Hence the rancour - Part 3.

 Budgerigars were gone, so were the parrots, another round of budgerigars happened not so far later. They were given away too, ofcourse by me.

Somehow, since childhood, I never had liked pets as such. No animosity, but the rancour was evident, apreś.

I never enjoyed, how my friends used to go on telling stories about their pets, mostly dogs or cats. "Pepsi sleeps with me, Raju tags along wherever I go, Milee barks non-stop(is it even a thing to boast about?), Marshall eats only home-cooked meals, Boxer licks me when he's happy(Eewww!)".....so on and so forth...

Nothing of this really excited me or made me even once think about having a pet.

Now, it was the time for some fish at my place. We had already had a fish tank, prior to budgerigars, but when we had floods in here, the tank had spilled and fish had already washed away. This tank was already there when I got married, so technically for me budgerigars were first pets brought in, after my marriage.

In the meanwhile, my elder son had rescued four puppies from a dry gutter across our road. He had finalised of petting them, hitherto. So he got a carton from somewhere put the puppies in it and got them home. He was doing the honours of naming them and I happened to catch him red-handed. "Take these out of my sight at once", I ordered. "Do you even know that their mum is looking around for them and if she sees you carrying them around like this, you won't get spared from her bite". He, with a heavy heart, let go of his presumed pets.

So now was the turn for fish and fish tank saga. The maintenance of fish tank is nothing less than a 'Shark tank' episode - expensive, time consuming and repetitive. But stakes involved are all proprietary, me being the sole proprietor!

The variety of fish you get is astonishing.  Apart from popularly known goldfish, there are numerous others, for your fresh water aquarium. Platys, neon tetra, guppies, sucker fish, minnow, swordtails, angels, and their prices vary with each species too. So now, budget was set to buy these species. I had told my sons to manage the aquarium, in the predefined allotment, per month. Then, when they passed a certain test or won a medal in certain Olympiad, they were gifted with vouchers to buy exotic species.

Naming such pets, like birds and fish, is real fun. You don't know who is who actually! Yet, the kiddos would come up with strange nomenclatures.... Molly(the cute goldfish), Rafael(the fish that resembled ninja-turtle), Jackson(cause it used to sway as if dancing)...etc.

A guppy named Diva delivered tens of little one's (just a mention - baby fish is called a fry, irony isn't it?). And to it's despondency, another fish ate half of them before we could transfer it to a different bowl. So this kept happening, due to climatic changes etc, fish kept dying and I was wary of the situation.

Ultimately, I announced in a stern voice "No more pets in this house".

Thus, I got rid of the fish tank too.

Yeah! I had finally succeeded my pursuit.

But I wasn't aware that something more was waiting for me!

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