I can still feel his little needle sharp paw nails digging into me when he, that small tiny being, was shuddering sitting in my lap, while speaking to the breeder { I wasn’t aware of animal cruelties by then. Now I rescue and foster and advocate that too}  though I tried best to keep him calm but that scared little soul just didn’t stop. How insecure he must have felt and then It was time for Jai, my elder, that time the only son, to come back from the school and there you go …..they both as if had known  each other forever and then there was no turning back to shivering. Jai would play rash n hard with him, holding him high up n down below…play with him while eating sleeping any n all the time. They were inseparable and wild…boys after all and Jai named him Dorjie – the guardian angel…that he truly n always turned out to be. Though his fair share of challenges he threw upon us, be it not being trained or aggressively guarding his food…..but with his intense eyes, he kept us all so warmly n deeply connected to him that words meant nothing ….neither to him nor to us….However angry I got upon him…in a while he would look at me so innocently and lovingly n open heartedly, would give me a tail-wag that it would all vade off sooner than soon…….Dorjie gave his last few cute though tired looks and moved on to the other n wishfully a happier world last july….. but has left us all hooked on to those eyes………those surprising ways in which he would tuck himself in his quilt in winters all on his own…. How he would give a cute guilty look when he did something wrong n he knew it……how he turned into a toy n a pillow n what not when my younger one was born……..how he knew when the dishes in the kitchen were making sound to serve his food…….n the look when he wanted more …n finally the look when he wanted no one near his food.

Nothing can bring him back but I being an artist and having witnessed him in all his miseries n glories felt compelled to pay him a loving n affectionate tribute in the form of this painting….an attempt to keep feeling those intense eyes still looking at us with the same pouring love.