Along the old Tapah–Cameron Highlands federal road (Route 59), on the approach to Ringlet — marked only by a Celcom utility pole numbered 364 — there is a dog shelter that does not exist on paper. Just a yellow-walled Datuk Kong shrine, a row of pallet-wood enclosures draped in blue tarpaulin, and countless stray dogs — calm, fed, and going nowhere. The Datuk Kong ConnectionA Datuk Kong shrine sits at the centre of the site. The Mountain Pass, As It Has Always BeenThe old Tapah–Cameron Highlands road is not the highway. The Datuk Kong inside watches over the land and the people who pass through it; the dogs, by all evidence, have been added to that arrangement without anyone filing the paperwork.