Snowie's first contact with pool | 12Oct2010

Ah! Finally i get to use the laptop! so it's the right time to write about Wie's first swimming experience. the swimming event is created by Ann boutique. i didn't want to go in the first place but then...ahh screw it..

She's still blur about everything around her. thought its just another dog meet dog" event she used to go. when we reach the place i need to get myself dehydrated urgently. so i left her outside the pee pee area. when i got back she's already around the pool area. doing her own thing haha.


i payed and took off her clothes. ask which size shud i get her. gosh her size now is odd. L is bit tight. then get XL too big. end up have to go for the tighter one.

after the worker there put on the life jacket on her, he straight grab her with the handle like how we grab a bag. then dump her in the pool im like @.@ i'm not around yet!!! look at how snowie's freaked out. and i think she freak the other 2 goldie too lol.

before i go to this event i thought it'd be easy. like... i wont get so wet! and she will swim, and i will hold the handle at the side if she's too scare. but it goes another way round.

She's so scare, she doesnt want to swim. i want to hold the handle to make her swim at the side but she keep stick herself to the corner. and she only want to feel the ground. and the thing is, i'm soaking wet. from top to toe. quite embarrasing hahah

when she swim she keep open her mouth to drink the water. that's the thing that keep make me drag her to one side for another rest.

everyone's attention is on her since she step in the pool because she was so scare. everyone was saying "this one dam cute she's so scare" =.= ok...at least half of it is compliment. lol

so after a few more try and still failed. i carry her out of the pool. when i put her on the ground. she's stunned. she won't move. she's puzzled. she's shocked. she don't know what to do next lol. while i, the wet from  top to toe one, stand aside and watch her.

so i get her in the pool when she's not so tired and then get her out..keep doing this for few times but she still wouldn't swim. till the owner came out to help me.

honestly im already freaking tired even im not the one who swim. lol snowie must be REAL tired.

and now she swim very nicely. still scare but she's a good swimer now. but she keep banging into that purple jacket shih tzu. lol..

after a good swim owner ask me to let her rest for a while so she get her out.

so that's the day :) one AWESOMENESS thing. i prepared my extra clothes. but when i ask for a toilet, i notice i din put my extra clothes IN THE BAG!!!!!! dammmm!!!! so im like a stupido blowing myself dry infront of a big big fan. with company of this sweet honey. i love him!

Thanks thanks Furrenz for helping us to take so many pics. its so chaos that i don't have time to grab my camera. and some of the photos are from Kam meng, another furry's mom. and they actually made a best friend.

one of the reason is Jess is like snowie, very afraid of water so she'd "U" turn everytime the owner put her in the water. but of course, much better than snowie :P

Here's some more pics and two video to show :) enjoy~

                                           what are the human thinking? 

                                          get me out get me out!!!

                                                     Sigh~ wat a day....~

                                                     ????????????????????????

                                                      >.<

                                                  i still don't know anything~

                                                     Gimme a BREAK!!!

My "Independent" Dog..

okay since i'm pretty free now i'll write about independent dogs~ by mean independent, sarcastically, means ur dog get to run free out of your compound area.

one of my friend, PM-ed me on facebook yesterday complaining his dog is running away from home. they tried training him but it didn't go well. she seems to leave it like this already..well, most owner do..human's patience is pretty low actually..

Well, there's actually 2 types of free running dog. First, they ran away, just like my friend's case. when the gate's open, the fella will run out. second type, is the "NORMALLY they will come back" type. I wonder how they did it. they train the dog to do their business outside.. so they'll be out of the house.. owner leave the gate open.. the dog will eventually come back. that's the 2nd type. and the best thing bout the second type of dog owner, is when they're lost, they'd say "He NORMALLY comes back" well, now is the time that u should remove the word "Normally".

Honestly, my dog's been doing her business outside the house too. At the back. She does NORMALLY comes back. :) She will be out, Under my supervision!

my friend complaint that her dog ran out of the house when the gate is open. and then he will come back when he's hungry, or when he got in a fight outside, which means hurt. She once saw him come back limping, body cover with blood.

Alright, there is few possibility why your dog fight. My first question to her was, "is he neutered?" for that i didn't mean that dogs that are not neutered will get in a fight! or being aggresive! But strange that the possibility that he got in a fight COULD be a stray's fight. your dog might go out look for some chicks to mate. strays are normally in groups or gang! got in a fight with strays is not unusual. besides mating, your dog could get in a fight with strays that THOUGHT your dog wants to invade their area.

