Wildbuzz: Oh my love, my darling

The terrified Jungle cat kitten’s throat was parched, her ‘meows’ cracking and at their last strains. Mommy was not responding. The barks of the hounds encircling her were deafening. Any minute now and this cutie pie fur ball would be reduced to mangled shreds, no mommy to rescue her or lament her premature passage to death. And, then, Nature’s miracle… Birder and cat lover, Kunal Gokhale, chanced upon the siege while chasing kestrels and orioles. Five stray dogs hailing from the adjacent slum colony were shooed off and Kunal emitted mesmerising, reassuring sounds. Promptly, the kitten came out of the bushes and attached herself to Kunal’s shoes, sniffing them for a sense of safety.The tiny, hungry creature had sensed that a saviour had come her way, out of the blue. In the kitten’s eyes glimmered a gleam of hope like a distant star. In Kunal’s eyes, intense love shone like a full moon, glazed over by a mist of tears yet to fall. A feeling of ‘mamta’, an irrepressible urge to protect this innocent, helpless waif and reunite her with the mother took possession of the androgynous soul. He took her in his lap and she… Read full this story

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