Xa uPam Friedman wayethathe uhambo oluya eIreland kwihlobo ephelileyo, wayecinga ukuba uyamshiya injana yakhe ethwele ingqolowa ethambileyo, uCasey, kwezona zandla zintle: kunye nalo mzalisi mhlambi wayemthengele kuye kwiinyanga ezintathu kuphela ngaphambili.
Kuqala bekungachaphazeli usapho xa, bebuya kuhambo lwabo lweentsuku ezili-10 lokuya eIreland kwaye bexhalabile ukulanda inja, iifowuni zabo kumfuyi azange zibuyiselwe iintsuku ezimbini. Emva koko kwafika iindaba ezimbi: NgoJuni 11, umfuyi, uDiane Lenowicz, wababiza nge-litany yezikhalazo.
UCasey unesifo sendlebe esoyikekayo, uNkosazana Lenowicz uxelele uNks. Friedman – okona kubi kunene wakha wakubona. Kwaye kukho iinwele ezaphukileyo ezijikeleze amabhovu kaCasey, ebonisa ukuba wayevumelekile ukudlala nezinye izinja.
Le yayingohayi-hayi, utshilo uNkosazana Lenowicz. Ikhontrakthi UNks Friedman kunye nomyeni wakhe, uGeorge, batyikitye ukuba uCasey kuya kufuneka agcinwe ekwimeko ephezulu, ekulungele ukuboniswa ngawo onke amaxesha-okanye emngciphekweni wokubuyiselwa kumfuyi, owayengumnini-nye kaCasey ngu isivumelwano.
UCasey wayengavumelekanga ukuba abuyele kwikhaya laseFriedmans eManhattan.
Ndixhelekile, utshilo uNkskz. Friedman, iarhente yoncwadi enabantwana abakhulileyo. Ndiyathetha, ayingomntwana, kodwa amawele ethu azalwa kwiminyaka engama-30 eyadlulayo. Oku bekufana nokuba ngumzali omtsha kwakhona.
Ezi ndaba zazicaphukisa ngakumbi kuba, UNksk Friedman uthe, abakwaLenowiczes babebonakala bonwabile kukhathalelo lwabo ngoCasey xa bamshiya apho ayokukhwela khona. Kwaye kutheni bengafanele? UNks Friedman uthe ebezinikele ekugcinweni kwenja. Uthe ukhathalele ukulandela yonke imiyalelo yomfuyi: ebambe inja ezandleni zakhe xa bephuma behambahamba, ukuze uCasey aqhelane nezandi zesixeko ngaphandle kokumbeka kwizinto ezinokonakalisa ubuhle bakhe, i-champagne idyasi enemibala; kuqeshwe abaqeqeshi noogqirha bezilwanyana kwikhaya lakwaFriedmans ’Fifth Avenue nakwindlu yabo eseMpuma Hampton; ukuthambisa isilwanyana ekuzilungiseni ngobuchule okungathi ngamanye amaxesha kudlule iiyure ezimbini ngeveki- zonke ngexabiso eliphakamileyo.
Kwakungamkhathazi uNkskz. Friedman, owathi wasithanda kakhulu isidalwa esinamehlo athambileyo kangangokuba wayekulungele ukutyeba nantoni na kuye.
Uzibonile ezi zinja? Ubuzile. Zibonakala ngathi ziibhere ezincinci.
UNks. Lenowicz ugcina ukuba unelungelo lokuziphatha njengaye, ngokusekwe kwisivumelwano esasayinwa ngu-Friedmans- nokuba babemhlawulele i-1,500 yeenja nokuba isenzo sithathiwe, njengoko uNks. Friedman esitsho, ngaphandle Isilumkiso kwaye ngaphandle kwalo naliphi na ithuba lokuphindiswa, ngaphandle kokuhlawula amawaka eedola kwiindleko ezigunyazisiweyo okanye kwimirhumo yezomthetho.
