The First Pup
ANIMALS AND PLANTS
rnoon.
"Oh, so?"
floor, licked clean ..."
comes home
tory. We were horrified.
companion and a caring master. In order to teach it the various ways of
living with a human family, you have to understand its language and be
sensitive to its needs. That's what the author and his sisters, Meena and
(and especially he
the house. Suddenly your whole life and routine revolves
from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to the rest (and butter), as they say, was
possible to "Oh my God, Bambi's gone and eaten
(with Bambi and she reaped the benefits of those nearly all, whole packet of butter! Half a kilo of it!
life. We never realized that, pups like babies would test the e's going to be ill!"
wasn't very long before shoes and slippers were ruined, table.
chair legs began looking rather jagged around the edges, and
books (some of which, I still have) were partially pulped and
of something awful for ages afterwards. We had to watch
face into electric sockets,
live wires, which would have been disastrous. On one
swallowed a fairly large chunk of her own collar. She didn't
at all discomfited, but I was horribly worried that if it didn't
out, she might have to be operated upon. Thankfully, she de
around retching and was sick and out it came - intact. But
chewing mania stopped as she grew, but it didn't stop her fe
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ined on returning from college one
and paky Bone, le
herself, as she tried to
position to lose down
The upbringing of a pup is not an easy job! You have to be a loving
So bits of the wrapping were found on
there was loma aadlo
do behind her Of
Licked clean? What do you mean
a thing from the en
ed clean? Where's Bambi? How could
the performance,
kadhai (wok) full
Mala, bave realized.
have opened the fridge?" Ah, and there
had been frved.
Bambi, licking her chops a little too
Everything changes when there's a new
that wastepaper !
ugly and looking very satiated with life,
h a peculiar, thoughtful glint in her
places to put he
Someone had left the fridge door ajar investigations a
starting conser
rather like what happens when a new baby
One afterna
We made all the bringing-up mistakes it was
law-to-be was
RANJIT LAL (1955 - )
to vea. As ust
was born in Kolkata (then
Calcutta) and educated in
mother had
way. And that pups
Mumbai. He has written
of everything that came
fiction and non-fiction for
And sure enough, for the next two out with ela
both adults and children.
As a freelance writer, he
has had published over a
thousand articles, features
and photo-features in
more than fifty newspapers
and magazines in India
and abroad. The areas of
her
didn't
pretty
his interest are natural
рир
history, humour and satire.
reaped the benefits: got
the advantage of
Insatiable desire: a
desire too great to be
satisfied
with the problem in a simple way - the next day she
disconfitted to discomfort
retchlog trying to vomit
manla: a strona interest
something
Toad this
chéir
ys, she was one very thirsty and unhappy preparation
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glad we didn't have cellphones in those days. . Of
stuffing her face where it was not required) "You know,
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