The Dark Knight

Once again and time and again, the city falls prey to the dark forces. There is only one

superhero who can save us - The Dark Knight. Published here are original pictures of the Dark Knight caught on a mission to clean up the city. No rules. No second chance.
Our Angel, the Protector, the Saviour.

Stuck Again

And she manages to gets stuck in the wierdest of places. This is a picture of her getting stuck under the book cupboard. Her other places of interest are under the center table, under the sofa and under the office table. I dont particulary like to rescue her soon, as its great fun to watch her face when she thinks she is in a bit of a bother. Its sadist but its so worth it...how does she do it all the time? and why on earth ?? there is a whole house to hang around !

The Missing Angel

one day at work, I noticed Angel wasnt around. I began to search everywhere, got my team to stop work and hunt for the lil' one..we couldnt find her anywhere in the office...this was panic time.. i went up and down the building staiway to look for her...searched every floor of the 14 floors building...no trace of her highness. I rushed out and looked around in the compound and the adjoining garden and she wasnt there! I took a walk on the road very worried..where and how and when did Angel get out ?

And then, walking a few steps on the road towards the garden, I found her playing with a puppy!I was relieved to find her. She looked and me and charged towards me, one gentle kiss and she went back to her play....I couldnt stop thinkin....Angel must have sneaked outside the door of the office while someone may have walked in, waited for a lift to open up to get inside, got out only until ground floor , strolled through the compound and got her evening walk fixed - All by herself ! Actually, I also remembered her stroking my leg and looking at the main door indicating that it was her walk time in the evening and actually I was 10 mins late cause I had to finish an email...well...she obviously couldnt wait and took matters in her own hands.

She is clever...sometimes, that worries me.

How to feel important

Social Life

what good is life without a few friends ( to bully ) and lots of neighbours ( who pamper ) ? Perfect social life ! wake up in the morning and get you daily demand of affection, get into the lift and get warm welcome from the neighbours, come back to office and play with the staff all day, walk in the huge garden ( without a leashe ) and play with buddies and come back home and snooze.

Big dalmatians ( whisky ), labradors ( romeo ), dobberman ( max ) are Angels buddies. They meet everyday at the garden, chase each other, talk, bark, nip and play for hours. Now its hard to imagine big dogs being bullied by one little one - all three at one time ! Angel is a small dog...I dont understand how she gets aways with the nonsense that she does with all of 'em ...she eats their food, she chases them away if they are around me, she shoves them away if they touch her water container...its just too wierd...like I said earlier...she is a very intelligent chick. She is the leader of the park. Oh yes...and she has already managed to chase a few local dogs permanently from the area!

The picture here is of here lookin from outside the window investigating if other dogs have broken rules and dared to stroll in her park. Btw, we are on the 14th floor but that doesnt stop her from barking her brains out at passing dogs on the road ! She gets all worked up and crazy with hair standin up and stuff ...i find that so stupid cause it happens everyday and her barks dont reach any dog on the ground !

I have no idea where she has learnt this from but she has never shown any signs of submission. Is she like my wife ?

Hot Chick

wasnt really a long time before we realised our 'daughter' was a 'hot chick' in this neighbourhood. its kinda wierd when you begin to think someone out there is tryin to bump her and the Vet assured us that it wasnt anythin to do with morals, emotions. it was pure 'hormonal' like most men. okay, i got that but does it mean 100 puppies at home ? time to consider 'spaying'...we consulted 4 Vets before we made up our mind and were quite convinced that spaying was the best alternative for her and us. That way she can wander around the park and not worry about getting pregnant. Was kinda odd cause I felt like a 'Dad'.

I like her eyes in this picture here.

farzeen - the new dog trainer in town

alright, now we have a dog at home but how do we turn her into a lady ? i mean you cant have your doggie jumpin n eatin fm the dinnin table, barking at every sound, urinating all over the house ( a big one ), tearing apart anythin tangiable, listening to commands like stay, sit, come, etc ..

my beloved, farzeen is a trainer by profession. it was second nature for her to 'train' but somethin told me this was goin to be different. she hadnt a clue about social habits of dogs, their interactive ability, etc. All she knew was that good or a bad behaved dog is a reflection of the owner. Well, this became our mission - to train angel to behave like a lady.

The most interestin aspect of dog training is that you need to be persistent, patient and scientific. We had discovered that dogs can only be corrected if you catch them in the act at the very same moment. Few seconds late and the dog cannot relate to why he may be punished or repremanded. So we started spyin on her to catch her in the act...we must have used the word 'NO' a thousand times a day...I am sure she began to think 'NO' was her name...

Anyway, in just a week Angel used only the newspaper to potty only, she learnt the commands of stay, sit, come, fetch, drop, etc....while Angel was incredibly intelligent, you cant take away anythin from the hardworkin trainer.

jai bholanath !

yes..jai bholanath ! he saved us ! we have been helped ! our prayers are answered !

we were not grounded anymore...bholanath my man...he decided to stay with us 24X7, look after Angel, feed her, clean up the mess and also assist me at work. Now, I was a relieved man...we celebrated with night-outs every night knowing that somone was looking after Angel. ( we did experiment with Bhola and Angel together and they seemed to strike a good bond ) That made us feel even happier...we could trust Bhola to look after her in our absence.

What waz intersting was Bhola's lingo with her - 'eestay', ( stay ), 'masti no', 'roti come', 'vaaak' ( walk ) .....

post adoption trauma

i must admit, i often wanted to give her up ! yeah i was selfish ! yeah i was heartless ! yeah i didnt care ! yeah god wud punish me ! for the first time in my life at 35 i was grounded ! i couldnt go out for dinners, movies, weekend drives, shopping...heck i cudnt even plan a holiday now ! we were grounded.

she couldnt be left alone...cause puppies whine when they find nobody around, they need lot of care and love in the puppy stage. besides, they can chew and destroy everything in the house from curtains, linen, upholstrey and wood furniture.

btw, farzeen and me dont want kids cause we dont like to be bogged down ..we like to be free and travel whenever or wherever...this was gettin to be traumatic for me....i have never had to think twice before doin anythin or goin anywhere...suddenly i c myself plannin my workout schedules !

we had a huge situation on our hands now...either it her or us....

where did angel come from ?

angel happend. really.
my wife and I would walk every morning playing with dogs, puppies on the streets every morning feeding em, petting em. Their waggin tails, whimpers and antics were too adorable to ignore. Oh and we realised in time that you CANNOT keep feeding ParleG biscuits...sugar in em is bad for their health. Luckily, we quickly moved to low fat biscuits before we potentially killed em all.

There was this litter of 5 puppies of all colors - brown, black, white and even pink ( just kidding ) at the parking lot...too cute...too responsive and great fun to play with. Soon, it became a routine to play and feed these puppies every morning and evening. i liked the brown one, she liked the black one and you know...all dat...

we left for a trip of 4 days and returned to find out that there was just one puppy left..the others were crushed under cars. farzeen was upset and took heart with the one white puppy that was lost and just brought it home ! i returned from work to find a puppy in our living room. i tried to xplain farzeen ''darlin, playing with puppies on the street is not the same as keepin one home. be practical yaar...we need a bigger home, dog trainer, 24 hrs house maid to clean the mess, walk the dog, watch the meal timings and also her love '' Farzeen heard me out looked at me and said, ''yeah, you are right.....we will keep her'. I knew at that instance the little one wasnt goin anywere.

oh and btw, she made herself very comfortable under the center table and was snoozing as farzeen and me discussed her.