May 2008
Prasad’s Multiplex
The four of us (Raam, Anand, Rohit, and I) had gone to watch
a late night show of The Spiderwick Chronicles, a magical fantasy adventure
film. On our way out of the theatre, I spotted a tiny puppy, his head
protruding from under the frame of the metal detector frame. He was the cutest
little thing I had ever seen… naturally I called the boys to come have a look.
The security guard told us the puppy did not have a mother so we decided to
take him and drop him off to Blue Cross so he could get a fair chance at
survival.
On the way back home, we started discussing the pros and
cons of bringing a pet into our life. The four of us are all business partners in
an advertising agency and also neighbors, besides being the best of friends. By the time we reached home, Happy Singh was
ours.
Happy takes away a lot of our work stress and we don’t even
realize when he does that. He goes to office everyday and has been since he was
a puppy, riding in the car, his head jutting out of the window, barking at all
and sundry.
Happy has changed me. I have lost a lot of my irrational fears and
become a kinder person too along the way. I am not scared of dogs anymore. I
love them and play with any stray I see. I carry biscuits in my car for dogs
that don’t have homes. I can pretty much pet any animal, in fact – cows,
camels, and cats because I don’t fear them anymore. I don’t jump at the sight of an insect or
bug, beautiful or not. And i am grateful for this.
Happy has changed our lives phenomenally.
It hasn’t been an easy ride always but I feel blessed that
we decided to keep him. It didn’t matter to us that Happy was of unknown parentage. He is a dog and a loving one at that and
that’s all the matters.
Happy now stays with Raam mostly, as we are not neighbors
anymore. But he is as much part of our
lives as he was then, when we were.
{Photo: Raam and Mahesh play some form of football at Deccan Trails, the only time we took Happy on a trip. Shot with my Nikon D3100}
PS: The name of my business - HappySong is an adaptation of the name Happy Singh.
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