I had her for 5 weeks and then diwali came. Over all the time she stayed with us, we came to know of the clause in housing society where pets are banned for tenants and also some people's questionable complaining faces. We never wanted a pet, we were just waiting for her to fully grow up, get strong on her feet, what we never realized was she grew on us. The things I hated about her became the adorable funny stories, sounds like some old parent but yes this is what it means to have a pet, they are a new member to the family. Despite all this, I posted her pictures everywhere if anyone could adopt her. She was the most adorable pet ever. I was planning on getting her vaccinated, dewormed and all ready to be the perfect kid to take home. Finally the day to leave came and no one called for adoption.
Train was at 9 pm and till 4 pm we had no idea what to do. We could always leave her with the petzmart or some cat boarding, all of them said the word cage which didn't quite appeal to us. Don's misjudge, we are the most horrible awful lame pathetic people for what we did to her. It is one of those days you regret the most. I wish we had cancelled the ticket, I wish we just missed the train or got in touch with at least someone in our housing society to take care of her.
At 4 pm, we started knocking on doors of our friends who by the way were out for diwali too. Sadly, my husband who loved her at the peak still couldn't defy society in which we live so we headed to blue cross, she started screaming and got terribly scared. We returned half way.
So finally after me crying for hours to take her to petzmart, at least I could see her again and my husband arguing how uncomfortable and torturous it could be for lola we settled on giving her to our neighbors who would take her to bluecross. Finally the verdict was out. We were leaving her forever. When I think of it, it kind of pierces through my heart how I could agree to such stupid idiotic insensitive decision. We just were weakest and didn't deserve her. Still when I am reminded of lola, people come and enquire about her, my eyes are filled with tears. I don't know what to say, I know what else I could have done. It makes us guilty to the core.
We left and lola was in my neighbor's arms. I cried in train, its just too sad to handle but for her it was a life threatening situation. She just couldn't anticipate i guess. Well they took her to blue cross and called us to tell that it was horrible there, cages full of animals , even they didn't have the heart to leave her seeing the conditions. The best viable option , garden of the campus full of people who loved her and fed her. It seemed more safer. I somewhere had it in my heart, i am never gonna meet her again. So tears came running on cheeks making me red again.
They left her in garden. And then we returned after a week hoping to find her. That never happened, people had her pictures on mobile, guard, maintenance people every person had fed her seen her took care of her, they all remembered her. Everyone had the same answer, she comes regularly, you will get her back but we haven't spotted her for two days.
Well I wandered for three days asking every guard, every gardener, sweeper if they had seen her, same answer we saw her and she just vanished.
Ultimately, a member of committee told me your kitten entered someone's house and they complained. I met a kid in the morning and she told me there was an uncle who told her the kitten scratched the baby and he wanted her on the road. After that conversation, next day she was gone, just out of the campus forever.
We still don't know where he left her, why he couldn't let her be ? Now that guy is after a stray dog whom everyone loves in campus, he has called municipal authorities to take him away too.
I am not blaming him or any other guy, we are the culprits, everyday when i cross the garden or go outside market or shopping nearby, my eyes are looking for her. Have the courage to keep a pet, we never accepted her as the pet, just a stray we were taking care of. Its a payback for us. Everytime I have to discuss her, tears come rolling out. We were selfish to leaver her abandoned, and that other guy was selfish to just leave her outside to struggle. The only one who still suffers the most is lola. I just hope she found a better responsible family and gets loved a lot. Her food, her toys make me miserable every moment. Its a punishment for us, a forever void created by her. Sentenced to guilt imprisonment for life with no parole.
I miss her a lot.
