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So, what was I talking about, my story… but are you really interested in listening to my story…you may think of it as nothing important and because it is not just a story for me, it was a moment of my life, when my life changed and so did the life of my family.

And it all began on that cold night, when the sky was darker in the absence of full moon gloom and I was just born … so, of course, it was dark as I couldn't see a single thing because my eyes were completely closed, and I unfortunately could not open them at all, but only because I felt so weak, hungry and small.

And oh, I remember that intense feeling of wanting to eat after that, to feed on my mother's breast and drink her milk, and so, I let out pitiful, small and weak cries for her sympathy and love. But soon my cries were echoed by some other cubs. I knew them, they were supposed to be my siblings… and I felt they should have been hungry too, but obviously I cried first, so I should eat first, and when they pushed me away from mama, my patience reached its limits.

But, undoubtedly at that moment, I learned a lesson that this world is merciless to the weak and small, and I would have to fight and outsmart everyone, even if only for a bite of food to eat. That was the sad and harsh reality…

So without waiting for anyone to overtake me again, I nudged my head towards my mother, motioning her to feed me, and that was how I successfully drank my first meal.

But, in the midst of my joyful feelings after my first successful battle for survival, I also felt my mother's weak breadth, was she also weak and tired like me, I somehow felt scared, that feeling I felt for the first time… scared.

That night was inevitably doomed to be long and winding. On that cold night, two of our six siblings died. I remember my mama was very, very sad and she buried them the next morning and then, she resumed herself into taking care of the rest of our siblings.

Meanwhile, I always felt some nasty creatures were sometimes trying to touch me, and take me away from mama but my mama scared them all away. She called them human, very nasty creatures as she said, they always liked to intrude into our space and destroy it and then chasing them away as if they owned this world, oh come on, I knew they can never own this world, it is meant for everyone. Bah… bah… nasty creatures…

After that, for a long time, I slept and slept, ate and slept… before I felt myself strong enough to open my eyes again. I still vividly remember my first memory after opening my eyes, that memory of fresh, emerald grass, and that fluttering colorful butterfly that teasingly came and sat on my nose.

Achoo… Sneeze… Sneeze… oh that was weird. How can anyone just sit on anyone…

I didn't like it, I turned my head to look for my mama, frustrated… there she was, so beautiful; her jet black fur glistened in golden rays of sunlight. Will I also look this beautiful when I grow up… so black and majestic.

Oh, I want to just grow up quickly and be like mama.

Soon, I forgot to think whatever that I was thinking and was taken away by my siblings to play around.

And we soon discovered that this place had many wonderful and adventurous places to go and they were also so much fun. Yee… haa… we could go into the dark and mysterious long tunnel, dig holes, scare birdies, and then again scared a lot of birdies. We were so happy and proud at our new discoveries.

But before we could go towards any of our new quest, I was picked up by a small and nasty human cub and a few more surrounded me as if I was there food, I yelped loudly in their arms but they kept caressing my fur and kissed me, their audacity. But, I will never admit that I like this feeling, never… in their dreams.

When my mama heard my loud yelps for help she came running towards us fiercely telling the human cubs to leave me alone. The human cubs were obviously scared out of their minds and so, they even took me with themselves as they ran away. So, I yelped even more loudly, causing them to panic and the human cubs just shouted, threw me away, and ran away.

Ouch, that fall hurt me a lot, I tried to balance myself from that fall and accidently stumble away onto a very grey surface, there was no grass under my feet, the unfamiliar feeling froze me and I sat their fixatedly.

Meanwhile my mama was coming towards me and when she about to reach me, I also wanted to go towards her but I couldn't move my limbs. So, I could only helplessly yet hopefully stared at her as she was about to reach me but before I could be too happy, I was shocked by a loud noise and immediately buried my head into my paws.

'HONK!!!'

When I raised my head to look over again, what came into my view was the sight of my mother lying weakly in blood and a metallic creature, a bike as human would call it, was also lying there beside her with an adult male human trapped underneath it.

When I looked at this terrifying scenario in front of me, I couldn't remain in my place anymore and instantly, frantically started running towards my mom and kept nudging her to wake up and crying out in help. My mom also let out a small voice between her labored breaths and told me to run away. But how could I go away, leaving her alone, when she was in so much pain. Thus, I silently sat beside her, refusing to go away.

