Wednesday, May 26, 2010

WHEN I HAD TO SEND AWAY CHUPPY





Chuppy came to my life suddenly ...two years ago when myself and my daughter tulsi

were totally un prepared for having another dog at home, as we already have boogy our alltime pet and the favorite of all in the family,for more than 11 years now..!which ..required my attention all the time as she has grown old and developed some health problems..!
BUT..that was one pleasant morning in April .i opened the front door and stood in the balcony.looking down to my small garden for any new sprouts ,shoots or new colours... but instead LO..i saw a small boy holding in his arms a cute little pup with twinkling eyes ..having an argument with the watch mans wife in front of my house. hungry.. but cute! I grabbed it and told him i will keep it and feed it .and restore her to the owner.
NOW when i brouht her room up tulsi was sleeping , i knocked to enter.
As she opened her eyes she grabbed it and cuddled n was so happy that i had not seen such joy in tulsis face for a long time now.. as she was stressed about changing her job.. and taken abreak.she would not give it back to me untill i consented for keeping it if no one turns up.tThat was a week earlier to her birth day so i told her this your gift for your birthday.
next day tulsi took her to vet and got new belt chain etc etc followed by photo sessions....pictures..sent all over to lakshmi my elder daughter in u. s.,cousins...so news spread far and wide about...OUR CHUPPY!
Now yes tulsi.was at home not working.....so all the time they were together and also she was sleeping with boogy,....happy !How do i know that this happy bliss was going to be short lived.....soon she started looking bigger than Boogy.
wow,. god help me the trouble started when chuppi started biting every thing on earth....! it became very jealous of boogy... started making sounds i have never heard before. when i leave the house for my walks or shopping i could hear her screams one kilometer away.. ! neighbors started complaining!
One day morning, when I opened the door with food...chuppi is not bouncing on me for food,. sitting in a corner giving me coy looks...her eyes suddenly..looking beautiful...like used a eye liner.!
for a moment ..i didn't know what was happening..BUT then looking at its coy looks i realised it has come of age.hence this Ladylike behavior..!!!
Then on ,day by day it was looking more beautiful...like a teenaged girl but again full of mischief.it broke three chains one bigger than the other..while trying to
chase other suiters... but it was pleasure watching it run like a horse., with its sleek body and matching..long legs... .!
Some times i used to envy. the neighborhood ladies.who are walking slowly ,showing off the new saree,
flaunting their chains in spite of warnings .. abut chain snatchers.

Here i am struggling with chuppi n boogi on either side with a wornout selwar set
[dare not wear a saree! Gone are the days i used to wear crisp cottens in summer for a walk with boogi].. Taking boogy for a walk is like walking a cute five yr old child...during such walks i earned lot of friends most of them kids waiving at boogi..parents who are forced to stop their two wheelers, even fours to talk to boogi...soon i became BOOGI AUNTY..!

BUT with chuppi , it used to give me sudden jerks.... having high jump sport on a passer by. Many a times i had to check..turning to my shoulder whether my arm is still attached to me...!

A new problem arose when i had to visit for 3 months..
I did it arranging for the watch man to take care of chuppy.

