ABOUT MISSING MOM AND FOOD | |
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Day begun to resemble one another. Every day mom told us something new, we played with the humans, explored our surroundings and had a jolly good time. Until a day came when mom was absent for unusually long time. I searched through the whole garden for her with my siblings yet she was nowhere to be found. Even when we all cried out together she did not come. I run to the kennel but she was not there either. Absolutely miserable I rolled myself into a ball in a corner. Where did she go? Why hasn't she returned yet? She was never gone so long ... I am hungry! I want my mom! And then it hit me. What if...what if she is in the human's house? In a flash a plan formed in my mind. I have to brake into the house! Find mom as fast as possible! Find a teet and suckle! Yes! A perfect plan! I run to the house and begun sistematic sniffling around it to find a hole leading inside. I circled it once, the second and then the third time. This queer human kennel had no hole! I sat down by a corner completely downhearted. What am I to do? Where is mom? Where did she go? Why hasn't she returned yet? I am hungry! I want my mom! And then a hole appeared not far away from me and the readheaded human came out of the house carrying two red objects smelling rather tasty. He looked at me and uttered a sound. He then nodded towards the kannel and went there. He uttered more sounds on the way. He stopped right before the kennel and made the same sound again. I sniffed the air to catch more of that delicious smell. Weak it spreaded throught the air luring me to the kennel. But the human still stood there making sounds and I was not quite sure what he wanted. I was sure I am hungry for more of that smell though. I run to the kennel as did my siblings. We were by the red deliciously smelling thingies in no time. We sniffed the air some more, sniffed the red thingies themselves and what filled them. It was something unknown yet the smell was fantastic. It was my brother who first tasted it. He took one lick and another . "It is yummi!" , he mumbled with his mouth full. In a seconds my sisters an I filled ours too. It was quite different then mom's milk, not so tastefull maybe. But I was so hungry I couldn't care less. In fact I though it was great. Soon afterwards I had my tummy full. Not far from me were my siblings lying one over eachother. I snuggled under them from the side. We were almoust asleep when mom came. She wraped herself around us and give us all a few licks. All at once we started questioning her about her absence and telling her how miserable we had been. In her soft voice she explained how we must get used to her absence, that the red thingies are called bowls and the stuff in it is one sort of food. You never know what kind of food will be in it. That depends on the human. The kind he brings. Sometimes it is better and sometimes it is worse. She answered those and many other questions before we finally settled down and squeezed closer to eachother and to her. "What do you think of your first real meal?", she then asked. All four of us agreed it was tasty. I couldn't help thinking there could me more of it as I drifted away to my dreams. Copyright �2003 Ilonka Krajnc |