Next possibilities, maybe he never were in a fight.. but ran down by a car ~ that was all an accident. here's all the possible reason your dog might come back blood shedding:-
1. stray's fight  2. accident 

one day when u feel that your dog is not coming back anymore, here's few possible reason:-
1. he's probably lye panting on the road with blood all over
2. he's already on a council truck
3. pure breed? dognapped. not neuter, wow! dognappers love that.
4. Abused 
5. rescued by a rescuer

u see.. from my analysis of all these possibilities.. the cons are more than pros. so why won't you sacrifice some of your time to watch him pee and poo? be safe than be sorry.

Lastly, if your dog run away from home very often, and he's not neutered, PLEASE bring him in for neutering. there's already many poor homeless dogs. In Malaysia, the council won't give them shelter and food or even spare them. Your dog will go all around to create new life. and that is not cool. your dog's babies could be dead on the moment they were born. Think about it!

12/10/11

Cutie Pet Fun Fair | 08&09/10/2011

Just one week after Dogathon. it's Cutie Pet Fun fair. just like dogathon. my first time to attend. it's located at Central park bandar utama.

It's just booth and booth and booth. we went the first day but it was raining. my bro followed on the second day. hot as hell.

honestly not so interesting to me. here's some pics.

                                       Cool right? all surround him to take pic like he's a star..but u know? it's tough as a celebrity... see? under the hot sun have to wear like clown. :(

    ahhh...more relaxing pic compare to the one on top. this is a swimming dog.. playing fetch with owner

                                  puppy messing with snowie...

                            this is the real fight...snowie got in a fight with a volunteer husky of IPR.

                             Salmon Pie!!!! yummy man! smell so awesome. it's from pawzbakery.

Pei Yi
10/10/11

14th Dogathon @UPM, Bukit Ekspo | 021011

it was AWEEEEEEEEESOMEEEEEEE!!!!

of course! as usual, im nervous the night before. and worry that i can't wake up at 5am. so all the pressure come together, i got nightmare of cat jumping on my body. bahaha ok lets get back to topic.

that morning was really tiring. i try waking wilson twice. he can't wake up. and Snowie too! they just can't leave their bed. but we manage to reach the place before 6:30am :) which is still very very dark.

we reach the first tent. oh, vets, registration. dogs will have to get permission from the vets to enter. i registered the games in a package. the run, hide n seek, fastest eating duo, maze, hatter's tea-time( which i after that missed out). and we're the First to reach :D

Every dog there seems to be snowie's enemy. She barks at every each of them. sigh.....till she gets tired. i told my bro, "oh my, haven't start the run she already tired". we walk around. she drink alot of water. we also get a vet to do check up at only RM3.

the run starts at 8-8:30am. we were told to surrender when our dog can't make it anymore. it's raining a little. but we still continue the run. the first path, there's a drain, with cell of course. but snowie dun dare to jump over. everyone was shouting "wie wie wie wie" and i keep "wie wie 1, 2 , 1, 2" .. some other dogs see her jam there, they also jam there LOL. but they manage to jump over very quickly, some just carry their dogs over. by the time snowie jump over, we're already at the back. the guys already started their run.

it's hard to believe that snowie can actually run quite fast. and she did not stop. many dogs are starting to slow down and many has stopped. but Wie go on. the thing is... i feel im out of breath. im not a good runner and i actually DON'T run in my life. i only started jogging before the dogathon to build up some stamina.

there's many obstacle set up by the UPM students. funny lol. hmm...i think it's around 1.5km? snowie starts to get really tired. there's a toilet. some competitors stop there for toilet break, with their dog. we keep going. i ask the student "when is it going to end?" becuz it really feels like forever. a no ending road. people are starting to carry their dogs. but i let snowie walk. i don't know why i keep say "1,2,3,4" to cheer snowie..! then we finally saw wil. feel dam awesome. Snowie is such a bravo! we made it to 2.5km.

after that we rest. she is panting fast. really a tough thing for her. and now every dog is like invisible to her. too tired to even layan the dogs. after some long rest. we move on to fastest eating duo. i told my bro "im quite hungry" hahahhahah well, hoping for something tasty of course. im just worry my girl won't eat up the food. till we enter the main stage. before we even start she wanna eat up the food already. i show "win win" sign to my bro.

