"Shit, shit, sorry," she says with a wave of her hand that ends with a soothing pat for the horse-like creature. "It's the classic round-up line from westerns. S'what the rancher always yells out to get everyone moving."

It's also a line that's so culturally commonplace that Njoki didn't even think about it. "I've never figured out if it's the horses or the cows that are lil' doggies."