Found - Lab

HC found a male yellow lab sitting right outside our house!

Can all bloggers help to spread the news so that the dog can be reunited with owner soon?


Edited : Good news. This morning, HC managed to trace the owner's contact through AVA (Agri-food and Veterinary Authority) as the lab has a AVA tag on him. She has made contact with a relieved owner and will pass the lab (a.k.a MAX) tonight.

Max is really lucky cos he has actually crossed a very very busy road from his home to ours. And he is lucky to still have his AVA tag on him (which was hanged very loosely on his collar. In fact, it dropped on the floor once when HC was walking him).

It is really strange cos a neighbour who is staying on the ground floor said Max was hanging around the estate at 10a.m. or so, and when HC reached home at 6p.m, Max were up on our 3rd floor apartment sitting outside our main door and wagging his tail at the sight of HC!

I heard that the owner's children were worrying very much about Max last night.

And Max? well he slept really well. HC said he is a very polite dog and only slept on Jack's bed after HC invited him. (HC: the floor is too cold due to the air conditioning, so he slept curled up on Jack's bed the entire night. Jack's huge bed suddenly look so small with Max on it! hahaha)

You bet we can't wait to get rid of him tonight!
(HC : Jack and Joey are not the friendliest dogs especially on home ground. Jack yelled at Max alot, and Joey tried to nip Max when I wasn't looking... hahaha... poor Max)

Smart boy? NOT!

....hiak hiak hiak... Willy thought he was sooo smart...

This happened yesterday.... a video of him chewing spare rib while we were eating raw lamb bone in the kitchen.



(Please ignore the background noise. Willy tried to look knowledgeable by pretending to listen to CNA's news)

Before HC left Willy in the bedroom to clean us up, she saw that Willy still had a big piece of spare rib left. After cleaning us, she wanted to 'help' Willy to keep away the spare rib as she knew that I will snatch it from him once I am released in the bedroom. However, when she went back in the bedroom, the spare rib was nowhere to be found.

Puzzled, she decided to stop searching and let me into the room. Immediately, I was able to sniff out where Willy had hidden the spare rib and ate it ALL UP!!!!

(HC : hee hee... Willy has this bad habit of trying to hide his treats but he always fail to stop Joey from sniffing it out! This time, Willy hid the spare rib behind the table. After Joey ate up the hidden spare rib, I can see Willy going back to the hiding place to look for it! Silly boy!)

Anyway, today's menu is french duck!































After eating the sumptous french duck, Willy went to sleep. He was so contented that he had his tongue sticking out















Close up















Sometimes, he will try to act cute and wants to sit on HC's lap.


















I wonder when is he going back? sigh.....

Willy is here

Willy is here for a holiday.

His mummy bought us charm collars - same as the one Willy had.

Jack's

Mine!

Willy is back to his bad habits.

Caught on camera - HUMPING!

And he took over my comfortable bed.

See how I suffer?

But I got my revenge!

HC put Willy in her new bag just to see how 'spacious' the bag is.

hahahahaha..... the look on his face? Priceless..

HC also make sure Willy is well fed.

Steam chicken with his kibbles.

Luckily HC gave us a small piece each! (Note : we are fed raw food - so hardly get to get steam chicken.)

At night, Willy gets to sleep on HC's bed with us.

(Jack is not seen here as he likes to snuggle right inside the bed).

Distressed Call

HC received a distressed call yesterday afternoon.

Apparently, one of our friend - a white MS called Pepy ran away from his grooming salon/ petshop in Bishan area and was nowhere to be found.

HC then starting messaging her friends who stayed around the area. One of them replied that they saw a white MS running away from the petshop lady and crossed the other side of road - but lost sight of it after.

The owner was very upset with the assistant lady of the salon - as she had told them that Pepy will scratch and to let the main groomer handle her since he has done for them before. However, the assistant lady went ahead and tried to handle Pepy herself. While taking off Pepy's collar - she was scratched by Pepy and she released Pepy from her hold. Just then, a customer came into the shop and Pepy took the chance to run out.

The area that she ran away from usually is bustling with traffic and humans, and the owners were worried to death.

Luckily at about early evening, Pepy was found sitting in a corner at Salvation Army building - perhaps she didn't know the way back and decided to sit and wait. Poor girl was lost for about 4 hours or so!

HC is glad that Pepy is found, but like the owner - she is upset at the carelessness of the petshop as they didn't take the necessary precaution - the barrier separating the grooming area and main shop are not up, thus giving Pepy the chance to run out. Also, the petshop lady has been warned of Pepy's temperament and she should refrain from handling her if she is not experienced!

HC also recalled another incident whereby a dog ran out of the petshop and was knocked down by a car (not sure if the dog survived). Also, there is another incident whereby the groomer forgot to take the dog out of the drying machine after grooming - and the poor dog was left in there for too long and died of dehydration. That is a horrible way to die!

Search and Rescue Vest

Two years ago, I was given a Search and Rescue vest by the Singapore Civil Defence (SCDF) that was way too big. After that, HC got one custom made in US. Read here .

