I love dogs.
My first encounter with a dog was when I was still living in the old 3 room hbd flat, on children's day. My mum is a hairdresser and back then, the house was small, crowded and there were a lot of people coming in and out of the house to get their hair done. Being the primary 5 little girl, children's day was the day to slack at home (cos cannot go out ma). I was in the bedroom when my mum excitedly called out to me, "girl girl, come out..got dog"
I ran out of the bedroom and saw this dog with a coat of brown fur, standing right in front of our metal gate. It was practically gazing at us and seems to want to enter our house. I heard a lot of screams coming from the staircase "Doggie!! Where are u?" Must be the owners who went frantic when their doggie dashed out of the house.
For a moment, my mum and I didn't know what to do. Then the dog decided to squeeze through the gaps in the metal grilled gate and came inside our house. My guess was that the poor fellow lost its way home and probably thought my house was its house. My first reaction was pat pat and hello doggie. Gave the doggie a bowl of water to drink. I observed this doggie and I tot it looked a little ugly initially, cos I could see the eye whites when it turned its head sideways. It had a long tail which curled up across its back (quite nice tail) and the area around its neck was dyed pinkish, maybe due to the colour wearing off on its fur from the collar during bathing? and it was male.
Really very very cute and super smart and obedient. It was toilet trained and understood english commands. I used to slp on the mattress in my parent's bed room and poor doggie couldn't spend the night with me on my mattress so we let it hang ard in the living room and the toilet. When I entered the bedroom, I looked at doggie and I told it "NO no doggie, you cannot come in." and it just stood there at the door with one of its paw hanging in the air, as if hesistant to enter the room. It understood english.
When mum cooked dinner, it practically yelped and followed my mom who was carrying the dishes. Obviously, wanting to be fed, I gave it some dog food. But i think it prefers our human food. I dunno why, but I just adored this doggie, bcos it was practically following me wherever I went and being an only child back then, there was nobody to play with you, and when adults were around, I hid myself in my room and played with whatever was available to me by myself. The doggie gave me the attention that I wanted and I, in return adored it like mad. When I brought it down for walks, I didn't have a leash, so everytime we went down a flight of stairs, I would call out and say "doggie, wait!" and it really waited for me.
Super cute hor?
The playground and morning walks sort of made him damn excited. Ran ard happily and did its business. I guess somehow it knew that it wasn't allowed to pee or shit freely at home but it could do so freely when it was out of the house. Picked up after the dog shit. Sian. But cute. It's damn friendly, didn't even barked at my mum's customers at all, but it barked at the neighbours at 8am in the morning. Pounced unto the sofa and barked like nobody's biz. Probably it heard the neighbours talking at the doorway and just thought they were intruders?
My neighbours were malays and they didn't like the idea of sharing the same level with a family that keeps dogs. My mum runs a business at home and there was no way to keep this dog. The family which lost the dog, I dunno where they went to. I guess, my mum and I were a bit selfish as we didn't chase after that family who went frantic, shouting out for the dog that ran away. Well, we couldn't keep the dog in the house for long. The day when I had to bring doggie to the neighbourhood police post, I cried like mad when I was walking it there. I think doggie sensed that something was amiss and it kept looking back at me. The police officer asked "why dun you keep this lost dog? if not we gotta send it to SPCA." I just cried buckets after that.
Pomeranian Pup
SPCA meant that if nobody adopted this dog, it would be put to slp. Although the time that we spent together was short, it was fun to have a loyal companion with you 24/7. Well, I cried like mad for the whole day and wrote a letter to God, asking Him to bring my doggie back to me.
Well, God answered my prayer, but in a different way. Another neighbour on a different level adopted it from SPCA and one day he was walking the dog and I saw doggie with him. It was unmistakable, bcos of the pink coloured fur around it neck and those sideways eyewhites. The joy I had was unbelievable. I knelt infront of doggie and patted it. The first thing doggie did was to lick my face! I felt really happy bcos after 1 month of separation, this dog still recognised me and actually kissed me!! I didn't know much about dogs back then, but after many years later, I found out abt its breed and it's a pomeranian.
Pomeranians look a little foxy and have long fur coats with curled tails over the back. They have sharp pointed ears and are intelligent toy dogs.
Ltr on, as years passed by, I had other encounters with other dogs. 1 timid jack russel which was so scared of me initially, but eventually looked forward to seeing me when i had tuition. 1 shar pei which was independent and slpt alot when nobody played with it. 1 pomeranian which belonged to my cousin, super greedy when it comes to food, i think once i scolded it for something it didn't do and it actually teared. Felt so bad after my cousin pointed my mistake out to me and apologised and patted the dog afterwards.
Yeah, dogs have bad breath and they need more attention and training than cats. I guess the reason why I like dogs is because dogs look up to you, while cats look down on you. I haven't really had much personal encounters with cats other than touching their backs and scratching their chin and feeding them some food, so I'm not so sure how cats behave generally.
I remembered playing with a cat after tuition lessons and it sort of like to rub itself around your legs and then leave behind its cat fur on ur clothes. There are times when that cat didn't even bothered about me. So, i tot felines weren't as affectionate as dogs. Once, I played with my cousin's kitten and the way it scratched at the toy that was dangling in front of it, was quite scary, cos of the claws.
I guess I'm more inclined to adore dogs more than cats because of that one memorable experience as a child. I wouldn't mind keeping cats, as I've heard how clean and low maintenance cats are.
Super cute hor?
Pomeranian Pup