it run this way. left hand hold dog. once start, push the dog food to the dog. my right hand will have to put the stone "doggies in wonderland" together while eat using the mouth. i thought it was easy. but i cant actually swallow the spring roll. ate 4, left one. i can't fit in my mouth anymore. then i heard "er jie faster eat the last one snowie already finished all" i stuff all in my mouth. who knows...i spelled "Doggie in wonderland"S" whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! it ends like that and im thinking quick quick get me outta here. i dun wanna vomit here. tough time :(

after eating, it's maze! master maze! snowie got trapped by the snacks there. but she ate everything and go on with our calls. she quite good at maze. she came out so fast with people all calling "smart dog". *proud* :P

she failed hide n seek tho...almost found my bro but my bro din keep calling so she did not go that way.

i then spent the rm3 coupon on Doggies PawPaw. mine and her paw together. feel so sweet. she's so thirsty that she wanna drink the water we use for washing her paw.

we went home around 1something. after getting all the free samples. wie and bro dead tired. dun get it.. they are not even driving man!

this dogathon is a success! im impress with the student there. they do it so well. and all greet us with a smile and willing to help out. Nice Future u have friends!

here's a combined video :)

Days with Lizzy Elizabeth | Petsitting 2011 sept

ok, after some serious post, let's talk about some fun that i missed out.

during september i pet-sit this notty little girl Lizzy. Owner's having funeral at home. Lizzy stays in for 6 days. Chaos for the family of course!

It's my first time pet-sitting a puppy. puppy are tough at times. the good thing is she don't bite. but she like to mess with snowie. the worse thing is, she barks! she was not YET trained when she's with the owner. so i cage train her from the first day.

1st day : bark and yelp for 40 minutes.
2nd day: down to 10 minutes
days after that: less than 5 mins. even seconds.

it's not easy tho... when she gets frustrated she step step step on her bowl of water to make the water splash all around the floor. of course, end up with punishment.

my morning is always late for work. my dinner is always very late as i have to clear all the poop and newspaper. for both morning and night. i sweat all the time, smell like poop all the time. my skin cracked from cleaning up too much newspaper. so i'll have to reduce the number of changing newer newspaper. sometimes her poop was hidden. u wouldn't know where. in her bowl, on the floor, and on the WALL! so it creates bad odor to the kitchen. febreeze did not help much. i'll have to use the perfume from body shop.

her barking and yelping is the one that stress me out. sometimes feel bad for my family.

the last night with her, she's not clean at all. i'm sweating all over. but i play with her. she likes it. she like swing swing, and blow on the ear. i know she stepped on poo poo before tht but i just did not care much. just play with her. for hours. i know she wants more but time is up dear..

as for snowie. since the first day snowie've been trying to "teach" Lizzy for me. everytime when snowie sees me in trouble handling her, she will start to "fierce" lizzy and try to press lizzy under her tummy cuz lizzy move too much.

this is what she left me.....i clean and wash everyting after she leave.

here's a video i combined together..enjoy~

Pei Yi
10/10/11

Paws shelter | often ask question

hmm.. this is a post to answer most of your question. i often see forums and messages asking whether PAWS is a "No-Kill" shelter.

month before, because of Joseph's shout out, i contacted them using their page form but i get no reply. how foolish am i, expecting busy people to reply my post lol.

since i read it from petster, and it actually mentioned PAWS, i'll let you know the answer (incase u don't have petster at home).

very unfortunate, the overloaded animal is forcing them to euthanize animal after a certain period placing there. Yes, they euthanize and No, they are not a "No-Kill" Shelter. if u want to know more go check out Petster September's issue. it's free.

as for their decision, don't blame them. they already did what they could to help those animal. Everyone is throwing their animal to PAWS. and they don't have the fund for all of them. according to what i've read from the mag, animals that are sent in will be place for a certain period of time. if there are no adopters, no luck..that's the end i guess..

I know that many intend to be a rescuer or accidentally became a rescuer. There is actually a way if u found lost/stray and u wanted to help them. learn TNRM. check out http://myanimalcare.org

basically, i'm still in a learning progress :) i used to rescue animal and gave them a time limit. after a week or so.. if no one came to claim, i said i will put them to the shelter. very lucky, really lucky. there is always interested adopter. u can check out http://petfinder.my

First timer who do not have the knowledge of TNRM would want to put them to shelter. just like me. but placing them in the shelter won't help much. here's what you can do:-

Feed them. foster them. when u gained their trust, neuter them, when they are neutered, rehome them/put them back to the original place(for stray). M for manage. continue feeding them :)

well, easy to say, tough when it comes to doing it. but im just sharing what i know to the rest of you. because i know many of you are like me half year ago. save, put to shelter. NO!

Feed the strays! if u came across a lost dog, best is to foster him for a while. home dogs will have hard time surviving the streets as they are not raised up that way :) Good Luck.

Yi
10/10/11