Toxic food

This looks fresh and green and definitely a great food for us as it reduces the risk of heart attack.

I just found out, to my horror, that this if consumed by dogs could be harmful to them. The Iphone apps "Jackboy's dog bakery" states that if brocolli exceeds 25% of a dog's diet, it is fatal.

Oops! sorry Sunny for feeding you broccoli on Christmas eve.

And yes, there are many other foods that seems healthy to human but harmful to dogs.

Grapes is another one. If too much milk is consumed, it will cause diarrhea or other digestive upset as dogs do not possess significant amount of lactase that breaks down the lactose in milk.

The lesson to learn is that not everything that seems harmless is really so.

Be discerning and ignorant is definitely not a bliss here.

Sunny's Christmas Eve treat

Thanks to Sunny's loving godma, Siew Boon, he too got a special Christmas eve dinner.

Meat balls and eclairs.

Spraying Sunny

The other night, to our horror, we found a tick on Sunny's neck. It grew to the size of a green bean, I wonder how long and how much blood has it sucked out of Sunny.

Poor Sunny, God knows how long has he endured the invasion of the blood sucker. When we brought Sunny to the vet for injection a few days later, the vet found more ticks. Man! I can't even see any thing on Sunny.

The vet recommended we spray Sunny with Frontline to rid the ticks and fleas. So today, we hooded Sunny with the "space hood" and put him on the chair at the balcony so that he had no where to run.

Derrick sprayed him and now I am wondering whether Derrick had sprayed enough. Sunny is still licking his feet and other parts of his body.

Sigh!

Bloody Sunny

I returned home on Tuesday night and like usual, Sunny greated me with his barking and jumping with excitement. The only difference was that he was less energetic that night.

Soon he started vomitting, foamy stuff and quite a few times. He was like that for a few nights. What was worrying was I sensed that he was less energetic and he was like sitting down very often. He would ran and then suddenly sit on his backside. Was he feeling discomfort? Was he feeling pain? Was he feeling faint?

Questions ran in my mind and that was when I decided to take him to the veterinarian.

He was active in the clinic barking at the other dogs and strangers. Rather embarrassing.

When the vet examined him, she noticed that his gum was unusually pale and asked me whether it is normal for Sunny. Ha! I told her I never pay attention to the colour of his gum.

She advised me that one of the reasons for pale gum could be low blood count and if it was really a case of very low blood count and not treated, the dog might die. That was why I decided, on the recommendation of the vet, to have a blood test for Sunny.

The assistant had to poked him twice cos the first time she didn't manage to get enough blood from Sunny's hind leg as Sunny kicked the needle out and blood stained his fur.

She took from the front leg again and this time managed successfully with the help of another assistant.

We waited for the blood test result and every thing was normal, so the vet treated him for suspected stomach upset and gave him two japs.

Sunny was brave and stoic. He didn't whine at all.

He is the kind who will bear with the pain and discomfort. Sometmes, how I wish he could just communicate in some way to me.

That explains the pink bandage on his foot.

The Hero

If you have watched the movie," Hachiko "
I think you would agree with me that it is a simple story,
yet an extremely powerful depiction of loyalty and friendship.

Almost the end of the story, the patrons around me were sobbing uncontrollably, especially the girls.
The sight of a very loyal dog who would return to the train station to wait for the return of his deceased master every day for ten years was heart-grippingly touching.

I remembered Yoshi's parents used to have a dog of the same specie as Hatchi.
A Japanese dog, I would call it.
Yoshi told me that the dog would bark at strangers only.
But when I went over to stay with Yoshi's family ten years ago, the dog did not bark at me the first time he saw me.
I used to be afraid of dogs, but somehow, I found myself fond of Yoshi's parents' dog.
Sad to say, he passed away last year, and Yoshi told me that his mother cried buckets.

I wonder when I passed away, will Sunny miss me?
I hope he won't, then it will be easier for him.
I want him to be like his name, feeling sunny always.

Living in a deeper bottle

Lately, I juz wanna be alone.
In a deep bottle where no one could reach.
I have no interest what so ever to mingle and socialize.
I felt it is too energy zapping.

I appreciate Sunny's present.
He is silent
I am silent
But we both know that we are not alone.

I am typing away on my keyboard
He is busy chewing his hide bone
No words needed
Yet we know that we are there for each other

Thanks Sunny for always being there.

Invasion of the bed snatcher Part 2

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Sleeping beauty

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Sleepy Sunny 1

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Sleepy Sunny 2

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Sleepy Sunny 3

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Baby Bat

That morning, Derrick ask me to help him remove something. He seemed jittery and I thought it must be a lizard.

When he showed me, it looked so small, no bigger than a new born mouse. It was black and was curled up into the shape of a baby fetus. On closer look, we realised it was a new born baby bat.

It was scary looking at it, what more asked me to remove it. We didn't want to kill it as it was still alive. In the end, Derrick picked it up using a pair of disposable chopsticks and placed it on a paper napkin. I then took it to the bamboo garden in our apartment compound and place it there.

I hope baby bat is surviving well and not eaten by any predator.

Poo - Boh

Sunny did something horrendous last night.

Normally, Sunny would poo once in the morning and once in the evening.
But yesterday, he did not poo before we left for work.
That means he carried his day of waste the whole day, as he does not clear his bowel when no one is around.

When I arrived home, as usual he was really excited to see me and greeted me by jumping on me.

I went to the toilet with him jumping along behind me. When I went into the toilet, he disappeared to the living room in a hurry, but I could still feel his excitement.

When I came out and went into the living room, to my horror, he had pooed all over the floor and had stepped on his pool and mess up the whole room. And because he had missed his poo in the morning, it was lots of poo around.

I spent close to an hour cleaning up the mess as the waste was stuck onto the floor and it took me quite a an effort to get rid of it.

Sometimes, Sunny just create mess like this for me!

He is such a Poo - Boh ( hokkien )

Toilet Train

After the longest battle,

Sunny finally begins to pee on the pee pan again.

I've devised a scheme to train him to pee on the pee pan again,

( why didn't I think of this earlier?)

You see, Sunny doesn't pee when he is alone at home,

only when I return home, then he will pee.

So every time when I return home or when he just woke up,

I'll put him in his cage where the pee pan is. You see, he has to clear his bowel as he has hold it for the whole day.

I will wait till he pee on the pan then I will release him, praising him and rewarding him with treats.

I did this a couple of time, and soon he knows where to go when he needs to pee. Oh, I also put anti-slip mat below the pee pan so that it will not slide when he is peeing. I thought that was the reason why he stopped peeing on the pan in the first place.

Occasionally, Sunny stills pee on the floor,

I guess you can never have perfection in life.