Finally, the kind officers decided to reward us with a vest that suits our size!
















I look really cool! I love it much better than the one I had.

My girlfriend - Alfie and me wearing the cool looking vests.

Don't we both look smashing? hee hee hee...

Raw Meat

We bought this raw duck and venison. I heard these are imported from Europe France & New Zealand!

I think we are luckier than HC.. teeheehee...

Update on Willy

Willy seems to be doing very well in his new home.


He has like 3 siblings now - 2 chihuahua and 1 crossbreed.

He is part of a family called Fab4!

And for the first time in his 10 years on earth, he finally knew what is a 'birthday cake'!

His mummy even asked the baker to put Willy's name on the birthday cake since no one knew exactly when he is born.

Willy's bewildered look that says, "a cake for me??? really??"

Bad habits die hard.. he still likes to hog other dogs' bed





































His mummy has set up a blog for him. Finally, the old man gets his say!
Please visit http://www.willythechihuahua.blogspot.com/

Willy's gone.....

to a new home.

For the last few days, HC has been taking pictures of Willy.

When he is sleeping soundly (see how his silly tongue hang sideways?)
















And woken up by the camera flash lights. (tongue still hanging)














He loves to be hug like a baby (tongue still hanging out)!!




















2 days ago, we even decided to split the cob bone into 3 parts so that we don't have to take turns to chew it.















To show our generosity, we gave Willy the biggest portion to bring to his new home as a souvenir. Maybe he can chew on it when he misses us??

The house seems emptier without his bed, quieter without his pig grunting sound.

We are starting to miss him already...... :(

Belly Band

After HC knew that Willy will stay with us for longer than the usual one week, she decided to DIY a belly band for him.














Actually, Willy does not mark at our place. He had only had 2 minor accidents during the first 2 days, and is now totally reliable. Even when he is alone (HC will bring us out sometimes without him, he does not mark or mess up the place).

But she heard from her previous owner that sometimes he marks at home. HC thinks that is because Willy is usually confined in the kitchen, and only let out for an hour or even less per day - thus he felt the need to mark his territory.

Anyway, HC sometimes will bring Willy along to friends' place - and didn't want him to mark unnecessarily due to the presence of other dogs. So she read up about the belly band and decided to diy.

The purpose of the belly band is to protect the furniture should a dog marks. Also, some dogs will actually cease marking as it is uncomfortable due to the damp belly band. The trick is to let the dog wear the damp belly band around so he knows the uncomfortable consequence.
*note : do clean the dog properly after in case of infection.

And the funny thing is that to allow the DIY belly band to absorb more liquid - HC actually placed a human mini sanitary pad on it! hahahaha....

Willy is definitely not a happy dog wearing the humiliating band.

But HC does not know if it really works cos Willy has not marked !

For dogs who marks, owners may want to try this method to save their furnitures and sanity!

*note : belly band are not supposed to be worn the entire day. Please remove the band when the dog needs to pee at designated place.

Progress...

After diligently working on the cob bone for 4 days...

This is the progress..

Good work, huh?

Anyway, Jack helped me with it as well. Sometimes he is so tired he slept with it.

Prize from Huskee

I have just received a prize from Huskee! Well, I am one of the lucky ones who guess his evil deed correctly.

In the nice package - there's a Cob Bone (Tanner's favorite!), a huge bone-shaped biscuit and a nicely done congratulatory card.














Almost immediately, I started to work on the cob bone. Maybe I can turn it into a weapon like what Tanner did to his.

Have a good weekend ahead!

All's Well At Home

Remember I said that Jack is feeling miserable about Willy taking over his bed?

HC couldn’t bear to see Jack circling the bed (when Willy is on it) and looking unhappy. So she went to Ikea to get a big cushion for Willy.

Instead, silly Jack is happy with the new cushion and immediately bring his chew toy on it.














Everyone is happy – and HC decided to bring us to Sentosa.

This is Willy’s first time to the beach – in fact, he hardly ever leave the house in the last 10 years.

At first, he was quite unsure of the vast and breezy place.

Willy to Jack : what are we doing here?















Then he started to relax a little and looked around with interest.















There isn’t much photos taken (thank god!)… as we were distracted by the appearance of my girlfriend – Alfie (another JRT).

HC caught Willy eating sand off the beach – and scolded him a couple of times. But I think he ate too much. So by late afternoon, he started to puke and pooped lots of sand out.

By night, he started to just leak blood from his anus, and looked very uncomfortable.

He is just sitting straight on the bed looking sick.




















He started lying down only when HC patted him repeatedly.



















Then the next morning, he fell really really sick. He didn’t want to eat at all (which is rare cos he is such a glutton). Even when HC bring him to the toilet area to pee, he laid down to rest. And HC knew he is seriously sick when he didn’t even moved from his bed when we went out for a walk.


So before HC left for work, she confined him to a playpen in case he vomited all over the house.














He hid under the layers of towels to keep himself warm.















HC is puzzled when I gave her 'the look'.














