we've been busy

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Whew! finally finished uploading all the pics. Blogger should SERIOUSLY improve their uploading photos system, took sooo long! Anyway, brought Bagel to the new Dairy Farm Nature Park and was quite surprised to find such a nice view, Singapore standards at least. Many of the pictures would have been perfect if only she looked at the camera, grr...

placed on a rock against her will. Heh heh heh...

This is another park - Bukit Batok Nature Park, which wasn't as nice but had lots of monkeys. And apparently lots of fleas and ticks too, which we discovered to our horrors when we reached home. But fortunately we managed to get them all off and she's once again fleas and tick free :D Never gonna bring her back there again! It was really funny as well, cos we got lost, or rather I got lost and went through steep slopes and stairs through the hiking path. And Bagel was so tired on the way to back that when she saw the steps, you could practically see her look of horror and exhaustion which was hilarious!! She then stopped and refused to move and had to be encouraged and tugged on the leash several times before she'd move, stopping frequently to pant and glare at me. XP

What's that on the tree??

And finally SENTOSA! Brought her to Singapore's one and only beach that allow dogs. And the first place she went is of course the hot dog stand *faintz*. There was this other big brown dog there which she played with, and when they left, she started running away *faintz some more* and being a slow runner, I couldn't catch her and had to have random strangers helping me catch my runaway dog. How absolutely embarrassing...

happy as a clam. and ignore the highly unglamourous shot of myself, which is a result of constantly running after my runaway dog ohm.... finding her inner peace SUCCESS!!

updates

New found hobby - suntanning!

How she spents everyday... lazing away, playing, eating (begging)... what a life!

On the way to sentosa...

woohoo! 1st award!!

Yippee!!! Our 1st award ever!!! :D :D :D

hm haha hopefully this'd be the start of many :p contemplating bringing bagel back to class so as to have a shot at competing BUT there's the problem of time constraints, bagel's school fees and getting a different trainer. Her current trainer uses a choker chain, which we are comfortable with previously but now that she has calm down and behaving, am contemplating the necessity of using it on her. Furthermore, her trainer also recommends the use of an electric collar thingy for upper levels of obedience since she still gets very excited amongst dogs, and that we are truly not very comfortable with. I mean it's fine since i've tried it on myself n it doesn't hurt n all and is truly as slight as an ant's bite but it's sort of like as a last resort. And other trainers that uses treat training here doesn't seem to be very good, like many of the dogs in our neighbourhood who went through trainers who uses trick training, the dogs are not much different from being untrained. I myself do prefer treat training since that's what I used to teach Bagel tricks but can't seem to find a good and reliable trainer. :( o wells, shall wait and see then

k am lazy to update bagel's photos so shall do that in next post tata

Family portrait :)

I miss Bagel :(

Sigh man I miss Bagel. Am currently on holiday, visiting my 2 wonderful sisters in London and Dumfries. And it has only been 3 days, while I'm staying for 1.5 months! Sigh sigh sigh. When leaving the house darling bagel was caught chewing on greeting cards in the night, and got scolded by me. So being the attitude dog she is, didn't wanted to send me off but kept running away :( haha in the end had to use a treat to bribe her sigh. What kinda dog is she!! Aren't dogs supposed to be all loyal and everything?! haha. Anyways, she's doing very well at home, only looked for me the very 1st day but after knowing my maid's gonna bring her out for her walks and all, have settled very well. Sigh man I truly missed her. Anyways, would like to ask around out there if anybody knows any 1) nice and big petshops 2) cheap petshops in London and Dumfries?

beagle fishing anyone???

2nd post: Baking day

Since Bagel adores eating poo so much, decided to make some for her to eat :p

These are the more normal ones when they were done.

Didn't manage to make all since halfway through bagel went to poo, and after cleaning up her poo, came back and my dough on the table was gone!!! Instead I found a very satisfied dog licking her lips... >_<#

A typical Bagel's Day

Morning: Beg and eat owner and grand-owners' breakfast

Eat own breakfast
Sleep

Afternoon: Beg and eat owner and grand-owners' lunch

Sleep

Night: Beg and eat owner and grand-owners' dinner

Eat own dinner

Walk

Sleep

Ahhh what can I say... Life is GOOOD.

Tips to success...

1) Make sure they see you

2) Change position to make sure they REALLY see you

3) Give them your haven't-eaten-for-days face

4) Impress them with your good behaviour by lying down and waiting patiently

5) Show them how sad you are and what you think about them not sharing their food and being selfish

6) Show them you'd DIE trying/died from hunger

7) And when all else fails, use this ultimate sly trick that never fails. Sure to melt the toughest of heart.

O and do not forget to SPEAK with your eyes


And tada! SUCCESS!

Bagel Smarty Pants

Here are some tricks that took both blood and sweat to teach and video Bagel. Pardon the amateur quality and any aches incurred due to excessive head tilting.

Paw

Hi-5

Say please... peek-a-boo, circle/spin

Down, Roll.

Sleepy

Crawl

Bow

Up

Come

Bang

Phew. That took awhile. Was planning on uploading her NG shots as well but... shall leave that to next time. Btw, xy and xw, some of the tricks are new! heh she smart rite! :D But super active still, and super attention seeking as well, haha n getting notti again...

Muahahaha

Muahaha... seeing how negligent xt has been in updating MY blog *sulks*

I've decided to take matters into my own hands MUAHAHA

My post shall henceforth be in PINK :D while xt's shall be the usual boring black...and may I just add, really, can't humans ever get anything done right!?! you get them to buy you treats, they buy you every-eeky-thing else like ear-cleaning solution, neem oil etc., you ask them to bring you for a long walk, they get you lost SIGH and when you ask them to do the simplest task of blogging, they get lazy! I mean how hard can typing be!?

Anyways, yippee xt's exam's FINALLY over!!! I've been sooo bored! And seeing her study, well not so hard, it got me thinking... Maybe, just maybe I should start improving myself too. After all, there's always this chinese saying that says one should never stop learning. And so it got me thinking... how could I improve myself??

Well fortunately one day, eureka! I decided to be just abit ambitious and thought, wow the highest level of learning one could reach is ENLIGHTENMENT. I know, impressive right! And so I set on to search my journey for enlightenment. I look through the whole house and tada! I found it! The book to enlightenment by BUDDHA herself!

O well, that's all that's left of it, I mean what else do you expect a dog to do with a book?! And seriously, you would think that xt would be soo proud of me in wanting to improve myself, but alas no! I got a huge big scolding from her... sigh once again, HUMANS! never satisfied! humph