That little “STUPID” cat!!
I never been a cat person, always considered myself as a dog
person more or less, always wanted to have pets, but my baba told me and still
tells me over & over again that at the end the hurting of losing a pet is
so much that I can never could have handle that, & I never really believed that. One
day like nothing special a cat family came to our home, it’s like a stray cat
family mama cat, papa cat and two adorable little kittens, they always used to
come during the lunch time at the beginning, and we used to leave a amount of
food for them in a place and they used to eat together, the kittens were too small
to eat solid foods they were so depended on their mother. After someday the
mama cat and two kittens started to spend the whole day in the garden in front
of our home, playing chasing each other, climbing on trees, they were so full of
life and me and my family used to look at them and smile, it was fun to watch
them playing like that. The kittens were getting used to us, first they kept
their distances, but slowly they started to come close and started to play with
us.
But after some time, the little kittens were still so small
and vulnerable, had been left alone by their mama cat & papa cat, the two little kittens
were in our garden and backyard looking for food but they could not eat just
fish and solid foods, we tried to feed them milk but they did not eat that, but
they eat little portion of rice mix with milk and they used to eat very little,
days were passing by, the little one among the both of them were getting weak,
eat less lying on the floor of the garden in sunlight, it was winter then, they
were both so alone just for each other, the little one stop eating we tried
everything even tried to put food in his mouth but nothing, in the meantime a new
kitten came to the territory, chubby little cat, she was more lively then that
two little brothers, but they became friends and started to play together,
three of them, became a family of their own, in the meantime one of the
brothers the big one( not that big ) bigger than the smallest, started to get
close to our family, try to play with us, roll over on our foot, look up and do
the kitten face, it spend more time with me and my father then other two. Still
they were free cats, we gave them food every day and they stay and play all day
and leave in nights where we don’t know.
In that time I made a mistake, a mistake of naming them, I
personalized them, the chubby little kitten Mini, the little one Auti, and the
play full brother Stupid, because he was kind of stupid, never were able to
find food on his own, I had to stand with him while eating or he would leave
the food and follow me, I had to make a separate spot for him, because he was a
slow eater. One day the little Auti came to our garden with a large spot of
blue paint on his leg, it was so horrible to think someone will throw chemical
color on him, I could not help him to clean his leg cause he was not that friendly
and extremely afraid of the water, the little one was getting weaker by the day
one day he disappeared never came back. I could see that Stupid was sad and
alone without his brother, and Mini was there, she played with him and took care
of him.
They lived happily for a period of time, and without noticing
the Stupid became a member of my family, started to sleep on a chair in our
porch, always looking for an excuse to get inside the rooms, when I used to
study he used to come and quietly sat in
front of me and sit still for hours. I thought he can understand our language
somewhat, whenever I called, he used to come running and start rolling over like
a dog in front of me and look at me. He used to follow my father whenever he go
outside.
I never was a cat person, and never believed that it will
hurt this much after witnessing Stupid’s death like this. I had to write this,
this pain is so real that I need to write, I know with time it will fade away
and I will not miss that little cat this much but now it is hard to look
around, we never thought he became so important to us. For some days he was
sick, some animal, dog or cat may scratched him, he became weak and thin and so
lifeless, I had to fed him milk forcefully sometime, he was in pain and looking
to me and calling me, his little body was hurting, and I could not do anything,
where I live there is no animal shelter, or no place for animal treatment, here people
don’t get sometime good treatment, so even we were human still so helpless,
yesterday he just slept on that chair eat nothing just water, in night cried
like a human and this morning I had to see his lifeless little body.
It was so painful for me witnessing my little buddy suffer
like that and today he is nowhere. He was more like a dog than cat weird, smart
and stupid in the same time little scared cat I don’t know where is his little
brother alive or not but I hope this little guy will get a better life next time
if he has nine lives this one should be the worst and only should get better next 8 times. I
know my pain will go away I will be busy with my life and may be one day I will
forget all about this little cat, that is why I needed to write these words, it is
hurting me so much, but Stupid should be remembered like this once, he deserve this, I am
missing him today so bad, and believing the words of my father that losing a
pet hurts very much, but still I am happy to know that he felt safe in my home
and the pain worth that, now I know I am not only dog person I am kind of a
person who cries when any friend levees.
