BMOL-1 : Oreo discovers a hole!

In my bedroom, in front of my bed, there is a TV inside the open space in the wooden cabinet. Below the TV, there are drawers and above it is another cupboard. And on both side of the TV, there are cupboards. And behind the cabinet, there is washroom. Now, between the cabinet and the washroom, there is a little passage or space, as to when the wooden expands during monsoon season, it won’t affect the bathroom walls. What we didn’t know was that there was a hole below the cabinet that led to that passage. But, soon we were going to know about it.

Oreo has this nature of exploring every single place in the house. When we brought them home, Oreo started exploring the place and soon decided which place will be his hangout place, where he’ll sleep and where he’ll do his business. So, this incident happened after few months of them coming home. They both were still small in size giving them benefit of squeezing themselves in small places.

One evening, the exploring bun finds out a hole in the cabinet and decides to explore it. He enters the hole and keeps on going deeper and deeper till he forgets the way out. Now, I had no idea that he was inside some deep dark hole. I thought that he must be lying somewhere as usual.

One or two hours went by and there was no sign of him. Marshmallow was sleeping in a corner of my room but Oreo was nowhere to be seen. So, I went looking for him. I looked at all his usual hide-outs like beneath my bed, below the cupboard, behind buckets, on his potty tray. I even checked out my parent’s room where they are banned to go (because they poop on their carpet!). I got so worried that I told my mom about it and she also started looking for him. We even looked on stairs and in the garden if he has wandered off, but there was no sign of him.

 I started having all these wild thoughts that a cat might have come and snatched him and eaten him up. He might have wandered off in the garden and some dog came and ate him up. I imagined worst case scenarios in my mind.

After looking for some time, I saw a hole beneath the cabinet. I was not sure whether he was in it or not. But he wasn’t present in any other place, so it seemed like our last shot. My mom tried to know how deep the hole is by inserting a long stick in it. It kept going inside and inside till it reached a point where the stick seemed shorter. And we also discovered that the hole extends behind the cupboard on the right side of the cabinet. We even came up with the idea that we might have to break the backside of the cupboard and try to find him but that will take hours. We also tried putting some food on the opening of the hole, thinking he might smell it and come outside, but it didn’t help.

I felt completely lost at that time. I started having thoughts like what if he dies inside, what if he never comes out, how scared he must be inside, all alone! Just the thoughts like these made me cry. None of us had any idea on how to help him come out. At that time, I wished if he had some voice or any type of sound like a dog, so that at least we can figure out something or get any idea of how deep inside he is! But unfortunately, it was not possible.

When my dadi came to know about this, she came to my room and hugged me and said everything will be ok. But at that time, I had no idea how it will be okay without him.

And then my dadi got an idea.  She said that maybe it’s dark inside and he is not able to see his way out and we should try using a torch to lighten up the hole. We did as she said as we were left with no option. We torched up the hole and luckily he senses the light. And in just few minutes, we saw his small little nose, little paw and long ears, it all became visible. And there he was covered in dirt and probably hungry.

I picked him up and hugged him so tight. I didn’t even care that my clothes could get dirty. All I could think of was that Oreo was safe and alive.

My mom, me and my dadi all started crying the moment we saw him. And till then, my whole family was informed that Oreo is stuck inside some hole and I was crying my eyes out and they all kept calling and messaging whether he came out or not. Soon, we informed everyone that he came out and is perfectly okay. He ate a lot that day and we fed him a lot too, as if we were showing him how much we love him by the amount of food we were giving him.

We covered up the hole with some stones and brick. And till date, Oreo is scared to go near that place. We never really know how much we love someone until one day they are gone. 

A lesson learnt that day!