Before getting married to Vishal, I never liked pets... I used to always think that people who keep pets are from different planet... I could not come in terms with staying along with animal....
I am scared of all kinds of animals (human beings included... :) but specially scared of dogs. In my childhood, twice I was almost bitten by some stray dogs...
So when Vishal told me about Chikku/Tuffy (his pet at home... ) during our courtship time, it never occurred me that I will also have to come face to face with him in sometime ....
After marriage, I did realize that I have a big task in my hand to befriend with this creature who is most important member of our family. This was the first time I was coming across any pet and if I have to stay in his house, I have to make myself known to Chikku. And make him accept me as the member of the family. My god... this was a big task and I had no idea how to do this seemingly easy (but difficult) task ...
Slowly, I did realize that Chikku is really intelligent and has a unique mind of his own... The best is he has his own family hierarchy... So in his mind the our family hierarchy is something like this.... Papa --> Mom --> Vishal --> Chikku --> Gudia. So Papa being the eldest, he will not bark at him and listen to everything that he says...Gudia he treats like a kid and expects that Gudia should do everything that he commands. (Gudia should give him roti in his mouth he will not pick it up if she keeps it on the ground.. ). Mummy always says that Chikku is my most favorite son and I can hear Vishal grumbling on phone... :)
When I started visiting Vishal's place in Delhi frequently, Chikku stopped barking at me.. Slowly he started accepting that I always come back home with Vishal.... When Vishal goes back home after 2-3 months, Chikku gets so excited and happy that he will jump all over the place, will not let us talk. Only after he has finished his part of welcoming, we can talk to everyone else in the family... Although, I have not yet succeeded in getting this kind of welcome from him, I always wish that one day I would be able to get the same kind of love and attention from him...
Deep down I realized that Chikku can feel if anyone at home is feeling low or in trouble. I came to know why everyone is so crazy about dog as a pet. Everyone in my family shares a special and different relationship with Chikku. He is someone who makes our family so unique and so loving... I am just amazed how a small creature like Chikku who can't speak our language, do not have the so called human emotions, can understand whatever is going on in our heart.. he is really the one who knows what unconditional love is... Maybe thats why god made lovely creature like Chikku, to make us human realize that there is something more than materialistic things in life ....
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