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One day after 2 months of stay there, there was an ...URGENT.call
tulsi.. very very upset..that chuppy was exposed and sad that she has become victim of a rape..andis no more a virgin!!!! ok.. i asked her to take chuppy to a vet and she was injected to stop bringing out another patlam of puppies.
AND it was time for me to come back in another two weeks.. was so anxious to see how chuppy will welcome me..
But .. when i arrived the way chuppi welcomed me licking.. jumping...brushing its body on me...one should experience to believe it..! iam sure all the dog lovers have had this experience...at some time or the other !
REALLy , i said they are better than children.... when i said this my girls did not like it .. it is another story.
when i came back from U.s. i found that it was more difficult for me to look after chuppy as it would demand my attention all the more and all the time...
The animal which was quite when i was away; had started screaming.for my attention.
TO add to the problem,
a nagging pain in my ankles and back..which made it difficult for me to take the stronger chuppy..out.
slowly before i realized that the doctors. intervention has not worked on chuppy... it brought out a lump of flesh looking like a pup ... within moments that lump dis appeared. the watch man told me mother dog always eats up the first off spring if it is not fit to survive....! but then i heaved a sigh of relief.. give the mother special care.. for a month..
Mean while my pain in the leg and back was giving me too much trouble... and i requested the watch man to take chuppi for its walks...the greedy watch man flatly refused even if i didn't ask him to do it by imagining that he has developed an attachment to chuppy by attending to it for 3 months . chuppi defenitly has returned him a lot of love and loyalty... but i said i will pay him for that...!
BY that time i had already realised that my chuppy and boogy are more loyal and love me abundently for only some milk and food you give them ..the food is made up of only what you can spare...
THE UNGRATEFUL MAN... whom i have paid thosands..in addition to food for the dog...!
But i am wondering as to why i am pained.. and surprised at the reactions of such human beings.... though he is not such first human i have come across ,...
I am 60 plus!Meanwhile the pain in my knee and ankle and back...was getting from bad to worse..
took x,rays.. massages...but of no avail. pulling back the chuppi the 'jumping jack'
was real task for me..!and to gaurd it from those street dogs around; whose number is increasing day by day....
yes. about a month back,..suddenly my knees were swollen, and i had fever body pain as if my bones were cracking...rushed to hospital..and treat ment followed by physiotherapy. My backbone and the nerves were badly effected because of constant pulls by chuppi., while on its walk. I was strictly prohibited from taking the dog out...climbing up and down the stairs.
THOugh the very thought of sending her away was painful, I started looking for any takers or a good house for her but could not. by that time i had realised that
i was also not doing justice to her by confining..her all the time...'
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Fortunately for me some body suggested ,,KARUNA KRIPA.. where dogs are looked after well by vets. I contacted them ..who were very kind and assured me chuppi
would be looked after well on the condition that i give a certain amount of money as donation i agreed,!, the very next day... they agreed to come and take it.. i had to agree,, though i was not ready to let it go .. so soon..
. I rang up tulsi and told her ..she also agreed .. may be because there was no other go..and my health was at stake,she said she could not bring her self to be present on the spot to give her away..!
But i am a mother as a mother does not want her daughter to be away.. but for the health and happiness of both. has to send her to husbands place, so i had to do this.
I clicked as many photos as possible.. as KARUNA said that we cant go and visit chuppi... They assured they will find a good house for her..,
MY chuppi was so meek they just took and put her in the van ..i didnt know ...SHE didnt even resist...
but then I HAD TO FEED her well just one time..last well, hot hot food. served to her.. THEN she refused to go with them..... I had to accompany her to van...

IT was heart rending.....tears rolled.. i was unable to control...hugged and kissed her
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I could not believe myslf that i am sending her away....
Believe me.. i did not feel this much of pain.. even the time i saw my two daughters.. walking behind their grooms leanving me alone...WHY..?
i ran into the house and rang up tulsi to telll her ,,...I SENT MY CHUPPI AWAY.....
i could nt believe I was sobing like a child...
.. Now after about 10 days i think of chuppi every day morning .. walk time...
and when I get big bones on dining table... evening walking time..
but console my self that.. what i did was not only in the interst of my health but also in the interest of my chuppi..!!!
CHHUPPi... be happy whereever you are....!!

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

A DRIZZLE .. IN HOT SUMMER !

...on the next day after tulsi, Vishnu visited..me with vishnus parents..
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YES, I like the silence of my house.. be immersed in that silence...cherish some of the silent moments .....but when my loved ones come , even for a short time create , noise n fun , laughter...it is like a fresh breeze and small drizzle of rain...in midst of hot summer..!
Yet when they leave the same silence becomes unbearable....just like the... heat becomes unbearable ,n after .a small drizzle of rain ...during summer.....

my only mother at 92 years.....


May 13th copy of my thoughts on mothers day which i posted on face book
Should be the first entry to my blog.....
1.....My mother is a very very strong women....thank god that i have inherited her grit..n the spirit..etc but i am afraid i have not got her strength..physical.....some times when i fall ill often...
But then quickly i realise that....that i got it from her the WILL to get up on my own ...and run to make good the inninings ihave lost.....I SALUTE HER....sHE IS MY MOTHER,,,,,she is 92 yrs...Long live MY MOTHER !