My Little Lion – Cheri
From my book Colours of Life
Human beings can learn the art of selfless love from a dog. The dog knows well who loves him most and reciprocates.
In my experience, cherishing moments with pets can teach us invaluable lessons about love and loyalty.
My son brought a four-month-old Pekingese dog from St Petersburg, cherishing every moment we spent with him.
Whether human, animal, or deadly snake, children look delightful to watch because they are yet to learn the art of survival in this world.
The next day, we brought that fluffy doll to Tandsi, which is 200 kilometres from Bhopal.
We fed milk to our little cotton ball like a puppy.
Veterinary Doctor at Ghoradongri
Suddenly, he fell ill. He stopped taking milk, and he could not even walk. We felt terrible for him, so we took our little toy puppy to a veterinarian in Ghoradongri.
The veterinary doctor examined him and said, “He has a fever, and he is an uncommon breed of dog. Please take him to the dog’s doctor, but, in the meantime, you can give him medicine for fever, which is given to a child.”
We purchased medicine from the pharmacy and fed our dog the kids’ doses using a dropper.
Tandsi is forty-five kilometres away from Ghoradongri.
Cheri was like a small bundle of fluffy cotton toys.
He loved sitting on the carpet most of the time.
Veterinary Doctor at Chhindwara
Cheri often became sick. We took him to the dog’s doctor at Chhindwara. He said, “It is a different breed of dog, and I cannot treat him properly. I recommend you take him to Bhopal, where there is a hospital for dogs. They will advise you about your puppy and give him proper treatment.”
Dog Hospital Bhopal
We took Cheri to Bhopal’s dog hospital.
We gave medicines prescribed by a doctor to Cheri, and Cheri became fit and fine.
Cheri was about twenty-two inches long, sixteen inches in height, and about four kilograms in weight.
My Little Lion
Cheri never liked to live alone. He always wanted to be near somebody.
Once, we prepared a small cardboard house for him. It became a toy for him. He was pulling it here and there. His favourite biscuit was Marie Gold. He kept his cookie and chicken bones in his house. He was eating old stuff whenever he wished. If we ever tried to stop him from eating that old stuff, he was becoming very ferocious.
We were throwing out his old stuff from his house while he was away. Sometimes he would hide his things in our garden beneath the soil. It was astonishing to see that he never forgot the place where he buried his stuff.
Once I had a cold and a cough. My kids’ school was closed, and my wife had taken the kids to her mother’s house.
duplex apartment.
Our house was a duplex apartment.
In the morning, I came down and opened the door for the maid.
Then he left my legs. This expression of love and care won my heart, and I developed an even greater love and attachment for him.
In the evening, after coming from the office, I used to sit on the carpet in my drawing room.
Whenever my wife was busy downstairs cooking a meal, Cheri would sit near her as if to give her company; otherwise, he would sit near me, watching TV most of the time.
While putting dinner on the table, my wife would tell Cheri, “Cheri, call sahib for dinner.”
Cheri would come to me and bark until I would stand to walk with him.
Whenever my wife called me for dinner, Cheri would grow angry and bark at her in a different voice to show his displeasure.
He would come running to me to take me down for dinner.
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