the family's attorney, Zander knew it contained a copy of the disposition of the Iscelberg Rat Estate.
Coincidentally, that was the same day Raphael Meerkat was being born at Yannas Fossa's house, just one town away in Yercaud...and at the same time of day too.
"Oh wow!, Zander gleefully exclaimed as he stood in the lobby of the postal facility, rapidly shredding off the manila colored, 9"x12" envelope. "What did Daddy leave me?! What will I get?! What will I get?!"
Zander Rat began to read with much enthusiasm the document containing the words, 'Be it known to all interested parties, the disposition of the Iscelberg Rat Estate as decreed herein the will and last testament of the late Hanan Iscelberg Rat III, and in of sound mind...'
"I can barely wait to see what's coming to me!", Zander gleefully exclaimed.
Then Zander continued to read, '...Monetary sums of 25 million pounds go to Hanan Iscelberg Rat IV, Joan Iscelberg (Zendler) Rat, Hanan Iscelberg Rat V, Wanda Iscelberg Rat, Givol Finbecker (Iscelberg) Rat, Joesph Finbecker Rat Sr., Joseph Finbecker Rat Jr., Julia Finbecker Rat...'
Sums of 25 million pounds were also left to to the aunts, uncles and cousins as well. There were even friends of the family, the house servants, grounds keepers, chauffeur, and some of the late Hanan III's former business associates who received sums ranging between one million and five million pounds. The late Hanan III's businesses and business accounts, investment properties, antiques, art, stocks, construction and railroad bonds, oil and gas contracts, corporate shares, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property were willed to various family members and inlaws. A sum of 200 million pounds was donated to charity, most of which went to a trust fund set up in London, which was actually redirected to a donation for the Shriners. And the rest of the multi-Billion pound family monetary assets, the mansion and it's 24 acres of Nile River front property, boats, cars, planes, recreational vehicles, the family's private resort properties, along with a private owned island retreat in the Indian Ocean went to his widowed wife, Judith Iscelberg (Rhostin) Rat.
One of Zander's ex-wives from a dysfunctional marriage 26 years back, who Daddy Rat felt sorry for, was awarded one million pounds.
And Zander Iscelberg Rat was awarded only five hundred thousand pounds (Gee, wonder why).
It was like a hit between the eyes to Zander when he held that copy of the document and read, 'And a monetary sum of 500 thousand pounds goes to my youngest son, Zander Iscelberg Rat'.
"I WAS CHEATED!...SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK! DAD, YOU LOW LIFE BASTARD!", Zander Rat hollered out in the postal facility lobby in the presents of other anthro-animals, some with their cubs, as he clinched and crumpled the papers in his fists. "EVERYONE GOT TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS AND A BUNCH OF OTHER DAMN FREAKIN' SHIT! AND I AIN'T GOT SHIT! EVEN ONE OF THOSE CRANKY BITCH EX-WIVES WHO DIDN'T GET ALONG WITH ME GOT MORE THAN ME! MOTHER FUCKEN' SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"
"GET OUT OF THIS POSTAL FACILITY NOW!", a panther counter clerk called out to Zander. "YOU WILL NOT TALK THAT WAY IN HERE! IF YOU GOT MORE BUSINESS TO DO, TAKE IT TO THE POST OFFICE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED BACK IN HERE ANYMORE!"
"EXCUUUUUUZZZZZZE ME! BUT I JUST GOT FUCKED OVER ON MY INHERITANCE, - IF - YOU - DON'T - MIIIIIINNND!", Zander protested to the panther as he tossed the crumpled document copies on the floor, and continued to make a drama scene in the postal facility lobby.
Immediately, the panther swiftly ran out from behind the counter toward Zander.
"OK! I'M GOIN' I'M GOIN'!", Zander exclaimed as he bolted out of the front door and left the postal facility.
After Zander was kicked out of the postal facility, he promptly called his mom to find out why he got the least than anyone else. Five hundred thousand pounds being way more than what most anthro-animals will ever see in their lifetimes didn't mean anything to Zander. All Zander cared about was that he felt that he was entitled to get what he felt he should have got. He wanted what was 'coming to him'.
When Judith, then age 80, answered the phone and recognized it was her son Zander, she immediately asked him, "Do you realize how early you got me out of bed?...Well?...Do you?"
Although it was about 9:00 am in India, it was still around 6:00 in the morning in Egypt.
"Yeeeaaaa, Mom. I knoooooooow", Zander replied. "Uh, I didn't get twenty five million pounds like everyone else got...Whyyyyyyy?"
"Zander, you don't deserve it", Judith replied, then went down a case history of Zander's screw ups, stupidity, and how it endangered the family, and at times how it cost the family large amounts of money.
Judith then continued to lecture her son, "You don't even deserve the five hundred thousand pounds you got. Consider yourself lucky you got THAT. If you got what you REALLY deserve, you would be owing compensation to the family right now, and not inheriting anything".
"No, Mom, no!" Zander retorted. "Dad fucked me over!"
"Watch - your - mouth. You're talking to your mother", Judith scolded Zander.
"But I was cheated!", Zander insisted.
"I'm not continuing this call any longer", Judith told Zander.
"I was singled out!", Zander argued.
"Your father gave you more than you deserve. If you could talk to the dead, you should thank him", Judith argued back.
"You know, Mom. I don't feel so bad Dad is dead now. I hope Dad's roasting in Hell. A real HOT Hell", Zander told his mom.
Judith replied, "That attitude is why you didn't get twenty five million pounds"...>CLICK<
"Don't do this to me!", said Zander. "Hello?.....Hello?"
"SHIT!...FUCK SHIT!", Zander hollered as he slammed his cell phone down on the sidewalk, smashing it into three pieces.
Dr. Rat's next hospital patient was a 7 year old, male binturong cub who had to have his gall bladder removed. Dr. Rat took the matter out on the young bintrung for how the disposition of his late dad's estate was awarded. While the binturong cub was still under anesthesia, Dr. Rat circumcised him, and cut him tight. Then just for more spite, Dr. Rat twisted the cub's penis around to stitch it up so the head of it would be constantly up side down, with the peehole turned upward, and the face part of the head turned downward facing the nut sack.
"There! Little dickie-wee can look up side down at his nut sack all day long", Dr. Rat snidely said as he stitched up the binturong cub's penis.
Normally, Dr. Clyde Wolf and Dr. Tavi Mongoose would step in and put a stop to Dr. Rat from doing that kind of stuff, but the were busy with other patients. It was just Dr. Rat, two nurses who he had authority over, and the young patient.
One the nurses questioned Dr. Rat, "That's not even natural. It shouldn't be turned up side down like that."
"Ieeee'mmmm the doctor. Ieeeeee know what I'm doing", Zander insisted as he completed the sadistic circumcision procedure.
Two hours later, the other doctors found out what Zander had done to the young binturong's penis, when they heard the binturong cub in the recovery room screaming, crying and freaking out over what he found out was done to him. And when his parents saw it, they were about ready to kill someone.
Dr. Tavi Mongoose, who was then available, had the young binturong taken back into O.R. and put back under anesthesia. Although, Dr. Mongoose was not able to do anything about getting a penis sheath back for the cub, he did undo the stitches and restitch his penis turned the proper way.
A few days later, Dr Zander Rat went up before a medical board inquiry to answer some questions about what he had done to the binturong cub. It was during that inquiry Dr. Zander Rat had his medical license suspended for six months, and he came very close to loosing his license in the country of India permanently. During the medical board inquiry, Zander was shown some photos that were taken at the time of the incident of the binturong cub's penis when it was still the way Zander stitched it up side down. The photos were used as evidence in making the decision to suspend Zander's medical license. At the time Zander saw someone with a camera taking the pictures, he was actually stupid enough to think that someone was taking novelty scrapbook photos of the cub's messed up penis as a memento of the occasion.
It was a week later the biturong cub's dad saw Zander Rat in the parking lot at his favorite cafe getting out of a brand new, glossy black, Dodge Viper Zander had just bought with some of that inheritance money Daddy Rat left him. Daddy Binturong unmercifully beat the shit out of Zander right there in the parking lot bad enough to lay him up in the hospital for three days.
