New Play Pen Setting

Today I tried a new playpen setting for Hero and Casper. They had been in the same hexagon Playpen for some time. It's time to try a new setup. What about 2 square playpen? Each of them in a square space. It could be fun, I have my space and you have yours!

After a few days, I started to think it is very tiring for me to setup 2 playpen everyday. I only have 8 fences at home. One of the fences has been placed at the entrance of the living room to prevent Hero and Casper sneak out to the car porch and one of which is placed at the door between the dry kitchen and the wet kitchen (where the rubbish bin is). I left only 6 available. Hexagon playpen best suited me. While with 2 square playpen, I have to grabbed the extra 2 fences from its usual place every morning, do the setup and returned the 2 fences to its original place everyday I came home (or my mother came home).

Finally, I decided to stick to the hexagon playpen. Wouldn't it be nice? During the thunderstorm, Hero and Casper and lean against each other .... :-D

Some update for Mar 2008

There isn't much thing happened in the month of March. Mommy has been so lazy nowadays. No jungle trekking, rarely take us for evening walk now. Our most exciting activity is the training session. The hide and seek and "stay-come" is the best of the best, our favourite! Besides the yummy treats we got, it is a good exercise source for us. Casper and I would race to search for mommy. We also wants to be the first to reach mommy. I am good at running because Casper is too fat! That's what mommy also called Casper, 'tua bui'... hehe.. But Casper is a good seeker. He has a very good sense of where mommy would hide.

Mommy: Stay.....

Mommy: Stay..........
Casper: Faster la... my saliva dropping already...
Hero: Mommy, faster faster....
Mommy: Stay..........

Some update for Feb 2008

It's has been a long time the blog left un-managed. Some friends of mine started complaining, "Hey, how's Hero and Casper ? Why there is no update to the blog? ". It's not that I am very busy, hmm, perhaps I am, busying pak toh :-P Well, I did spend time with them and took picture of them, just that I am quite lazy to update the blog... hehe...

So, what was on during February? Besides the Chinese New Year celebration, there is also the Valentines Day! We think of flowers and chocolates during Valentine's Day. Yes, the photos I am going to share is all about flowers (No chocolate, of course!).

I had never bought flowers for my mother on Valentine's Day. This year, I decided to get her a bouquet of mix lilies and roses! It was a surprise for my mother. She was so happy. The bouquet is so big and she had to "hug" the flower to get it hold steadily.

Two days later, I tied the bouquet and hang it at the staircase to make them dried flowers. Something interesting to Hero and Casper now. The upside down bouquet started dripping water and I had to place the newspaper underneath for 30 minutes to absorb the water. Hero and Casper stood next to the newspaper, looked at the bouquet and dripping water curiously. No "special" action so far, good boy!

It was too early to praise them. The next day when I came back from work, guess what? The fur around Casper's face turned yellow! The first thing came to my mind was, Casper licked Hero's pee pee. Casper has had his yellow face once because he 'smartly' put his head under Hero's tummy when Hero was doing his small business. Yes, It was yucky! But hang on, the face smell good, not the pee pee odor.

I started to look around where Casper got his fur turned yellow. After a while, I saw some leaves and flower petals on the floor. This is the colouring source! Casper stood up with his hind leg to bite the flower's petal! The pollen caused the yellowish in Casper fur!

The first Velentine's bouquet for mother.

Hero: Looks funny...
Casper: looks Tasty!

Hero: Hmm, newspaper... water... potty ???
(Mommy: Hero, no pee pee there!)

Casper: I handsome ?

Happy Rat Year (2008)

To all our dearest fur friends and all papa and mama, Happy Lunar Year of Rat... Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Malaysia K9 Day (19th Jan 2008)

It's the annual K9 Event at Center Park Bandar Utama! Also, as usual, we went but didn't participate in any of the competition and game. We met our JT mates and greet them a quick Hello and begun our teritorry marking session :-D It was a sunny day. Mommy said it is a good day to get some sun burn for our fadding nose. So hot!

DogBook

We are officially member of dogbook, one of the applications in facebook. Our face appear in another web site... haha!

Casper's diary IV - Hero is notti again :-D

Hoorey.... Hero has recovered and become the notti big brother again. After a week of the e-collar life, Hero is 'free' again! It was an extremely heart broken experience during the time when Hero was sick.

