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the head, while Linda appeared to be stitching its ear with a needle and suture. Gavin was
the first to react. “What the fuck are you doing to the dogs?” he exploded. We saw that the
other dog was lying down with its head swathed in bandages.
“We had a little accident on one of the islands,” said Linda quietly, not looking up from her
work. Just then the dog let out a terrific yelp of pain and almost freed his head.
“Hold him tightly Steve!” she cried.
“What the hell do you mean a little accident?” I asked.
“Listen why don't you little fuckers take a hike! I'm getting sick of your Goddamn Boy
Scout meddling!” yelled Steve back at me, spittle flying off his mouth.
Penny and Craig arrived at this point and came breathlessly into the room. “Hey, what's go-
ing on with the dogs?” asked Craig, red in the face. “Why are they bandaged up like that?
Were they fighting?”
“No,” said Linda flatly, “We were on that little island east of the lagoon and discovered a
dead baby whale. Steve wanted to get some footage of the dogs killing sharks. Unfortu-
nately, the dogs got attacked by the sharks this time.”
As it turned out, it was Steve's grand idea to go back after the initial discovery of the dead
baby whale on shore. They went to fetch the camera and the dogs and tried to create a
scene with the dogs killing the sharks. He had torn off chunks of dead whale meat, thrown
it into the sea, and when the sharks were in a feeding frenzy, calmly threw both dogs into
the churning water, with Linda ready with the video camera to record the incident. We all
shook our heads in amazement at this cruelty. What an animal this man was!
“So what happened to the dog? Why are you stitching him?” asked Penny, tears in her big
blue eyes as she watched the poor dog's head trapped by Steve's rough hands.
“They both sustained ear injury I'm afraid.” replied Linda, speaking for both of them. “Ac-
tually one of their ears was ripped right off; we had to use morphine on that one.” She
looked at the other dog that was lying down and appeared to be asleep or heavily sedated.
“Well, how do you know what you are doing?” asked Gavin, spluttering with anger.
“She's a vet's nurse, that's how!” snarled Steve.
“Jesus Christ, I can't believe you guys. Just for a stupid bit of film, you jeopardized their
lives in shark infested waters. You are fucking sick!”
“Hey why don't you twins get the fuck out of my face before I really get mad and beat you
little shits up!” he yelled at us. He was very angry and flustered. He had turned a nasty red
