Ever since then, the keeping of great Mongoose Squads has been a feature of Chalakanesian life, with the Seven States vying with each other to see which can produce the fiercest, most reckless pack of mongooses (an unfortunate competition which has led, on occasion, to hapless mongooses being cruelly pitted against such inappropriate opponents as the pig, the honey bear and the water buffalo).
'How is the mongoose?' said Heineman, not because he wanted to know, but because he thought it his presidential duty to show interest in the presidential Mongoose Pack.
'It's been taken to the doctor,' said Sheridan. [NoP Ch10]

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