Devoted to Ciccio

I was married for just an year and I didn't have any intention to get an animal in the house, I loved the animals in especially dogs and cats, they had always been in my family, I had cohabited for a long time with them but anyway when I married I didn't think to take one of it at all, instead… During a night in the end of summer, I heard to meow under my window, it is almost a continuous meow and in add an alternating bark of some dogs, I get up, I come to the window but I don't succeed in seeing anything, I live in the full country, there are a few of lights that illuminate the surroundings, I intend to investigate. The following morning coming to my bedroom window I immediately account for the reason of that continuous meow, there is a cat tied up to a tree! The moral is that…some children had stolen it from a couple of tourists and not being permitted to have it in their house and also to hide it, they had thought tieing it to a tree in their parent’ s estate. I was dismayed! Sometimes it’s strange to see how children are cruel, in their ingenuosness.I go down very angry and face the parent in matter ...almost threatening him, I make him understand that I would not have longer borne the sight of an animal, and in addition a cat, so tied to a tree and sure prey of some dog, we arrived to a compromise, he can not have it in the house, has 7 children! Then, instinctively, I tell him that I get it and I attend it until it will be the moment that he can take it back. The first thing that I do is to bring it to a veterinary surgeon, it is dirty, undernourished, frightened and, in add, almost blind in one eye! It starts so my sweet and tender adventure with Ciccio. A beautiful Siamese cat, faithful companion for 8 years of my life. How much love and how much affection the animals can give to you, asking in change a bowl of feed and some caress! During his illness I am changed a lot and I have learned to love more, I have suffered together with him and when it is passed away…a little part of me has gone with him. Adored Ciccio, I love you very much, how much I miss you, you will live forever in my heart and in my memory and a day, you and I will be forever together… .

Ciao plump little puppy.

 

Alina

Copyright © 1999-2000   by Alina D. - All right reserved