The first thing that used to come to my mind when I hear the word ‘pets’ was a picture of a dog. As most of the people have dogs as their pets or may be I have seen most of the pets as dogs.So me and dogs had a “running away from each other” type of relationship. I used to remember my walks with father , where I watch him playing with them after I ran away in fear. I used to think how he was not scared.I was not a pet lover at all.
But the story changes here, in my laws, we have a parrot named mithu. Earlier I could not have him sit on my shoulder during my first month in the house. On the contrary, mithu feel safe with humans. One day I picked a sweet dish quite famous in India named “laddoo”. It is a yellow ball like thing. He immediately came to sit on my shoulder. And that’s how our story began.
Nowadays we have become good friends and mithu only eats with me . You want to know the reason why. Actually I am the only one in the family who eat malai(cream) with the paranthas and mithu is a big fan of cream. He do not want to disappoint others so he enjoy a little part of his meal with others too while reserving his appetite for eating with me.
From here our friendship began, slowly I have started understanding his words.Mithu ‘s closest one is my husband .With the help of him ,I am understanding Mithu better as He understands the language what mithu speaks. I do not know if it is because of him that he does not bite me.
The Attention-seeker
Our whole day moves around Mithu. He is the center of attraction and if we don’t give him that attention he does everything to attain it.I remember one incident when I was talking to my mom on phone and there was noone else in the house.He started speaking loudly near me so that I could not talk.
We have never forced him to go into the cage. Mithu remains freely open in the house and he only goes into the cage whenever he wants.That’s why he remains happy and free.
Manytimes he remain seated on the shoulder of any family member. And after going outside of the door,he flew and sit near the maingate.He never has tried to escape.He just flew because of our shocking reactions. Sister has then made him to sit on the shoulder again by showing him a candy or any exciting thing.
So if you have a bird in the house try to keep him free as much as possible. No doubt he has chewed our wooden furniture and the curtains because of the freedom provided. But nobody can stay happy in a cage. Sometimes he go outside on the roof with my husband but he never tries to fly in the sky. Because we are his world now.
We speak punjabi language at home. Mithu also speak punjabi very well, just like our mother in the same tone .As she was the first person he got attached to. Earlier we thought that he is unaware of the words actual meaning.But many times he has amazed us by literally correct replies when we ask him something.
He fights with our sister just like siblings do and irritate mother. He is scared from the father as he corrects him when he does something wrong. And he sits with me for food.
Whenever we bring some food from outside, he immediately jumps to the table to enjoy food with everyone.He love eating when each person of the family is on the dining. Whenever anyone of us speak a little louder, he realizes that something is wrong here and start shouting.
If we have kept anything outside at a place he is accessible to, that thing will not be there after sometime .Instead there would be pieces only .Sometimes we scold him of his wrong deeds but just by seeing his cute face ,all the anger just vanish.
The Stress-Buster
There is kind of joy and happiness because of him.Everybody is like running after him’Mithu don’t do this ..dont do that’.With pets this is the best thing that they keep you busy in their cute deeds and help you avoid overthinking.
In the time of lockdown and corona,Mithu has taken good care of us by loving us .We actually believe that if you have a pet at home,just take care of him as he loves you unconditionally and never make him feel alone.
Recently he was injured due to his naughty habits. Usually whenever we cook something in the kitchen, he immediately fly and sit at the cabinets. We scold him every time. But just two days back we closed the cabinet on one of his feet accidently and he screamed. There was little blood.
And the entire family pampered him. We were feeling bad seeing his feet. He was not able to sit on our shoulders properly. He remain silent quite unusually, We applied turmeric -mustard oil combination on his feet two times a day.
But Mithu is good now, has turned naughty again. Again he has started irritating us .But we love now getting irritated by him. If he does not then we go near him to play with him.You can follow him through below instagram profile.
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