Dear Jerry

Human beings may be ungrateful, unfaithful, and insensible but I know, you cannot be.

Being of alsatian grade, but not completely dark black in texture, have patches of white with a velvety tail which wags when confronting those who love you. Your dark black nose gets wet and your eyes sparkle when you are fit and fine. When weak, your nose becomes dry and your face becomes pale with dull eyes.

Know your name so well, Jerry, that if anyone by mistake calls you 'dog' you bark with anger, but never hurt anyone. Not liking other dogs and fearing others even if they are of your species.

Loving to run in the field and catch rats if you find any, sit on the lap of your family members leaving the sofa behind, and to shower but not alone you would give the bath giver a good shower back.

You can't utter a word, not a human but understand every single word or feeling of humans better than humans!

When I scold you would make a face and sob that the very next moment I have to hug you, caress your furs, and like a child have to be persuaded.

Protecting me at night and company when I go to the community grocery shop. 

When I am sad, you sit quietly with a depressed look and sad face saying "Don't worry everything will be fine" and when am cheerful you enforce me to play with you! 

You like sleeping below the bed, and sometimes it's tough to pull you out from there when not in a nice mood, you show your teeth to your grandma, exhibiting power as a king.

Morning you wake up and ask for the biscuit grandpa brought the day before. 

If any fried food is being made at home you would swish your tail and not move an inch from the kitchen even if you are rebuked for half an hour, behaving like a real pet and ask with humility for at least one puri! 

Boiled stew of mutton has ruined your taste and you dislike it concluding in wasting rice, which I hate and so I sit down feeding you. You gently open your mouth so that not a bit of your canine hurts my hand!

Your fever calls for crocin-loaded dry sweet, and then I hold your mouth so that you don't spit it out.

You are allergic to stay alone at home, I know it's very hard so you tear all the books, shoes or whatever you like to ruin without any distinction.

Lavish bed and mosquito net seem a waste on you. You tear them with your sharp canine teeth and jump in my bed and lie below my legs.

I don't know how many mosquito nets you have torn till now but I love putting my legs on your back. When I study late at night alone in my study room, you become my classmate. Your eyes get filled with water when mom leaves for the office and you jump with happiness when she returns. 

You are my most faithful friend. You can read my mind by looking at my eyes which many times human fails.

Yours loving,

Best friend