This is the third month Aditya has been asking me to bring a pet for him. It all started with an advertisement shown in the television in which a little boy affectionately picks a green caterpillar falls off from a basket of green peas.
Few months back when we went to visit one of my colleagues home we met a beautiful 3 months old 'Shadow' a black Labby. Aditya fell in love with it....
Another time... another pup Laika.....the passion for pets has been growing in him.
Yesterday he was reading a story for his sister from the Tim and Topsy series about a black and white rabbit with the name 'Wiggle'. He expressed his desire to have a pet again....
He also has a name for his pet 'William...'
Though I too love pets I wanted to be little practical with him.
I told him how difficult it is to bring up a dog in an apartment...."You must take care of it well...it needs food on time...water on time....then need to be bathed...cleaned...taken out for a walk...taken to the vet for regular checkups for fleas....might have to jog and run with it so that it is fit all the time.....have to feed it good and healthy food and also meat.......we can't do that since we don't eat meat at home....we can't go out anywhere without them....someone must take care of it all the time ................and its really note easy to bring them up"
He said..."No Appa! you don't have to do all these things...its easy to take care of it and will never leave us...."
Huh! its never been easy with my son any time....I was little tired and called Meera to make him understand.
She too tried.....but Aditya was very calm and continued "You don't have to bath them...." they are always clean.
Another round of explanation and it wasn't leading us to a conclusion.
Finally Aditya said...."I think you got everything wrong....and I'm not referring to a Dog....!"
Meera and I were confused and were still looking at him...."What kind of pet are you referring to.....?"
Aditya said "A Tortoise!!!!! - see you don't have to bath it because its always in the water.....(wasn't that a turtle??) you don't have to walk or run with it....its always fit(??), no need to maintain its fur.....no fleas problem.....no meat.....and finally....it can never leave our home.
Does anyone know whether anyone sells tortoise as pets in Pune?
1 comment:
hehe.. good choice.. but, here is something you may want to read for presenting your side of the case :-)
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/reptilesturtles/a/tortoises.htm
and, I think its illegal to keep a tortoise or a turtle as a pet in India.. but not sure
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