So it was during October or you can say during the time of Autumn in India. My family was going to my maternal house by train. I was very excited as it was one of my favourite place to visit. We reached there at 9pm. I noticed my grandparents have grown a little older.

Now let me describe my Maternal House a little. It is in a small village named Jamalpur, in West Bengal. The house is near the train station. We can see train passing by from my maternal house. It's a two storey building. The best part of my maternal house is, that it has two gardens - one in the front and is a flower garden, and the other one in the backyard where many trees grow. The house is very old so the bathrooms are in the backyard(though its a modern bathroom now). There are many trees and its the best part of my maternal house.

My Grandfather loves animals especially cats, and the neighborhood is full of cats and kittens.He feeds them everyday. Everytime we are eating lunch or dinner, the cats and kittens are gonna gather together for food. Well I am a cat lover too. Here is a picture of them

So the next day I woke up early as I didn't want to miss a tiny bit of time there. I got ready and had my breakfast. Then I noticed some cats roaming around the garden. I asked my grandmother to give a bowl full of milk. Then I gave it to them for drinking, and surprisingly the milk was finished within 1 minute by two cats. The two cats were fighting among themselves for who would drink the milk. They were making funny noises. I sat aside and laughed at them.

Then that day I went to see the friends and neighbors of my grandmother with my mother. Each and every neighbors and friends of hers gave us sweets to eat and I was like "Its last day of my life, I will die very soon or maybe burst into pieces." as i was too full to eat anything else. But who would listen to me, they gave us at least three sweets to eat. And then their's a neighbor whose house is full of cats and kittens. Some fat, some thin, some tiny while some of them where scaredy cats. There were at least 15 of them. We all call it the Cat house. We had to carefully step into that house as there can be a lazy cat sitting and it is too lazy to walk away. Each of them even had names. The auntie of that house asked me to pet them, but I am not so brave to pet the adult cats so i petted the kitties.They were very fluffy and also cute. Well this is how our first day there went like. We're too full with sweets, and I didn't have my dinner that night.

The next day I woke up early as usual and got ready for the new day. The weather was really good. I was in the terrace and saw some roasters and chickens roaming around in the garden of our neighbor. I could hear so many noises of nature. Then I came down and went to the flower garden. In the stairs I saw a cat sleeping in a weird posture. Here is a picture of it-

So this was it👆. But after that it turned around and sat straight. Then that day went very well. I had very fun. At that night, while I was giving the left over foods to the cats and kittens, I saw two little kitty coming with its mother who didn't have a tail. It lost it tail because of a accident. In our place they that a cat without a tail is dangerous, they are always angry and can bite or scratch you. I just thought it must be some old rumors, and didn't believe it. So I continued to pour the rice and milk in a bowl. There were many cats who came to it that day. And the two little kitties, they were too small to eat anything else than their mothers milk.

Seeing the two kitties, it reminded me of what happened last year 2020. It was really sad. Let me tell it to you. We came to my maternal house during the vacation. And there was a cat family living in our backyard. Here's a picture of one of the siblings and its mother sitting in the shed of some plants

There was the parents and four little kittens. Among the four kittens, one of them was really weak, so weak that also if it is scared and needs to run away, it will take much more time for it to get up and run than that of its siblings. They were all cute but the weak one was very thin and we could easily see its ribs through its skin. I gave them milk everyday and noticed that all of them drank it except the weak one. When it went to drink it either it was finished or the other kittens didn't let the weak one drink. Seeing that I gave it milk to drink in another little bowl which was only for the weak one and it really drank the whole of it slowly. During our stay that year in my maternal house, I saw that the weak one grew a little healthy and I had hope that it will grow up very soon. But the day before our return, the weak one became more weak because it was out in the rain last night and had caught a cold. I gave it warm milk to drink but it didn't want to drink it. It grew more and more weak. It was unable to walk properly, and always sat still with its head down. Then my father, grabbed it and tried to make it drink the milk, thinking it would work, but it didn't. Well the day we were supposed to return to Kolkata(my home), we found it dead. It was lying still in the backyard below a jackfruit tree. I was very sad and wanted to cry there but I didn't, for I never wanted my family to know my sensitive side. Well it was very disappointing. But that's how the world works right?

Next day afternoon, I was talking to my bestie in the phone, when my father called out for me and told "Come and take a look in the backyard!" As I heard him, I went running to see what he ws talking about. I went there and saw it was one of the little kitten from last night. It was sitting by a tree. It was very cute. It had some kind of disease in its eyes. But still it looked really cute. It was the combination of white and light brown.

It looked a little lost. But she lived in the house opposite to ours. I thought "Maybe it has came here by mistake. Oh well, let me go near it and pet it." So as I went near it, it ran away to another tree. I again went near it, but again it ran away. Then I tried to go near it for several times but it kept on running away. But after a moment or two, I noticed the kitty was tired. So it went under a chair and sat there. Although it was tired and sleepy, it kept its little eyes open to see what I was going to do. So seeing that, I sat down beside it quietly without moving. It was too sleepy so it slowly closed it eyes. And as I saw it closed its eyes I put my hand on its neck and started petting it. With the sudden movement of mine, it was shocked and opened its eyes wide. But after a moment when it realized I wasn't hurting it or anything, but petting it, there was the first trust it showed me.

I petted it and I saw it was sleeping peacefully. That was the first time in my life that I petted an animal to sleep. It felt so good. I was petting it plus also guarding it as I saw one cat who was not the mother, coming towards it with a angry face. So I thought that it needs protection.

Well, after sometime when it was almost evening, my grandma came and yelled "Why are you still with it!? It's the child of the cat who has not tail! What if it comes and bites or scratches you? You will need to give Tetanus! Get away from it now!" I signed and told "Oh my God! Granny! Nothing will happen to me! Don't overthink!" But still my granny wouldn't listen and after scolding me, she went inside the house. And I noticed that the poor little kitty had already woke up due to the chaos. Then I stopped petting it and told it "Sit here okay, I will come again to see you after a while." I dunno what the kitty understood but it kept blinking at me slowly. It was very cute. Let me show you a picture of it

It was evening already, so the picture I took was not so proper. Isn't it a cutie?

That night I went in the backyard several times to take a look at it. It made my day!