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.

Summary for the past 1 month (VA'S VERY OVER-DUED CNY PARTY)

ELLO!! IM BACK!!

Typing on my new ASUS lappy, no more hanging, no more waiting. Shiok ah..

 

Let me have a quick recap on what had happened for the past 1 month..

 

Conducted my first mini lesson at lorong halus, was rather well prepared for the materials but i sucked at giving presentations lah. Many thanks and apologies to my 'students' that day for being patient with what I had to share and explain. And also thanks to Minghui and weijie for helping to add on things that i wasnt able to put it across clearly.

 

My attentive students listening to Jia Hui sharing..

 

Minghui's turn to demo as dog (Hiakhiak)

 

Doggy walking around...

 

 And what a weird pose...

 

Still listening.. good.. Hahaha

 

 

So what we have gone through were:

1) what is classical conditioning?

2) what is operant conditioning and the 4 quadrants involved. (this is the most confusing theory part) 

3) leash pressure on dogs

its easy being said, but more often than none, we arent able to put it into action nor keep it in mind while we are handling the dogs, this is where we need ALOT of practice. Rmb to release the leash once the dog give in to u! its super important. Should the dog be pulling side ways, its not counted as giving it (if u give in, u are indirectly rewarding it for pulling around) so, you will need to judge when is right and when is wrong. 

 

 

then...

 

we had our first VA Chinese new year party at Viv's palace! This time round with lesser humans and dogs because some of them cant make it E.g. Merman, Gilbert, Hongwee, Ning, Phoebe etc.
But you all are always in our heart

 

 

The day started out with Yonglin coming over to my side to prep for our mushroom dishes.
Its pot luck once more and obviously its not very nice to bring egg mayo again, no creativity sia that dish. Ok its not even considered a dish -_- . This time round we prepared bacon with Enoki/Inoki mushroom and our self invented - dunno what mushroom plus mince meat/mashed potato dish. It turns out to be quite appetizing in terms of appearance. ;) Buay pai ah. got potential to become chef.

 

Disclaimer: I also got cook hor just that I don't have those pictures with my face in it with me

 

chef yong

 

We were the first to reach her house despite being late to catch a ride from Fengyi. haha. Was greeted by a super big and spacious living room. And i thought we were gonna celebrate there, until they said: put the food upstairs.. all the things are at 2nd floor. i: "?!?!?!"

as i walked up my jaw dropped. Now i know why Minghui say her jaw dropped when she went to viv's . (OK LA YA LA I SUA GU LA. BUT REALLY UR JAW WILL ALSO DROP IF U WERE THERE I SWEAR)

 

Merman requested for a pic of the waterfall and here it is..

 

Ok la since I so early might as well...... hahaha

 

Our spread.... with My fav - Jeanine's sheperd's pie

 

 

Lynn's super model silky hair pose ;)

 

Theres a very chio outdoor shelter with swimming pool plus waterfall, inside is mini bar and another living room alike place to chill. The others reached one after another and we had our Lou Hei together ^^ her parents were very nice to give us an angbao each :) 

 

HUAT AHHHH

 

 

 

 

Happy ^^

 

 

Look at the gluttons:

 

and the little piggy:

 

 

Muddie feeling lost between 2 men

 

The video is on FB btw..
A lot of funny well wishes haha.

Special guest: Weikang and family. So sweet to have Emma-katy to be here too.

 

Emma-Katy and Mummy Cheryl

 

The papa hor, baby never take care go and check on Angel's butt..

 

Parents gathering LOL.

 

Although this time round we only have 2 dogs- Muddie and Angel, we have 2 babies around to keep us entertained! 

 

 

ok, Emma is still too young to play with..  

Camcam as usual is super cute!! We took turns to be nanny for the day.

 

 

 Jeanine and mark so lucky ahh.. they can leave their prince there and have no worries because got a lot of ahem ZEHs ZEHs (still refuse to be called Aunties) there to take care of him. 

cam cam why your face like so unwilling??

 Camcam with his 3 chio ZEHZEHs

 

Stupid things we do with kids..

Ann super motherly...

Look at his chubby bodyyy!! So cute

 

And our unofficial VA tee arrived!
 This little boy has his own too :)

we had a tour around the palace, guess what? we took her legendary private lift !!  5-7 sua gus getting super hyped over the lift. Whats so special? my house outside also got lift leh. 1st to 12 floor somemore. NONONO her lift is special one. 1st to 4th level IN HER OWN HOUSE, neighbours cannot share one please. 

Almost wanted to ask if her parents want to 收 another god daughter anot, no, 3 more..
 Me, Lynn and Ann HAHAHAH. totally loving the walk in wardrobe!!! 

and i super love Viv's bedsheet until I have the same one as hers now :) 

 

 

Had a mini surprise for Viv birthday, thanks to lynn and ann who bought the cake. Even thou our surprise failed rather terribly because she already saw the cake on the table haha.

 

After touring around, everyone sort of diffused into different part of the house. Most of us went to the living room, Lynn and marvin started playing pool while Ann enjoyed sitting on the bouncing chair.

The rest just nua-ed around the couch and watch documentaries..

 

K.O-ed

 

K.O-ed #2

 

 

 

Jia Hui came in to join the pool team and she turns out to be a pro lor... tsktsk..
Stayed till about 5pm and yohoo, end of our party. More to come more to come..

 

*Paiseh Jeanine and Mark, you all went back a tad earlier before we remembered to take a group pic*

 

I think I gotta split into 2 posts.. If not it will be too lengthy. Also, pardon for the un-uniformed picture size because blogger not being very friendly now ah..

 

Meanwhile, enjoy!!

Back in Action Soon

AHHHHHH..

I have finally gotten myself a new laptop from IT fair after waiting for so many months..
Give me some time, cant wait to blog too!

I need to transfer the super overdue photos and sort out the events sequence before I pay u all back what I owe u for the past 1 month :D

Hang on there! Tomorrow is Friday!!

A lot of meatballs for the furkids on sat :)))

Good night peeps.

If one day it really happens....

Do you miss me???

 

I guess i missed my bf too much that i dreamt about him last night in batam.

It seems like i have not visited the shelter for quite sometime..

and when i finally had the chance to, there was no dog in sight in the kennel.

As i called out to tui, searching high and low for him, a medium sized dog (with severed skin problem) slowly walked up to me and snuggle in my arms.. it was so skinny that i can see its rib cage protuding out... that, is tui. he heard my voice and came up to me.....

why did he become like this?!?! 

is this the handsome and healthy tui that i know before???

Apart from the emaciated body frame and skin problem, his left eye was bloody and it became half blind :(

my heart was full of guilt for not being able to bring him home with me, which resulted in him suffering like this..

it seriously hurts alot to see him in this state... i cried as i hugged his wounded and skinny body... 

i went home and wrote a letter to him. which i dunno why ended up at a girl's hand. The girl was tui. (like wth i dunno suddenly he became a human and a SHE). We chatted and......

i woked up. 

zzz.

a very stupid and annoying dreamt which made me feel very uneasy after the "Where is nicole" dream.

byebye.