New Tricks by Hero and Casper

Just finished watching the HK drama series - "When a dog loves a cat". 'Siu Ba', the mongrel acted in the series performed some tricks during the launching of Koo Cologne. "Crawl" is one of the tricks 'Siu Ba' performed and this is the trick / command that I never thought of teaching Hero and Casper.

At the beginning, I thought this is not an easy trick to teach because they are just too used to the "come" command, to walk or run to me in what ever style they are comfortable with. In contrast to "come", "crawl" is the "come" command in which their butt have to stay close to the floor.

I started teaching Hero with him in the "down" command. Then, I hold his favourite treats in front of him (close to the floor). I started pulling the treats forward. At the same time, I used my the other hand to push his butt forward. Seems very rough :-P but it works after a few pushes and Hero got the point - 'to move forward in the "down" position'. Wonderful!!!

Next, is Casper's turn. I would think Casper could be much more harder to teach since he is very easily being distracted when he sees his favourite treats. Surprisingly, I only tried 1 push. The second time, i pulled the treats forward, Casper already managed to crawl!!!

Video of Hero with the command "circle", "cross","eight" and "crawl"

Video of Casper with the command "circle", "cross","hoop" and "crawl"

Trapped in Curtain

A few weeks back, there was a fly trapped between the sliding window and the curtain in the living room. The fly caused the annoying sound...wee.... woo... wee... woo.... Hero was too curious to "catch" the little creature and accidently trapped in behind the curtain. He took some time "escape" from the trap... looks very funny :-D

Hero: Mommy, don't take the photo, so malu la...

Help me....

Hero: eee... how come I am still inside...

Hero: Oh no...

Hero: Yeah..

Random Shot

Hero: My look so snoopy...

We look very girlish with the top knot :-p

Casper: Hurry up.. sleepy already...

Flowers

Some random shots for Hero and Casper with flowers...

Dog Olympic 2008

It's annual Dog Olympic again!

JC didn't manage to come because her mommy just delivered a little princess a day ago. Congratulation to her ! :-D

However, Hero and Casper met a new fur friend - Fei Fei. Fei Fei is a Pekin-ShiTzu. He is the darling of my ex-collegaue, Yuin Kuan. I have been hearing his name, seeing his cute photos and videos long time ago, but haven't got the chance to meet up with him. Surprisingly, Yuin Kuan brought him today.

This was his first time seeing so many dogs around. He was curious on the environment and the dogs he saw. He tried to mix with the groups but he didn't really know how, so it was quite funny seeing him running after the group of dogs.

~ Fei Fei ~

As opposed to Fei Fei, my two little 'sakai' seems to be so much naughty. Hero was very busy marking everywhere, trying to build his 'kinngdom' in Center Park! While Casper was busy chasing the 'girls'... so 'ham sap'... and embarassing! As usual, we didn't join any of the competition. I just unleashed Hero and Casper to roam freely in the park to explore the environment themselves.

Fei Fei: Hello, nice to meet you

Casper: Who is Fei Fei ... sniff sniff... new smell...

Let's be friend

Let's play !

Fei Fei: wah... so many new friends !

Casper: It's a girl!

Fei Fei is trying to mix around...

Casper chasing girl...

Hero: New friend !

Playing in the park...

Casper: Pacco, long time no see, do u still remember me ?

It's Bedtime

It's time to sleep, let's go up to the room. Hero and Casper would usually roam in the room for a while, chew the raw hide bone and go for toilet before the lights off.

Casper Corner: My Car Ride

Some photos took during the car ride.

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 ?