Shiv: Truly, sincerely, I am in awe. I should read your postings on BR more often.
And since I can't resist a passing pun, you can read that as Awww! if you choose. Ram On 4 February 2014 09:51, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.aadisht.net/blog/2014/01/31/why-hindutva-is-like-dog-breeding/ > > Provocative title. Boring and overly long article. > > I can understand the words "Dog Breeding" and here is something I wrote > a year or so ago and posted in various places, but not yet on Silk IIRC > > CHIKKAMUNIVENKATAMMA > > We have a dog at home and she is called "Chi", short for > Chikkamunivenkatamma. Almost exactly one year ago she put us through an > interesting experience that I can never forget. > > For a few weeks Chi had been very hungry. She would beg for more and > more food. I would feel sorry for her and feed her extra when my wife > was not watching, and was quite happy to see her getting fatter and > fatter. > > But suddenly one day late last January she became sick. She started > panting and became distressed. She kept going out into the garden and > digging a hole in the ground. In the house she would force open my > daughter's cupboard, dig out all the clothes and sit inside the bottom > chamber of the cupboard. > > Wondering what was happening, I consulted my uncle. My uncle is not a > human being. He is called "Google" and he lives on the Internet and I > talk to him through a computer. I asked Google uncle, "What is wrong > with Chi?" Google uncle took less than half a second to give me 2 lakh > answers and I started reading the top two or three that seemed likely. > > Google told me that my dog might be poisoned, or she may have a bad > infection or that she had pseudo pregnancy. I decided that she had > pseudo pregnancy because I knew that she was not poisoned and that she > was unlikely to have any infection.I was happy to have a diagnosis. My > uncle, Sri Google told me that the symptoms would soon pass. > > But they did not pass. Chi became very distressed and started howling in > pain. I tried to calm her and see what was up - but she ran under my > daughter's bed. Then she let out a howl and became quiet. To my utter > surprise - I found, lying near her tail - a jet black furry ball. It was > a pup - a beautiful healthy puppy about the size of a cricket ball. That > was when I realized that I could never be a good dog obstetrician. I had > misdiagnosed pregnancy as pseudo pregnancy! With a mixture of anxiety > and joy my family and I watched with fascination over the next 36 hours > - yes 36 hours, as Chi gave birth to 10 healthy beautiful puppies under > a bed at home. Five were jet black and five were creamy white, all > perfectly formed. > > Chi was the most devoted mother I have ever seen. She did not leave her > puppies alone for one minute even though they nearly sucked her life > out. She has only eight nipples but she had ten pups who were hungry all > the time. Within one week, my family and I had to join in the feeding > game giving the puppies Cerelac and vitamins. After a week we were > feeding the puppies continuously. When we took them out we were very > afraid that they would be attacked by cats and predatory birds in the > neighborhood. We keep a close watch on them. But by four weeks the > strain was beginning to show. We were caring for puppies day in and day > out and the puppies were 4 times bigger and 6 times more hungry. This > was the phase we started giving them away to people who wanted a pup. > Chi was very philosophical. As long as there were puppies she did her > job. As the numbers became smaller, she got more sleep. She did not fret > or mourn. When the last pup was given away she came inside the house, > licked my knee as I sat on a chair and happily curled up and went to > sleep at my feet as if nothing had happened. > > > > -- Ramakrishnan Sundaram | [email protected] | +91 860 501 5851 --
