People who keep pets are generally very attached to them and treat them as one of their family members. Videos depicting such relationships are often shared on the internet that catch the imagination of the users. A few owners even go out of their way to show their love for their pets. In one such gesture, a couple of Haryana's Gurugram got their pet dog married to a neighbourhood dog in a traditional Indian wedding on Sunday.
According to the pet owner, 100 invitation cards were sent to a neighbourhood of Jile Singh Colony in Palam Vihar Extension who attended the marriage ceremony of Sheru (male dog) and Sweety (female dog) as 'Baraatis', reported news agency ANI.
“I m a pet lover and as a couple, we used to take care of pets. I don’t have a child so Sweety is our kid. My husband used to go to the temple and feed animals and one day a stray dog followed him and came to us 3 years back. We named her Sweety. everyone used to say that we should get Sweety married. We discussed it and then eventually a programme was made in just 4 days. We decided to follow all rituals,” said Savita, the owner of the female dog named Sweety, as reported by ANI.
Displaying her Mehendi, Savita said that rituals like Haldi was also done for both the dogs.
Manita, owner of male dog Sheru said,” We have been together with Sheru for the last eight years. We have always treated him like our child. we discussed with our neighbours about the marriage of our dogs casually but then we suddenly got serious about it,” reported ANI.
On being asked by ANI about how people reacted to the ceremony of the dogs, Manita said, "Some people like it and some people don’t. We are not concerned at all. We just followed what we desired."
“People used to say that police will pick us and put us in Jail but we are not bothered. Since we are a childless couple and this is our only happiness so today my husband is happy as we are getting Sweety married,” she added.