Written by: Krituka Sapkota - 25005, Grade IX
Posted on: 15 December, 2021
Once upon a time there was a couple who lived at a farm house. They had animals there. A mouse who was the oldest, a big cat who was the smallest, a horse and two dogs with other animals too. The couple had a daughter and a son. The couple loved gathering people and celebrating holidays at their farm. The couple’s children used to live in different countries for better jobs and better studies. One day the children decided to call their parents to live with them and the couple decided to go and live with their children.
The animals were really sad to hear that the couple were going away. The animals hated when other caretakers would come to look after them and the couples knew that but they didn't have anyone who was there to help them so the only option for them was to call for a caretaker. All of them were really sad because the past caretakers have abused them. The animals were so scared of the caretaker because they felt the caretaker would do the same. So they stopped eating, they didn't go grazing on land. Seeing this the caretaker started getting afraid that the animals would get sick and she would get fired so, she started to hit the animals in order to feed them. All the animals from the farm had scars on their bodies, all the animals started to hide from her but she would find them anyways and beat them because they were hiding from her. The animals got fed up with her and called for a meeting among themselves. Everyone started to complain to the mouse and asked the mouse to come up with her conclusion that would do justice for all the animals. The mouse came up with the idea to film the caretaker without her knowing so show the couples what they were going through. The only problem for them was that they didn't have any devices to record her with. The horse came up with the idea and said “The mouse, cat and one of the dogs should go inside and me, the dog and other animals would distract the caretaker and mouse ,cat and dog would go inside the house to grab a camera.” The horse and other animals started making a mess in the farm so that the caretaker would come outside and scold or beat the animals. They did everything as per the plan and successfully brought the camera outside to the farm and kept it in a hidden place and started recording it. The mouse knew how to operate the camera because she had seen the couple operate the camera. The mouse recorded all the incidents for a couple of days. Then all they had to do was patiently wait for the owners to return back home. Before leaving the farm the owners promised to return back to the farm a while later. So they waited for owners to come and they did everything that could piss off the caretaker so she would hit them and they would mark all over them and the owner could see it clearly. Days turned into months and summer turned into winter. Snowfall started, festivals started but the owners have not returned yet. A week before Christmas the owners finally came as a surprise. The house was messy and unmanaged, the animals were dirty, everything was messed up. The owners were really confused and mad, at first the owners thought that the animals were the ones who came inside the house and made the mess so they went to check on the animals and saw bruises all over their body, they were so confused and shocked at the same time. The animals showed them the clips of the footage they clicked of the caretaker. The caretaker was later punished and they lived happily ever after.
