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Thula Makoa and the female Rottweiler, bearing its injuries. Beside them is Reverend Moeketsi Mototjane, of the Holy Cross Anglican Church in Nyanga
An alleged stray baboon attack has left both master and man's best friend nursing a bruised ego and a broken left hind leg, respectively.
According to Thuso Makoa, the incident took place in the early hours of Sunday.
"I was sitting by the fire when I heard a strange sound and I went to investigate. It was as if someone had dropped something over the fence.
As I was walking in an alley, I couldn't believe my eyes."
Makoa said there, in front of him, was a baboon with a chain around its waist.
Then it lunged at him, he said.
"I turned around and ran for my life, and hid in one of the alleys,"
"As the dogs chased the animal around the yard, I managed to scramble to my room where,
after a few minutes, I heard one of the dogs yelping in pain. As Makoa opened the door of his room, he said he saw one of the guard dogs, a female Rottweiler, rushing towards him, dragging its left hind leg and in obvious pain. He said he stayed in his room until daybreak as he was too scared to even save the dog from the attacker.
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