Puppy Love

My landlady is a  very kind and thoughtful woman. One of the big reasons for me to choose this house to rent is her. The first day I went to check out the house I saw two mongrel puppies, Cherry and Amigo. Later she told me that she found them on the road and didn’t have the heart to leave them there. She took them with her and they were loved by her and the teenagers of the family. They grew up happily, they grew up fast.  

Country bred puppies with no training whatsoever, results in mayhem. The dogs were let out and they brought back trash that were dumped on the roadside.  Both the dogs got huge and one of them, cherry, was very unmanageable.  The house has enough open yard for the dogs to move free, so I asked them to keep the gate closed and avoid letting the dogs out on the street. I am a dog person, but I dint like it when cherry showed its love by jumping on to me. They stink as they stayed on the road most times. One day as I was parking my two wheeler when we got home , cherry pushed down my daughter and the backside of her leg was burnt by the silencer. The whole neighborhood heard her scream in pain.  

 Amigo was no trouble, it ate garbage and was quiet, and so that was let into their house while cherry was driven out.  Cherry was taken to a far off place and was dumped there.  Most dogs end up like this as the owners fall out of love with them.  But Cherry  came back after a month and a half. Stupid faithful dog!  when  Amigo died because of snake bite, they felt very bad that it was not Cherry.  Cherry became a lot quieter after its return.  It got pregnant and gave birth to a litter of beautiful puppies. This time they kept a male puppy and the rest were given for adoption, a smart decision.   

I talk with the mother or the daughter of the family as they are nice. The house owner is a very rude moron.  I told the girl that keeping the male puppy was not a good idea as there was Cherry.  But it was the dad’s decision she said.  It was nice to see cherry and the puppy playing with each other happily.  That changed soon. Baby’s diapers became the new thing to play with by the stray dogs of the neighborhood.  Some “super smart” humans kept throwing the used diapers on the road and the “stupid” dogs tore them and threw them all over the street.  There are like seven stray dogs in the area, including Cherry and the puppy. But the puppy was punished.  

An angered “smart” lady resident  hit the puppy with a cane. It didn’t end there. The house owner began to tie the puppy up. It cried and moaned but “it was for its own safety.” The diaper incident continued to take place though.  And the puppy stopped fighting and accepted the chain. It made me very sad to look at the puppy chained.  Every time it cried  because of rain or cold I rang up the lady, and the puppy was taken and chained upstairs where they live.  

Everyday I leave for work looking at the puppy that gave me a sad face.  The spirit of it was crushed already. It was the saddest puppy I ever saw. It peed,  pooped and ate at the same place. Another “smart” thing about humans is how they try to change nature. Many dogs are fed rice with little or no milk.  

We destroy nature in so many ways!     

Yesterday I was surprised to see the puppy not chained. But it was at the place where it was tied down. I thought to myself that may be it was “institutionalized” Morgon Freeman’s theory in The Shawshank Redemption.  This morning I heard it moaning and found it lying in its own pee.  It was dying. I spent some time with it telling it that it was okay to die. I could not control my tears as the lifeless puppy reminded me how  happy it was once playing with its mom! I rang up the landlady and told her that it’s better if one of the kids be with the dying  puppy. No one came down. The puppy died, and the “father” of the family came down, dug a hole in the front yard and buried the puppy.  The mean cruel things we do to others!  

Are humans capable of  love? Do we know what love is?  

This is the same pattern I find when we fall in love. we are attracted to someone, fall in love…happy times, that ends soon.  we want the person to change in some way. we try to change the person forcefully or subtly. Bottom line we think the person whom we were attracted to  once doesn’t seem attractive enough!  Why does love fade away?  

It breaks my heart every time I hear a dog cry. They are chained and caged. I wish such dogs to spread some deadly diseases to the IDIOTS who torture them.