While Dr. Zander Rat was laid up in the hospital, he phoned his receptionist, Zella Gerbil, to send billing notices to the binturong couple for the gall bladder surgery he performed on their son. The notices were sent from Zella's home, being that Dr. Rat's office was closed down during the six months that his medical license was in suspension. However, after that perverted circumcision stunt Dr. Rat pulled on the binturong cub, his parents were not about to so much as pay Zander two paises (Indian equivalent to pennies and shillings).
Once Zander was out of the hospital, he purchased another cell phone and continually made phone calls to his family to pester them about 'why he didn't get twenty five million pounds like everyone else'. Being that Zander's doctor's license was in suspension, he had plenty of time on his paws to pester his family.
During an argument over the phone, Zander told his sister in law, Joan, "Why don't you just fuck yourself with a roll of coins?!"
In another phone call, his mom's chauffeur, Japeth Fossa, answered the phone and Zander told Japeth to stuff his one million pounds so far up his ass that it comes out the other end until he chokes on it. Japeth just hung up on him then left the phone off the receiver so Zander would get a busy signal.
"Japeth, who was it?", Judith asked.
"Zander. Who else?", Japeth answered.
"What did HE have to say this time?", said Judith.
"Trust me, Judith. You don't want to know", Japeth assured her.
There was one call when Zander told his mom, "I wish lightning would strike the mansion and burn it down with you in it"...The mansion is a stone building, with iron roof framing and clay tile shingles, and is not likely to burn anyway.
The calls got so frequent, and the arguments and drama got so bad with Zander cussing out family members over the phone, all of Zander's family had their phone numbers changed to unlisted numbers so Zander could no longer call them. Only the family's business numbers remained the same, and employees were instructed to hang up if Zander called.
After the six month suspension period on Zander Rat's medical license had passed, and his license was reinstated, Dr. Zander Rat's office was once again open for business as usual...unfortunately. Dr. Rat wasted no time having Receptionist Zella Gerbil send more billing notices out to the parents of that binturong cub he did the sadistic circumcision to. This time, the notices were not so friendly, and contained language about legal ramifications for nonpayment.
Then there was the notice where Dr. Zander Rat had threatened the Binturong Family that the next letter was to come from an attorney.
That letter was the last straw. When the Binturongs opened and read that letter, Daddy Binturong immediately drove to Dr. Rat's office.
"DR. RAT! I HAVE SOMETHING TO SETTLE WITH YOU!", Daddy Binturong hollered as he entered the waiting room of Dr. Rat's office, and waving the billing notice.
"Sir! This is a doctor's office! Do you mind?!", Zella Gerbil retorted.
About that time, Dr. Rat left a patient he was with to come out to see what was going on.
"Oh, it's about time you decided to pay that delinquent bill", Zander said as he approached the binturong. "I was beginning to wonder if..."
>BAM< Daddy Binturong punched Zander square in the face and commenced to unmercifully beat the living shit out him right there in the waiting room, like he did in the parking lot of the cafe months earlier.
Daddy Binturong literally mopped the floor with Zander, then picked him up and continued to beat the shit out of him like a punching bag. Zander was thrown over chairs and other cheap chintzy furniture in the waiting room, breaking and knocking them over. A few times, Zander's face was repeatedly rammed into a wall then rammed down onto the receptionist counter in front of Zella Gerbil.
Two of Zander's patients, a male skunk with an abdominal pain, and a mother fox who's son had flu like symptoms, were frightened so badly, they got up and left to go see a different doctor.
When the binturong was done with Zander, the quack doctor laid unconscious on the floor of the waiting room in bad need of an ambulance ride to the hospital.
Daddy Binturong then picked the billing notice back up off the floor, shook it at Zalla Gerbil, and told her, "I don't believe my wife and I will be receiving any more of THESE, right?"
"I'm a female. Don't you lay a paw on me", Zella warned.
"I'll have my wife come down here and do THAT if you like", the binturong replied.
"Uh...No", Zella answered.
Nurse Jamie Squirrel slowly came out into the waiting room and saw Dr. Rat out cold on the floor, blood on a wall and chairs turned over.
"YOU have a problem with any of this?", the binturong asked her.
"No no. Everything's cool", replied Jamie Squirrel.
Then Daddy Binturong told Zella Gerbil, "When that disgusting sicko creep wakes up, you tell him my wife and I will see an attorney for what he did to our son. HE will owe OUR FAMILY money. We won't owe HIM the first paise".
After the binturong stormed out of Dr. Rat's office, and got into his car and drove away, it was decided by Nurse Squirrel that Dr. Rat needed to go to the hospital, so Zella Gerbil called an ambulance for him.
This time, Zander Rat was laid up in the hospital for a week.
The five hundred thousand pounds Zander inherited didn't last long either (Egyptian pounds exchanged for Indian rupees). Back on the day when Zander received his inheritance money, he had already gone out and spent $134,000 to purchase an American built Dodge Viper, then spent $55,000 on a full restoration job on his 1954 Lancia Aurelia sports car (the one with the circular grill...the one Cheesah would kick the quarter panel in on 8 years later). Of the binturong cub Zander circumcised and stitched his penis up side down, the cub's parents successfully sued Zander for the equivalent of $200,000 in rupees of that money (some of which to go for genital restoration for the cub). During the time Zander's medical license had been in suspension, he was without an income for those six months, so Zander lived down some of that money during those six months. Zander plowed through more than another $100,000 in attorney's fees, over the next two and a half years, trying to sue his family's estate for the twenty five million pounds Zander figured he was entitled to...but to no avail. As for the few thousand rupees left, Zander lavishly squandered it within several weeks. In less than three years, all of Zander's inheritance money was gone.
Chapter 28. More of Dr. Rat's Shenanigans.
Adult male animals were not immune to Dr. Zander Rat's sick fetish either. In the years 2007 and 2008, among his male cub victims were three adult males, an Asian palm civet, an African civet, and a Fossa.
In early 2007, the palm civet had to go in for heart surgery. Dr. Rat was not one of the doctors who operated on the palm civet, however the palm civet's surgery was at a time Dr. Rat had an ER shift. After the surgery was done, Dr. Rat sneaked into the recovery room and added a circumcision to go with the palm civet's open heart surgery.
As a result, the palm civet found a good attorney and successfully sued the hospital for 180,000 rupees over the loss of his penis sheath. Dr. Rat went up before another board hearing and came close to loosing his doctor's license for good over that one...The hospital share holders didn't exactly ignore the loss of 180,000 rupees.
In the summer of 2007, Dr. Rat snagged the penis sheath off of the African civet.
The African civet needed to have a cancer infested kidney removed. The African civet was Dr. Wolf's patient, and Dr. Rat had ER shift that day. The removal of the tumor infested kidney went smoothly without complications, but before the civet was taken to the recovery room, Dr. Rat made his move when the patient was momentarily unattended. Dr. Wolf was outraged when he and the other surgical team members saw the patient with his penis sheath cut off...On top of all that, Dr. Rat had no business in OR that day. Dr. Rat's assigned place of duty was in ER that day.
When the patient awoke in the recovery room, he was upset and irate over the surgery that was not suppose to have been done to him. The African civet swore that the doctor who did that to him would be dropped into Hell if he ever caught up to him.
Dr. Wolf took it personal, it being his patient. Being that Dr. Wolf was there for his patient's surgery that day, and didn't have an ER shift, he waited in his car for Dr. Rat to get off from his ER shift. After Dr. Rat got off shift, Dr.Wolf followed him to where he stopped on his way home at a small shopping center. Dr. Wolf pulled up along side that glossy black Dodge Viper of Zander Rat, yanked him out of his car and beat and mauled the shit out of Dr. Rat right there in the parking lot.
By the time Dr. Rat, badly beaten up, went squawking to a store owner to call the police, Dr. Wolf had already left, thus Dr. Rat had no proof or case against Dr. Wolf.
It would be for a few years to follow that Dr. Zander Rat would always have to keep an eye over his shoulder on the look out for that civet's family members who were out to get him.
In April of 2008, a male fossa came into ER aboard an ambulance with a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder. The fossa received his injuries on a construction job as a result from an 'airhead' sloth bear on the crew improperly assembling a scaffold. Part of the scaffold had collapsed, causing the fossa to fall 15 feet.
