Kochi: Rajesh, a Kerala police personnel who works with the dog squad at the Armed Reserve Camp in Thrippunithura, was supposed to take his pregnant wife Chippy to hospital Wednesday for a general checkup. But he gave it a miss to take care of an ill Megha, his favorite dog at the camp.
But Rajesh's care could not stop the inevitable. Megha, a 2-year-old Labrador tracker dog, died Wednesday morning after she fell sick Tuesday. A worried Rajesh had taken Megha to a veterinary hospital Tuesday itself after he found the dog to be suffering. She was given medicine and sent back to the AR Camp. But Wednesday morning, she had to be taken back to the hospital, where she breathed her last.
Trainers Rajesh and Jyothish, who had been training Megha for one-and-a-half years, were heartbroken. The duo trained Megha at Thrissur dog squad for 9 months and then joined the AR Camp in Thrippunithura with her in May, 2015.
“She proved that she is the best in several police tracking duties,” Rajesh said. Jyothish chipped in, saying that Megha was the most disciplined and compassionate canine.
After postmortem, Megha's body was kept in front of her cage for the police personnel and public to pay their homage. Standing near a motionless Megha, Rajesh wept as AR Camp's commandant Unnikrishnan laid a wreath and saluted her. Senior police officers of the camp and other dogs' trainers too paid their tributes to the smart dog that Megha was. Megha was buried in a field near the AR Camp.
Her face was wrapped using a white piece of cloth, everyone bid their silent farewells, and Jyothish bent down and placed Megha's favorite ball to play with, a red one, beside her.