We had a dog sometimes in 1992 to 1996.
Up till now every member of our family including our neighbours then, could remember one or two things about the dog. The dog was so smart, that almost all the wonders that the dogs of nowadays perform are not new to me. "Coffee" was super smart, if it heard any one of us singing for more than 15 seconds, it would joing you by howling then making you sing off-key.
It could understand many commands even as we did not dedicate any time to train it.
We were into full-time agriculture then, so it used to follow us to our farms.
It would kill some animals like grass cutters and giant rats for us. without human assistance it killed many snakes, cobra most of the times. When it was younger, it used to pay for every cobra it killed by having closed swollen eyes the following day but after a while it was executing them perfectly without consequences.
The dog was also very protective too, you can't stroll into our compound anyhow.
Coffee was infected by vulvovaginitis, it suffered a lot of pain and it was always hidding itself away from us, it lost appetite after we tried all we could to heal it, my dad asked my elder brothers to take it to the old hunter that gave it to us, to help us euthanize it.
After it demise, a scoundrel claimed that he was the one that used jazz on the dog, because it attacked him and tore his trousers.
It was resently that I started realising that the dog was not a pure ekuuke terrier but more like a pit bull mix, because of the shape of it head, the width of it chest, it height, it stance and the colour of it coat(coffee and white).
It memory always make me crave for another smart terrier.