Pets and Plants

While zipping through the city streets in Delhi and NCR you are bound to run under colorful bold shop signage promising some exotic pets and plants. Nearly non existent, a few years ago our cramped lifestyle has given new breeding grounds to this business now. I do not blame the shop owners for conceiving such a business idea but sometimes wonder the buying quest of people ranging from rarest of birds, rabbits, mice, fishes and plants…and all this when most of us have left the palatial parental houses and adopted BHK concepts, same as we last remember anybody buying a horse, cow or a buffalo as pets.

Actually if one were to derrive the cost benefit analysis for this kind of purchase, the money which you spend in these shops actually seems to be an investment. In this era which is getting Hot, Flat and Crowded proximity to such a beautiful, no artificial color world ,will only get distant. Moreover, as we have lost Jurassic parks, we may also loose the garden squirrels, butterflies, deers and monkeys as they still don’t have the power of currency to buy their habitat!

In such a shrinking scenario these shops offer a slice from the pristine creativity of GOD in your own house giving you a feeling of meaningful adoption and spreading the supremacy of Spiritual Nature. I am dead against any kind of captivity but sensible and engaged ownership can actually give you new companions. Those, who keep a dog, will vouch for the communication stirred by tail, tongue and nose of the dog. Beyond that, the frequency of emotional rebirth these living souls provoke is unparallel in today’s click and mouse world. What is beyond the scope of expressing in words is the undiluted love and attention they give to the  owner. I know, the pet owners reading this para will like me to touch their personal bonding cords  with their pets  more strongly in words, but I am challenged by my typing skills.

Dressing your dog coat, cleaning your aquarium, watering your plants, treating them with best of food and variety of diets/medicines are perhaps the best stress busters you can find under your own captive resources. Enthusiasts further can join forums on net and participate in competition to strengthen the belief in their respective prowess. I, as a proud pet keeper since childhood have only helped my dogs, fishes and plants to grow, multiply and enjoy a bond which is sacred and confidentional at the same time . My next request to the government would be to allow the endangered species as pets. People only poach and smuggle the speechless. I am sure, qualified and eligible owners can do still better in their farm houses or houses what vast stretches of reserved lands have failed to provide..... Protection and Habitat in few cases off course! Tigers exempted!!

Till the time we have no resolution on this, let our next generation be close to the creatures that were part of our growing up in our grandparent's houses. Plants and Pets….adopt and don’t just buy one!!!