Dr. Rat had an ER shift that day and was assigned to the fossa's case. Dr. Rat decided to sedate the fossa and move him into a secluded treatment cubical, where he was to be assisted by two nurses. Right from the get go, Dr. Zander Rat exhibited his usual incompetence in setting the fossa's leg.
When the nurses would point out to Zander the things he was doing wrong, Zander would reply, "I'm just testing you nurses to be sure you know what you're doing".
The nurses were the ones who actually got the fossa's leg and shoulder set correctly.
Then Dr. Rat began to circumcise the fossa.
"Hey! What are you doing?!", One of the nurses, a genet, protested to Zander.
"I say the patient needs a circumcision. I'm the doctor. I know what I'm doing", Zander retorted as he continued the circumcision on the fossa.
The other nurse, an aardwolf, ran out from the treatment cubical into the main ER and got another doctor to stop Dr. Rat. But by the time Zander was stopped, so much of the fossa's penis sheath had been cut, there was no way to save it and the sheath had to be completely removed, thus leaving the fossa's long, double barb clustered, trumpet shape headed penis completely out exposed in the open, with no sheath for it to go back into.
Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat was kicked off of ER shift and sent home that day.
Needless to say, the patient was not a very happy fossa when he awoke from the anesthesia and discovered why his penis felt so different. Dr. Rat had already been sent home by then, but the fossa swore if he ever found Dr. Rat, he'd 'knock a few holes in that rat with a pistol he always kept in his car.
In the spring of 2010, Dr. Zander Rat REALLY fucked up with that circumcision fetish of his. A young bear cub was taken into ER with sprained knee from a dirt bike accident.
Dr. Rat was not assigned to the bear cub's case, but he lied to the bear cub and his mom, telling them he had been assigned. Dr. Rat wheeled the gurney carrying the cub into a treatment cubical, and telling the cub's mom to wait out in the main ER. Zander Rat sedated the bear cub, circumcised him, then left for home before shit would hit the fan when the bear cub awoke.
What Dr. Rat didn't know, and soon found out, that bear cub he did the unwanted circumcision on was a nephew of the mayor of the City of Salem, India (where the hospital is located and the city where Zander lives).
Beside Dr. Zander Rat getting sued for 50, 000 rupees, and the hospital getting sued for 500,000 rupees, and Dr. Rat going up before another medical board hearing and getting his doctor's license suspended for three months, the mayor had the Salem Police Department harass Zander Rat everywhere he went for the next two years.
It seemed like every time Zander Rat turned around, he was always getting a ticket for one thing or another. They ranged from going a half a mile over the speed limit, to not giving a turn signal early enough, to having a little dust on the tag and taillights. One time, Zander Rat got a littering ticket for spitting from in his car.
There were times the police would pull Zander over and search his car for no reason.
The officers would tell Zander Rat, "You looked suspicious to us, so we just wanted to search your car to make sure you weren't running illegal drugs. Or that you weren't a terrorist or something like that".
During one stop and search, Zander Rat got so antagonized, he began raving and ranting over it. Zander quickly found himself staring down the barrels of three police issue pistols until he cooled down.
It was seldom Zander Rat could drive anywhere without a police car pulling in behind him and following him all over town. When Zander Rat was out in the Viper, he wanted so bad to floor it and leave the police behind. But Zander didn't dare try it. Even though a 320 km/h (200 mph) Dodge Viper can outrun the police cars, it can't outrun a police helicopter.
During that time, a 14 year old, adolescent jackal stole a ride mower from out of Zander's yard that Zander had paid 2,500 rupees for. He was the same jackal cub who's dad held a gun on Dr. Zander Rat at the hospital nine years earlier to stop Zander from circumcising the cub when he was five years old. That was the jackal cub who had the go-cart wreck.
When Zander called the police, he was told, "Well, we didn't see it happen. So there's nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day".
Two days later, Zander was out driving around in his Lancia and saw the adolescent jackel and an adolescent hyena cub riding his mower along one of the side streets.
When Zander called the police and identified his mower, he was again told, "We didn't see the cubs take it. Nothing we can do".
"And don't be taking the law into your own paws or YOU'LL go to the zoo", another officer told Zander.
After doing nothing about Zander's ride mower, the officers then conducted a street side inspection on Zander's Lancia, found a burnt out parking light, and wrote Zander a ticket for it...Wow, THAT one backfired in Zander's face.
Zander Rat's green and metal flake silver, ride mower looked really nice before it got stolen. But within a week, the jackal and his friends had removed the blade deck, other attachments and the muffler. They also painted it with cans of orange spray paint, put race car stickers on it and painted the shiny green wheel rims flat black. And an adolescent aardwolf friend had changed some belt pulleys around on it so they can race it up and down the residential streets at 40 km/h (25 mph) as a stripped down lawn tractor.
Zander had several times seen jackals, hyenas, an aardwolf and dingos, all adolescents, hot rodding his stolen ride mower at 40 km/h down the nearby streets, painted orange with race car stickers on it, without it's mowing deck, and without it's muffler as it loudly sounded off >POP-POP-POP-POP-POP-POP<. And it also looked like it had already been flipped over at one time. It would grind on Zander Rat whenever he would think of how much he paid for that mower.
One day, Zander Rat had walked out his front door and caught the jackal and his aardwolf friend in the act of dragging #16 penny framing nails down the side of his Dodge Viper.
"FUCKEN FIRE SHIT!", Zander Rat hollered as the two adolescents dropped the nails and took off running down the street laughing.
When Zander called the police, they wouldn't even attempt to get paw prints off the nails.
"Who's gonna pay for THIS!", Zander retorted as he pointed to the damage to his car.
"That's what you got insurance for. Use it. Have a nice day", an officer replied to Zander as the two officers got in their patrol car and left.
Because Zander Rat filed a claim on his insurance to get the side of his Viper repainted at Chariots of Fire Customs and Classics, that made his rates go up.
Zander Rat eventually resorted to seeking help from an attorney as to what can be done about the police harassment, and about those cubs who stole his ride mower and nailed the side of his Dodge Viper.
Zander's jaw dropped wide open when he heard Attorney Weasel tell him, "Well, as I understand this situation, you seemed to have made some bad blood with some very powerful animals around here, including the mayor of this city".
Zander just replied, "Huuuuuhhh?"
Then Zander retorted, "Ya know Mr. Weasel?...I paid twenty five hundred rupees for that mower".
"Aww, let those crazy, delinquent cubs keep it", Attorney Weasel replied. "The police aren't going to do anything...Not for you anyway".
"What about all the traffic tickets the police are piling on me? It has gotten really costly", Zander added.
Attorney Weasel then answered, "My advice, Zander...Just pay them and go on...That's all you can do".
"You mean?! You mean?! You're not doin' nothin'?!", Zander Rat protested.
Attorney Weasel replied, "Look, Zander. What do you expect me to do? You made your own bed. I heard about what you did to Mayor Bear's nephew last year...To put it simple, you stepped on the wrong toes that time. And they're not going to let you forget it".
"Soooo...Then?", Zander muttered.
"It's not over until THEY say it's over...Until then, deal with it, Zander", said Attorney Weasel. "I wish I could give you better news...You should have left Mayor Bear's nephew alone".
As Zander got up to leave, he muttered, "Mayor Bear. Mayor Bear. What a douche".
"Excuse me, Mr. Rat", Attorney Weasel called Zander down. "Mayor Bear has done a lot of good things for this city. And I voted for him in the last election. If you have anything bad to say about Mayor Bear, you need to take it somewhere else...Bye".
Zander stood for a moment, looking stupid.
"I said, bye", Attorney Weasel reminded Zander.
Needless to say, Zander left Attorney Weasel's office as one really pissed off rat...not to mention Zander still had to pay a 70 rupee consultation fee. Zander was so pissed, he threw a crumpled 100 rupee bill on the receptionist's counter and stormed out without his change.
Then there was the time while Dr. Zander Rat was at his office of medical practice, writing out fraudulent prescriptions for his drug addict clients and seeing other patients, the young jackal, two of his hyena friends and his aardwolf friend showed up at Zander's house with machetes.
"You sure that creepy rat's at work?", one of the hyenas asked.
"I bet he's cutting up dicks right now", the aardwolf replied as the others laughed.