Then she realised that I was unhappy that she used my food bowl as water bowl for Willy!















HC came back from work and tried to feed him more food. Again he refuses to eat. So HC forced fed him some chicken broth to avoid dehydration and slipper elm for his upset stomach.

Here's how he looked the entire night - not moving at all.














Luckily, by this morning – Willy is up and about. HC is elated to see him going to the kitchen when he smell steamed mutton (HC steam his meals instead of feeding raw to retain the broth in case he didn’t want to eat).

And after not having food for 1.5 days – he ate up all the mutton greedily.

Oh well, I had 2 days of peace as Willy was too sick to annoy me. But I am glad he is ok now.

Many Firsts

Willy has had many 'firsts' while staying with us..

Daily brushing of teeth - this is a nightly routine for all of us. And since Willy has joined us - he is not spared. At first he will grumbled* a little, but now he has more or less accepted it. Just to let you know, four of Willy's teeth was surgically removed a couple of years ago as the vet said it was decaying.

Frequent Showering / Nightly wipe down - Whenever we go to the park, we will get washed otherwise Jack and I would get rashes. Again, Willy is not spared! :)
An as an after shower rinse - we would have diluted ACV poured all over our body to prevent ticks/fleas, and HC will let it stay on our body for 5 mins before patting us dry. However, we are very smart to shake off the water. Stupid Willy will just stand there with water dripping and shivering! :) Of course he grumbles .

(HC : Willy's grumbling is very unique. He will gives out this low grunting sounds - like a pig, whenever he is unhappy or wants attention. He is not used to all these showering and brushing as I think his teeth was never brushed and he had shower like every few weeks back home)

But other than the above, he is happy with his other 'firsts'.

The first time he had deer tendon!














The first time he had raw lamb bone















The bone is bigger than his leg!

Surprisingly, he took raw diet very well with no signs of detox, and he enjoys his meals very very much.
HC didn't want to feed him kibbles as he will take a few bites and walked away. And she really didn't have to time to sit and watch him eat - knowing that Jack and I will gobbled up whatever kibbles there is.

Of course - Jack and I each get a mutton bone too!

Here's Jack














And handsome Me!

Vitamins purchase

This is really a delayed post.

Our loot from iherb came in less than five days after we made the order. HC is really amazed at the speed of the iherb team and USPS!
















Some of these bottles are meant for our consumption. There's freeze-dried hawthorne, CoQ10, super colostrum as our existing supplies are running out soon.

Hidden behind the hawthorne was a big bottle of Enriching Greens for HC. She said that she need this as she does not take vegetables - or anything that does not move!

So how come Jack and I are made to eat blended organic vegetables when HC herself does not????
Double standards???

Jack bullied

Willy may be tiny, but he is very cunning.

He has started to adapt quickly - too quicky, in fact to our lives.

Within a week, he knows that we have to wait outside the door after our walks - as HC will carry us into the bathroom so that we won't mess up the house with our dirty paws. (she will call our names before carrying us - those names not called will have to wait outside the door).

And he has learnt that we will be fed pumpkin immediately, and again we can only leave the bathroom to the eating area (which is a few steps away) when HC calls our names individually.

After eating, he knows he is supposed to go back to the bathroom for a quick rinse (and the next dog whose name is called will leave the bathroom to the eating place).

And yes, HC runs the household like the military! And she is pleased that Willy is able to adapt quickly to the routine.

However, Willy may act sweet in front of HC but he is quickly taking over our place.

See how he took over Jack's bed - and Jack look very pathetic?















Left with no choice, Jack has to lay down on Willy's bed (actually this bed was a Christmas present to Jack from Auntie W - but we have not used it and HC decided to let Willy have it)















The bed is thin - unlike Jack's and mine which is 6 inch thick! So Jack has to find to make himself as comfortable as possible.














He slept for a while....














But decided that the bed is too thin for his old bones - and finally, he squeezed in bed with me willingly! (HC : Jack usually hates sharing bed with Joey)















We are still trying to ignore Willy as much as possible.

See how Willy try to butt in when Jack and I are playing? We totally ignore him! YEAH!
















































(HC : Alot of people usually want to get a puppy as they think it is easier to manage, but they are so wrong! Older dogs can be just as trainable and adaptable. It depends on how consistent a new owner is to the dog. I know it sounds hard sell - but I do wish to find Willy a good permanent home so that he can have undivided attention. I have always wanted only 2 dogs - and feel that it is not fair to Jack and Joey.
There is a funny incident. As Willy is so tiny - he cannot climb up/down the steps. As we lived on the 3rd floor - he managed to climb down only 1 floor - and refused to come down till I went to pick him up. Then last week, I left Willy at home alone so that Jack and Joey can go to the park with me like before.I guess he was unhappy to be left alone - and the next day, he ran down the steps all the way on his own very fast! Guess he is afraid to be left behind!

Seriously, if anyone of you know of someone who is looking to adopt a small dog - please consider Willy. He may be 10 years old, but small dogs are known to live to 16- 18 years old.)