It’s love that binds us together
and as humans, we are gifted to express each emotion through means of ‘language.’
But that doesn’t mean animals cannot express. They too express their love
through a ‘language’ which cannot be understood by humans. But more than
language, it’s their gesture that ends up expressing more.
As humans, we always have attachments
and when there’s parting away, there’s always an empty space which cannot be
filled up. Attachment to humans is dearly, but attachment with animals is more
than dearly. It is their immense love that keeps you going. And when the time
comes to part, it becomes painful to both the human and the animal.
I had such an experience
recently. Usually before going to bed, we see to it that all the doors, the
front gate and the back gate are locked properly to ensure safety. Once, my
mother went out to lock the front gate and as she was doing so, she heard a
very loud ‘meow’ sound from our compound. It was a small kitten, hardly a month
old and a healthy one. But it looked like it had separated from its mother. It was
very frightened and was shivering badly. Somehow it came out from under our car
and before it could run away, my mother kept it on her lap, held it with will
love and compassion and after a few minutes, it seemed to be a bit assured that
it would be safe here. I got some milk for it in a small dish. It felt kind of
relieved.
We soon realized that there were
dogs on the street that were cruel enough to scare it. Also, if this small one
runs out of the compound, there was a chance of it coming under the wheels of
any vehicle. Hence, for its safety, we decided to keep it safe on our terrace. The
kitten was small and the terrace would be a huge place to roam. We placed a soft
old banyan on a wooden plank and also some milk. We locked the door so that it doesn’t
run all around the house or else it would have ended up wounded by coming under
us.
There is a temple a few minutes
away from our house where there are many such small kittens and puppies. They get
food everyday as the temple serves hundreds of people every day throughout the
year. We decided to leave it in the temple premises. We wanted to keep it but some
months before, we had a kitten that used to be at our place the whole day long,
but once, it went out of the gate and was killed and eaten up by other animals.
Also, our neighbours were not human enough (and are still not) to look after it
when none of us would be there in town. Due to these things, we had to take a
decision with a heavy heart. In not less than an hour, this super cute kitten
had shown love enough for us to re-think on our decision again and again. But it
was more for its safety, we had no choice.
Next day early morning at 5.45
am, my parents were watering the plants on the terrace; the kitten was constantly
roaming around them with loud meows. That woke me up. No one but this tiny
little had the power to wake me up at 5.45 am.
Later for almost an hour, it was
roaming in our house. It went through all the nooks and corners, as though analyzing
the place and ambience.
It is very touching how we spend
maximum timespan of our life finding love but pets can establish such kind of
attachment in less than an hour.
After we were done with the daily
chores, we went to the temple and saw another small kitten. We left it there
with it. Both started playing but we started feeling immensely sad about it. But
we had no choice, it was all for its safety and good health. As we started
leaving with heavy feet, it started following us with loud meows as though saying
‘Hey, where are you going? Aren’t you taking me with you home?’ We stopped but
knew we had no choice. There was an old lady sitting there who told us that it
was a good decision to bring the kitten here and that it would be safe and
healthy and will gel well with others in an hour.
As we came home, I felt real bad,
because I knew that there would be no meowing in the compound, no one to run
behind us, no one behind whom our hours and hours will run like seconds. I never
felt like this before.
True that, the kind of attachment
this little one had established in just a few hours was more than the human
attachment developed in years.
The love and attachment we get
from our pets is far more pure, pleasant and mesmerizing. It is beyond words
and beyond all emotions of human nature. It is divine…
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