Last year, on an April night at around 10 PM, when we opened the door to
take Sparky (pet dog) out for a walk, he was jumping & barking – fortunately Anand noticed a tiny kitten beside our door & immediately pulled Sparky back. The kitten was shivering with fear on hearing Sparky bark. We named this kitten Meow Kutty. Quickly boiled some milk for Meow Kutty & fed it. Placed Meow Kutty in a flower pot (fearing that Sparky may attack it, if inside the house). Next day my father-in-law told the maid to leave Meow Kutty far away from our house – Pavithra was higly upset to know of this on her return from School. But wonder of wonders, Meow Kutty consecutively visited us for 2 days & then, it was not to be seen Butterfly oh Butterfly
December 2009, Anand saw a pupa on our neighbour’s wall - & his childhood memories gushed, memories of the wonderful time in Bhavanisagar, memories of the pupa that he had kept in a matchbox till it turned into a butterfly & he wanted Pavithra to see the butterfly evolution. So we emptied a matchbox, kept the pupa in it & half closed the box & kept it in the bedroom (ofcourse away from Sparky). Every now & then Pavithra & I kept peeping into the box. By the 3rd day, I was sure that it was dead – it had hardened. After 8 days, on a Sunday morning, the butterfuly was out of the box – magical ! We left it out in our little garden.
Family Package
March 2010, there were 4 kittens in a flower pot – after some time saw Mama Mia ….oops .. Mama Meow - the mother also happily in the flower pot with her little ones – but we were scared to go near. Few hours later, the family was not to be seen in my little garden.
Bye Bye Blue bird
April 14, 2010 – holiday for us & was hoping to have a relaxed day. Pavithra who had gone to play came back rushing saying that there is a blue colour bird downstairs & looks like it is hurt. Anand quickly went down hoping that dogs/cats/crows don’t pounce on it in the meantime. It was a kingfisher bird – he brought it home – kept it away from Sparky. We named it Bluebird. It didn’t drink water & we didn’t know how to fe
ed it. We had decided to leave Bluebird in Blue Cross but before that it needed medical care. Anand searched in the internet for Blue Cross contact number. On their assurance that their doctor was available, we (Anand, Pavithra & her friend Kaushik & me) took Bluebird to Blue Cross. Paid an amount of Rs.500/- as voluntary donation. Our first visit to Blue Cross – the amount of love we shower on our pets – but here there were so many animals and birds (and not all were healthy) with few people to take care - it was like visiting an orphanage – came back with a strange sad feeling. 
Good one about the Kingfisher and Blue Cross. Even if you had fed the kingfisher with fish, it wouldn't have eaten it. When in captivity, birds generally first try to escape. They would even die of hunger. Some birds would die within hours in captivity, that's because they are too tender to take stress. Nevertheless, you've done a great job by bringing it to Blue cross. I hope they live up to their standards.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info Ragavan.
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