Showing posts with label spud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spud. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Lemondrop: I AM SAD

It's been a sad doggie week. Things have been happening to my friends left, right and centre.

Jay, my fellow HKDR inmate who was chosen by a lovely lady, Claire, and lived on that funny island called Discovery Bay, was lost at the airport on his way to England (I want to move there too!). His mommy is obviously very sad and distraught and have been searching for him every single day. I hear she goes to Lantau Island in the middle of the night with cooked chicken to try to lure him home (maybe I should get myself lost too?). The humans seem to think he is scared and hiding somewhere. I went to look for him too last weekend but I didn't catch his scent, otherwise I would have told him sternly to just go home. Why would he trade a soft, warm bed by his mommy's side for a cold, dark hole out in the wilderness where the boogie man can come and catch him?

Jay, where are you? It's time to come home!


Mommy v told me earlier in the week that little Sami is epileptic. That's a big word and I didn't know what it meant, so I cocked my head and gave Mommy a blank look. Then Mommy v explained that Sami is prone to have fits without warning and may be on drugs for life. I feel for Sami, losing control of your body is not a pretty sight, but I'm sure she will get lots of cheese to go with her medication everyday, so it's not all bad! Plus I know her mommies adore her and will love her nonetheless, if not more.

Little Sami, who's not so little anymore.



Finally, I got the saddest news of all today. My hiking buddy Spud passed away this evening. He was very sick after eating a sock, which the doctor had to remove by opening him up. But he was in a lot of pain afterwards and couldn't eat any food or take his medicine. The doctor then said he had an infection and opened him up again today. Unfortunately it was too much for him. At least he passed away at home with his mommy, and he must be happier where he is now, pain-free. Mommy w is physically very upset .... but I'm sure Spud's mommy must be heart-broken. I don't want to ever die, I don't want my mommies to be heart-broken too.

My mate, Spud - RIP. You will be missed.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Lemondrop: Getting ready for the Hong Kong trailwalker

I heard from the humans that there is a Hong Kong trailwalker event in November every year and some village dog told another dog which told my neighbour Mr Smith that the dog who wins it will get a lifetime of treats! Of course I am quite skeptical because: 1. which dog would like to eat so much and exercise so much as well? (case in point, my ex-neighbour, Zack) 2. who is stupid enough to sponsor such a prize? But really, I am not taking any chances so I will train hard and win it! I can just imagine, a heap of salami, another heap of freeze-dried liver, another of mature cheddar cheese..... hmmm

So we went to human H's house at Sai Kung. Mommy v was getting ready for the hike while waiting for the other humans to show up.


I don't like sitting still so I sniffed around and did my usual peeing. Oops - I didn't realize it was a Porsche's wheel I peed at! Milkshake, don't linger around to give the game away....


Spud and Doodle were waiting very patiently inside their home while human H was herding the rest of the humans to the starting point (where we were).


And they finally arrived!


So off we went to the MacLehose Trail. Some stupid monkey spelt it as Mack Lee Ho. This is why I like to chase the monkeys so much. They need to get their spelling right!

It was a hot day for a walk so while we were waiting for everyone else to catch up, Milkshake had a rest.


I had a quick salad snack in the mean time. hehe.


Little human m went to hide and none of us could find her! Where was she?!


Spud was also feeling the heat so had a rest on the "picnic table" to cool off.


We met six other HKDR dogs along the way. Dogs in the mist.


It was hard to keep up with the awful heat...


But the reward of rolling in cow dung was worth the uphill trek!


We finally got to the big field of golden grass. Even the humans were happy.


Mommy w played the Yellow Ball with me again! I was very happy indeed.


Milkshake followed Mommy v up Pyramid Hill instead. It's that high mountain in this picture. I think they are crazy to do that, especially when there is the Yellow Ball Game to play.


But Milkshake looked like she really enjoyed the climb.


When we got to the stream, I was so ready for a soak! Milkshake of course went straight for it without any hesitation. We stayed there for a while before mommy v told us both to follow her. Apparently mommy w and some humans took a wrong turn and have gone on a different route.


We managed to find them and had lunch together at Sai Kung town.
Then it was time to go home.


Milkshake looked happy...