The Vegan Lifestyle

I like pet dogs very much. When I was a child, I had a nice brown dog called Papi. He was obedient, and always accompanied me wherever I go. He barked at rascals and drunkards, and they hated him so much. I had a poignant memory of how he was trapped and butchered by them. I cried so much, and I couldn’t eat for days.
Since then, I stopped rearing dogs. It hurt me so much to see my pet dog hanged on its neck and battered to death. It took years before I resumed rearing dogs again.

Now we have two pet dogs at home. We call them Bimbo and Cody. they are faithful guards of our house. We can leave the house alone anytime with peace of mind because of them.
We got Bimbo from the street. When one of my kids found him in the street, he was bloody and odorous with sores. The kid brought him home, and we took good care of them until his sores has fully healed, and his brown furs started to grow.

Cody’s mother was a Japanese dog. He has a thick white fur with the shades of gray. His tail is very short.
Bimbo and Cody are good dogs, but Bimbo is more domesticated than Cody. Bimbo behaves well, and easily obeys all instructions, while Cody does not follow sometimes. Bimbo has no problem taking a bath, but Cody runs away at the sight of water and soap.

Cody, as is common with most dogs, growls when his food is set or touched, while Bimbo just waits meekly until his food is given back to him.

In our dialect we call our cat Miming. Our home cat is good at catching rats. Our home used to be frequented by rats, but when we reared a cat,  they all disappeared.

Miming, our home cat has been with us two years now. He is a good cat, and obedient too. But he sometime scours the kitchen, when he becomes hungry. He is so selective in his food. He does not eat when there is no fish or vegetables. So, he goes out and looks for food outside. When he comes home, and has not found any food, he cries and ask for food and will not stop asking until you give him food.

One afternoon, he came home with a wound on his face. His fur slightly covered it, and we did not know what caused it or who did it to him. It was quite deep, and we had to treat him by pouring virgin coconut oil on his wound and filled it with activated carbon or charcoal. In a few days, the wound was gone. It is very effective for wounds; I used it also for our pet dog, Cody when Bimbo bit him on his head. The wound was deep, but when I filled it with charcoal, the wound was gone in few days.

Miming eats vegetables too.  When he sees us munching raw cucumber, he would ask and eat it as well. He likes raw cucumber, and peanuts too.

Miming comes along very well with our two pet dogs, Bimbo and Cody. He plays with them, and sleeps with them. When he becomes thirsty, he drinks from the aquarium. At first, I did not like like his drinking water from the aquarium; he might break the glass, or he might catch the fish and eat them.

Miming is good in catching cockroaches too. Whenever he sees one, he jumps over it, and kill it with his paw. But he does not eat it, as in all rats that he caught. But one thing is not good with him: he catches lizards too, and in so doing he breaks our glass flower vases, and other fragile ceramics and glass decorations  at home. One time, he saw a lizard on the ceiling,  and like the speed of a lightning, he  flew  like a puma in the air to catch it.  He dropped and landed on the face of my daughter who was then laying on the sofa beside her mother. She was fortunate enough that she only got a slight scratch at her chin which might have been caused by Miming’s paw.

As is common with most cats, Miming is afraid of water. Whenever he sees my wife bathing our pet dogs, he would quietly go downstairs, and disappear. When it comes to his turn, he is nowhere to be found. But my wife is clever – she baths our cat first before the pet dogs. This way,  Miming is caught unaware, and he cannot escape.

Lately, Miming goes out nightly. He looks for a mate. And you know how disturbing and frightful the mating calls of cats. I had to wake up from bed  and go out from the house to stop them from being noisy. I had to spray water on them, until they ran away.