Mutts & Me - Plus the adventures of Toy & Tui!: May 2013

Have been working on Coco, Tiger and Socks for the past 1 month, but Tiger went for homestay halfway through before I could see any progress in her, and got lost after that :(

Their standard position when I come in.

The trios

Tiger

Coco

Socks

*The picture damn fail, sorry if you see already will pek cek*

Too many lost dogs cases happening..

Chilli, walker, and now Tiger.. Sadly, I don't think she can survive in the outside world like Chilli..

And I wonder how is she doing now.

So without Tiger, I diverted my time and attention towards Coco and socks,and occasionally the 3 giants - Emma, Ernie and Eddie..

Do re me fa (soh) at the back

Ernie posing for cam haha

Look at sock's tamjiak face!!

Ernie is also very tamjiak one

Can you see the (soh) behind??

PS: Look at socks again, can only see her teeth hahaha!

My fav pic of Emma

Eddie

They are a whole sweet bunch especially Ernie. People will normally judge him before they get to know him due to his size and color, yes he is BIG and BLACK, but that doesn't mean he is aggressive and scary. He will prove you wrong!

CUTE BO ?!?! His antena ears *AWWW*

Ernie has special talent

not graceful enough T_T

Coco and socks are slowly opening up. And I make sure I prepare a lot of high value food for them every session. (Coco lah, so choosy, don't want to eat the more economical treats *Side stare*, Socks more Cincai, everything also eat).

Very blur pic, they are trying to run away from the bangala worker who was cleaning the kennel..

Socks:

Remember on the first session: She will freeze in a corner everytime I go into the kennel and twitch/shiver whenever I touch her body.

Like a mouse

Always this corner, this position..

Touching her head was quite a challenge as she tend to avoid and run around

Today: She wagged her tail and glinting smile when I stand outside its kennel.
:DDDD

Im able to touch her on her head without her running away that much, or at least she doesn't twitch anymore (need to work more to desensitize her to human touch), when I have super high value food, heh heh, she will shamelessly run up to me and show me her puppy eyes glowing with sparkles.

At times, Socks will also attempt to steal the food off my hand, cheeky girl!

Happy socks :)

However till now, she is still very wary of unfamiliar faces/ when she sense somebody is outside the main kennel, she will run and hide in a corner. Have to slowly find way to work on that hmmm.

When Im working with Coco and Socks, this neighbouring furball will peep over, hoping to get some food from me

How to ignore his pitiful look!?!?!

Coco:

On the first session, her face is like that:

Second session also like that.

Third session, STILL LIKE THAT.

With tails tugged in. Although she doesn't show any signs of aggression, she definitely isn't very happy with my presence. I know -_-

Minghui teaching me how to train her with food

Over these few weeks, she learnt how to give eye contact when I feed her..

And today she wag her tail at me also!!! SUPER TOUCHED SIA!!
Last session I realized that she can also be very sweet. and that she likes people to saying her cheeks, oh, she give me a short lick on my face too!

SMILE MORE COCO!!

Tried putting collar on her today, (ok, some of you must be thinking, collar only what very hard to put meh.. But you are wrong. Some dogs tend to run up and dog, dodging here and there to avoid the collar, it is very tiring for the humans to chase them around especially when we are rushing for packwalk), so for Coco, 60% of the time she will freeze there, 40% will dodge her head away, but so far so good. Spammed her with treats everytime I put and remove the collar. She will also react to her name when I call her now!! Whoo hoo! Sense of accomplishment.

Maybe to the people who have been interacting with her all along, this might be something very normal but ahem, its a small milestone for me. And seeing this gives me the motivation to commit more to this 2 babies, they sure have the potential to go out and see the world :D

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Some random updates here and there:

Went for the Nat Geo Free Pet Shop Event last week