A Marriage of Necessity

On her first visit to Melbourne Australia a friend said.  ‘It’s a beautiful city and so clean and the facilities are so impressive.  But there’s something not right, something is missing.’

Asking Balinese people why they have Bali Dogs is futile.   What their dog means to them?  Now there’s a stroll into history. 

Manifesting the same genetic blueprint with each evolving cycle the Bali Dog Bali People relationship has altered little at its historical core yet massively with the passage of time.  Characters and their physicality are the only ongoing change in a play that has been running since the beginning of time.  It’s a marriage spanning thousands of years and like any lengthy union a degree of blending overlapping and merging emerges.  It can result in a hellish prison of resentment or a comfortable well established unspoken balanced partnership.

Invasion and colonization over the eons hasn’t broken the marriage and divorce hasn’t become fashionable or inevitable.  None of this means that the marriage is perfect, no marriage is.  But even with the obvious individuality within these species and pressure of modern and fast changing Bali, something unknown unspoken and unrecognized has cemented this marriage with a bond that to date is unbreakable.  It just is.

​‘But there’s something not right, something is missing.  There are no dogs and for us Balinese, life without our dogs is not right, not normal.’