Dr. Kuhu
Roy writes,
There
are only a few stray dogs who choose to be happy go lucky despite all the muck
life throws at them on the streets. My Shikari was that. She reminded me of my
Disco, that they choose to be happy and bring joy.
I named her Shikari for a reason. She was always waiting for me over the horizon and the moment she saw the car approach, she would lift her right forelimb as though to bless and then break into a welcome dance. She wouldn't even wait for the car to stop and immediately go for squirrel hunting. She would then mimic a cat to catch her prey and failed every single time. The ritual was,
"Shikari, come and have food first, then go for hunting,"
She would look at me and give me, "Can't you see I am busy right now?" expression.
Food was just not her botheration. She just wanted to meet to infect me with her happiness. I was all set to take her for sterilisation and she disappeared and reappeared pregnant. I haven't seen such a happy lactating mother dog. Even after having puppies, the welcome dance was a daily ritual. It is still playing on my mind as I type. I never took a video and infact told her when we met for what would be our last meeting, that I would take one the following day. That never came. She was run down in broad daylight. It was a fatal hit on the head by a reckless driver who ran away like a coward after hitting her.
Shikari is gone. It will take me a lot of time to adjust to her absence. She leaves behind seven reflections of her, who are now under our care. What must she have thought while dying? Can any of us understand her pain? Why was life snatched away so brutally from a full of life soul?
Our Give Animals a Brake campaign is born out of the immense pain we feel everytime an animal is crippled or succumbs to a road hit.
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