Finally he found his baby deer tied to a post. Since he was a small boy and it was pretty dark no one discovered him at midnight inside the camp. He travelled to Maharana’s camp(which was very far off from mughal camp) and entered it and started searching for his pet deer. So he sneaked out of his camp at midnight to get his pet deer back. Salim could not sleep what with his pets life in danger at enemy camp.
So everyone adviced him to forget his deer and go and rest. It was a suicide mission sure shot death to enter enemy camp. But no soldier was ready to go into Maharana Prataps war camp and risk his life to get the deer back. Salim was tensed and wanted his pet deer back. Someone came back and told the deer had escaped and gone far from sight and captured by Maharana Prataps soldiers. He sent servants to search for it everywhere but it was not found anywhere. One day he came back from war field and found that his pet baby deer is not to be seen anywhere in the army camp. Every evening after war he would play with it and feed it etc. Salim grew very fond of the deer he had saved in forest. So he found solace in company of his pet animals in the war camp. So he was quiet lonely without friends of his age group or siblings to play with at war camp. But Salim went to war field at age 8 or 9 years. The minimum age to join army as soldier was 14-16 years than. Now since Salim was small when he was sent to war field, he had no friends of his age group at war camp.
Salim and his gaurds killed the tiger and carried the baby deer back to his tent. One day Salim went into forest and saw a young baby deer or fawn alone without its mother about to be attacked by a tiger. Salim was sent to Rajputhana for war against Maharan Pratap. At age of 10 years Salim risked his life to enter enemy camp to save his pet deer. From very small age his father Akbar allowed him to keep pets like lion, tiger and Cheetah. This pet love started at very young age for Salim. Now thats a compliment to love a pet like ones own sibling that few humans will get from ones own citizens. Especially the royal’s like Maharana Pratap who loved Chetak so much that he cried like a child at his death, Akbar who loved his pet Hawai and Jehangir who loved his pets so much that citizens of mughal empire started saying that “The emperor loved his pet as much as he loved his own brothers Murad and Daniyal”. But in other centuries too few people treated pets like family. In 21 st century its so common to treat pet animals like family.
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