Dog eat dog?

It’s been two days since my friend from left and there’s a mental that I can’t get out of my bed. It’s a mental picture I’ll never be able to forget, especially once I’m done writing this.
We were in an auto on our way back home from buying books for my friends. This is when I saw two doggos. Two puppers, to  be honest, who probably just reached adolescence. Now these two beautiful souls were on the side of a road, with one pupper having his front right paw up in the air and yelping in pain. The other pupper had his arm around the yelping pupper. While one kept howling in pain the other was joining him in his screeches with his own barks.
When I saw this so many emotions went through me, starting with sorrow to the bittersweet joy of seeing empathy in these two lovely canines. While one was in obvious pain, probably due to his right paw being injured by a vehicle driving over it(human beings are assholes) the other was sharing through pure empathy.  I made a feeble attempt to get the Autorickshaw driver to stop but stopped as soon as I saw he would not for he had to drop us off at our destination and make his 100 bucks to feed himself and family.
The huge change in my mood this incident had has lasted for two days, each time I close my eyes or get lost in doing any mundane task the mental image of those two keeps popping up. Not an hour had passed when I saw another mental image, another pupper squashed to death in one of the busiest traffic spots in New Delhi and I felt worse. However, when I sat down to write this the two puppers I had seen before gave me reason to feel better. In a world where not even human beings have time for each other, those two had found camaraderie and love in each other.
I feel less remorse for them than I feel for human beings. I saw more humanity in the pupper doing the consoling than I see in the average human.

Saw this olde woofster at Khan Market,
walked up to show us he hadn't lost his puppy eyes skills while we ate our khati rolls.

There’s a saying “Dog eat dog” world, I think it’s high time we changed that to “Man eat man” world.



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