Abameli beSoft Coated Wheaten Terrier Club yaseMelika, umbutho wesizwe ophambili wabafuyi bengqolowa, bathe yinto engaqhelekanga kakhulu ukuba umfuyi enze inyathelo elinje. Kule minyaka ingama-20 okanye ngaphezulu esenza ukuba mna nenkosikazi yam sikwenze oku, asikaze sive ngemeko enjalo, utshilo uJim Little, umongameli wombutho.
Kwaye okwangoku, ibingazukuba lixesha lokugqibela lokuba uNkosazana Lenowicz abhenele kwelo gatya lesivumelwano. Kwiinyanga ezimbini kamva, uNeal Hirschfeld noJanet Parker batsalela umnxeba ukuba balungiselele ukubuya kwenjana yabo yengqolowa, uFrankie, ababeyikhwele (ngokwesivumelwano sabo sentengiso) kunye neLenowiczes ngexesha leentsuku ezili-10 zeholide. Baye baxelelwa nokuba inja (eyayiphuma kwinkunkuma efanayo noCasey) ayikhathalelwanga kakuhle, kwaye abanakubuya nayo.
Kutshanje ngoFebruwari, xa uJohn noMary Ann Donaldson bashiya injana yabo eneenyanga ezili-10 ubudala, uReilly, ukuya kuzilungisa ngobusuku kwikhaya likaLenowiczes, bafumana into efanayo: Ngosuku ababefanele ukuyikhetha inja phezulu, babiza iiLenowiczes izihlandlo ezine, bathi, kwaye khange babuyele umva kude kube lusuku olulandelayo.
Uthe wayexhalabile ukuba [uReilly] wayethetha ngomlomo [okanye eluma] xa esiya kumxubha, kwaye wayefuna ukusebenza kuye kangangeveki, utshilo uNkosikazi Donaldson, ohlala eFarmingdale, NY Kulungile, bane Ubusuku buhambile, wasitsalela umnxeba kwakhona ngoFebhuwari 15. Kuqala wathi unenkxalabo ngabantwana bethu, kwaye njengoko incoko iqhubeka wasityhola ngokuxhaphaza inja, ngokungayigcini idyasi yokubonisa kunye nobunzima, wathi thina ngekhe uyibuyise inja.
Amawele amaDonaldsons aneminyaka eli-9 ubudala sele ebuza malunga noReilly. Ngoku, ngaphezulu kweeveki ezintandathu kamva, inja isekhona kwikhaya laseLenowicz.
Emva kweeveki ezintathu okanye ezine, wasixelela ukuba uzakusibuyisela iidola ezingama-500 kwaye akasimangaleli xa simka nje. Kwaye uJohn wathi, 'Hayi, ndifuna inja yam.' Kwaye wathi, 'Mamela, ungaya phambili kwaye uzame ukusebenzisa imali eninzi ukubuyisela inja yakho, kodwa akuyibuyisi.'
UNks Lenowicz akangekhe athethe malunga nemeko yooDonaldsons, esithi isezandleni zegqwetha lakhe.
Amanye ala mabali abe neziphelo ezimnandi. Umnumzana Hirschfeld, umbhali ohlala kumazantsi eFifth Avenue, uphumelele umyalelo wokubanjwa kwaye, enamasekela amabini esheriff, babamba uFrankie kwikhaya laseLenowiczes ’Suffolk County. (U-Elián Gonzáles wethu, uMnumzana Hirschfeld ubize esi siqendu.) IHirschfeld kunye noLenowiczes bamangalelana kwaye, ngoSeptemba, ijaji yaseSuffolk County yagweba ukuba uFrankie ungowaseHirschfelds. Isivumelwano, ijaji yagweba, yathi ngokucacileyo uFrankie uthengiswe nge-1,500 yeedola; nawaphi na amalungelo uNkosazana Lenowicz ayenawo kwinja akazange abandakanye ukuyigcina. (Kwiphepha likaMatshi 26 leThe Braganca, uMnu Hirschfeld wabhala malunga namava kwidayari yaseNew Yorker.)
