Early Days

As all the puppies do, I have been born blind. Luckily for me and my siblings, because we will be frightened even more then we already are. It wasn’t enough that we all are for the first time entered a brave new world. Some kind of creature, dressed as an astronaut in that silvery and shiny suit with gaggles and wearing strange woolen cap on, reaches toward us. It picks up one by one and out of smelly, choky but warm pit. If I wasn’t with any sight with only my nose to direct me to what is good and what it isn’t I would be very afraid. Later, I find out that actually it was Milica, the granddaughter of my owner Rose and not some huge monster that preys on newly born little animals. My owner Rose and her sister Antonia, another granny, prepared and dressed unsuspected Milica to this mission – retrieving poor newborns. They were so afraid for our benefit and shocked of negligence of our own mother Katica. Poor older ladies aren’t that familiar about relations in the canine world. We were just fine down there, but nevertheless it is good to sense care and attention right from the start.

Now we could run around and across the yard, but we were all very tired and hungry, so after quick nourishment from our mother, we all fell asleep. In the meantime, another important human enters my life – it was my co-owner Jovan cousin to my owner Rose. He was very upset, when he heard that Milica has been down in a rescue mission.

-“What about if she was stuck there? What would you do then?”

I was awoken by his shouting, but that happened just for a second or two. When I got up after many hours of baby sleep, my mother was gone. My brothers and sisters looked in dismay but nobody has been concerned about us. However she returned with Jovan and everything was fine. Except the window for our feeding was very short, and we all had to jump one over another to get any food which hasn’t been sufficient enough. It happened regularly and as I make my first thought I concluded that my owner Rose was right and that my mother Katica isn’t really a fit parent. But she was only one I have and I will have to do with that. One couldn’t choose ones parents. Right?

In following weeks our number depleted as agile Rose, former Red Cross official, offers here and there many of my cousins. I was destined to go at Jovan`s colleague from work. In that proper hour, he grabbed me in his arms, on the bike and that was my first time outside the yard into brave new world.