Shashi Sarma

Drama

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Shashi Sarma

Drama

The Bonding

The Bonding

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It was in the year 2009 when my mother died in the hospital while getting treatment of blood platelets. The doctors tried hard to cure her but fate didn’t support and she died in the month of April 2009. She always hated to either go to hospitals or consulting a doctor. When we got her admitted in the hospital, she made a lot of hue and cry. She kept on telling me that she didn’t want to die and wanted me to try to save her. She was 73-year-old at that time. When she died, I did all the rituals at the time of cremation being her daughter as she used to live with me after my father’s death. Relatives came just to make their formal presence.


A month after her death, we shifted to a new house. It was a well spacious house but somehow, I along with my family felt a strange kind of emptiness. We tried hard to come out of our trauma but could not help. I brought a week-old baby kitten at home to kill my loneliness. Her eyes were closed at that time. We took great care of her as she was a live toy for us to play. We were pleased to see her beautiful blue eyes when she opened her eyes for the first time. Time gradually passed and she was three months old. At that time, I noticed strange things happening. Her behavior got changed completely. She started having a special kind of bonding with my elder daughter. She used to eat with her, sleep with her on her bed and used to follow her from one room to another where ever she used to go.


My daughter worked in a Multinational Company and usually had night duties. After she left for office, Kitty used to sniff her pillow and sat on her bed for hours. Sometimes she didn’t even get down for eating her dinner. I used to offer her food on the bed on humanity grounds. At midnight around 2.30 or 3 a.m. I felt as if someone was moving by the side of my bed. I got up and what I saw was quite amazing and shocking. It was Kitty only carrying the hand towel of my daughter in her mouth from one room to another. I was watching her closely. It was a strange bonding she had developed with my daughter. She knew as to what time my daughter came back from office in the morning. She could sense her arrival and just few minutes before her arrival she would start scratching the door. If I didn’t pay attention then she will come to me and try to make me follow her towards the door. And on seeing her, she would welcome her by licking her face and show her gratitude. She would make strange noises as if was calling my grandson to attend his aunt. If due to some reason, my daughter got annoyed with her nephew and screamed at him, she would immediately climb her bed and started licking her cheeks to pacify her. The second moment she would turn towards my grandson and would attack him. This happened many times. I had read many stories of animal bonding with humans but this was really a live show happening in front of my eyes. She is very protective about her and never leaves her alone. She is now eight years old but bonding is still the same.  


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