Pam Friedman wayengekho lucky. Ekugqibeleni wazamkela iindaba zokuba inja yakhe ayizi ekhaya, kodwa waphumelela ukumangalela abakwaLenowiczes kwinkundla yamabango amancinci ngayo yonke indleko yenjana.
[Mr. Hirschfeld] wayenesibindi kakhulu, utshilo uNkosazana Friedman kudliwanondlebe lwamva nje. Khange siqonde ukuba ungayenza loo nto.
Ngexesha lokushicilela, igqwetha likaDonaldsons, u-Edward Troy, wayethumela amaphepha esazisa abakwaLenowiczes malunga nosapho ngenjongo yokumangalela. UNksk. Donaldson akaqinisekanga ngekamva.
Ngoku yonke imihla abantwana bam bayafana, ‘Ngaba ukhe weva kumfuyi? Ubuya nini uReilly? ' Utshilo uNkosikazi Donaldson. Ukwenza oku kwikhaya elinabantwana, kuyamangalisa kakhulu. Ndifuna ukumbiza ngokuba nguCroella De Vil. Ubonakala engoyiki kwanto.
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Ikhontrakthi yabakwaFriedmans, abakwaHirschfelds kunye nabakwaDonalds batyikitye iimfuyo zabo nge-1,500 yeedola lilinye – ngelixa besithi uNks.Lenowicz uzakuba ngumnini-nye. Ukuba inja ingumgangatho ophakamileyo ngokwaneleyo ukuba ingakhuphisana kwimidlalo yeenja, UNks Lenowicz uya kubonisa inja, ehamba ehamba nodumo lokuba wazala inja yebhaso. Umthengi, okwangoku, kuya kufuneka abelane ngenkcitho yokubonisa, kodwa uza kugoduka neribhoni kunye nebhaso lemali. Kwakuse Friedmans –kwaye nawuphina omnye umthengi wesitya sengqolowa ethanjiswe ngokuthambileyo esivela kwiLenowiczes –ukuqinisekisa ukuba injana ingena, yahlala ngaphakathi, imeko eyoneleyo yokuhamba namabhaso okuBalaseleyo kwiMiboniso.
Into yokuba nawuphi na umthengi atyikitye ikhontrakthi enjalo unamagqwetha, kunye nabanye abalimi bezinja abalibonileyo uxwebhu, bexakwe ngokupheleleyo. Kodwa sithetha izinja apha-ezintle, ezinomdlandla, ezinenwele ezinde, iinjana ezinje ngo-teddy-bear ezifana nodumo, ngakumbi phakathi kweeklasi ezizizityebi, eziqala ukunyuka. Nditsho nabona bantu baphile kakuhle engqondweni bayaziwa ukuba bakhule bethe cwaka xa bebona injana ifuna ikhaya elitsha.
Ngokuqinisekileyo ukuxakeka yindlela umntu angahlawula ngayo idola ephezulu ekufumaneni, emva koko avumele umthengisi ukuba enze isigqibo sokuba ngaba umthengi ukulungele ukuyigcina.
Kodwa bayenzile, kwaye uNks Lenowicz wayengenantloni ngokufuna igatya lesivumelwano.
AbakwaLenowiczes bathengise amantshontsho angama-54 kule minyaka mithandathu idlulileyo, kwaye baneengxaki kuphela kubathengi abambalwa, batsho. Ewe, u-Ms Lenowicz wanika uMbonisi ubungqina obuphantse bu-20 kubantu abathenga izinja kuye kule minyaka idlulileyo, nakwabaqeqeshi nakwabanye asebenze nabo; nangona wawacima amagama, kuyacaca ukuba abakwaLenowiczes babenabathengi abaninzi abonelisekileyo.
