My Angel

Are you a member in kennel club? If so please let me know your club activities and it is my pleasure to join!!

Yes! I would like to narrate a story behind this and it may not be to the caliber of great short stories, but interesting to some extent, I hope.

On a relaxed Sunday evening at 4 p.m., I got up after a catnapping; humming my favorite old Tamil song, unknowing the affix of a new member to our family. Hubby and myself got together to dine tea @ the dining table and sudden bark shook up both of us. Two handsome young men (I should say it is my son and his pal) were approaching the tea table with a cute 3-month old German Shepard puppy.

Both my spouse and myself were unable to express and son yelled, "Mom, dad, are you okay?" "This is Angel, my humble gift to you mummy; you love puppies, so I brought for you". He added, "Don't worry!!! Dad will look after Angel and go for a walk with her" (indirectly enforcing weight loss for husband as son is a medico). This is how Angel enrolled as a member into our small dynasty.

In the initial stages, Angel growled at me as if I was a stranger and son took care of her those times feeding her, going for a walk while at home and slowly she accepted me as her well wisher as I tried to mollify her with the bone-feed and tasty royal canine delicacies though at times she rumbled with doggie altruistic instincts and this is the story how she trusted me and upon seeing me as and when I returned from shopping or somewhere else she tried to hold her paws on my shoulder and lick my hands and face and this is a signal to me that I should caress her.

I just started adoring of her packs of mischief in a childlike way with her cuteness. However, I got fed up with her behavioral pattern as I spent most of the day cleaning up after her and I searched for tips to train a puppy to live cleanly in a house and to make her aware that the best place to pee or poop is the outdoors of the house. At last, she learnt potty training. Yes, it is a great process that needs both patience and time. I have indeed learnt to be patient. I would like to make it a point that in order to encourage her good behavior every time she got it correct I tried to reward her with a grand treat of bone.

Moreover, managing her from biting slippers, shoes, bags, etc., barking and growling at others might be a big challenge and I tried to adopt positive approach rather than beating her as my hubby did and slowly I made her unleashed given freedom to move all over and this worked out very well and now she has become a cool baby following almost all commands.

Angel's childhood might be as though she is a princess, but days moved on, my hubby started threatening me to resign my job or else let her walk out of home. In fact, I am being caretaker most of the time. Taking her to walk on leash outside sometime was the only thing he did (often my son tried to take her for a walk at night).

As I was forcibly to leave my job as a quality analyst in view of bringing her up in a healthy way, otherwise she would be often beaten up in anger by my hubby. I informed my MD about my resignation. He exclaimed, "It is amazing and it is unfortunate to give up a capable QA like you."

Meanwhile, I changed over my profession to full-time caretaker of our Angel she too has completed her first year last April.

Days progressed in and Angel has become center of attraction of my family and the street too. In the meantime, thanks to Angel and my son, who is responsible for all the above, I have turned out to be a doctorate in dog grooming, professional in home training, basic obedience training, and now analyzer of dog psychology (whenever I see a local breed pup in our street or outside I apparently begin to think how it could be brought and trained up well and imagine I am running after each and every pup and there might be some kind of relationship between dogs and me in the previous birth/poorva jenma!!!!. I am dreaming of setting up my own puppy kindergarten, URL for dog lovers and thinking of kennel club in our area.)

At present, Angel is the most obedient to husband who is not interested in her brought-up earlier. She obeys most of his commands (I did train her, but credit goes to him) and he would never like to leave her alone.

However, I feel some sort of fulfillment like I have done my duty despite some setbacks. Yes!! I feel great that the dogs are lovable and their language is not bow-wow, but love too. I learnt that to achieve the best in our life we must be ready to lose the least and I have been instilled in me patience, a virtue of excellence, knowledge and empathy while bringing up my Angel in a more dignified/socialized manner.

My Angel

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