"Yea. Just like we're gonna cut up his banana trees", said the jackal.
Zander Rat had lots of beautiful banana trees on his property, which the four youths immediately commenced hacking to pieces with the machetes.
As the youths continued hacking up Zander's banana trees and laughing about it, the jackal went over to a tree loaded down with clusters of ripe, golden yellow bananas.
"That stupid rat likes circumcisions so much. Let's circumcise his bananas", the jackal exclaimed as he hacked the clusters of bananas into chunks falling off of the tree while the others laughed.
Before the youths left, they threw bananas all over Zander's yard and driveway and against his house, and against his 1954 Lancia Aurelia (Zander took the Viper that day). Then they took some bananas with them to eat along their way.
By the time the youths got done, Zander Rat's banana trees looked like they were hit by World War Three.
When Zander Rat got home and saw the ruins of what was once his 'precious' banana trees, he hollered out, "MOTHER FUCKEN' SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT! MY BANANAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!".
After Zander called the police, an officer told him, "There's nothing we can do. But this big banana mess is a health hazard. You need to clean this up before the health department writes you a citation".
And because Zander Rat's neighbors didn't like him, those who did see it happen claimed they saw nothing.
There was also the time the young jackal and his aardwolf friend threw roofing nails in Zander Rat's driveway. Zander later unknowingly backed his Viper over the nails as he left to go to an ER shift he had that day.
By the time three of the tires on Zander's car began to go flat, there was already a police car following Zander like they had always been doing. When Zander had to pull over with three flat tires, and another one starting to go flat, the police officer who was following Zander wrote him a ticket for driving around on faulty tires.
Zander had to call the hospital to cancel his ER shift that day, then call a roll-back wrecker to take his car to a tire shop. At the tire shop, one tire was salvageable to be repaired with vulcanizing patches. The other three tires could not be fixed and had to be replaced.
There were several occasions when Zander Rat would choose to walk to nearby places, figuring that way, he couldn't get a traffic ticket. But Zander was wrong. He would get those jaywalking tickets that anyone else rarely ever gets.
In the summer of 2012, the adolescent jackal and his friends found out where Dr. Zander Rat's office location was. It was in a rented store front which shared the same old, late 1950s style, ratty strip mall with two bail bonds agencies, a claw (nail) manicure salon and a few vacant store fronts. Dr. Rat's office was not in a nice medical professional complex like where the other doctors had their offices of medical practice.
One morning, early in July of that summer, Dr. Rat went to open for business that day and saw in big, orange, spray painted letters, "QUACK", on the front plate glass windows of his office.
When Dr. Rat called the police, he got the same ole, "What do you expect US to do about it?".
The only thing Zander could do was to have Nurse Squirrel and his receptionist, Zella Gerbil scrub "quack" off the windows before the business day began.
Then throughout the rest of July and into August, there were 16 other occasions where "QUACK" showed up on the windows by morning again at Dr. Rat's office, eleven times in orange, one time in yellow and four other times in lime green....One of those mornings, Dr. Rat had an ER shift at the hospital, and was alerted by phone from Zella Gerbil that the window had been spray painted again.
And each time it happened, Dr. Rat called the police, only to be told, "Nothing we can do. Have a nice day".
And each time, Dr. Rat had to send Nurse Squirrel and Receptionist Gerbil to scrub "quack" off the windows.
By that 17th time "QUACK" was spray painted on the windows, Dr. Rat had been really pissed off a long time ago. Dr. Rat finally had a security camera system installed at his office.
Three days after the security cameras were installed, Dr. Rat drove his Lancia Aurelia into the parking lot of the ratty strip mall his office is in, and heard the burglar alarm system sounding off, >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<.
Then Dr. Rat noticed one of the large plate glass windows in front of his office had been smashed out, then exclaimed with much optimism, "Oh yea! I KNOW those cameras caught them! I got 'em now!".
As the alarm loudly continued, >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<, Zella Gerbil shouted over the noise, "THEY GOT ONE OF OUR WINDOWS".
"I KNOW. BUT THAT CAMERA GOT 'EM. SOMEONE'S GOIN' TO THE ZOO NOW. YEA!", Dr. Rat loudly answered as he unlocked the front door.
Inside, as the alarm continued >WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO<, there was broken tempered glass granules all over the floor and furniture of the waiting room, and a brick near a table.
Dr. Rat stuck a key in a switch panel, shutting off the alarm >WEE-DOO-WEE-Do<.
After Zander called the police, he viewed the video that the security system had recorded during the night.
"Oh boy, oh boy, I got 'em now", Dr. Rat said as he finally found the footage he was looking for, then set the monitor for full screen on the camera that recorded the incident.
Nurse Squirrel and Zella Gerbil wanted to see the video also, so Dr. Rat let them watch.
The camera that saw it was located at the back of the waiting room, near the receptionist counter, facing the big front windows. On the video, the time readout was at 12:47 am (47 minutes after midnight), and it showed several shadows showing up outside cast in the parking lot lights.
The sound track had picked up a voice outside, "That stupid Rat needs some air conditioning", along with the sounds of others laughing.
"That's the jackal and aardwolf who stole my ride mower last year! And scratched up my Viper!", Zander exclaimed as he recognized the adolescent animals in the video.
"Well, they're caught now", said Nurse Squirrel.
Then an adolescent dingo and two adolescent hyenas came into the picture. And the video reception was good and clear as a bell. There was no mistaking as to who they were.
Dr. Rat, Nurse Squirrel and Zella Gerbil watched the video as it showed one of the hyenas pawing the brick over to the aardwolf.
Then the footage showed the aardwolf outside throw the brick, as he grunted, "UHH!"
>POP< it showed the window explode everywhere into granules.
>WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO-WEE-DOO< it showed the alarm sound off as the brick bounced across the floor in the waiting room, then came to rest near the table.
"SHIT! THIS PLACE HAS AN ALARM!", the jackal could barely be heard shouting over the alarm.
"He he he! I got you shit asses now, an' you don't know it yet! He he!", Dr. Rat said as the video showed the youths fleeing from the scene.
Dr. Rat then reversed the video to where the youths showed up so he could play it for the police.
However, when the police arrived they viewed the video, then told Dr. Rat, "Well, as you can see, the reception is not good enough to make a positive identification. There's no proof. Nothing we can do".
Zander just stood there dumbfounded, going, "Duhhhh".
Then Dr. Rat retorted, "Uhhh, what about the brick? Don't it have paw prints?"
"Bricks are known to be porous. We might be wasting our time trying to get prints off that brick.", an officer told Dr. Rat.
"That's the way it goes, Bub", another officer said as they left.
After the police had left, and Nurse Squirrel was vacuuming the glass granules, and Zella Gerbil was phoning the landlord about the broken window, Dr. Rat was ripping the cameras down in a fit rage of temper.
In reality, the police could have used the video as evidence, and gotten paw prints from the brick, if they wanted to, but Dr. Rat was still paying for circumcising Mayor Bear's nephew two years earlier.
"WHAT GOOD IS IT TO EVEN HAVE THESE FUCKEN' CAMERAS ANYWAY", Dr. Rat raged as he ripped the cameras by their mounts out of the walls.
Dr. Rat took the cameras out back and slammed them as hard as he can against the inside of the dumpster, as they sounded off with a loud >BOONG BOONG BOONG< as they hit.
"FUCKIN' SHITTIN' PUNKS GOT AWAY WITH IT!", Dr. Rat shouted out by the dumpster.
About that time, the female French poodle who ran the claw manicure salon stepped out the back door of her place of business and saw Dr. Rat still throwing his tantrum.
"ZANDER, CAN YOU KNOCK IT WITH THE NOISE?!", the French poodle scorned at Dr. Rat. "YOU ARE FREAKING OUT MY CUSTOMERS!...THANK YOU!"
After Dr. Rat stormed back in through the back door of his office, the French poodle went back about her business.
To top it all off, Dr. Rat had to pay for the replacement cost of the window. As a business tenant renting from the strip mall, Dr. Rat was responsible for any damages to the portion of the building he rented, except for in the case of damage caused by war or natural disaster...Dr. Rat was also made to pay for wall repairs where he ripped the cameras out.
