Bagel's Arrival

Having wanted a dog for 6 years, my wish finally came true with Bagel! :D Haha, not forgetting the help from my 2 very wonderful sisters of course. ;p

Bagel arrived to our home sweet home on the 2nd week of March 2008, at a very young age of 2 months. Being e typical 1st time kiasu kiasi Singaporean owner, brought her for her 1st checkup before bringing her home. Unfortunately, she fell sick on the 2nd day, puking, diarrhoeaing and naturally refusing her food so back to the vet she goes. Could still vividly remember my trip to e vet where many owners commented on how young my puppy was, how easy it was for such a young puppy to die from diarrhoea and vomitting, how i shld nt haf gotten her at such a young age and how when she misbehaves in the future, if she survives, that it is all my fault... hm... And also of cos nt forgetting the very fortunate visit to the petshop beside the vet -petsfever.com - whereby i met the VERY nice shop owner. Seeing the poor puppy and haha the equally pathetic first time owner she was really nice and taught me how to take care of Bagel, what to do and even gave Bagel a free tee seeing that she seems to be freezing, unknown to me of cos. :p I must say though that petshop lady is REALLY very nice for after which, whenever i haf probs or need help/advice of any kind, she's always willing to provide the time to help me, haha embarrassingly though to the extent whereby during the first week she received phonecalls frm me practically everyday :s But anyways, after the visit to the petshop then, I haf decided to frequent the petshop and in fact, if there's anything that i'm looking for and they carry, i'm bound to buy from them seeeng their superb service and how much they haf helped me. Anyways, digressing from Bagel, haha afterall this blog is supposed to be all about her...

So yups, subsequent days of pumping meds and milk into her, she gradually recovered. Haha which was when we discovered her absolutely disgusting habits. Oh and i failed to mention the continuous howling at hourly intervals the 1st three nites which practically drove me NUTS! haha nt cute nt cute... so yes when she started to recover, we realise that she nt only eats her own shit, and still do if we'r nt fast enuf to pick them up, but also very much enjoys her own puke. So much so that at times she liked it SO very much she refuses to puke it out but just promptly swallows it back :S

Toilet training wise she'd pee and poo correctly in her playpen but once out, everywhere's her toilet so still trying to work on that although sadly she doesn't actually get much time outta her 6pc playpen as my whole house is practically wood and cloth and when she's out in e noon she refuses to slp so back to the playpen in the noon for her beauty rest n wadnts. O a method which worked very effectively to train her to pee on the newspaper was to let her out when she does pee there. But this was used only once since she went to the garden and promptly ate a slug. But it was quite cute cos once we put her back in she'd drink lotsa water to try n pee to b let out, which was gd since drinking more water'd make her healthy. Haha at least tt's my tots :p

Yes so after the 1st week brought her for her 1st bath which once again, the petshop lady was very nice and showed me how to bathe her n all. And in there she met a SUPER adorable shit tzu puppy called heidi. haha n heidi turned out to b her only fren since being over frenly n hyper she seems to b e terror of our neighbourhood n other dogs always run after the initial sniffing. O n i forgot to mention our bad experience from the place where we got Bagel. So the story goes...

The guy from whom we bought Bagel from nt only told us 2 feed Bagel human milk powder but also adult dog food which obviously wasn't suitable. However, nt knowing so i bought 3 large packs of dog food which i later found out was nt only unsuitable but highly unhealthy for dogs. Anw they r all gone n given to my uncle to feed strays. In addition, they oso tot me to bathe bagel by merely putting her under the running tap w her sputtering and also recommended me to buy lotsa stuffs that wasn't needed. But o wells i guess i can't really blame them for my purchases since ultimately nobody can actually force me to buy anything n i only haf my ignorance to blame. So wellz... enuf complaining haha

alrite enuf toking n now for the pics...