UNks Lenowicz uthe igama lakhe liphela alinakubekwa kwaye iinjongo zakhe zezona zilungileyo.
Akuqhelekanga ukuba nabantu abangafuni ukuhlonipha izivumelwano zabo, kusho uNksz Lenowicz. Xa befuna inja, bafuna inja. Ukuba umntu othile uyatsalela umnxeba kwaye sinenjana ekhoyo, abantu abaninzi baya kunyaniseka kwaye bathi, 'Andifuni kubonisa inja'; abanye abantu baya kuthi ewe, emva koko bayifumane inja kwaye abayenzi le nto bavumelene ngayo. Ngethamsanqa kuthi, yinto engaqhelekanga kakhulu…. Sibe nethamsanqa kakhulu… ukuba nabanye abantu abanenjana abanoxanduva kakhulu, kwaye nabanobudlelwane obuhle [nabo].
Kodwa i-The Braganca yafumana iminxeba embalwa ukuphendula inqaku lika Mnu Hirschfeld's New Yorker's Diary kwaye, ejonge kwizikhalazo, wafumanisa ukuba UNks Lenowicz unazo ezinye iingxaki kwilizwe lezinja.
Nangona uNkosazana Lenowicz ebekwindawo yemidlalo yeenja iminyaka emithandathu – ukusukela oko yena nomyeni wakhe, uWalter, bathenga ibhaskithi yokuphumelela ingqolowa kumfuyi owaziwayo kwaye bavelisa inkunkuma emva kwenkunkuma yamantshontsho enqanaba lokuqala- ayililo ilungu leKlabhu eThintyiweyo yeNgqolowa yeNgqolowa yaseMelika. Imithombo e-Wheaten Terrier Club ithe ubulungu bukaNks Lenowicz baliwe, nangona bengazukuchaza ukuba kutheni.
UNks Lenowicz uvumile ukuba ubulungu bakhe buchithwe, kodwa wathi kungenxa yokuba omnye wabaxhasi bakhe afike kade ekufakeni amaphepha kuye. Uye wathi akafuni ukuba lilungu phofu, kuba unabazalisi abaziwayo ababengamalungu ombutho abazala izinja ngezifo ezizalwa nazo; Abafuyi abalungileyo, utshilo, bazama ukuzisiphula neengcambu izifo zohlobo. Uhlobo olwenza ukuba uphulukane nembeko, ucacisile.
Ukulahlwa kweKlabhu yeTerrier kuza kungekudala emva kokuba iAmerican Kennel Club ibuyise amabhaso aphumelele izinja ezimbini zikaLenowiczes. UMorgan's Sherlock Holmes, i-A.K.C. ifunyenwe, ibingabhaliswanga ngexesha eboniswa ngalo. (Inja sele ibhalisiwe.) UMorgan's Romance of Destiny waphulukana nezihloko emva kokuba inja ifunyenwe ingakulungelanga ukukhuphisana kwiBred by Exhibitor events; UNksz Lenowicz uxelele uMbonisi ukuba inja yeyentombi yakhe kwaye khange awuqonde lo mthetho.
I-A.K.C. amagosa ayithathela phezulu le mithetho. Ubhaliso olufanelekileyo lugcina ukuthembeka kwamabhaso, i-A.K.C. amagosa agcina.
Kodwa xa omnye umfuyi-wengqolowa-ilungu le-Wheaten Terrier Club, elicele ukungachazwa-lazisa i-A.K.C. zokungahambi kakuhle kwezinto kwizinja zokubonisa zikaLenowiczes, abakwaLenowicz bagqwetha igqwetha labo, uJohn P. Huber. Le leta ibisithi lo mfazi makayeke kwaye ayeke ukwenza naziphi na izityholo ezinyelisa abantu baseLenowiczes ukunqanda amanyathelo asemthethweni. Ileta ichaza ingozi engenakulungiseka kwimisebenzi kaLenowiczes kunye nokuziphilisa njengabafuyi beenja abaqeqeshiweyo.