Ever since Dr. Rat sexually violated Mayor Bear's nephew, it seemed like everyone was allowed to walk all over Dr. Rat like a welcome mat. But Dr. Rat had to make sure he tip-toed on egg shells. The slightest slip-up got him harassed by the police, fined or both. And that went on for over two years...almost into 2013. During that time Zander Rat's auto insurance premiums were always high, apple pie in the sky, sky high from all the traffic tickets he had been accumulating.
Zander Rat got all too familiar with that blare of a siren and seeing the flashing lights in his mirrors...It was made crystal clear to Zander Rat that Mayor Bear is good friends with a lot of powerful animals and with a lot of 'good ole boys'.
Meanwhile, in El-Minya, Egypt, after 31 years, if Jhi Fossa (now age 62) ever found Zander, Jhi still would not hesitate to kill him.
Jhi's molested son, Chad (now age 39), still attends therapy to this day. Chad became suicidal at age 17 (the same year Zander Rat graduated from med school in India), forcing Jhi and his wife, Nirina, to mortgage their home to pay for their son, Chad's, psychiatrist bills, because of Chad's bad experience, at age 8, with Zander Rat. And that's only one example of the families who's lives were turned up side down by Zander Rat.
Many anthro animal families, including Zander's own family who lived in fear of retaliation, were caused to suffer hardship, intense drama and bad experiences, with members of a few families in Egypt turning to alcohol and drug abuse, in the wake left behind from Zander's sick fetish.
Chapter 29. Same Old Zander Iscelberg Rat
November 30, 2013 was a day that Dr. Zander Rat had an ER shift at the hospital. It was a shift beginning early in the evening with Dr. Tavi Mongoose already having to get on Dr. Rat for a constant stream of "heel to toe" screw-ups.
Only an hour after Dr. Rat came on shift, Dr. Mongoose had to tell him, "I should send you home, Zander. I'll do that rather than let you kill a patient".
Even nurse Sheryl Fox, who is not even a doctor, had to catch Dr. Rat in time to stop him from administering penicillin to a linsang with an ear infection who was highly allergic to it.
Shit hit the fan for a minute or two over that one, as Dr. Mongoose simply told Zander, "Get away from the patient, now!".
The linsang with the ear infection felt more at ease when Dr. Mongoose assigned Nurse Fox to treat him.
Dr. Mongoose was still busy treating a fellow mongoose who had a paw lacerated from a circular saw accident.
Dr. Clyde Wolf was also on shift, but at the time he was busy treating a civet who had come in with an asthma attack...As it was, Dr. Wolf was already feeling like he could slap Dr. Rat up side the head a good one.
Eventually Nurse Fox completed treatment for the linsang with the ear infection. The only thing left was to write out an antibiotic prescription (which Dr. Wolf took the time to do...being a qualified doctor), and have the linsang go see the billing department on his way out.
Shortly after, Dr. Mongoose got the other mongoose's paw stitched and bandaged, and a prescription written out for medication to prevent infection.
It was about an hour later into the evening before the Dr. Wolf's patient, the civet with asthma, could be released. Dr. Wolf got the civet an inhaler refill from the hospital pharmacy before she was released, and she would see her regular physician in the morning.
For a brief while, no more patients came into ER, so the doctors and nurses took turns chilling out in the doctor's lounge, but ready to report back to ER if called via intercom. During that time, Dr. Mongoose also took the time to pull Dr. Rat aside and give him a good stern lecture about his constant screw-ups he's been doing that evening.
Later, while doctors Tavi Mongoose and Clyde Wolf were in the doctor's lounge, Nurse Teisha Civet's voice came over the intercom, "Dr. Mongoose, Dr. Wolf, Dr. Rat, report to ER please...Dr. Mongoose, Dr.Wolf, Dr. Rat".
"Well, were needed", Dr. Wolf said as the two doctors got up to head back to ER.
"Yes. Duty calls", Dr. Mongoose replied.
When doctors Mongoose and Wolf returned to ER, a female fox had just come in by ambulance, and was complaining of bad chest pains. Dr. Mongoose took her as his patient, and Dr. Wolf offered his assistance until he himself was needed for a patient.
As Tavi and Clyde were considering the fox for admission into the hospital, Dr. Wolf mentioned, "I haven't seen Zander lately".
"Probably somewhere screwing off", Dr Mongoose replied. "We don't need him anyway".
It wasn't long before Dr. Wolf had to pull away from assisting Dr. Mongoose and Nurse Civet with the fox. He and Nurse Sheryl Fox were needed to tend to a panther who was injured in a car accident and had arrived by ambulance. The panther was still conscious but badly banged up.
Then a sloth bear couple came in with their 6 year old daughter who had stepped in a roofing nail that was still deep into her foot.
"Where is Zander?" Dr. Mongoose retorted. "We have a sloth bear cub with a nail in her foot, and another doctor screwing off somewhere".
Nurse Civet then pulled away from assisting Dr. Mongoose just long enough to make the intercom announcement, "Dr. Rat, you're needed in ER. Dr. Rat, you're needed in ER".
Still no sign of Dr. Rat.
Dr. Wolf had to finally send Nurse Fox over to treat the sloth bear cub's foot, until she would be needed come back and help.
Nurse Civet made another intercom announcement, "Dr. Rat, you are need in ER".
"Let me have that", Dr. Mongoose told Nurse Civet as he took the microphone.
"Dr. Zander Rat, get to ER now! We have a patient in need! Get in here now!", Dr. Mongoose announced.
Three minutes later, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. comes ditty-bopping into ER.
"Where the Hell have you been?!", Dr. Mongoose scorned Dr. Rat. "We're short on help! There's a cub with a nail in her foot! Get on it!".
Within minutes, the sloth bear cub could be heard screaming and crying.
The bear cub's mom exclaimed at Dr. Rat, "That's enough! Leave her alone!"
"Hey doctor, do you even know what you're doing?!", the cub's dad retorted.
"Zander's violently wiggling that nail in her foot!", Dr. Wolf told Dr. Mongoose.
"ZANDER, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!", Dr. Mongoose asked.
"Uhhh, trying to jiggle it out?", Dr. Rat replied with an overtone of doubt to his answer.
"Get away from the cub, Zander! Just get away from her! WE'LL take care of it!", Dr. Mongoose sternly told Dr. Rat.
Dr. Rat just stood there looking stupid, then back-talked Dr. Mongoose, "I can do this...I'm a doctor too, ya know".
"You're not...No you're not... I don't want you near our daughter,". the bear cub's mom told Dr. Rat.
"I'm warning you to step away from our daughter, you quack", the cub's dad added.
Daddy Sloth Bear got Dr. Rat's attention real quick, and he then backed off.
"I can manage here OK if you want to treat the bear cub", Dr. Wolf told Nurse Fox. "I can call you when I need you".
Nurse Fox agreed to treat the little bear cub, and Dr. Rat felt embarrassed when Mamma Bear said, "I'd rather a nurse who knows what she's doing treat our daughter than to have a quack who calls himself a doctor".
As Nurse Fox began tending to the bear cub's nail in the foot, a meerkat couple came into ER with their 8 year old son who had a rather gravelly cough, and was complaining about feeling weak.
"From what his parents told me, it sounds like pneumonia", the triage nurse told Dr. Mongoose as she described the cub's symptoms.
"It sure sounds like it", Dr. Mongoose replied to the triage nurse. "Have them wait over at that gurney".
The triage nurse lead the meerkats over where she got the meerkat cub comfortably situated on a gurney to wait for a doctor to see him. Then she assured the meerkats that a doctor will be with them shortly as she left to go back to the triage station.
"Zander, get over here", Dr. Mongoose called out.
"Yea", Dr. Rat replied in his normally goofy tone of voice as he came walking over.
Dr. Mongoose and Nurse Civet were still tending to the fox with chest pains, and Dr. Wolf was still patching up the panther who had the car accident.
So Dr. Mongoose asked Dr. Rat, "You see that meerkat cub over there?"
"Oooo yeeeaaa!", Dr. Rat answered as he noticed the cub was a male...and not circumcised.
"Listen to me, Zander", Dr. Mongoose instructed. "He has symptoms of pneumonia. All I want you to do is to get the cub over to x-ray. Tell the x-ray tech you need pictures of his lungs to check for pneumonia. And when you get them, do NOT try to diagnose them yourself. You bring them to ME, and I'll tell you what to do from there...You got it".
