Haps sorrowful look

Hap looked at me packing this evening and gave me these sorrowful looks.

Wish I could take him on my trips.

My Panda Boy

Sometimes I dont even know if Mr Panda is sleeping or not / cant see if his eyes are closed - I see only two black blotches around his eye area.

Hap's therapy @ Hort Park

Happy had a therapy session yesterday to address his dislike for CATS, mainly out of his fear of them.
Therapist found some negative 'emotions' from his earlier years with former owner and she worked to rid him of them.
He has few more sessions to attend; possibly next month.
I hope he can befriend his cat friends soon. Dont relish the idea of him frightening the cats off by chasing them!

Cesar Millan!!!!!!!!!!!

The world famous Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan, was in Singapore early this month and J/J's HC Aunty G, Fi's God Ma Aunty M and I attended his talk held at MBS.
Hes not just charming, hes witty, funny and rather entertaining!

Aunty M didnt stop talking about him for days!

From these to these

I had been concerned with Happy's teeth for a while especially his FANGS, that were stained with plague.
Having more time in my hands now, I took him for dental scaling at a nearby vet. His scaling cost me 100 times more than mine!!!

Vet told me to take him in by 930am and when I enquired time he will undergo scaling procedure, I was told it would be 12noon. I asked why I should take him to vet so early and let him wait nervously at the clinic?? I compromised by taking him there only at 1030am.
And I asked what time would I be able to take him home? Was told by 4pm to which I totally disagreed. They relented and allowed me to take him home by 2pm.

 

Happy's cleaned teeth! Must clean his teeth often now. It was rather painful to see him shaking/shivering so badly when I went to the Vet to get him. Was told it was caused by GA administered to him. I am not sure if it is true or that he had been manhandled and traumatised by the event?

Hospital again?

This was HappyBoy once again in the hospital late last month!

He had diarrhea with blood in his watery stools; I sent him to vet IMMEDIATELY as his refusal for food signals something is seriously wrong. Anyone who knows Happy well will know that he NEVER refuses food!

I was truly alarmed when at the vet he pooped only blood out.

He was given several types of medications, drips, few jabs and he is now back to his happy self. Thank God.

Slim Happy and his birthday.

I went on a 2 weeks trip recently; upon my return I found Happy had lost 3/4quarters of a kilo. Thats alot for a greedy boy like him.
He slept on my bed next to me like a log on the day I returned home! He could have been having sleepless nights when I was away.
Happy enjoying his birthday cake on 29Mar.
He was made to wait while I photograph him with his birthday cake - mango cake.
Yay, Hap is now 6 years young.

Happy at Vet again!

Yesterday evening, 4th Mar, I fed Happy with some pieces of pears, after halfway through them, he started retching. What came out was extremely slimy and very thick, he had problem coughing them out as the vomit was 'hanging' from inside his mouth. I had to 'pull' the thick slime out from his mouth. This went on for a good 15-20mins, all the time thick slimy stuff were coming out and he tried to swallow them back as they hung inside his mouth. I had to open his mouth to dig them out!
He got so so exhausted from his constant vomiting that he had to lie down on his stomach. He became breathless and gasped for air. I had called the vet earlier on and was told they were not opened till 6pm. I couldnt wait any longer as he was very tired from vomiting / breathless.

As I wondered how I was going to drive him to the vet, I heard my nephew's voice when he got home. I called him and my 1st words were: - This is an emergency, I need you to take Hap and I to the vet. There was no time to waste. As the vet was on the other side of the road, I asked my nephew to drop us at the nearest point to the vet and I carried Hap and ran all the way to the vet. On arriving at the vet, the glass door had the a sign that said "closed". I didnt care, I knocked very hard at the glass door. A passer by saw the urgency / desperation on my face and signaled to me to just push the glass door. I did so and it opened, the bell sounded on opening and a lady came to me. I exclaimed: "this is an emergency". The vet upon hearing came forth from nowhere, immediately took Hap from me and tried to induce him to vomit more. When he didnt, they immediately checked his heart beat, took xrays and blood test. I was told his heart beat was FAINT and they immediately put an oxygen mask over his muzzle and gave him a drip.

They suggested putting him overnight to monitor him; I went thro a few choices with the vet and decided to wait with him to see if he would improve. They 'caged' him after removing the oxygen mask and I sat next to him.

Fortunately he returned to his normal self and the vet tested with a small portion of food to check if he would regurgitate. He didnt.

I decided not to board him and took him home so he could rest properly.

No only Hap was tired, I was from all this drama and trauma, seeing him breathless and gasping for air. It brought on the memory of late Fiffy who had also vomited and became breathless and passed on in my arms.

What a night!

Lunar New Year

On a happier note, Happy received an ang pow from his grand aunt who had tucked it under his collar!

White Dog / Happy Boy

The irresponsible owner of the white dog took its dog to Bishan Park WITHOUT keeping a close watch over it and Happy boy was injured as a result of this.
Hap's ear had a small 'hole'
His upper arm had a long scratch
Even his nose nose was not spared!

AND the owner of the white dog didnt even apologise when I showed him Happy's injuries!

Cold cold night

This little one is so so afraid of the cold and I am to be blamed for shaving him COMPLETELY BALD!

He shivered and I had to put a small towel over him to keep him warm!

Oh what a night!

This was what I saw one night ..........Hap covering his eyes as the reading light must be bothering him immensely!

He must have done this for quite a long period as I noticed this pose only when I was going to switch off the reading light to go to sleep. I had been reading for a while.
But he looked so comfy lying on his newly acquired bed!

