R.I.P

Remember my neighbour - Sparker?

Well, he died a few hours ago! (no, he is not killed by Jack!)

HC was sick today - gastric and vomitted and decided not to bring us to the park. To satisfy my ball fetish, she brought us downstairs to play.

When we reached there, HC was surprised to see Sparker lying motionlessly in his cage (his cage is placed at the back of his house). She went to our human neighbour to enquire and the owners sadly said that Sparker had just passed away. They suspect he was bitten by the snakes.

As usual, the owners had let Sparker roam around the estate during the day. In the early evening, the female owner let Sparker into the house, and was surprised to see him vomitting, panting and his tongue was almost blue. Accordingly to her, she asked Sparker, "What's wrong with you? are you dying soon?". Sparker then wagged his tail and smiled at her. Then, he went to her husband's bed (husband was working) and seems to be searching for him. After a while, Sparker left the house and went to lay inside his cage. That's when he finally passes away.

The owners were crying when they told HC what happened. In the end, they called SPCA to take his dead body away.

HC words:
I was sad to see Sparker gone, as he had started to really warm up to me. Whenever I drove back home, he will be waiting for me to park my car. Immediately when I opened my car door, he will pop his head in asking for a pat. He was quite sweet to me (and my dogs)

As for Joey, he seems to have no feelings being near to a dead dog. In fact, that little fellow was quite disrespectful as he continues to play with his ball near to Sparker's dead body. He even gives out happy barks when I threw the ball for him to fetch.

Jack seems to know Sparker's gone. He went near to his cage, and when he turned away, his body language and face tells me he was sad. When I squatted down to Jack's level, he walked towards me and give me a few sad kisses.

I have always wanted to take a picture of Sparker to blog about him. But I always tell myself, "perhaps one day I will bring my camera". Little did I know that the only picture of him is of his dead body.


If you can't bear to look, please turn away. (there is no blood though)