Last night I was lazying around the couch with my mom while we watched the news. They had this segment about how pets were getting fat like American society. I had turned to mom and suggested that she get a doggie so she wouldn't be so lonely now that everyone has grown up and she has no grandkids to take care of yet. Mom shook her head. I tried to convince her once more. "Niam, yog koj muaj ib tug aub ces thaum summer tuaj es peb tsis khoom nrog koj mus ua teb ces koj mam li coj nws nrog koj ua luag ne." Mom shook her head once more before replying, "Kuv twb tu tu aub lawm. Lawv tso quav tshua qhov chaws ntau dhau lawm." I laughed and told her she doesn't know that....animal
s are clean too. That's when mom told me a story I've never heard before. She said when she was young, she had a dog. I think it was to protect her spirit. I know she once told me a boy really loved her but because his parents were heavy opium users, my grandma refused to let her marry him. The boy got tu tu siab and became sick and died after he heard that my mom got married. So back to story...mom told me she even gave her dog a name....Swj yiv (I think that's what it was). I giggled because I didn't think my mom liked animals as pets. She said she cared for the dog even when they were running through the jungle during the war. However in the midst of it, her dog disappeared. She doesn't know if it got stolen, died or worst...butche
red up and on someone's dinner table.
I should surprise my mom with a dog. I'm sure she'll care for it a lot. I still remember a few years back my brother and his girlfriend left their puppy with us for about 2 weeks to babysit and my mom always called to see if the puppy was fed and not crying. LOL. And she said she would not like doggies.
