HMMmmmm……well what can I say about Bogie..One thing for sure I can say she was the first of the strays that I took under my wings and first of the bogies.

Before we renovated our house the front gate was little higher than ground level and was around 10 -11 inches high. This brown puppy dog walked up to the gate and is tired and resting in the shade of the tree in front of my home. I realized that it was really tired and fed up of walking all its little life. I poured some water into the coconut shell and kept it just outside its reach. Little did it realize that it was a trap that I laid to encourage it to come into the front yard, so that I could hold it or touch it at least :o).

Once it felt some courage to reach the water it somehow sensed the energy that was around me and walked straight up towards me. Once it finished all sniffing and “inspecting” me it started………….. U guessed it right!!! It started licking my feet. That is like on of the first true contacts that I made with or rather a mute animal made with me. It was instantaneous, the bonding and then there was no turning back. You must be asking by now what about folks at home…..did they oppose and stuff. Well yes it’s like the most common things that happen in our land, every parent/s oppose pets specially the stray ones. After a lot of persuasion, begging, pleading and what not conditions being accepted (most of them not followed :o) ) I was a proud owner of a stray.

What I thought turned out to be wrong. It wasn’t a puppy well may be some think it was. It was aged around 12 months old and had a tiny body for a stray. Anyway I used to pet it a lot and it never grew in height. May be it was the height of the gate from the ground, it might be adaptation to the surroundings, whatever it was she was still the prettiest doggie around and the only bitch in the vicinity, RIGHT!!! Here comes one more reason for Moti and Vicky to fight :o). Well I think it was worth the cause :o D. There are many things that I learned from this dog. She was like the introduction that in available in every book, very important, if that bonding hadn’t occurred that day, I wouldn’t be telling you these experiences from my past. Moving on……… we used to walk around every time I came back from school and she used to look at me in the eyes, every other step that she took. It was like she was telling me the stories that happened in the day, what she did and other stuff most of them which I couldn’t understand, but it never mattered to her. All I can say for the moment is that it was like telepathy but jammed lines. :o). Anyway the other things that I learned were to look after puppies :o) , communicate like them (imitation) and other stuff like that.

That’s the time that I realized that nature has many more nice things to give and show to me.


Well I almost forgot about RAMU the neighborhood stray. Will add about it when I talk about the other dogs.

P.S – Ramu was also involved in the fights with Vicky and Moti…

STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF NATURE….. SIGH!!!

Will continue with what were the pleasant memories that I had with Bogie1.

Cheers
Niel