A STRANGE CONNECTION

It seems pleasant to me when every evening ,tired with the day, I return home & witness a pair of friendly eyes staring me from far off,jumping in joy he comes running towards me & accompains me till my house,& most important…. selflessly.All life I grew up with instructions “stay away,he’ll bite”, but strangely today one of my finest friends is the one who can actually bite.yes , it’s a stray dog,with no house,no family & mostly no conditions . I met this dog few months back in my locality,my sister had introduced us,she told me tht he was one of the friendliest dogs she met,but for me that love of this dog was yet to witness,since me & my sister both are fond of dogs & we dnt differentiate much between the pet ones & the stray ones,we regularly spent some time with that stray dog & went our ways.Just like any other dog , he too would follow us till the main gates & then would leave us on our way.Since then it’s been few months when we , especially me encounter him often,no matter how far I m he recognizes me from far off & accompains me ,I serve him with parle-g that cost me rs.2 and we share lots of love that cost us none,then I move my way & he on his ………..Recently he was been kicked off by my society from my compound & so for past few weeks he accompained me only till main gates , the fear of vilonce scares a friendly animal too…Yesterday,while me & my sister were returning from routine street market ,we met him like regular,but this time something different happened.I was feeding him as I always do & all of a sudden there were few other stray dogs that got on him,they bite him real bad,his painful yell could indicate it was real bad & all I could was witness him scream in pain,I looked for a stone here & there but couldn’t find any,finally I threw a plastic bag towards them & they ran off,I never knew the concept of “boundaries” had become so stringent in animals too,this little poor dog had started weeping initially,in pain he screamed louder & louder & louder & all I could do is see him licking his leg the right one that was bent after that bite , he couldn’t walk anymore on four legs & cried so bad,so bad.I saw his tears fall down & somewhere found myself so helpless,in search of a safe place he ran hayway & I just got frooze in my place,I looked up for some water & tried serving it to him but the eyes that looked up with love always,today prayed me to stay away,my eyes went moist & I couldn’t belive i had this strong bond with that stray animal,that his pain made me have tears,at times god is weird,while returning back to my house I couldn’t imagine the thought of loosing him & that is when I realized there is a strange connection we share,not of master-servant,not of human-animal,but of humanity that’s almost extinct on this earth now.Today when I was walkn back my home,he dnt jump,he did run towards me,quiet ,sitting in a corner he weeped,I went to him & to my surprise this time he didn’t run away,rather he shifted my palm from his head to his chin & kept his face on it & just cried , and just cried….like helpless friend I sat like that , couldn’t even wipe off his tears,rather wept along,what ……………………………………… A strange connection……………………………………..