Mutts and Me Short Stories

Emo Momo finally stepped out of her hermit shell :)

 

One year ago, she was an untouchable dog, because she tried snapping at anyone who attempts to pat or touch her. Tested and proven one.

She will always lie in one corner and give this face:

 

lifeless, sian, stoned, emo, depressed whatever you call it

 

She's always the forgotten one, too quiet until we forget her existence in the shelter...

And also because we don't really dare to get near her.. The only person than who can leash and walk her was her rescuer, and I wonder how did she managed to put on the collar for this scary dog..

I think its also because of her skin colour that makes her look less adorable la.. This one cant be helped.

 

Well, after almost one full year at the shelter with her, with new and old vollies coming in and out, Momo learnt to accept our presence around her.. Slowly, she learnt to come to us for food, sniffing us and allowing us to pat on her head AT TIMES..

 

She took a greater change in the past few weeks by greeting us and running around when we are feeding treats, smiling and even standing up to beg for food! Power of food motivation uh.

 

On this particular session, we decided to bring her out to pet movers with the rest.

 

Vivien took up the role !! WHOO HOOO !! 

 

 

Ok a random morning photos at the shelter~

*See momo behind*

 

 

 

 

At the dog park:

 

Showing her happy face :)

 

See she can even kiss Viv now ~

 

 

 

Her head can even Kiap in between us ~.~

Eh but again hor, don't anyhow try it on your own, you've gotta see her mood first, if she is in pain or what and u try to hug or kiss her, you die not my problem.

 

 

 We enclosed her in the smaller compound because we are not sure if she could get along with the other dogs outside.. Safer for her..

 

LOL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me and my bfs

 

Weijie with his gf

 

Jingle looking cute here

 

The dog who our dogs love to bark at..

 

 

Nice tee hor? |Co-incidentally wearing it on the same day

 

Fat boy and fat girl super curious about the bunny other volunteers found.. They wont give up..

 

You see tui.. LOL..

 

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And on another day, I had my first solo walk with Tui as I had to leave earlier than the rest..

 

Brought him to HDB for our date :)

 

Boyfriend acting tough uh..

"Don't mess with my girl"

 

 

The next moment, his..... ahem...is out

 

 

Put him on mikki leash and he follows me wherever I go, the feeling was awesome:D

 

chilling at the fitness corner for some water break and treats

 

Conveniently resting his paws on my wugui shoes

Tui: Cannot tahan alr, I need a rest.. sibeh chuan..

 

And this boy just lie there obediently

 

 

Life's good with him beside me ^^

 

Where you have no worries

 

 

 Brought him for a few rounds of run before I ended my short date with him. Quality time spent :)

 

 

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23 Feb 2013

 

2 of the Zeus Comm dogs - Batman and Robin joined us for the packwalk to punggol !

 

I took Robin and Minghui took Batman..

Two sweet young chaps

My hand almost got torn off just by walking from the kennel to the carpark as Robin was flipping and running and turning around, up and down @.@ which was what Minghui had pre-warned me about LOL.

 

But once we stepped out of the shelter, he was rather easy to handle..

Guess its the stress coming from both sides of the other kennel dogs that makes them so cranky..

 

This one is Robin..

 

This is Batman

 

Robin is super sticky to Minghui, tsk like a mother

 

Momo came out too! And she was enjoying herself by rolling on the floor. Caught us by surprise :)

 

A happy Momo

 

Fatty lying my me until falling asleep

 

 

Marvin took up the challenge to bath Momo, sadly no pictures to zuo ji nian. But well, good job Marvin!

 

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2nd March 2013

 

I forgot where we went for packwalk already..

Only remembered us going to find Yenyen at the adoption drive someone near Katong.

 

Little Price Cameron with Yenyen.

Shes totally sweet with Cam, gave camcam many slurps of kisses when she sees him..

 

 

One of the interested viewers..

Yenyen stayed there for a good 2-3 hours and was dying to go out..

 

Hopefully someone will look pass her weight, see her beauty and adopt her..

Shes really generally nice and easy to take care, doesn't really bark, don't really move around, u just need to give her a corner or some where for her to stare into space can liao..

 

 

Certified Part time Nanny, you can reach me at muttsandme@gmail.com should you need someone to look after your baby, or dog ;)

 

Had our super late lunch at a near by foodstall, look at our feast!

 

 

 

After that it rained super heavily and while waiting at the bus stop, a car sped past and got me all drenched from head to toe. Thanks a lot sia!

 

Ok.. enough for today...

 

My hands very suan from all the typing liao.

Volunteering in a whole new way

Last Sunday wasnt a really proper packwalk like usual. Because some of us came down at different timing due to personal commitments.

Tui & gang and junior etc didnt get to go out.. I happily ran into dog park, but cant see the fat shadow of my bf.. only to know that he is still in the kennel.. But we had new friends joining us at the dog park!

Remy and robin (ECP pups) came out for walk for the first time.. This two boys seemed really happy and relax. Naughty Remy so playful..

Remy

Robin

*Pics of Remy and Robin credit to No-friend-lynn*

And then we had Jeanine and her family - her husband, Cam (the cutest baby which i have ever seen!Happy pill), Miller and Indie. its an eye opening day to see the two super big dogs from Africa @.@

Cam and Jiahui

finally met him!

