Dundu was my daughter's pet cat, he was brought by our servant lady, Padmini chechi, around 6 years back. I used to call him Dundu mani, my wife calls him Dundu Pappu, my son calls him 'Suban', daugher calls him 'Dundu'. He was very playful and night time we used to keep him in a cage so that other cat's won't attack him. Later he became a good fighter and fighting with other cats was his hobby. After each fight he would return exhausted and injured and he won't go out till he is completely recovered, after that the routine starts again. He was friendly with female cats and would share his meals with them. But with male cats, he would sit near his meal so that no one takes it, later when he is hungry he will finish it off.
He would chase rats away sometimes would catch and kill them too. He hunts squirrels and chameleons too. He learnt to come inside the house by jumping the window and he knows how to take away the mosquito net which is a sticking type. He has a seat in the kitchen and he sits there till he is fed with his food after that he goes upstairs and sleep. He is very aggressive with dogs,and beats our dog Peeku, for no reason.
When we are not around, he would go to our neighbour's house and will take rest there and knows his food will be served from there.
Once he disappeared for 2-3 days, we got scared without knowing what happened to him, and we searched in the neighbourhood. We also told the neighbours about this to get any clue to trace him. Our neighbour Vijayechi while talking to some others mentioned about that the white cat was missing and surprisingly another lady told she had seen a white cat trapped in a cage which was kept in an deserted place to hunt some small animals. Vijayechi told us and I went to see the place and he was desperately crying in the cage. I just opened the cage and he came running to home and started drinking water from a bowl kept outside. That was a miraculous escape for him.
Once he became ill and doctors suggested to him antibiotics and that became overdoze and he was vomiting blood and also later became motionless. My daughter panicked and started calling many hospitals and finally decided to take him to Palakkad Veterinary hospital and doctor said he may not survive. But he gave couple of injections and to our surprise next day he became fine.
Recently he started drinking water more and my daughter felt some thing is not right with him and he used to get indigestion often. He would run on hearing the fish seller approaching on his moped and he would give some fish to him. Some times, there will be dogs too, but he would fight with them and will bring it inside. Last week, he ate a big raw fish and started vomiting and was on fasting. But we gave novamox antibiotic but still he didn't felt better. We had to go my wife's house since her father was not well and I came back hearing Dundu was not OK. We took him to veterinary hospital and they gave drips and 4 injections and he didn't even get up after that. We were about to take him for a second consultation but he left us before that.
He gave us lot of good memories, Dundu, you will be there in our hearts.
