I spent one night at the farm, Saturday to Sunday. I couldn’t sleep until 3:30 am and I could also hear our neighbor’s dogs howling intermittently. They belong to the former tenants behind our cottage house. The couple separated and sold some of their dogs and there are two left, I was told they are Labrador Retrievers. The American husband moved back to Texas and the Filipina wife no longer lives at this house but she continues to keep the two dogs. She pays P3,000 a month to someone to bring the dogs’ food and water. Edmund has consistently expressed interest in adopting the dogs but the caretaker of course would not want to because he will lose P3,000 a month in income which is already sizeable in this probinsya.
Our people at the farm have reported the dogs crying and howling regularly. Our maids and drivers tell a different story. The dogs are seeing ghosts or some underground creatures that’s why they howl.
Last Sunday morning until midday the dogs kept howling. I could hear them but since our windows were closed, the sound was not obtrusive but still loud enough for me to get concerned. I thought of sending food but since my mind was busy, nalimutan ko na. When I went out to eat at 1 pm, they were still howling, awang-awa ako. But then, I failed to do anything. I was in a hurry kasi, I have a 2:30 meeting with the architect. When I came back at 2:15 pm, they were still crying.
Ang dami kong ginawa so nalimutan ko na naman to send one of the guys to check out what was happening to the dogs.
The architect came and when it was already 5 pm, I practically kicked him out kasi I was traveling back to Manila. I wished to stay for another night but Theo is coming home from his other grandparent’s house so I wanted to be home.
When we were already somewhere in Santa Rosa Road going back to Manila, at saka ko naalala yung mga aso.
Me—– “Narinig nyo ba yung mga aso? Iyak ng iyak, magdamag, hanggang kaninang hapon,”
Driver Ricky —– “Oo mam.”
Me—— “Baka walang mga pagkain.”
Driver Ricky —– “Hindi mam, pinapakain yun, matataba nga sila.”
Me—— “Eh bakit kaya iyak ng iyak, kawawa naman.”
Sgt. Jerry —— “Mam, dalawa lang ang dahilan bakit umiiyak ang aso. Kung may nakikitang multo at kung masakit ang ngipin.”
Huh? Masakit ang ngipin? Parang ako nung maliit ako pag pagmasakit ang ngipin ko, iiyak-iyak ako.
