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 Aesop's Fable: The Boy Who Cried Wolf - YouTube

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Aesop's Fable: The Boy Who Cried Wolf .... 1ST TIME: Boy, don'tcry wolf. ... Is it any wonder why some kids ...

now a real story :-

Ravi was no strangers to keeping pets though. He already had two dogs and two parrots with him at that time.

The pup was very very funny, very very cute and cuddly and was naughty as hell.. and hyper active and it was just 50 days old.

So after getting the pup into thehousehold, Ravi took it to a vet. That vet had years of experience in his field. He looked at the pup, did a few preliminary examinations and then asked Ravi, much to his surprise-"Where did you get "this" ?

" A friend of mine gave it to me seeing I needed it"-Ravi replied.

"Ddo you know the name of this animal? "-the vet asked.

"Tuffy"-Ravi replied.

Vet- "No not that name.. the genus.. or the species.."

Ravi- "Dog".

Vet- "errrrr wrong.. try again.."

Ravi-"German Shepherd".

Vet-"wrong again.. It happens to be, with all due respect to your knowledge of animal kingdom, a WOLF".

Ravi's jaw dropped naturally. After recovering from the shock, he enquired whether it was alright to keep it as a pet. The vet was not sure that it was a great idea.

Ravi told the doctor (that is what he claims)- "He is a baby. I cannot possibly let him go in a jungle. Other animals will kill him. He has no mother to protect him and I could convince another wolf-ess to adopt him as her baby but the problem is I do not speak wolf"ish"..I don't know how to speak that language!!"..

The vet asked him to bring the pup to him every month and he would advice the future course of action at the right moment.

Ravi reluctantly agreed. Still he could not bring himself to accept that it was a wolf. He tried to convince himself that the vet was mistaken. The pup was so cute. He used to think Ravi was his mother. Ravi would feed him milk with a feeding bottle. The pup would come to Ravi for all his needs, be it drinking milk, to sleep or to play. Ravi took the pup to another vet for second opinion. The vet looked at it and looked at Ravi and pronounced that it was 60% dog and 40 % wolf. He stated that its mother was a German Shepherd (which Ravi also knew) and that its father was a wolf. This vet also advised Ravi to bring it to him every month.

In three months time, this pup grew bigger and stronger than the two adult dogs in the household and Ravi had to reluctantly concede that it was indeed a wolf and not a dog. It was obedient, but only to Ravi. It would play along with others but would not obey them.

The vet called time the next month. It was time for the wolf to be taken away. He was taken to the local zoo and kept there. A heartbroken Ravi shared his grief in the cricket forum with other regulars.

Time passed and with time Ravi forgot all about Tuffy.

Five years passed. One fine day in september 2013, Ravi was looking at old threads in the cricket forum and he came across the thread on Tuffy. His daughter happened to be nearby and she began to go through that thread. That brought back fond memories of Tuffy for her. She demanded then and there that she had to go and see Tuffy. And right then, no matter that it was 11 PM at night ! Ravi's son too arrived on the scene and on realising what was being discussed, he too joined in the demand. So the motion was passed 2 votes to one and it was decided that they would go to the zoo first thing in the morning.

Now that the memory of Tuffy had come back to him, Ravi too was eager to know what happened to Tuffy during these years. Did it survive the zoo life, did it adjust to it or god forbid did it perish ?

They went to the zoo and met the vet. He told them that Tuffy was very much around. He took them to the place where he was kept. He asked Ravi to call him by name.

Ravi shouted his name "Tuffy". This was a voice that Tuffy had last heard five years ago. As the voice rang in his ears, his ears perked up, he wondered from where this familiar voice was coming. He turned his head. When he saw Ravi and kids, he dropped whatever it was doing at that time and darted towards them like a bullet, till it was stopped by the fence that sepatated him from the visitors.

The vet isolated him in a separate enclosure that they used when they have to attend to them. He asked Ravi whether he and kids wanted to go meet him. Seeing Tuffy so excited and dying to meet them, the three of them agreed.

