Meet Disney, the daftest dog in Cape Town.
The Staffordshire bull terrier fancies herself as a deadly "seal hunter" - despite almost being killed not once, but twice, by the powerful mammals.
Disney was left battered, bruised and sporting 45 stitches in her neck when she swam into the Noordhoek surf in 2000 to do battle with a basking bull seal.
But she didn't learn her lesson and has returned to the site of her humiliation on a revenge mission.
'I was afraid for myself and the dog as I tried separating the two' It was another embarrassing mismatch as the terrier once again bit off more than she could chew.
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Disney, weighing in at 14kg, never stood a chance against the seal, totalling a massive 300kg.
The 11-year-old dog almost lost her tail in the 10-minute fracas before being rescued by a horse-riding instructor.
Eunica Kapp was giving a lesson on the beach when she saw the commotion on the edge of the surf.
She bravely waded in and wrestled Disney away from the seal.
'Soon we'll be able to open her neck like a zip from the all the wounds' "At first I thought it was another seal but on closer inspection saw that it was a dog fighting with a seal," Kapp said.
"I was afraid for myself and the dog as I tried separating the two."
Disney's owner, Ken Geraghty, who had wandered off along the beach alone, was more than grateful.
But the dog's battle was only beginning and she had to be stitched up by a team of vets after suffering horrific damage from the seal's 3cm incisors.
Geraghty said he had never seen Disney in so much pain as vets reconstructed her tail. "The first time she was bitten she lost a lot of blood but this time was different because the seal just missed a couple of arteries," he said.
"Disney is impossible. She just runs around on the beach looking for seals."
The dog has been in and out of trouble for most of her life.
Apart from her two fights with the Noordhoek seals, Disney has been bitten on the nose by a dassie, injured by a porcupine and almost killed after becoming wedged under a bakkie full of hefty construction workers.
"Soon we'll be able to open her neck like a zip from the all the wounds she's sustained," Geraghty said.
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