Destiny..

Destiny…..


Walking down the busy CMH road, I see this happy creature wagging her tail and galloping into the world in front of her. She can’t be wrong. The world is a happy place. Busy roads. Cars honking at her.Ignorance is her bliss.Is this not party time? I’m out to explore the world.What is the harm? Where is the harm? People are friendly. They only help.Wish you good.Blah Blah Blah.

My first instinct was doubt. At 3 months (that’s what she looked like), busy CMH road is not the place to walk without a leash, and forget about a potty-pee-spree that some owners send their pets for without even bothering to follow them.I stood and watched behind her.No one following her.Now she had come too far away from a prospective owner walking behind her.She’s alone! A three months old lab – pampered silly by her owners is all set to face the world, and spend a night by the corner paan shop – if only she had not been run over by a speeding vehicle driven by a drunk/stoned brat.No.Can’t happen.

She took to me in a playful way. Of all the people walking down theh road, she chose to play with me.Well, girl – this time your instincts are right.I will find you your home.I take her back to the lane she walked out of which luckily also leads to my home after a few bifurcations.

Now was the time to see this silly girl demonstrating all her silliness. Talk about digressions. Her walk-to-home or so I would like to believe was full of full-circles: circles around every tree, circles around every car …sniffing them to glory, and staring at the gates of houses.Let this house be hers! Let this house be hers! Redundant thought.I let her lead me in her digressions, hoping she knew the way back and these digressions are just a reflection of her confidence.I know the way back! I’m comfortable.I’ve time to spare, so why not sniff the pee of some more of my kind!Huh – dogs!

There I go walking all over the place with her, with a heavy Dell laptop on my back and few paraphernalia that I often carry home from work.She seemed to have lived in a cocoon for she doesn’t know cars are “dangerous” things.She simply doesn’t let them have their way on the road.Well – I’m walking, so you stop walking if this is my playing territory!

My! She’s cute!She has a blue collar round her neck, and a few blue bells. And the fact that she resembles my friend’s dog doesn’t help my heart break.So after 45 minutes of digressions, enquiries to passer by, I realize if I’ve intentions of finding her real owner I must not seem too obvious walking with a lost dog.Too many people would be happy to claim a high quality Labrador puppy.I remember in my paraphernalia I had yummy garlic bread from Pizza Hut.I had refused to bring the leftover from lunch home, but my friend forced insisting I can have food for a change at home!Without the garlic bread, ot would have been impossible to bring this restless creature home.

So “Destiny” and me reached home.Destiny sniffed every corner of the house.Drank water.Had food.Played.And right now “Destiny” is playing with two others of her kinds – two wonderful Goldens, while I’ve a mission : to return her to her home. I know the pain of losing a pet, for sometime ago I had to go through the pain. “Utterly” starved the night he was away, and frightened. We did find “Utterly” eventually. I hope Destiny’s family knows that she is having a nice time, holidaying – and that she will be back soon.