"No problem. It's a cinch", Dr. Rat replied so confidently, as he continued staring across ER at the meerkat cub's genitalia.
Dr. Mongoose noticed some distraction on Dr. Rat.s part, so he had Dr. Rat recite the instructions to make sure he got them...which Dr. Rat was able to recite word for word.
Satisfied with that, Dr. Mongoose then sent Dr, Rat over to get the cub to x-ray.
Before going over to where the meerkats were waiting, Dr. Rat deviated out of his way to a treatment side room.
"Where is that silly rat going?", Dr Wolf asked as he saw Dr. Rat heading for the side room instead of going where Dr. Mongoose told him to go.
"I know I told him to get that meerkat cub to x-ray", Dr. Mongoose retorted.
In that treatment side room, in a counter drawer, is where Dr. Rat kept a scalpel and a circie-clamp stashed. Once Dr. Rat got his clamp and scalpel, it was off to see the meerkats.
"I think Zander's going over there now", said Dr. Wolf.
"Good", Dr. Mongoose replied.
"Oooo. That little meerkat male simply MUST have his pee-wee-do loose his sheath", Dr. Rat mumbled as he headed over to the meerkats. "I'm gonna GET that sheath, he he".
Dr. Rat had even been thinking up a new tactic for his circie-fetish...He thought he might try TALKING his victims into it this time and see how that works.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat", he introduced himself as he approached the meerkats. "And I take it this is the little one we'll be checking for pneumonia this evening".
Dr. Rat was focused on the cub's penis sheath when the cub's mom explained, "He's has a rattle in his chest when he coughs. And he says he feels weak".
The cub's dad asked Dr. Rat, "What is that plastic thing? And what's with the knife?"
"Oh. This is a circumcision clamp." Dr. Zander Rat began his circumcision sales pitch. "Before we do anything else, that nasty skin cover needs to come off your son's penis. By the way, you yourself should also consider getting..."
"QUE O INFERNO?!" Daddy Meerkat scorned Dr. Rat in an Angolan dialect of Portuguese that Dr. Rat didn't understand..
The meerkat cub began freaking out, screaming and crying, scared half out of his wits.
By now, it had gotten the attention of the nurses, patients and other doctors.
The acquaintance between the Meerkat family and Dr. Rat got real ugly real quick as the cub's mom, told Dr. Rat, "My son is not here for a circumcision. He has pneumonia! I demand a different doctor, you quack".
Zander Rat thought his lame circumcision 'sales pitch' would still work as he replied, "It's all about what I feel is best in my professional opinion".
The meerkat cub cried out, "I DON'T WANT MY PEE-PEE CUT!".
Daddy Meerkat hollered, "BACK OFF! AND I MEAN NOW, RAT!"...So much for Zander being a good salesrat.
So Dr. Rat stuck to his old proven tactic, ignoring Daddy Meerkat as he set the scalpel on the gurney to have a paw free, and retracted the cub's sheath, poking his little meerkat penis all the way out, and trying to get the clamp bell over the cub's penis head as the cub began kicking and fighting it.
"STOP THIS! NOW!", the cub's mother screamed.
>ZOOM< went the scalpel as the cub kicked it from where Dr. Rat had set on the gurney. Dr. Rat had to let loose of the cub's penis, allowing it to sheath back in, so he can quickly catch the flying scalpel.
>THUMP WOOSH stumble stumble stumble< Dr. Rat was suddenly hit hard and almost knocked to the floor.
Before Dr. Rat even knew it, Daddy Meerkat had quickly came around the gurney and gave Dr. Zander Rat a good hard shove away from the cub.
As Daddy Meerkat began roughing up Dr. Rat, Dr. Mongoose called out from the other side of ER, "WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE!'.
"WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN! DR. ICE BERG! WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?!", Dr Wolf answered.
Nurse Teisha Civet asked, "Why does he always pull that crap", after referring to Dr. Rat as "Zander the sander".
It got really tense when Daddy Meerkat back Dr. Rat away, telling him, "STAY AWAY FROM MY SON OR I'LL KILL YOU, YOU CREEP! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING!".
Nurse Civet mentioned, "They must be stopped! Someone will be hurt!"
Dr. Wold disagreed, saying, "NO! Let him have at it. I'd like to see that meerkat nail the living shit out of Zander Ice Berg".
Dr. Rat was almost scared enough to shit where he stood as Daddy Meerkat continued backing him away and cussing him out. Much of the cussing being in Portuguese that Dr. Rat didn't understand intimidated him even further.
Meanwhile, Mamma Meerkat was busy getting her upset cub calmed down.
At one point, Dr. Rat got to thinking, "I think that crazy meerkat's gonna hurt me...I KNOW...Maybe I can stab him with my scalpel...Yea".
However, some sense of instinct that all animals have told Dr. Rat, "You'll definitely die trying it...And you won't put a scratch on that meerkat".
Dr. Rat felt like he was staring into the face of the Death Angel seeing the look in Daddy Meerkat's eyes. And when Mamma Meerkat came over and held Daddy's paw, that's when Dr. Rat went into panic mode.
"AHHHHH! SECURITY! SECURITY! I'VE BEEN THREATENED! I'VE BEEN THREATENED!", Dr Rat hollered as he dropped his clamp and scalpel and took off running.
As Dr. Rat ran by, Daddy Meerkat told him, "Why don't you just go to Hell?".
Circumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 10] by moyomongoose
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Dr. Rat dashed out of ER and went running down the hallways hollering, "SECURITY! SECURITY! SECURITY! AHHHHHHHHH! SECURITY! SECURITY! AHHHHHHHHH!".
Everyone in ER could hear Dr. Rat all the way down the hallway.
Several doctors, staff members and nurses called down Dr. Rat about being loud in a hospital as he ran through the hallways hollering for security, and his feet slapping the floor real loud as he ran. But Dr. Rat kept running through the hospital hallways, hollering for security.
As Dr. Rat ran past intensive care, everyone heard Dr. Rat's feet slapping by in the hallway, >SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP SLAP<, and him hollering, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", as he went by.
Dr. Rat hollered in a hallway, "HEEELLLLP! I'VE BEEN THREATENNNNED!" as he finally found two security guards, a rottweiler and a bear.
"Hey! You're in a hospital!", the bear retorted to Dr. Rat.
"Being a doctor, I thought you knew better", the rottweiler added.
"BUT I'VE BEEN THREATENNNNN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NIN-NINNNN!", Dr. Rat protested as he hopped up and down, slapping his feet on the floor.
"Hey! Pipe it down! There's sick and injured animals here!", the bear reminded him.
"And as for your foot slapping. Remember, you rats have plantigrade feet", the rottweiler added.
"Well excuuuzzzze me. I can't help that", Dr. Rat replied, beginning to raise his voice again.
"You're getting loud again", the rottweiler reminded Dr. Rat.
The bear informed Dr. Rat, "We bears also have plantigrade feet. But you don't hear me slapping my feet through the hallways of a hospital".
Once the two guards got Dr. Rat calmed down, Dr. Rat told them his altered version of what had happened in ER.
Back in ER, Dr.Wolf had determined the panther who had the car accident should be admitted to a hospital stay for a few days. Once Dr. Mongoose reaffirmed Dr. Wolf's decision that the panther's injuries were bad enough to require a stay, that left Dr. Wolf freed up to go treat the meerkat cub with the pneumonia symptoms.
As for the sloth bear cub who stepped on the roofing nail, Nurse Sheryl Fox completed her treatment. Once Dr. Mongoose could pull away from his heart patient long enough to write the bear cub an anti-biotic prescription, she could be released. That left Nurse Fox freed up to assist Dr. Wolf with the meerkat cub.
Then the two security guards came in through the double doors from the hallway. Behind them, still out in the hallway was Dr. Zander Rat.
Immediately, Dr. Mongoose told Nurse Civet, "Teisha, I'll leave you with the patient for a minute. I'll be back", then went to meet the guards at the hallway doors.
"I'm the senior doctor here, and that rat is not to come into this emergency room", Dr. Mongoose told the guards as he pushed the doors back against Dr. Rat.
"You heard him, Zander. You have to stay out there", the bear told Dr. Rat.