They went inside the enclosure. Tuffy, who had seen them for the first time in five years jumped up on them in excitement. As it stood on his rear legs and put its front paws on Ravi's daughter, all his weight (he is huge) caused the young 14 years old girl weighing just 35 KG to fall back on her rear with Tuffy over her. People around them shrieked and skipped a heartbeat or two thinking that the wild animal had attacked the girl, but she got up laughing and that made everyone breathing again. Seeing his sister going down against the weight of Tuffy, the younger boy wisely chose to sit down on one knee so that Tuffy did not feel the need to jump on him to greet him. Ravi just about managed to survive Tuffy's wolf hug without going down.

Tuffy expressed his feelings the best he could, by licking Ravi's hands and face, by running around him excitedly. He was besides himself with happiness. He would place his fore limbs on Ravi's shoulders. And it would whimper on being given a hug.

Tuffy's affection overwhelmed Ravi into shedding a tear or two. He sat down. Tuffy came and kept its head on Ravi's lap. Ravi talked to him. Occassionally . It would go to the partition door and make some noises at other wolvs and they would come up to the partition door (closed) and behave bizzare and whimper. It was as if he was trying to introduce other wolves to his long lost human family.

Ravi's daugher had stopped enroute and bought a pack of biscuit it used to love then. She initially was scared a bit but overcame her apprehensions and the son too became relaxed and started chasing it around. She offered tuffy a biscuit.. it so tenderly and thankfully took the morsel and ate it.. and then ate the rest.

It was time to part.. and Ravi felt a pang of guilt. He had so conveniently forgotten the poor animal and it remembered them so clearly and recognised them immediately just on being called by his name, and welcomed them with all its heart

The other visitors to the zoo there were watching all that in awe, amazement and amusement. A few walked up to Ravi asking all sorts of questions.. were you not afraid, were the kids not afraid, why did the wolf go berserk.. etc etc.. Ravi had had no answers for them. Who was going to belive him in any case!!

I asked the doc how come it is not a good pet. He gave Ravi a brief explanation. The long and short of that explanation was that (in the wildlife expert/vets words), "while as a pup it will accept you as the leader, a fight for position is inevitable with wolfs and therefore it might attack anyone including owners and certainly children. Today is differnet it does not have to challenge you for leadership position so it is as docile as a domesticated dog. Do not how ever completely trust it and always keep eye contact with it. It is never certain when its wolf behavior will kick in and then it will become difficult to pacify it". Ravi did not find Tuffy showing that aggression.. but then what did he know.

Ravi made a resolution that he would visit it as often as he could with his kids..

By the way it is supposedly the leader of the pack there and has atleast 3 generations of offsprings in that cage!!!

It was healthy and happy (he guessed so) and well fed and was being taken good care of. THe only change he could see in it was that it has a big scratch/scar mark on its hind leg (perhaps aresult of a fight for position or it may have got hurt somehow) and its eyes seemed a tad redder in shade to Ravi. But otherwise it pretty much the same (albeit much stronger and heavier than in 2008 when he had left it in the zoo. The last time Ravi had handled it, it was not an adult. It was only 5 or so months old at that time. Now it was nearly six years old.

It was a happey reunion and Ravi looked forward for more such reunions. It was a priceless moment and he would not miss such an experience for all the wealth in this world.

This account of Tuffy moved many of us. Regulars asked Ravi for a photograph of Tuffy. He said that he did not take a photograph, but would take it the next time he visited him. He took a photograph and shared it with us. What a remarkablly good looking beast it was.

Then, I too forgot all about Tuffy. Then in January 2015, I remember him again, and enquired from Ravi about him. Ravi replied (after keeping me in suspense for one day that he had visited Tuffy a few weeks ago and it was alright. It still behaved like a pet towards him.

In our wisdom, dogs are considered safe to be kept as pets but not wolves. The observations made about wolves were for wild wolves. Studies have not been made of wolf pups brought up like a dog. Who knows, if they can be brought up among humans then they may become as domesticated as German Shepherds. In fact wolfs look like German Shepherds. German Shepherds have in fact evolved from wolves. The fact that mating of a wolf and german shepherd could lead to pups is a proof that these two animals are genetically close.
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