It was a nightmare to all of us in the family. Hero neither can sit nor lie down comfortably because of his wound. Mommy couldn't sleep well at night and she has to come home everyday to check on Hero during the lunch time. I know it was very tiring for her, but I am happy because I can see mommy! And me, of course, feel so sad because Hero didn't 'talk' to me, play with me or fight with me. I know he was in pain.

Well, well...... finally... finally, it is over now. Hero is recovered and back to normal and everyone in the family is so happy.

Thank you so much for 'get well soon' wishes from all the fur pal. Hero and Casper shall be back again. Merry Christmas everyone!

Before and after

Hero: Haha.. it's Casper time for the e-collar...

Casper: Oh no..... Mommy, rescue me.............

Hero: Hurry up, don't make us wait for so long...

Casper: Mommy, mommy... faster la....................

Casper's diary III - Hero is sick

15th Dec 2007 (Saturday)


Mommy didn't sleep well again last night. So was Hero. Mommy put the collar on him. Hero was unconfortable with that and could not 'fully' lie down side way to sleep. At 6 am, mommy woke up to check on Hero, she found that Hero was not next to her bed, he was about 1 feet away from the bed with his head facing mommy's bed. His head was not lying on the floor, he was not sleeping. I don't know if he sleep last night, because I stayed at a corner far away from him so that he could have his 'space' for resting.



Poor Hero, mommy took off the collar and he started to lie down and sleep.



It's 1pm now. He is still resting, in the living room with mommy and ma ma (mommy's mommy).


Mommy is very worried, Hero didn't go to toilet to pee for more than 24 hours... while his eating and drinking is normal, may be he was drinking less water than usual. Mommy will continue monitor and see if she need to take Hero back to the vet.

Casper's diary II - Hero is sick

14th Dec 2007 (Friday)



Mommy didn't sleep well last night. She tried to monitor Hero so that he would not over-lick his wound. Mommy tried to put the collar on Hero, but Hero could not sleep with that. So, mommy decided not to let Hero wear it, but to keep on the monitoring.


At 10am, mommy made a phone call to Dr Lai Chong to confirm on the location of the vet clinic. Then mommy confined me in the play pen and took Hero to the clinic. I was nervous because I have not been alone at home since I was a puppy. I waited for about 1.5 hours before mommy came home with Hero.


Mommy told me that, she didn't see Dr Lai Chong, instead another vet called Dr Marvin. When she entered the clinic, she thought Dr Lai Chong was the onli vet in the clinich and didn't mention she wanted to see Dr Lai Chong. So, she was lead to Dr Marvin.


Dr Marvin asked for a lot of information about Hero before the examination, from his food to his medical history and record. After the 'diagnosis', he also concluded that Hero's anal gland was ruptured. Dr Marvin preferred to go for the treatment option without the anesthesia to clear off the infection. Anesthesia would be his last option if Hero could not cure within 2 weeks. Mommy felt such a relief when she knew this.



For the rest of the 1 hour, mommy worked together with Dr Marvin to clean Hero's wound. Mommy have to let Hero to put on the muzzle because when Hero got scared, he would growl and tried to bite the doc. Mommy carried Hero with one had around his weist and one hand to tighten the muzzle. Dr Marvin shaved the hair around the anus and the wound in order to proceed to the treatment. I think this would be the most difficult 1 hour in Hero's life.



Hero was given the antibiotic, anti inflammation, prebiotic pills and the iodine liquid. He has to be on medication for 2 weeks.

Casper's diary I - Hero is sick

13th Dec 2007 (Thursday)


Today was mommy birthday. It was supposed to be a happy day for celebration. But Hero fell sick. His left anal gland burst! He pood a lot and the wound was bleeding. When mommy reached home after work at 7pm and found out Hero's condition, she got so panic. I knew mommy was worried, and me too. I could not doing anything to help, so I just be good boy, behaved myself so that mommy need not to worry about me.


Immediately mommy called the vet near our house, told the vet about Hero's condition. She was about to close and she was so kind and agreed to wait for us. After the examination, mommy was being told that Hero need to be on general anesthesia in order to clear the infection. Mommy wasn't sure is this the treatment she should choose for Hero. However, mommy make an appointment with the vet on Friday morning for the 'surgery'.


After leaving the vet clinic, mommy called few of her friends and seek for opinion. Finally, mommy decided to take Hero to visit another vet, Dr Lai Chong, the vet whom Jiro visited last time.