"Zander, go to the doctor's lounge and wait for me. I'll be in to deal with you later.", said Dr. Mongoose.
"But but but", Dr. Rat protested as he stood in the hallway near the doors and looking stupid.
Dr. Mongoose stepped out into the hallway and shoved Dr. Rat's back against the hallway wall...something he's never done to Dr. Rat before.
I don't have time to play stupid games with you, Zander!", Dr. Mongoose warned Dr. Rat. "I have a heart attack patient in there right now who may have to be admitted. I'm not fucking around with you! I'm not playing games with you! I told you to wait for me in the doctor's lounge, now get there!"
As Dr. Mongoose headed back into ER, he told the guards, "If Dr. Rat doesn't go to the doctor's lounge, escort him off the premises".
"Yeeeeesh...He's never treated me like THAT before", Dr. Rat mumbled.
"Dr. Rat. You'll have to go to the doctor's lounge, or you'll have to leave", the rottweiler told Dr. Rat.
That got Dr. Rat's attention, so he then went to the doctor's lounge like Dr. Mongoose told him twice to do.
Fifteen minutes later, it was decided to have the fox with the chest pains admitted for further care. Now Dr. Mongoose can go deal with Dr. Rat.
When Dr. Mongoose came into the doctors lounge, he took no time with opening questions or an introduction.
Dr Mongoose started on Zander Rat with, "This evening, you really outdid yourself fucking up, Zander! Since you got on shift, it was non-stop! You trying to set a record?! That linsang with the ear infection could have died if Nurse Fox hadn't stopped you! And jostling an object embedded in a patient. That bear cub who stepped on that nail. You have the gall to call yourself a doctor?! And then you have to top it off with your sick fetish of wanting to cut off penis sheaths! What from Hell floats your sick boat with that anyway?!".
"Uhhh, it reduces the chance of disease by sixty percent,", Dr. Zander Rat interjected.
"You're the one with a disease, Zander! A mental disease!", Dr. Mongoose told Zander Rat. "There are no studies that prove that, and even if there were, it's none of your business to cut them off to begin with! And you caused a drama scene in ER with that sick shit when we had a heart patient! But I guess you're to ignorant to realize the ramifications of THAT one! And stomping down the hallways and hollering! In a hospital of all places! You really outdid yourself in stupidity with that one! Even someone who is not a doctor knows better!"
Then Dr. Mongoose told Dr. Rat, "I'm filing another report on you. You will be seeing admin. Right now, you go home. You're not finishing out this shift".
With that said and done, Zander Rat went out to the parking lot, got in his car, and drove home...stopping off at his favorite cafe' for a late dinner on his way home.
A while later in ER, it was confirmed by an x-ray and other diagnosis that the meerkat had pneumonia. The Meerkat Family's experience with Dr. Clyde Wolf and Nurse Sheryl Fox was a pleasant one..unlike with Dr. Rat. Nurse Fox liked the cub's name, Raphael. And the parents, Zhang and Annika, made good acquaintance.
Dr. Wolf wrote out a prescription for the cub's medication and the cub was ready to be released...But first, the security guards had a talk with Zhang Meerkat for a few minutes about making loud noises in a hospital, about that drama scene with Dr. Rat. There were no charges filed on Zhang Meerkat for threatening Dr. Rat. After all, he was only protecting his son from a sick creep.
After the Meerkat Family left, everything was slow in ER again, so the doctors and nurses were able to take some more breaks.
A few days later, when Dr. Zander Rat had another ER shift at the hospital, he was called in to Administration. Dr. Rat was reprimanded, then told that with his past track record, if he went up before the medical board for what all happened that evening, he would loose his license to practice medicine in India for good. Dr. Zander Rat was lucky that Admin didn't refer him to the medical board that time.
About three weeks later, some thunder storms with a lot of lightning moved through the Salem, India area. It was about a week before Christmas. During one of those storms, the hospital got one of it's parking lot security cameras struck by a bolt of lightning, and it took out the entire camera system for the parking lot.
A guard watching the monitors in the hospital's security room saw the system go down.
The monitors for the cameras closest to the lightning strike brightened up for a split second.
Then the loud >BANG< from outside.
Then the monitors showed only the blue background with the prompt, "no signal".
Cameras Down by moyomongoose
After the storm had passed, charred and partly melted parts and pieces of the camera that was directly struck were found sprawled over the parking lot. A few of the camera's pieces had landed on the roofs and hoods of three cars.
Two days later was a day Dr. Zander Rat had an ER shift at the hospital. It was a predawn shift, and at 11 o'clock in the morning, Dr. Rat was just getting off shift, and feeling disappointed that five hours ago, Dr. Kyle Genet stopped him from circumcising a 7 year old fossa cub.
It was about an hour before it would be noon, and Dr. Rat already had an early lunch at the hospital cafeteria before he got off shift.
"A cone of ice cream would be nice about now", Dr. Rat thought.
There's an ice cream parlor just a block down the street from the hospital, so Zander went to go get a cone. The ice cream parlor being only a block away, Zander decided he'd leave his car parked where it was and walk there.
It wasn't too far a walk up the sidewalk before Zander Rat got to the ice cream parlor.
"Hi Zander. Will it be you usual today?", the server, an elk hound, asked.
"Oh yea. Pistachio. A single dip will do. in a sugar cone", Zander answered as he unclipped his wallet from his underlying fur hairs (a typical wallet placement for anthro-animals).
"Single dip, pistachio, sugar cone. You got it", the server replied as he dipped Zander's ice cream cone.
With the transaction made, the wallet clipped back on with the fur hairs brushed over it, Zander took the ice cream cone to go.
As Zander Rat stepped out of the ice cream parlor, licking on his "mmmmm yummy" pistachio ice cream, and proceeded down the sidewalk on his way back to where his car is, he could hear a peppy, modern, Angolan tune playing somewhere from a boom box.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A91nBwyqEd8
Zander didn't pay much attention to where it was coming from.
"Shoooodee-doot", Zander said to himself. "If someone's gonna play some hoppin' music, why not make it punk rock?" Punk rock's got style".
"Hmm. That's odd", Zander thought as he heard the music get turned way down, then about 15 seconds later, turned off all together.
"They must-a got tired of hearin' it", Zander said as he continued down the sidewalk and licking on his pistachio ice cream.
"Mmmmmm. Pisssstaaacheeeooo", Zander said after he took another lick of his pistachio ice cream cone, on his way back to the hospital parking lot.
Zander soon arrived to his 1954 Lancia Aurelia, with the top presently down. That's the car he drove that day instead of the Viper.
As Zander was about to get in his car, he heard a voice behind him, "Dr. Zander Rat".
"Who called me?", Zander turned and asked, then took a lick of ice cream.
There was a fossa, a meerkat and a meerkat cub.
"ELE SER ZANDER RATO!", the older meerkat shouted, jump side kicking Zander Rat in the ribs.
The rest happened so fast. Ribs broke - ice cream flying - nuts hurt - face banged up - teeth busting out - right eye hurt bad - kick in the face - >LIGHTS OUT<.............
..........."Ooaaaahhhh awwwoooooooo", Dr. Rat moaned as he woke up in excruciating pain.
Dr. Rat's face was battered and bloody, his lower lip busted wide open, a gonad crushed, two broken ribs, jaw broken in two places, a dislocated neck, the cornea jarred loose from his right eye and eight of his teeth knocked all over the pavement.
"That cub looks familiar", Zander Rat thought as he continued to moan in pain. "Oh shit. The one with pneumonia. Last month".
Dr. Rat now knew what the beating was all about. Sure enough. The same meerkat cub Dr. Rat tried to circumcise, but he still had his penis sheath that Dr. Rat did not get.
Dr. Rat heard the older meerkat audibly say to the cub, "If that perverted rat ever comes near you, or even looks at you, you just let me know"...THAT really added insult to injury.
When the cub exclaimed bright eyed and exuberantly, "I sure will, Uncle Cheesah!", that rubbed it in on Dr. Rat really bad.
Then Dr. Rat had to listen to the wrathful meerkat uncle warn him, "You're lucky, freak. I could have stopped your clock if I wanted to. You don't EVER mess with my family...OR with their sex parts, you perverted creep".
