No Dog - No Trauma Rule !!!! :(

From childhood, I was very fond of dogs. When I was 4, my grandma and grandpa used to feed street dogs. I used to go along with my grandma to feed dogs in our street.

Along with this, we also had habit of praying to god with handful of rice, chapati or whatever we had in our plate. After finishing our prayer, we used to keep it aside for birds in our balcony. Since, there was a big neem tree in front of our house, there were many birds chirping all through the day. We used to keep food and water for birds in our balcony.

Because of this habit, my fondness towards dogs and birds had grown up along with me. Even though my grandparents expired, we changed our house, we still follow this practice.

As they say, where there is a will, there is a way, we used to find birds and dogs near our new houses.
 
We moved to new house near my dad's office. These quarters unlike many other places used to have more trees than houses. Plus, every house used to have open space in the front and backyards for growing plants. We used to have variety of plants - rose, jasmine, lily, papaya, mango, drumstick, tomato, green vegetables, guards and my favourite tamarind tree.

I had many friends near our old house. I'd come home only to eat. So, when we moved to new house which was in a colony, it was more like a forest and my situation was like a bird in a cage. I used to cry hours together requesting my mom to go back to our old house.
My mom was very brave in this aspect, because she used to stay alone at home when we went to school.

My dad is one such wonderful person who used to give "extra wonderful" ideas to kill the time, which used to pass very slowly like a snail. We used to play shuttle, carroms, ludo, chinese checkers, snake n ladder, word games and indulge ourselves in gardening.
Since there were lots of trees, there was no scarcity for birds. But there was only one dog near our house, which was white in color, very thin. It had beautiful eyes. We used to feed this dog, which used to sleep near our front door, accompany us in our daily walks.
I still remember how I cried my heart out days together, when 8 puppies of this dog died one after the other, day after day, in winter season. I used to stop praying to god for a week or so and then start it again when I forget the incidence.. :P

Months passed by, our white dog also died due to some health problems in its old age. We buried it in our garden at the back of our house.

After this incident, to pump up my affection or love towards dogs, another incident happened.
We had to take care of my uncle's pet "brownie" as they had to leave to their native for a period of 10 days. Brownie was brown in color, with brown eyes and was only 2 months old. We used to take care of it like a new born baby. 10 days passed by like a speeding rocket and then it was the same old story.

My mom never used to allow us to keep a dog because she had a flashback story as that hero had in a telugu movie who comes to city from a village :P. The story goes like this....
Long long ago, my maternal grandma had a dog and my mom was very fond of her. It used to come along with my mom and leave her in her in-laws home, since both houses were some what closer. One fine day, after leaving my mom at her in-law's house, on the way back, it was hit by a car and died on the spot. This was the flashback and my doesn't want her kids(us) to go through the trauma which she went through, hence the "NO DOG - NO TRAUMA" rule..!!  :( :( :(

So we never pressurized her about this. However, few days back, one of my friend posted a picture of a cute dog(you can see the picture in the end) on her Facebook wall, which was gifted by her brother. How sweet! :(
After showing the picture to my mom, I again expressed my same old wish to have a pet and asusual my mom was extra quick to reject my idea. I shared my grief with my friend a day after. To my surprise, she told me that the particular dog was being sold. I felt like a person who finds his lost child. I contacted her immediately, and she was ready to sell it to me. But somehow my mom flopped this plan too at last moment. And my wish to have a pet remain unfulfilled till now.

No matter how many useful advantages (of having a dog) I share with my mom, she never allows me to keep a dog :(

I wish to have a pet some day and show it to my mom.. :))
Hope that day comes soon.. Wish me for that :P :P