At this time, the driver who caused the accident also stood up, still wobbling from his fall and as his eyes took in the heart wrenching state of both mother and child, his heart twisted with guilt and sympathy for the pitiful mother and son. He felt very apologetic and went towards them with the intentions to help them.

When I saw the human who hurt my mother coming towards us, I became vigilant and growled at him and warned him to go away. But this display of chivalry didn't stop the driver who wanted to sincerely help them and so the driver slowly approached the wounded mother, showing his harmlessness.

'I just want to help her' he said.

I looked at him for a few moments; it was a very tough decision of my life to trust the person who was the cause of my misery to help me out of it, but life gives us few choices. So I decided to trust him and gave way for him. The driver without any delay picked up my mama wanting to take her away. So I bit his pants, not wanting to let him go away all alone.

The driver seemed to understand me and then, he placed my mother on his bike and stuffed me inside his jacket and we rode away…

Meanwhile my siblings also saw that we were missing and came running after us intending to chase after us but they couldn't possibly chase this metal creature so they gave up after sometime and kept howling at our back. I howled in return, wanting to tell them that I comeback soon.

Then, the driver sent my mother to a big building where some human in white clothes took her inside a closed room. This made me even more restless. I was feeling so anxious and I kept yelping but the driver slowly smoothed out my fur, it somehow made me less anxious. I subconsciously nestled into his arms and rubbed my face on his chest. And as I was so tired and unknowingly fell into deep sleep.

After few hours I woke up again in a strange environment, I anxiously turned my head around to scan my environment only to find a human cub sleeping near me. I was so scared that I started barking at the cub. Without any surprise the human cub woke up and immediately smiled beamingly at me.

'Hello, small puppy my name is Veronica, can I call you Peter, you know my mom name is Angelica and my father is Joe' she said as she extended her human paws towards me. She wanted me to sniff her paws, really.

I pretended that she was not present and ignored her. I wanted to find that human who took my mama away. Where was he… I felt so depressed and guilty. It was all my fault that mama is not with me. I should not have been so playful and weak. I should not trust that person.

The human cub seemed to sense my sadness and picked me up and gently patted my head.

I felt a little better, so I subconsciously wagged my tail and turned my head a little to sniff her hand.

'Don't worry your mama will be alright' another female human said came towards me, caressed my fur and offered me some milk to drink. She seemed to be the mother of this human cub, Angelica.

I could understand them a little; they wanted me not to be sad. But I didn't want to eat anyway and I wanted my mom, so I softly yelped at them, expressing my sorrow.

Suddenly the door of the house opened and the human who took mama came in, Veronica's dad, Joe, I became excited and without waiting another minute I ran towards him, and climbed up his feet.

The human bent down in front of me and patted my head…

'Don't worry young guy, I will soon take you to find your mother.' He said, and after saying that he left and went about his way. Then, his human cub came towards me and picked me up and took me to eat some food and forcibly let me take have a bath, as they say it, it obviously tormenting the body with overflow of water submerging us.

The next morning, when the sun rays crept inside the room through the small slits of window, I woke up, and sat up from the carpeted floor and immediately ran to find the Joe.

When Joe saw me, he laughed at my enthusiasm and picked me up and took me to look for my mama.

When I finally met my mama who returned to her high spirits and instantly ran to cuddle with her and got licked by her all over my face. I was so happy. After that my mother stayed at that place for several days before she was healthy enough to leave with us. I went to meet her every morning and played with Veronica at night. She was my new best friend because she always played with me.

The day my mama left with us, Joe took us back to the place where he found us and my mama and I finally reunited with my siblings who were also very happy to meet us again…

Joe happily looked at our family and finally after a long time turned to leave, I ran after him wanting to stop him, I don't want to part with him either.

Joe picked me up and kissed on top of my head, 'go with your family and be happy' he said.

I kept yelping in protest still he put me down, and was about to leave… when my mother came towards us and she pushed me towards Joe. She wanted me to leave with him. I barked a little sadly at thought of leaving either one of them.

Joe was also shocked at the behavior of my mother but he knelt down and picked me up and looked at my mama.

'I will take care of him.' And turned to leave, I snuggled my head on Joe's should looking over at my mother with long but didn't protest any longer and left to go to my new home.

'So this was my story, it was a little boring and somewhat ordinary but it did change my life.' I said as l looked at Serena, my neighbor's white Persian cat and toby the bird, who came to my house and drank my water every day.