(Ukuba abakwaLenowiczes ngokwenene ngabazalisi abaziingcali, banokuba nexesha elinzima ngakumbi lokuba ngamalungu eSoft Coated Wheaten Terrier Club yaseMelika; iingcali zijongwa njengezonakalisayo kuhlobo, ezinokuthi zikhathalele inzuzo ngaphezulu kwempilo kunye nokuba sempilweni wezinja.)
Kudliwanondlebe, abakwaLenowiczes baphikile ukuba bayazixhasa ngokuzala inja; Singabafuyi bokuzonwabisa, UNks Lenowicz ucacisile.
Ukuba injana nganye kaLenowiczes ’engaphaya kwama-50 ithengiswe nge-1,500 yeedola, iiLenowiczes bema ukuze bathathe malunga nama-80,000 eedola.
Ngaphandle kwee-1,500 zeedola iiLenowiczes ezenzelwe ukuthengisa uFrankie kwiiHirschfelds, bahamba nge-2,300 yeedola iiHirschfelds zabanika indawo yokuhlala ukuze kupheliswe inkqubo kaLenowiczes. Umnumzana Hirschfeld uthe uyihlawule nje ukunqanda ukopha kwemali yokulwa nabakwaLenowiczes enkundleni kunye nokuchitha ixesha elininzi ngexesha lakhe.
Inkanuko yenja
AbakwaLenowiczes nabo babebandakanyekile kwimpikiswano ende kunye nomthengi waseManhattan owayefuna ukubuyisela inja yakhe kumaLenowiczes. Elo tyala, ixesha elide elithe- / lathi-ingxabano, libonisa indlela ekunokuba nzima ngayo ukuba yimicimbi yobunini.
Kwelinye ityala, umnini oqhakamshelane ne -The Braganca wathi wayenamava afana nalawo e-Friedmans, e-Hirschfelds nase-Donaldsons: Wayexelelwe ukuba inja yakhe ayikabikho kwaye wayeza kuyibuyisela kuye emva kokuzilungisa nokubiza kakhulu. . Lowo mnini uthe unethemba elipheleleyo lokuba uyakuyifumana inja yakhe ngo-Epreli 4, kodwa akazange afune ukucacisa ngetyala lakhe, kuba esoyika ukubek 'engozini ukubuya kwenja.
Ukanti uFlorence Asher wathenga injana yakhe uMamie kwiLenowiczes ngoJuni ka-1999, kwaye wathi ubudlelwane bakhe nesi sibini buhle kakhulu.
Ukuba nangasiphi na isizathu uziva ukuba inja ayikho kwisimo esihle, kukuqonda kwam ukuba unelungelo lokuyibuyisa, utshilo uNks. Asher. Ndiyazi ukuba izandi nutty, kodwa loo nto nje uhlobo into abayenzayo.
Kwaye abanye abayonwabeli nje kuphela ubudlelwane babo kunye nabakwaLenowiczes, bakwakhuthaza abanye ukuba bafune esi sibini ukuba bafuna ibanga eliphambili eligutyungelwe ngokhuni.
Uzama ukuzala ngokucocekileyo, utshilo omnye owayesakuba ngumfuyi ngoku oqhuba ishishini lokulungisa izinja ngokukhethekileyo kwimimandla yengqolowa, kwaye ngubani obhekisa kwabo babeza kuba ngabathengi kwiLenowiczes. Zininzi iingxaki zempilo kunye nezifo kolu hlobo.
Kodwa inja kaNks Asher yakhula kakhulu ukuba ingakhuphisana kwimidlalo yenja; ubungakanani yenye yeendlela zokujonga ezininzi ekugwebeni inja yokubonisa. Ke ooLenowiczes babuphelisa ubudlelwane babo bobumnini bobabini ngoxolo.
