Pushmi-Pullyu (The Importance of a Training Partner)
I love animals. It is a fact known by virtually everyone I meet (perhaps it’s the over abundance of dog hair on my clothing that gives me away – for the record I try to limit it but it just keeps coming back). So it probably comes as no surprise I loved the character of Doctor Dolittle in a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting and later in movies. In the book, as in the original movie, there are many unusual animals. One in particular always caught my attention – The pushmi-pullyu (pronounced “push-me—pull-you”) a “gazelle-unicorn cross” which has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body. I can imagine nothing that quite demonstrates the true difficulties of cooperation more than the concept of two heads The rest of the story