I Would Never Take A Pet Again In My Life
Wait why! Oh, it's not a serious issue in fact I do feel happy and excited seeing pets but I will never own them. Don't worry it's not some arrogant biased talk but rather a sensible talk that will clarify my stand of not owning any pets in the future till the end of the post.
Pets are one of the best companions of humans and for some, they are like a family. The definition of a pet was cruel in history. Where pets whether it's animals or humans their only purpose was to follow their owners or masters orders but things have changed and pets are now part of the human family. We now live, eat, and sleep under the same roof.
My Pet History
I had only one pet in my entire life which was a parrot after that with my first pet history I never thought of having one again.
Why?
In my neighborhood, two houses had parrots as pets of course in cages. Big, beautiful, furry and they even used to mimic voices. I enjoyed a lot talking with them without understanding anything, haha. They can spell words like "What Did You Say" in Hindi 'Kya Bola' and some names like Meethu, Rupu, etc. It was very funny hearing their mimicking voices. Having such experience with other's pets I decided to have one. After a bit of researching my uncle told me they had seen a nest of parrots in a tree nearby and can get one for free. I immediately agreed.
Don't judge me as a kid I didn't realize I agreed to a cruel act.
As a kid, I wanted a pet and nothing else mattered to me, I even scored well in my studies just to get one. I got one. Soon those two neighborhood people came to see what type of parrot I have. By seeing it they told me that this is a low variant parrot that will not grow that big and its voice is also not soothing for mimicking. I became very disappointed but seeing the little creature I didn't mind their words.
When it was an infant, it used to bite me a lot but with time. It realized not to bite human fingers but not to spare lady's fingers, lol.
After a few months, it started growing like crazy and it got a black hair collar-like structure which was a sign of a high-class breed, lmao those neighbors' faces were hilarious when they saw its transformation.
I taught him words like 'Who Is It' in Hindi 'Kon Hai'. Whenever someone used to knock on our door, the parrot used to reply it like that and the person standing there would be totally surprised, haha. I used to put it in a cage. When it was growing my parents advised me to cut its feathers so that it won't fly away, I completely didn't let them, and someday while I was feeding it out of the cage it flew away. I became very sad and depressed but after a day it came back to our door, but was very hungry. Then another time while my parents were feeding it, it flew away and came back after 2 days, this time also the parrot got very weak as if it didn't eat anything after flying away from the house. And the third time, when I was away for a week in summer vacation due to not seeing me it fly away when one of my cousins was feeding it and it never came back for a week. When I came back I started searching for it because the bond was too much and I had hope that I will find it. I find a similar-sounding parrot in a big Banyan tree, I whistled it and it whistled back. It was the confirmation that it was my parrot. After whistling a lot of times it fly away to a nearby building and I ran to another's house terrace saying please let me in my parrot is on your terrace, they were shocked but didn't stop me. Finally, I found it, it flies back towards me. It was a lovely moment. The parrot was shouting like crazy as if crying and saying something, I took it like that to our home.
After 2-3 months I again went to my village for two days to celebrate a festival and this time the parrot flew away again, and when I came back I didn't find it anywhere. I was sad and broken. I cried every day for a week as I was still around below 12th age. Days passed and it never came back nor I found it anywhere.
My Speculations about What Could Have Happened
You must be thinking about why your pet doesn't have a name. But believe me or not, I have completely buried that past as it's very hurting to me to the point I don't even remember it's name, such a shame but sorry my dear first and last pet. The bird was meant to fly high and couldn't live inside a cage that's why it flew many times when I wasn't around. And the fact that I caught the bird in empty stomach conditions shows that the bird had zero survival skills and it didn't know what was food or what was not and I think it died due to starvation.
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Final Thoughts
This scar showed me not to take pets anymore as the emotional bonding formed is very strong and it haunts me for the rest of my life and they aren't supposed to live for long like humans. Also, I can't ignore the fact I stole someone's children after their birth only.
Rest, don't get much emotional if you are treating your pet well and it's happy. Then there's no guilt to have.
These are just my words and thoughts and I wouldn't hate people having pets but if you are treating them badly then I will do some black and white magic through my eyes, lol.
Miss you Nameless Parrot! Man, I wrote a big post this time.
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Sad. I love seeing parrots and playing with them but I don't like to have either. Kinda risky to own one and it requires some special treatments. I just like owning dogs and we often have one at home ever since I was a child.