Me and Cynophobia

Most people i know or related to are fond of DOGS....
And everytime i go to a house which has a resident canine...there will be a huge drama and loads of questions asking me y...y d hell do i hate dogs!!!

Now here comes my one and only standard answer..i've been giving since the age of 9.

"I cant tolerate any living species ...humans are just an exception"

But to describe y i came to the conclusion i need to go back to that old not so black and not so white flashback...

I can say in telugu.."Nakappudu tommidellu....."in a dramatic tone......but the flow might not follow...anyway...

...I was in my 5th class...we moved to our own house and i had one of my long lost friend(Yes i say LONG LOST...as after 5th class i've never been in touch with her) Sethika, living in the same colony...one fine evening( i still remember the climate...it was wonderful....it was like the best day one can ever wish for...) i dressed up in my sturdiest skirt and top(i cant actually remeber which one..but u'll know after reading that it is indeed a thick skirt) and went to her place..

Infront of thier gate there was this dog...mongrel with 3 pups...as usual i went and opened the gate without bothering about the dog...in the next second it jumped on me and the drama started....it was all over me barking and god knows how and why it didnt bute me...after some 5-10 mins or so someone came and shooed it away...actually many people surrounded but it wasnt leaving me. Anyhow i escaped with few scratches and my skirt was most of it was torn.....i was rushed to my dad's clinic where they gave me the necessary injections.

That was just the start.......We had a big farm in our village which is now a mango orchard but before we used to have all different crops in those 50acres. It was the time when sunflower crop was harvested. There were 3 mongrels in our farm to be there with the hired helps. one fine day i was at our fram with my aunt and cosuin brother....i was may be 10years at that time and a dog came running towards me and i got scared and pleaded Raju anna to save me and also made a deal that i'll give him 1000Rs if he do that...(Man!!....... it has been 13years..and if i count the actual and intrest and also now that for him it wud be in dollars.....may be i should sell all i have to repay him :P). That was a story which still make rounds in my relatives circle  whenever some incident  inkling with dogs surface up.

Then in 2002 i think dad brought home a Alsation pup - Marshall. That was the time i was away at vijayawada plotting to run away from the histel instead of studying for my Inter/Eamcet. In May when i came home i noticed this hairy creature and created all the hungamam which made me the reason for its being tied up for 16hrs a day.....
One fine afternoon, mom was sleeping and sis was speaking to her friends who conveniently left open our main gate. I opened the back dorr of the home and came face to face with this dog and immediately i gave out few shrill cries and ran back inside...what i didnt knew was...the dog was not tied at that time and even it got scared and ran out of the open gate......we never found it !!It just ran away or can i say...i just scared it enough that it forgot where it stays....we searched i mean excluding me.. my family searched for  10-15days but in vain.
Now again here comes a pup named MARSHALL which is just 1month old now...i mena we brought it home when it is 18days baby. I am damn scared to touch it or let it come near me. I do all the things like playing papaer ball game, giving the cerelac/milk concotion every few hrs etc but i feel scared alot to be there when it is not inside that confined area. Since its a pup dad is not even ready to chain it saying it stops it growth..hence here i am admiring it through the window and cooing its name now and then to let it know that i am there.....

Huh....long post......
Will be back.....

Bindu Kondoju  aka Maroju