You can understand love and loyalty of dog only if you experience that: Pinarayi Vijayan (video)

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Plain-spoken Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s love for dogs is a less-known aspect of his life. This veteran CPM leader’s wife, Kamal Vijayan, had once mentined, in an interview, about the loving pet dog they had at home. At that time the chief minister was a party leader, always busy with his political activities.

The chief minister, on Friday, narrated an episode in his past life to explain how loving, intelligent a dog is, that too, an ordinary dog of Indian breed. He was speaking on the occasion of Police raising day parade at Peroorkkada SAP ground. The event held on Kerala formation day also saw the chief minister honouring a few police dogs with medals.

“There was a well on the premise of my family house. It didn’t have wall around it but only a platform on which we had to climb in order to draw water. One day, our dog – an ordinary Indian dog, went into the kitchen and started prodding my mother. It made some noise as if to express something. My mother got annoyed and asked it to go away. After realizing that my mother would not budge, it went to the house in the next yard behind my house. There was a woman called Naniamma there. The dog went to her and started pulling her Sari, producing a strange cry.

Naniamma sensed something wrong and followed the dog.

To her astonishment she saw her baby, who was in crawling stage, on the platform of well; the baby was seen trying to peep inside…
So, this shows how loving, caring and intelligent a dog is. Remember it was a dog that had not received any training,” Pinarayi Vijayan recounted.

Before concluding his speech, the chief minister added - "one can understand a dog’s love and loyalty only if he or she gets to experience that".