Whitey's friends and family
My dog Whitey basically spends her day lazing, eating and dozing off every now and then. Her source of exercise comes in from chasing the odd fleeting house fly in the Delhi summer and mosquitoes that start knocking on the door at around six in the evening. Sometimes if she feels really starved for exercise then she chases the birds in the bird bath, but usually she makes do with a loud "Woof." Chasing those things are too much of a trouble. Whitey also gets a visitor called Jerry Wong the mice who just drops in from time to time and then climbs down the drain water pipe.
One day in the morning I see Whitey and her kid daughter Vanilla standing stock still at a corner and shouting away to glory. I thought may be one of the monkeys, literally monkeys had strayed from the near by ridge which was being flattened out for making way to modernities such as the underground, which is primarily over ground in Delhi defying all logic and not to mention a a bio-diversity park at the cost of the natural ridge. But what I saw was somewhat more dramatic, Mr Jerry was being cornered on the terrace but the duo were not confident enough to approach him. Jerry stands very large at 3inches with his tail and seems really seething with anger at being made felt unwelcome, he almost was saying here buddy I am here for my weekly visit and you guys are really being bothersome.
Into this scene enters my better half as I am equally petrified of Jerry and his size intimidates me to no end. Anyway the brave man of the house stokes Jerry gently with a broomstick and off goes Jerry at the speed of light and runs for his life towards the balcony grill and here he without warning us simply jumps off and makes a free fall of twenty feet and lands on the street with a ever so inaudible "SQUEAK". We could not believe that we actually had made Jerry to consider suicide, that was never on our minds. He had just caught us by surprise and we had just conveyed that.
But anyway that was indeed a very busy day for Whitey. She panted for at least couple of hours there after. Vanilla strolled off very casually to the nearest piece of furniture and started practicing her grinding skills. She is getting better everyday at it. Extremely skillful I must say, the telephone wire, all kind of slippers, pencils, eraser and even Mom's glasses have met the end at her expert grinding. However, Jerry has not been seen or heard of since that day.
One day in the morning I see Whitey and her kid daughter Vanilla standing stock still at a corner and shouting away to glory. I thought may be one of the monkeys, literally monkeys had strayed from the near by ridge which was being flattened out for making way to modernities such as the underground, which is primarily over ground in Delhi defying all logic and not to mention a a bio-diversity park at the cost of the natural ridge. But what I saw was somewhat more dramatic, Mr Jerry was being cornered on the terrace but the duo were not confident enough to approach him. Jerry stands very large at 3inches with his tail and seems really seething with anger at being made felt unwelcome, he almost was saying here buddy I am here for my weekly visit and you guys are really being bothersome.
Into this scene enters my better half as I am equally petrified of Jerry and his size intimidates me to no end. Anyway the brave man of the house stokes Jerry gently with a broomstick and off goes Jerry at the speed of light and runs for his life towards the balcony grill and here he without warning us simply jumps off and makes a free fall of twenty feet and lands on the street with a ever so inaudible "SQUEAK". We could not believe that we actually had made Jerry to consider suicide, that was never on our minds. He had just caught us by surprise and we had just conveyed that.
But anyway that was indeed a very busy day for Whitey. She panted for at least couple of hours there after. Vanilla strolled off very casually to the nearest piece of furniture and started practicing her grinding skills. She is getting better everyday at it. Extremely skillful I must say, the telephone wire, all kind of slippers, pencils, eraser and even Mom's glasses have met the end at her expert grinding. However, Jerry has not been seen or heard of since that day.
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