Language of Animals

Language of Animals

Domestic animals understand the language of their masters. Pets of those living in towns and cities may understand one more language in addition to his/her mater’s language. For example, the dog of a Malayali living in Delhi may understand Hindi in addition to Malayalam. But what about other creatures who encroached upon your area like lizards, rats etc. In this connection I am reproducing an extract from my humorous article

“           Mr.Ramlal, a Central Government employee got the allotment of a ground floor flat after waiting for 30 years in a semi-posh south Delhi colony. After he started staying in the flat, Ramlal noticed that rats were freely roaming in his flat. He started abusing them in Hindi, Haryanvi and Punjabi but there was no reaction. He told his neighbour Mr. Chatterji about the incident. Mr. Chatterji got the clue that since the previous occupant of the flat was a Tamilian, perhaps the rats understand only Tamil and a little bit of Bengali. Next day Ramlal purchased a book on learning Tamil through Hindi and hurled the choicest abuses in Tamil. The result was instant. At least they avoided coming in front of Ramlal.”