{"id":267,"date":"2019-09-07T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=267"},"modified":"2019-09-08T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T12:00:56","slug":"pets-and-humans-in-the-same-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/pets-and-humans-in-the-same-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets and humans in the same boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pets and humans in the same boat<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bambi just read an interesting and informative article entitled \u201cHow to keep your pets calm in a big storm<\/em>\u201d by Mr. Aaron Beswick in the Sackville tribune<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.sackvilletribunepost.com\/news\/regional\/how-to-keep-your-pets-calm-in-a-big-storm-349425\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without having any pet living under their roof, she\ncan easily imagine that they would be made anxious by the noise of the wind,\nthe feeling that a storm is passing by or even just approaching. Just like\nkids. Just like us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Beswick\u2019s article brought some childhood memories\nto her mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made nervous by loud shelling noises, her neighbours\u2019\ndog used to run to the shelter with them. Sometimes he would scratch the floor\nfor minutes in a row until they managed to calm him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a child, Bambi used to take care of wild cats on\nthe street, thinking to herself that, as humans, we are caring for each other,\nbut who does care for them? That was before becoming allergic to cats later in\nlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point in time, she was feeding and trying to\nnurture two adult cats and, eventually, their 7 kitten. She called the adult\ncats Nancy and Roy (imagining them to be siblings), only to discover a few months\nlater that Roy was pregnant– almost at the same time as Nancy (mmm\u2014Clearly\nthen, Roy was not a male cat. Silly Bambi ?).\nEventually, all these cats died at once (but that was a different story).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another cute cat sadly lost an eye and a tail during a\nround of shelling and a bomb explosion respectively. He (she?) remained alive\nand even reproduced, after learning to run to a shelter so fast, even before the\n(human) neighbours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi was serious about helping those cats to the point\nof throwing food to them from the balcony. After her parents risked their lives\nto do groceries, Bambi did something stupid: Her mom opened the fridge a few\nhours after returning home. To her horror, she didn\u2019t find neither the freshly\nbought ham nor the cheese. Why? Well, Bambi threw all the food to the street cats\nfrom the balcony! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another time, and this was a freaky memory, she and her family were escaping to the Beirut airport. They were driving fast under snipers\u2019 shooting, along with shelling here and there. Bambi\u2019s dad asked his kids to lower their heads whilst driving fast on that particularly dangerous highway. It was like a movie scene\u2026 Bambi, the youngest child, saw an injured cat and started to beg her dad to save her. Her loving dad stepped out of the car fast to help the cat. She learned years after the truth about this cat: Her dad found it already dead (likely injured by a driver saving his\/her life). He pushed the unlucky cat to the side of the road and returned running to the car. He told Bambi: \u201cShe will be fine there; her mom will take care of her\u201d.  Bambi\u2019s own mom was not impressed by her spouse\u2019s (risky) behaviour. Perhaps this is what parents do, out of love, to try to bring a glimpse of normality and humanity into absurdly violent situations? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years after this incident, when Bambi was 24 (=\nlast year ?;\nthat was a joke), she made a trip to the Middle East to visit. Her parents invited\nher to (the island of) Cyprus for a weekend; Cyprus is 20 minutes away from Lebanon\nby airplane. A weird experience happened there: Just like a dog, Bambi felt an\nearthquake coming a few seconds before it occurred. Her parents thought that\ntheir youngest daughter was being weird by sharing that she feels something big\nabout to happen. She warned them twice about it. Indeed, a few seconds later, a\nmajor earthquake took place in Turkey \u2639.\nBambi\u2019s hotel room had tiny damage in its walls. This is how big that earthquake\nwas (90 people died and about 240 others were injured). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi does\nnot pretend to have any psychological explanation to the strange story above.\nShe admits that she is a deer. Perhaps for a few seconds, she had been a sensitive\ndog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bambi just read an interesting and informative article entitled \u201cHow to keep your pets calm in a big storm\u201d by Mr. Aaron Beswick in the Sackville tribune: https:\/\/www.sackvilletribunepost.com\/news\/regional\/how-to-keep-your-pets-calm-in-a-big-storm-349425\/ Without having any pet living under their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}