UNksz Lenowicz uthe abantu abaninzi kakhulu basayina isivumelwano, ngaphandle kwenjongo yokubonelela ngononophelo kunye nemeko engummangaliso yenja yokubonisa.
Ngamanye amaxesha kungenxa yokuba banesikhundla samandla, okanye isikhundla sobutyebi, ngenxa yoko abakhathali ukuba batyikitye isivumelwano, utshilo uNksz Lenowicz. Kwaye ayilunganga.
Kwaye kukho inyani kwingxelo yakhe: Ingqolowa ifunwa kakhulu ngoku, abantu baya kwenza nantoni na ukuyifumana.
Umyeni kaNks. Friedman uthathe elinye ikontrakthi yokubonisa kwaye wathi kuya kufuneka ahlanye ukuze asayine into enjalo. Igqwetha lika Mnu. Hirschfeld laye lacinga ukuba ikhontrakthi ithambekele ngokungathandekiyo kumfuyi, kodwa ikwabona ukuba izibonelelo zayo zibalasele kangangokuba azinakunyanzeliswa.
Kwaye okwangoku, kunokuba nzima ukufumana ingqolowa ngenye indlela. Xa uMnumzana Hirschfeld wanxibelelana nabanye abalimi abadweliswe kwiQela le-Wheaten Terrier malunga nokufumana injana, wagxothwa, kungenxa yokuba wayehlala esixekweni okanye kuba uluhlu lokulinda nomfuyi lwalulude kakhulu. Abafowunelwa kwikhaya likaNkosazana Lenowicz eLong Island bamkelwa ngokurekhodwa okucela lowo ufowunayo ukuba angashiyi myalezo ngokubhekisele kwiingqolowa zengqolowa, njengoko kunzima ukuphendula yonke iminxeba.
Ngokutsho kweengcali zengqolowa, zimbalwa kangange-500 ingqolowa engagalelwanga efumaneka qho ngonyaka kwiinkunkuma ezincedwa ngabafuyi abadweliswe kunye nazo, ngelixa ngaphezulu kwama-2 000 ngonyaka babhalisiwe kwiAmerican Kennel Club. Ngenxa yokwanda kokuthandwa, ukulinda kangangeminyaka emibini okanye nangaphezulu kunokujongana nomnini-ngqolowa - ngaphandle kokuba bathathe ubunini bobambiswano kwinja yokubonisa, njengoko kwenza ooDonaldsons, Hirschfelds kunye noFriedmans.
Nangona kunjalo, ngokutsho kwabanye abafuyi, kunqabile xa abanini abahamba ngaloo ndlela belahlekelwa zizinja zabo kumnini-mnini. Omnye umfuyi wendawo uthe amaxesha amaninzi, umfuyi uyeke inja ngokupheleleyo ukuba umthengi akakwazi ukuyigcina ikwimeko yokubonisa. Ngokufutshane ukuxhatshazwa ngokwasemzimbeni, ayiqhelekanga, utshilo, ukuba umfuyi ayibuyise inja.
KuNkosazana Lenowicz, iimeko athe wazifumana phantsi kwezinja ekuxoxiswene ngazo zazifana nokuphathwa gadalala. Kwaye wayekhusela nje amantshontsho awayewakhule ngothando.
Siyazingca ngomsebenzi esiwenzayo njengabafuyi.… Kwaye sifuna izinja zethu… zibekwe kwindawo ekhuselekileyo nenothando, utshilo uNkosazana Lenowicz. Ukucinga ngomntu ongaziphathi kakuhle [iinjana] –kunzima kakhulu ukuhlala naye njengomfuyi.
Ngeli xesha, UNks Friedman akakayifumani enye inja ukuthatha indawo kaCasey. Xa esenza ntoni?
Ndiza kuya kwisikiti, utshilo uNkskz. Friedman.
-Kunye noKarina Lahni