Awwwwww

Cam needs a break

Left is Indie, right is Miller

Jeanine and Indie

Miller smelling another dog's butt

When i was posing with them, I couldnt believe Im actually so close to a dog whose head is bigger than mine :O

Louis boy was one of the special guest too. Euguene brought bunbun over, the walked all the way from punggol to pet movers!!

The rest (no friend lynn, weijie, nikki, hongwee and ann?) came back not long after. I cant exactly rmb ah because very chaotic.

There was this family, young parents abt early 30s with two daughter n a son came in with 2 of their goldies.. Miller walk past the mum, and her expression immediately changed- big dog only what! why give that face as if miller is gg to chew u up :/ I told her the dog wont bite, nth to be scared of.

While we were sitting down to chill, suddenly we heard a pup screaming its lungs out (you know when dogs get into fight the weaker one will always scream and the scream is very chilly and heart breaking..), my eyes scanned around the whole area - for one moment I thought our dog had went to attack another. But there is the baby retriever (which was very bubbly and sweet), pinned down on the ground and screaming, it managed to breakfree from the bigger retriever and it ran like a mad dog towards our direction, crashed into humans and chairs and look super traumatised....

I cannot describe how i exactly feel at that moment. The next thing I saw, make my legs almost become jelly..

The pup's mouth was full of blood!!! seriously i had enough of these bloody dramas, my heart cannot take it.

The female owner (the mother) came over looking helpless while the rest of us stay rooted to the ground, i think none of us had the time to react...

covered in a towel, the family went back to a corner to clean up the pup. A part of me was relieve that it happened between their own dogs, I couldnt imagine if its one of ours , and we can bid goodbye to it.

But i hope all the best for the little dog :((

After the hoo-haa, minghui came back and the both of us went to ALL ( Animal lovers league) to try out while the rest bring our dogs back for a bath.

This dog was grinning at me for like 2-5 mins, I have to take a pic!

We spent a good 10-15 mins stoning around while waiting for task to be given.. Meanwhile, Minghui became a Pee-pole for the dogs, we were chatting half way, when a guy behind us suddenly laugh out loud, we looked down and realise one of the dog had happily walk over and pee-ed at Mh's feet.. Teva shoes leh!!

 I CANT STOP LAUGHING UNGLAMLY .....!!

 Thats like the funniest thing that happened in the day.

  

mh want this

 Eh,this pic very artistic hor?

Super chio hair, ALL got alot of super star, hollywoody dogs

See! Even its 眼神so professional..

Ok, back to our tasks:

1. Our first task was to walk the dogs, it wAs quite different as the regular will pass the vollies dogs instead of the vollies collecting the dog themselves. There was no packwalk. just OTOT.

Minghui was given a dog call HengHeng,which was very energetic and big in size and Heng ah, i wasnt the one who walk him because I would have tripped and fall.Mh so strong already gg to lose her balance when heng heng pull..  I was assigned to walk hengheng's gf Sonia. Christine( the IC) told me sonia abit sot one. But well, she is very nice to walk, same energy like Yenyen they all.

The walk supposingly last for 10 mins due to the rain, and "ji lang man yi xia" the both of us walked the dogs in the rain until we are drenched. We walked abit further because 10 min is really too short. And one thing i realised is that the people who walk the dogs dont pick up poop. The road outside is full if shit, literally.

A super blur pic... with sonia and heng heng

2. Task 2, helped out with scooping rice (which i think its quite fun).

3. Task 3, after the dogs have finished eating, we will need to clean the area outside, Minghui use spray, I use scrapper. Tag-team.

3. Task 4. Wash the bowls. The sink got choked and we spent 10 mins waiting for the water to be drained before we can continue. And I realised, why didnt we scoop the water out ourselves? The drain is just below our feet :/ Oh... WOLS. By the time we do it, the water drained finish liao.

4. Task 5. Use a scrapper to scrap away the water after they have finish washing the kennels. It was quite un-organised at this part because some kennels we can go in, some cannot, some got dogs inside and we cant go in, some can. So we just hopped about to scrap which ever that is available.. And each dog have a plastic bed of their own, very cute. When i put down their bed, they will automatically walk over and lie on it.

I was very stunned when Christine told me she has been in ALL for 7 years!! 7 leh!!! she started when she was 16 yr old. Seriously, it is very rare to see youngster who are willingly to sacrifice their youth and play time for charity work. let alone for a whole of 7 years.. I really salute her...

On a side note, I think she is over whelmed with chores, if only they could recruit vollies on a more regular and organised basis, her load will be lighter. Because apart from her, there seems like no one else know exactly what to do.. hmmm..

Trying out at other shelter allows me to have a fuller picture of what different types of volunteering work available. Some shelter focus on packwalk (which is us), some just need people to go there sit down hug the dogs and nua, some requires people to clean the kennels, some need ppl to feed the dogs etc.

Actually if you are scared of dogs/cats but want to help, there are still alot of ways:

- Help out at adoption drive by selling merchandise, tend the booths

- Help in rehoming dogs, and follow up after the dogs are adopted

- Help in transporting dogs

- Help in fostering dog (But make sure your family members are ok with it)

- Help in writing for their websites (but your english cannot be like me, this is also why im only writing here)

- Help to design posters etc for PR

- Help by staying at home and use FB to share those adoption links, pages, photos

- Help by educating people around you of responsible pet ownership and stop discriminating mongrels.

Alot la, go google urself if you are keen to know more.

Shall stop here liao. BYE!