Today I will tell you
a repentant dog’s story. We all know that dogs perform many roles for people,
such as hunting,
herding,
pulling loads,
protection,
assisting
police and military, companionship and many
more. This
impact on human society has given them the nickname "Man's Best
Friend". In my story the affection of man towards this animal is just like
another example….
This
dog didn’t belong to our locality, even I had never seen her before. One day
she entered our garden with pregnancy. My family members were insistent about
not keeping this newly guest. But after seeing her condition my mom said to
keep her on a remote place of the so
called vacant place, garden. We also gave her some food and water. On that day
she gave birth of two puppies. I remembered that the time was winter. So when
the temperature went down in the evening the puppies trembled and barked in a
soft voice. I went there and gave them a bale of jute to cover their body and
put them on the bale. (For mentioning, they lied on the ground). The first night
went on and in the morning when I went there I saw that the bale was 10 miters
apart from them. That’s why we say clarified butter is not digested on dog’s
liver. Days were going on and after some days puppies started to walk. I
remembered when puppies couldn’t walk, their mother all time grappled them and
never moved on throughout the day. This happened 3-4 days, and when they
started moving, only once or twice their mother went outside for her personal
work. Believe me the number of days she was in our room, she never did any
toilet or latrine within our house. I was astonished after seeing that .
After
some days she changed her shelter from one place to another in our house. We
were giving them proper food and water. But the saddest thing was after some
days one of her puppies died. That day I saw the pain of losing her baby.
Neither she moved from that place nor she took any food. All time holding her
another baby and the dead animal was also within her reach. On the next day she
picked the dead baby and tried to place it on a shelter, but couldn’t find
proper place and walking here and there with the baby. This looked uncleanness
to us. So when she took her dead baby outside of our house, my father took the
other baby and placed it outside and closed the main door. After some times she
returned to our house and seeing the door closed she scratched and pushed the
door. But we had not opened the door. Day was going on and when the night came
she again scratched and pushed our door. I would never forget the distressed
voice of hachi on that night. She was coming
within an interval and went back in vain. Even at 1 in the night she
howled and wanted to see her children. As she thought that her child was within
our house. Once I thought to open the door just to watch her that there was no
one in our room, but again thought if she didn’t go out. So I didn’t open.
Now
the junior hachi is growing up and run here and there. Even now when I returned
home at night hachi, her husband and baby follow me from the road and come to
our house. Sometimes they are waiting patiently at our main door. I give foods to them and then they become satisfy.
Now many of you may ask me a question. Why I gave the name as “Hachi”? Many of
you saw the movie “hachiko a dog's story” of Richard Gere. Yes my hachi is the
inspiration of the film. Here I am not playing like Richard nor my hachi wait
for me in the station, but the kind of affection she gives me is much more than
the big budget film. I even don’t know what will happen with me or with hachi
in the future, but not being with me in my room she exists in our heart deeply.
