Pompey and Co

This one is from the Kini Family.Well there were two famiies and both families had dogs.

The first family that I am going to talk about had many dogs over a period of time. The main one i can remember is Pompey. He was a black do with white streak on his chest. I was told it was a pomerian crossbred. It sort of had a fuuny bark more like magnified volume of a Pug :o] Anyway he never allowed me to get close to him but I was sort of persistant but a little hesitant cos I was young. Once their daughter pushed me towards the dog but I was uncertain about myself and the Dog bit me. MAN!!! Did it hurt or what . Anyway the miracle happened one day when the dog finally gave in and sort of submitted to me. He was not that bad after all. I realised that it worked this way. As the days passed by my confidence that i can win increased and the more I wa cocky the more the dog became submissive.

Carrying on, I think he was like 8-9 years of age when he sort of ill and then passed away. As usual he was taken to the corner of this small ground where most of the dogs were burried earlier.

His friends were Clay(belonged to the second Kini family), span, chinnu, and the ones he hated like scobby, moti, Vicky......and pretty much all the dogs on the street.( He lacked "Social Skills").

Anyway Span which is short for spanner was born in the Workshop of Mr.Kini's son. He was a cross breed and trust me on this one. You cant trace it back to the main two breeds( Thats how cross it was :oD ) He was mainly Black and a bit of brown on his legs with small white socks on his two.His main feature was the brown dots on his eyes and the white streak on his forehead running all the way from between his ears to the tip of his nose, sort of like the vermillon the Hindu's apply on the forehead :o]. He was sort of lean and was handsome in build being the only one in the litter. He was with pompey only on vacations I mean the weekends that he use to spend at home. The rest of the times he used to be at the workshop, gaurding and protecting and stuff like that. In short he used to do what all dogs did. His tricks that he did were sort of intresting cos he had his own way of doing it but nevertheless they were good.

Sadly he passed away at the age of three. Died of unknown causes and the death was peaceful. He was buried at the "One stop" spot aka the burial ground for the dogs of the colony.

The next dog was Clay. He belonged to the other Kini Family and he was sort of silent and the follower type, never worried about what others were upto but was equally vigilant at night.

He was a german Sheperd-yellow lab mix I guess. He lived upto the age of 13-14. Whenever you step into the Kini's house u can hear his toe nails scraping against the tiles and the footsteps or should I say Pawsteps where really heavy. I used to spend time with this Dog a lot. Went on walks with Mr Kini and used to observe a calm and submissives dogs behaviour. At time he used to raise hell when he used to see moti or Vicky but not Ramu who was incidently their Neighbour's "stray". I was there when he was given a nice wash and that is where I learnt how to bathe and clean a Dog. My folks used to say that they will not by a dog cos the stench they used t get everytime they stepped into clay house. well its not the dog which is supposed to be blamed, its the carpets. The fur used to collect on that and BOY!!! was it a everyday task for

Mr.Kini who was sort of used to this routine.

This dog had cataract which was surgically repaired but then slowly he went blind in both the eyes. he never used to move much cos of this and that affected the walks and all the things that "come" with a walk. He died of Old age and u know the routine. I carried him all the way till the ground and ....................................... :o {{.

Now coming to chinnu.

He was span's brother. The only thing that diffrentiated him was that he was Reddishbrown with a tinge of Gold on him. He was about the same height as span and had the same streak on his forehead. Here is more,......He was "MY DOG". Yeah Yeah I told you that my folks wouldnt BUY me a Dog but thi Dog wasnt Bought :-D \o/ \o/. He was given to me by Mr Mahesh Kini.

He sort of went along with everyone but he hated the neighbours boxer "Brumel" This one came in long after moti and the other doberman named Razor where gone. He used to jump over the compund wall and and like 8-10 feet on the other side of it and used to charge at the boxer. Ofcourse after Pompey's Bite I wasn scared of any dog as I Knew what was to be done about it.

I intervened and seperated the two with some help from the neighbour and after that no fights ever happened. One main thing that I learnt is the repercussions that a dog gets for its mistakes should be violent. Let me take you over it........................

When I first took Chinnu out for a walk I wasnt sure about why the dogs smell each other for.( I wish I had known) anyway this little innocent one was doing it job by sniffing Bogie(2) who was my follower. I thought that wasnt right and hit him real hard with the chain he was tied with. I didnt realise the force I had in the hit :o[[ This poor pup starts wailing so loud and for a long time I thought its leg was fractured of something but lucky me and the dog nothing hd happened to it. after 15 mins of crying the poor thing settled down. How I wish I shoudnt have done that.

MAN!!! I STILL REPENT MY ACTIONS

Pondering about what action took place that fateful night I realised something which everyone should know about in their life, Dogs or no Dogs Period. After a long lecture from my folks and some 15 mins of hard thinking I really felt this way. Hitting or Physically hurting is not the solution for anything. I talked back to my folks about the way the Hit me and that is what i learnt from them. I was belted till I beld for innocently exposing a film roll then why shouldnt I hit. Well I reminded them of that situation that sort of pulled them back and then after some serious thought and unlearning some of my behaviour I decided I will not hurt anyone physically ever.

This Dog of mine thought me some of the major things of life. Strange when a mute can teach so many things without "hurting".It learnt a lot of things from me and viceversa. It used to be by my side whenever I was home and sort of lisetened only to me. Lucky that dogs dont carry on like humans do or else this dog wouldnt have "spoken " to me ever after that fateful night.

Ironically Chinnu survived for thre years like Span and was burried in the same spot, now which i refer to as "Dog Heaven". He was ill which I should have picked up but i did not.

DOG LOVERS PLEASE NOTE

If your dog's behaviour like eating or anyother activity change please have a look at it or show it to some professionals who can diagnose it ASAP. In this case "IT IS ALWAYS LATE".

He was sick with a high temperature for one week or so. The doctor couldnt help cos it was the first time he was handling my dog and he claims that he didnt know the dogs "History". I still cant relate to it. What the heck did he mean??? It was to late.................

The whole day at college I had a sick feeling and when I reached home he was.......................................................

Did I cry or what that whole week i was so weak and i couldnt do anyting right.

Loosing a loved one is too hard specially for a human.

Some people ask why i dedicate my life to helping people no matter what or helping any animal with the same drive. Well here is the answer. That incident really Shook my world violently and I am on my "mission" . The happiness that I couldnt get out of my dog being there is bing sort of compensated by this thing that I do.

DO YOU EVER WISH THAT YOU COULD CHANGE CERTAIN THINGS IN YOUR LIFE?? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ABOUT IT OTHER THAN THINKING WHY DID IT HAPPEN?? ANSWER THAT QUESTION AND YOU WILL BE ON "THE TRACK".