Some Beautiful Storys

the bond of love

     Before you read

   Can there be love and friendship betweer homan beings and Wild animals?
let's read fascinating account of an orphaned sloth  bear that was rescued by the author.

        Sloth  bears inhabit forested areas,
   Including  the  tropical  rain forests of India  and  grasslands at lower elevations.sloth bears have  very  shaggy  hair  and  long  muzzles.
Using  their  claws to dig, they  can  then use their  lips  to form a tube,  which  can  go deep  in to the ground,  or into  hard- to- reach areas  like  dead trees for  their  food.
Their  main  food  is  termites.
You can  hear  them suckk up their  food  from  several  feet  away.

1.I will  being  with Bruno, my  wife's  pet sloth  bear.
I got him for her by accident.
     Two years ago we were passing through the sugarcane field near Mysore.
people were driving away the wild pigs  from the  fields by shooting at them.
some were shot and some  escaped.we  thought  that everything was over when suddenly a black sloth  bear came  out panting  in the  hot sun.

            Now I will not shoot a slot bear wantonly but, unfortunately for the poor beast, one of my companions  did not feel that way about it ,and promptly shot the bear on the spot.

           As we watched the fallen  animals we were surprised to see that the black fur on its back  moved  and  left  the  prostrate body. then we saw it was a baby  bear that  had  been  riding  on its  mother 's back  when  the  sudden shot  had  killed  her .
       The little  creature  ran  around  its  prostrate  parent  making  a pitiful  noise 

      I ran up to it  to attempt a capture .it  Scooted into the sugarcane  field.

        Following it with my companions, I was at last able to grab it by the Scruff of its neck while it snapped and tried to scratch me with its long, hooked claws.

We put  it in one of the gunny- bags  we had  brought  and  when  I got  back  to  bangalore I duly presented it to my wife

she was delighted !she at onece put a coloured Ribbon around its neck, and after discovering the cub was a 'boy' she christened it bruno .
bruno soon took to dricking milk from a bottle .
it was but a step further and within a very few days he started eating and drinking everything else .
and everything is the right word ,for he ate porridge  made from  any ingredients, vegetables ,fruit ,nuts, meat( especially  pork), curry and  rice regardless of condiments and chillies, bread ,eggs,  chocolates, sweets,  pudding,  ice- cream,  etc.,etc.,etc. As for drink: milk  tea, coffee, lime- juice,  aerated  water,  buttermilk, beer, alcoholic  liquor  and,  in fact,  anything  liquid,  it all went  down  with  relish.

      The bear became very attached to our two  Alsatian dogs and to all the children of the tenants  leaving in our Bungalow.
    he was left quie free in his younger days and spent his time in playing, running into the kitchen and going to sleep in our beds .
one day an accident befell him.
I put down poison
(barium carbonate ) to kill the rats and Mice that had got into my library .
Bruno  entered the library as he often did, and he ate some of the poison .paralysis  set to the extent that he could not stand on his feet, but he dragged  himself on his stumps to my wife ,how called me I guessed what had happened .
Off I rushed in the car to the vet's residenc.
                    A case  of poisoning! Tame  bear- barium  carbonate
what to do ?

      Out came his medical books, and a feverish reference to index began :
    "what poison did you say, sir?" barium carbonate."
'Ah yes  -  B-BA- barium salt - Ah!barium carbonate! symptoms -paralysis- treatment- injections of....