"When I grow up big and strong like my uncle, I'm gonna do it to ya too!", the cub got in Dr. Rat's face with.
"You tell 'em, Raphael!", the fossa added more insult to Dr. Rat's injuries.
It really ground on Dr. Rat when he saw the meerkat cub smile back to the fossa...Dr. Rat couldn't stand it.
It was like a voice kept ringing in Dr. Rat's noggin, "This is what you got for fucking around where you had no business going".
Suddenly, the fossa picked up a boom box, and he and the meerkats ran off.
"What are they up to now", Dr. Rat thought as he was still moaning in pain.
Security guards showed up. That's why the fossa and meerkats ran off.
Right away, the guards alerted the medical team in ER to get a gurney out to the parking lot and get Dr. Rat.
Dr. rat wasn't in ER long before he was taken to OR (operating room). There was some work to be done on Dr. Zander Rat, and he was going to be laid up in the hospital for a good while.
Before Dr. Rat went under anesthesia, the guards asked him to write down who he thought did it...Dr. rat couldn't talk with a busted up jaw.
He wrote something about a fossa and meerkats, and a meerkat cub he tried to circumcise.
The guards told Dr. Rat they would try to find who did it to him. But they did also tell him that there were no witnesses, and the parking lot security camera system had not been working for the past two days.
Then it was patch-up time. Dr. Rat was sedated so work can begin on him...>out like a light<.
After Zander was patched up, he was on a bed pan in a hospital bed with his mouth wired up eating through a straw for a month.
During that time Dr. Wolf would torment Dr. Rat by tuning the television in his room to the Meerkat Friends Variety Show that came on in the mornings.
Dr. Rat's wallet was never recovered from the parking lot. It's believed someone found it and walked off with it.
At one point during Dr. Rat's hospital stay, and during one of those thunder storms, it dawned on Dr. Rat, "Oh shit. I hope the top on my car isn't still down".
But it's kind of impossible to talk with your mouth wired shut on a straw.
When Dr. Rat finally recuperated and was released, and had his first look at his car, sure enough the mildew and ruined upholstery indicated the top had been down in the rain. So was the right rear quarter panel caved in, the right front wheel cover dented, the words "Zander is a wiener" spray painted on the right door and fender...Spelled "Zander is a weener".
The security camera system in the parking lot had by that time been fixed, but not before the damage was done to Dr. Rat's car.
Raphael Meerkat's penis was definitely something Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat MD. had no business messing with.
A song that best describes Dr Zander Isceberg Rat MD. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CUubI37JTGw .
And in 2013, Dr. Zander Iscelberg Rat, under the cloak of being a medical doctor, still has not repented from his perverted ways. Almost dying in a courtroom in 1982, followed by a car chase almost turning deadly, has not taught him anything...Not to mention an angry daddy Madagascan fossa, who hunted Zander down with a 50 caliber pistol, and would still kill Zander if he could find him.
And wearing dental plates and a contact lens, and having a missing testicle, a scared lip and a clicking jaw...all compliments from Cheesah Meerkat, don't seem to have rang the door bell ("Duh...Ding-Dong") loud enough for Zander Rat to get the picture either.
In November of 2013, a meerkat couple, Zhang and Annika, had to protect their son, Raphael, from Zander Rat's destructively lustful fetish for cub penises, which would have rendered Raphael's most personal, private and secret part of his genital, perpetually unconcealed against Raphael's will. Zhang Meerkat had to come close to killing Dr. Rat to keep his meat hooks off of little Raphael's bottom. That's why Zhang's younger brother, Cheesah, less than half of Zander Rat's age, had recently laid a hurting on Zander Rat really bad, which laid up Zander in a hospital bed just before Christmas of 2013.
And when Zander recovered about a month later in January 2014, he found his car had been vandalized, and the interior ruined from the top being down in the rain.
It's most likely the beating that Cheesah Meerkat gave Zander Rat has still not taught Zander to leave his paws off the pee-wees, and not to medal around down there where it's none of Zander's business.
But everything still worked out good for the Meekat Family.
THE END
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*There were some underprivileged meerkats and other animals, who were living in Angola, at the time they were doing without reliable vihicles, who would have appreciated having those cars Zander Rat tore up as a teenager.
SEXUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS
ZHANG AND ANNIKA like a lot of foreplay, and they get it every night and then some, except when Zhang is out on his job as an assistant locomotive operator for two days at a time. But when Zhang returns home when he has a few days off, he and Annika have sex like there's no tomorrow. And they really get it on good.
As for genital details, Annika's pussy is the wet and oily type, not too tight, but firm.
Zhang's penis head has more of a drawn out "long taper" look than what's average for a male meerkat...the way it also is on his younger brother Cheesah. The sheath is slightly long, and the scrotum is average. Zhang's penis has only a modest amount of oil and smegma production. In the sexual relationship, it is Annika's genital that brings most of the oil to the table.
RAPHAEL is still just a boy meerkat, still in that stage of life being fascinated about "little pee-pee" he calls "Little Pokey". On occasion, Raphael would play with himself, like we all did when we were his age.
Raphael's penis has a head like the head of the penis his oldest uncle, Moze, has. When it gets erect, the bottom of the head swells up a lot, causing the pee opening and point to get pushed upward, making Raphael's penis look like it's face is up level inline with it's dorsal plain, looking straight up. To put it another way, when Raphael's penis is hard, he can point his penis at something in front of him, but at the same time it looks like little pee-pee is looking up at the sky because it's face it turned up on top of itself.
A drawing from
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Sexy Play Time by moyomongoose
In the drawing, little pee-pee is pointed at the ceiling, but little pee-pee is looking at his owner's belly...The penis of his uncle Moze is the same way.
At times, Raphael does imagine, "Poor stinky Pee-pee has his blank Pee-pee face (where the eyes are imagined to be if it had them) distort skyward when he gets hard, and looking up with only his little Pee-pee hole mouth pointing forward and spitting forward"... But Raphael also figures, "As long as Pee-pee is feeling good while Pee-pee is hard, and Pee-pee is having fun while Pee-pee is getting played with, then Pee-pee doesn't mind his little Pee-pee face momentarily becoming the top of his little Pee-pee head, and looking only upward while he's hard". After-all, that's how nature blessed it.
Circumcision Attempt, History About the Characters [Page 11] by moyomongoose
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A Cute Feature of Raphael Meerkat's Pee-pee by moyomongoose
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The eyes are only something Raphael imagines when he's playing with it. Raphael's Pee-pee doesn't really have eyes.
When it gets flaccid again, the point droops back down, and Raphael's little pee-pee can look at what's ahead of himself again...that is until he slips back into his sheath and gets covered up.
The head and sheath lining have a higher level of erotic sensitivity* than what most male meerkats have, inducing greater sexual pleasure* from rubbing, touching, massaging, etc. Raphael's penis, like his Uncle Cheesah's penis, also has a much higher than average oil and smegma production* (stinky little cheese / popcorn dick). It can be said, "Nature has been good to Raphael"*.
Dad and son are uncircumcised, with sheaths slightly long for a meerkat*.
*Dr. Zander Rat would have mess up a really good penis, with what he was about to do to Raphael Meerkat on that November evening in 2013.
DR. ZANDER ISCELBERG RAT MD has a typical rat / rodent penis. Like all other males in his family, Zander is circumcised...so short in fact, the head is longer than what is left to the rest of the penis. Zander's dried, katrinized surface is so built up, he just about has to take sandpaper to it to feel an orgy (Dead Dick Zander). Zander is a rat with a really messed up dick.
Back during the time of Zander's dysfunctional marrage and live-in relationships, he never fathered any offspring (Thank God. They are better off never being conceived). Presently, Zander does not have much of a sex life, except to rarely see prostitutes, who pull away before Zander can climax (takes almost forever), then demand more money from him. Zander Rat's pathetic excuse for a sex life also includes cub porno sites, stalking cubs in the parks and on playgrounds when mom and dad aren't watching, hanging out down the street from elementry schools at 3:00 in the afternoon, loitering in public restrooms, and getting off on the dicks he does forced circumcisions on. Zander is one chronically sick rat...Someone you'ld like to throw under the bus...It's a wonder he's even still alive today.
END OF SEXUAL DESCRIPTIONS
THE END
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