My Outstanding Pets
I have always been fond of pets..how the love started can't tell accurately but I remember one fine morning vividly, when I was just 9 yrs, enjoying the morning cool breeze when suddenly my attention diverted towards a feeble sound and the very next moment a squirrel fell down on our terrace floor. It actually slipped from a crow somehow maybe for me. Though its neck was injured still alive. My joys knew no bounds and in excitement I just came running around without knowing what to do to save that poor squirrel.
After some time my excitement reduced and I took it inside to little hot place so as to save from cold and applied turmeric and coconut oil paste gently over the injury. It slept or was unconscious I could not guess. I remember every morning taking it to a sugarcane juice seller and giving drops of juice with a cotton swab. It relished and gradually started taking liquids especially fruit juice and looked well nourished in a few weeks time. We would let it out for some time to play fearing it would run away to the surrounding trees, but to my great astonishment it never tried to leave me instead played on my palm and jumped as if in joy or simply it was my assumption I don't know.
After some days it was completely healthy so I let it go to its natural abode but without fail every morning it used to come and play with me as if it too knew the relationship..really every creature knows the true meaning of love and care.
A kitten I reared and in a few months grew to be a furry full grown beautiful cat. I just loved it while it licked milk, cleaned its whole body with its paws licking in between to wet it. It took ten minutes to lick milk but half an hour for cleaning body. Actually small in size it maintained itself clean. I used to get fish for it and on its sight my cat would become mad making eager rounds around me. I purposely delayed to enjoy her movements. I would hang it on height and make it jump to catch the fish, when it jumped I would again heighten little bit thus our time together spent would be quite interesting. In the last I would give the fish and it would relish and after eating sleep for hours together.
When it delivered I simply used to follow and stealthily touch the young ones every now and then. I was surprised at how the mom cat took the young ones without hurting its soft body with its sharp teeth. Every time it would keep on changing place for their safety. We think ourselves great but these small animals too have this sense.
Animals have no less emotional attachments. I reared a goat and handed it to a friend as I could not manage many at home. After a few months it was pregnant. We would inquire on meeting and thats all, in a few months we became accustomed to its absence. At the time of giving birth suddenly the goat was missing and our friend was in a fix regarding informing us of its absence. In the evening I was a bit weary but noted a goat resting near the gate, I didn't give much importance.
Little late when I went near got a sweet shock as it was the same goat missing. In the night I gave it a bowl of daliya and made it comfortable by spreading my cotton sarees, it was being the last stage poor thing could not manage. Night in heavy rains it delivered a baby goat, morning I informed our friend and they were aghast as the goat traveled almost 8 miles to reach my place. The village people told it came in search of its mother home. Even a goat could not forget the care and love showered but we humans erase from our memory so many more valuable things!!
A dog without budging from the place where his master dead body lied, refused to have anything and in a few days breathed his last when I was a child. Still I remember its strong attachment with the master. They made a statue in remembrance of the loyal dog. Even my pet dogs refuse to take anything if I am away from home.
We think with great pride ourselves intellectuals and emotionally strong but these pets beat us in affection and loyalty. They prove the best companions also.
When it delivered I simply used to follow and stealthily touch the young ones every now and then. I was surprised at how the mom cat took the young ones without hurting its soft body with its sharp teeth. Every time it would keep on changing place for their safety. We think ourselves great but these small animals too have this sense.
Animals have no less emotional attachments. I reared a goat and handed it to a friend as I could not manage many at home. After a few months it was pregnant. We would inquire on meeting and thats all, in a few months we became accustomed to its absence. At the time of giving birth suddenly the goat was missing and our friend was in a fix regarding informing us of its absence. In the evening I was a bit weary but noted a goat resting near the gate, I didn't give much importance.
Little late when I went near got a sweet shock as it was the same goat missing. In the night I gave it a bowl of daliya and made it comfortable by spreading my cotton sarees, it was being the last stage poor thing could not manage. Night in heavy rains it delivered a baby goat, morning I informed our friend and they were aghast as the goat traveled almost 8 miles to reach my place. The village people told it came in search of its mother home. Even a goat could not forget the care and love showered but we humans erase from our memory so many more valuable things!!
A dog without budging from the place where his master dead body lied, refused to have anything and in a few days breathed his last when I was a child. Still I remember its strong attachment with the master. They made a statue in remembrance of the loyal dog. Even my pet dogs refuse to take anything if I am away from home.
We think with great pride ourselves intellectuals and emotionally strong but these pets beat us in affection and loyalty. They prove the best companions also.
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