holy! | kevin

wow, reminds me of when I studied abroad in Russia, we went to Irkutsk. There is a big puffy white dog, that looked quite a bit like the dog in those photos, who lives at the Decemberists museum in Irkutsk, Russia. Upon exiting with my group, the custodian of the museum noticed we had seen the museum's guard dog, who was big, and puffy. A poodle on steroids if you will. The matron told us to flee, and the dog, sensing the tension in her voice must have perceived us as a threat, because he charged. We ran for the exit. The dog got closer. We opened the gate to the street. The dog lunged, teeth bared. My friend stumbled forward, turned to see the dog grab hold of her ass. With a ratio of indignancy to fear of at least three to one, she yelled "that dog bit me on my ass." The dog released its grip and withdrew. We scurried onto the street, where our student coordinator, who was a christian scientist mind you, assessed the situation and decided that a tetanus and rabies shot was required When we went to the clinic, the dr was a strident nationalist and claimed that there were no cases of rabies in Russia. After a few moments, a local resident who had apparently been beaten senseless came in and and no place to sit because we took up all the benches in the hall. Despite being covered in blood, he couldn't see the dr because she was treating my classmate. Anyhow, finally the dr yelled, "I realize you have rabies in America, but we don't have rabies here." Then he looked pissed that we were Americans. So, we fled.