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Keeping
a dog and taking good care of it as if it is a member of one’s own family is
not everyone's cup of tea. One cannot believe how loyal and obedient these
animals can be!If someone adopts it and raises it as if it were his child, then
it can even sacrifice its life for its master.
Dogs
have a strong sense of smell; due to their hereditary trait, they do not forget
anyone, even after many years. It understands the intention behind the person
coming to one’s house and changes its behaviour accordingly. A new owner learns
something or the other about its characteristics every day. This animal is so
intelligent that it expresses its happiness and joy by wagging its tail. Similarly,
they understand someone's feelings; if someone is sad they also become sad; if
someone is happy, then its happiness can also be seen by its activity.Their
playfulness fills the void of loneliness by engaging everyone from children to
the elderly. The prehistoric relationship between dog and man shares an
extraordinary emotional bond with their owner and family even today and will
continue to do so in the future.
Nowadays,
some people have been seen keeping it just to show off, wearing the new cloak
of wealth. They have nothing to do with its emotions.By placing food in front
of them, they keep them locked inside the house from morning till evening,
until they return from their hectic work.Feeling lonely, this emotional animal
skips its food and even waits for its owner to return safely. As soon as it
sees its owner coming, it goes crazy with joy and starts running here and there
wagging its tail. And being more ecstatic, it starts eating the same stale food
in front of its owner.
These
animals also need someone to spend their time with. Being a regular victim of
such loneliness, it slowly embraces depression and falls ill. And then, instead
of treating this loyal animal, the same owner takes it away from his home and
leaves it tied to an electric pole or a tree to die.It has also been observed
that some people come on posting to far-off places and somehow keep a dog with
them to maintain their status, but when they leave from there, they are also
treated in the same way as if they are some useless objects.
Here
is one such lively but sad story is of a cute young male dog.Perhaps when he
was a little bit healthy, his white and black curly hair and fluffy tail would
have surely attracted the attention of every dog lover.But at this time,
considering his age, he was not as healthy as he should have been.He was
sleeping with his head on the ground near a small roadside tea stall. During
their daily walk, both Sneha and Harish saw him sleeping like that and stopped
near him for a while. Sneha tried to get his attention by calling him Muku (named
him lovingly). But despite not wanting to, he looked at her once from the
corner of his eyes and then ignored her again.
Seeing
him sleeping there sadly, both of them thought that maybe he had run away from
home for some reason, and as soon as the owner would come to know about it, he
would immediately find him and take him away. Saying this, both of them started
walking again.
After
a couple of days, a little distance away from that tea stall to the left, Muku
was again seen sleeping on a pile of used coal thrown out from a black smith’s
shop. This time both of them saw Muku very skinny and sick.Sneha felt like
finding out some information about it. When Sneha asked some people passing by
about Muku, one of them told her that he too had seen this stranger roaming
around in the same area for a few days.
A
boy working at a nearby tea stall said that Muku spends the entire day sitting
here and there or sleeping. In the evening, when the momo seller comes, he
feels pity on seeing this sick dog and gives him two to three momo to eat, but
he can barely eat one or two momo and then goes for sleeping again.
On
reaching home from the walk, Sneha, who loves dogs very much, started getting
worried thinking about Muku.His sorrow and suffering caused her immense pain in
her heart. So, she brings some food from home and tries to feed him, but he
eats only one or two bites in the same sitting posture. After that, he again
puts his head on the ground and does not even look at the remaining food.
After
being abandoned by his master, Muku stopped eating anything and only spent his
time sleeping hither and thither, thinking that his master would come soon and
take him back again. He had no interest in taking food or anything, even if it
cost him his life.
She
tried her every possible way to find Muku's owner. Meanwhile, someone told her
through hearsay that Muku's owner was a tenant of the same area who had recently
gone on posting to some other place keeping Muku abandoned there. Sneha was
also suspecting something similar.
Seeing
his deteriorating health, Sneha tried to contact a dog caretaker NGO located
some distance away. All the information about Muku was given to the coordinator
of the NGO, and his photo was also sent through Whats App so that someone could
take him away and also get his illness treated. But even after two-three days,
there was no response from their side.
Sneha
became worried seeing Muku's physical condition getting weaker day by day; she
used to visit him one or two times a day with some food on the pretext of
seeing him.
The
next day morning, when Sneha went for walk with her hubby, Muku was not seen in
the entire area.After searching around, when Muku was nowhere to be found, she
got a little apprehensive and started asking her husband Harish what could have
happened to him. How would he be? Is he safe, etc.?
The
same thought kept on troubling Sneha again and again.Who so ever she asked about
Muku, she got the reply that no one knew anything of his where abouts .Sometimes,
she thought that maybe Muku had gone somewhere in search of his master, but
then she also thought that he did not have that physical strength to go
anywhere! Even after many days passed, there was no trace of Muku.
At
this time, Sneha is praying to God only for one thing: that wherever he is, he
should remain safe!
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