2 Sep 2008 - 2 Sep 2011

Dearest FIFFY GER,

GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN!

Missing all your mischievious ways!

From Mummy and Happy Boy

Dae and Grey Rabbit

This little naughty ger was recently boarded at Fi's Godma's home when her Mum went away for a short holiday

Looking so much like Fiffy ger!

These 2 pixs were taken for Aunt G to see if this is indeed a grey rabbit in disguise!

Look at its floppy ears! Grey rabbit was looking @ me eating in the kitchen and awaiting for some to fall onto the floor

Dogs In Mongolia

This is the dogs' life in Mongolia-
out in the cold, fortunately they have thick hair.
they were rummaging through the bins to look for food.

H and H

Not long ago, Happy visited Aunt V's place -lo and behold Helios was there and this was what Happy did on sighting Helios!

Helios waited patiently for him to get off the sofa. hahaha

Hap is very well and HAPPY AGAIN

Couldnt resist snapping this 'resting' position of his. This is Hap's favorite sleeping position.
Hap shaved clean after he fully recovered.
This was his 1st jaunt to BP after his recovery, still full of hair. Didnt want to put more stress on him during his convalescing period.

I didnt forget.....

Dearest Fiffy, that you came to planet earth 8 years ago on this day!
Your Aunty G bought this photo frame for me to put your photo in.
Enjoy your freedom wherever you are, running free and happy in the green meadows!
I was so blessed to have you come into my life!
Your are forever in my mind and heart.

Happy's recent ordeal

Last Wed, Hap vomitted all his dinner as soon as he finished eating. Later on in the night, I fed him once more as he gave me that hungry look. He vomitted EVERYTHING from his 2nd dinner as well. His vomitting continued through out the entire Wednesday night / Thursday morning.
In the morning, I saw that he had gone to the newspaper as he has had diarrhea. This is most unusual of Hap as he would hold as long as he can until he is taken out for his early morning walk.
As his vomitting / diarrhea continued on Thurs, I decided to take him to a newly opened vet/hospital. He has his X rays taken as I was concerned that it could have been caused by a bone that he had on Wed night. The very young inexperienced vets couldnt find anything lodged in his system and he was sent home with an anti vomit syrup. He could not retain anything he ate or drank, including the anti vomit syrup.

Eventually he refused food / water and looked extremely miserable.
I decided the best thing to do was to have him on a drip as he had not eaten/drank water for 2 days. My sister M, checked him into the hospital on Fri morning. The vets were told that he is to be given only an anti vomit jab / half day drip as they werent able to find the cause of his continuous vomitting/diarrhea.
When I checked on him later on at the hospital, I asked that he be taken out from the 'cage' as I will keep him company during the drip. I was attended to by another young doctor who was on duty that day. I didnt like the attitude of this doctor, so full of herself and when I questioned her if an anti vomit jab had been administered onto Hap, she said that in addition to that anti vomit jab, she also gave him an anti-bio jab. Upon hearing this I gave her an earful and told her point blank she HAD NO RIGHT to give him any other jabs without mine / or my sis consent or knowledge! I couldnt help but mouthed at her, whatever went thro my head. She tried to get out of her mistake by trying to explain herself and seeing that I couldnt be appeased, quickly offered to let Hap have a private room to continue with his drip with me inside the room.
On Sat, I decided to get a 2nd opinion from another vet. I had collected his feces, urine and vomit to get all of these tested. When the 2nd vet said that he had bilirubin in his urine, he suggested a blood test to check his liver. Results showed nothing is wrong with his liver and kidneys.
I had with me the x-rays taken by the 1st vet and when the 2nd vet went thro the x-rays, he said that Hap's stomach lining seems to be thick, an indication of swelling of his stomach lining.
2nd vet suggested Hap be retained overnight on a 24 hour medicated drip which I agreed.
I do not think that Hap liked the place where he was placed on a 24 hr drip. I had specifically informed the vet that Hap doesnt like air-con / he will shiver when he holds his pee for too long. I asked that he be taken out occasionally for his pee.
Much to my dismay, the female attending vet on Sun was similar to the one I had encountered at the 1st hospital. When Hap was brought out to me on Sun, he was shivering real bad. I said I wanted to take Hap out for a pee, she 'threatened' in not so many words that if anything happened to Hap, he will have to stay on another 24 hours.
I was damn PISSED off and told her I know my dog better than she does when she told me Hap was only shivering from fear! I TOOK HIM OUT FOR A PEE and he pee-ed quite alot.
I am totally disillusioned by these type of vets who DONT take care of their patients needs! They think they are the ones who decide whats good for the patients, totally disregarding what the owners want for their pets, thinking that the owners/their pets are at their mercy! Who would know their pets better? Vets or owners?
To them, its the financial benefit they get out from their patients!
This is another animal clinic that I have struck OFF from my list, now that Hap is out from there!
*Hap didnt shiver in the 1st clinic, just that the vets were too young and inexperienced and Hap was their 'experiment".
*2nd clinic had older more experienced vets but they impose their own STRONG belief systems onto others! Even tho they are the treating vets, the ultimate decision of whats best for the pet/s lies with the owner. The pet is after all the owners not the vet's!

Freedom!

Yesterday evening, Happy was the one and only dog at Bishan Park. And what did he 'happily' do?
He went from each and every tree / each and every pole to pee at them. He was extremely happy he could do this without any other canines disturbing him. Very often, other canines will either sniff or lick his male private part when he is amongst them so imagine his freedom to do as he wants!