Sumboi, a memory

I remember he came along into our household in about late April 2010 when I was in KK enroute to Taipei. He used to be smaller than my hands and we kept him in a laundry basket like how babies are kept in pens to avoid him running off and hiding under every crook and cranny in the house with his fave-deep inside under the couch. A hassle, obviously to take him out of there cos he would just keep struggling or hide under a different end whenever you lifted up one end to get him. Annoying too. Anyway, from an annoying furball, he turned into an adorable albeit still annoying companion. He was a good friend when I had nobody around. He listened when I'm sad and never failed to replace my tears with his saliva using his small lil tongue. He waited for us to be home each day without fail everytime we went out by the lil glass panel of our front door. He might sounded bratty with his fussiness with his food: Jerhigh and freshly cooked meat (no overnight food for him, don't ask me how he know), or the small canned dog food. He didn't mind human food but dog biscuit foesn't w
ork. It was never a real problem cause we love pampering him that way and it is affordable. His company and all the cheering up he did for us makes everything worthwhile. We love him and hopefully, so did he. He is good with leash on walks by the beach and even just the road. He seemed to understand what we wanted and orders even though he might not do it all the time. I used to get annoyed when he peed and pooed everywhere and had to clean up his mess but what I wouldn't give now to have him back! As he grew, he was more adorably attached to us. He loved squeezing himself between us when we were watching tv and is content to lie on our legs or just being nearby as we sat around. He only gets up when we do(in which case he will trail us to the toilet and wait outside, sometimes peeing too as he waited), or when he wanna go around marking the house -.-"" a bad habit we came to accept cos no amount of scolding and smacking do the trick. The way he acted like an alarm clock every morning to bang on our bedrooms door to wake us up (even though it might goes abit awry especially if he slept too early cos we suspected he estimate the time from there) and even sometimes I get a lil pissed especially during weekends but he never give up waking us cos to him, it's like part of his 'duty'.

He guarded us from all strangers and no matter what, he didn't leave us unprotected from the meanie strangers who came to the house during festivities. He knows exactly who can be trusted and who not to. To say he bark at all strangers or new faves is wrong! He never really bark at my bf when he first saw him, so there! You people complained he bark at you, but he simply remembered how those people pulled his ears and threw stones at him when he was young. Can you blame a dog for being insecure and scared? He loved some people unconditionally. When the grandkid pulled his fur and play with him, he was always patient and NEVER retaliate! He was kept in a cage when my sis and I was not around but he always seemed so happy when we are back and he could be free. So how could he died and nobody noticed?

I regretted nt playing with him when he kept nudging me wif his toy just so i could concentrate on my stupid tv show. I wish i brought him to the beach more instead of once in a while just cos I am lazy to bathe him everytime after we come bec from the beach. I wish i let him be when he kept squeezing his toy and making those annoying squeaking sounds instead of taking it away everytime after a while. I wish i let him wake me up early instead of pushing him away from my bed. There were so many regrets that I just wish time could turn back.

Everybody else can say he's bratty but how many dogs stay still to get his bath huh?So he is the best doggy and not bratty at all. He just had a higher expectation of his life and its quality. He left yesterday without me or my sis or anyone else to accompany him. I especially hated the fact that he was all alone, when he was always there for us but I wasn't even there when he passed away. I always thought there is gonna be more time to be with him when I graduated but he left before I even do. He was so young and so small, I just couldn't believe why nobody realised he was not in the house and he was out there fending himself from the strays and nobody to help. I wished I was home to bury him and at least say goodbye.

I have never felt so sad since when Mummy passed away. I just hope that what people say about dogs are true-that they go to heaven and maybe he can accompany my Mummy there! I love you, Summyboi. You be good now and stay!

My Puppy and I on a boring Sat afternoon

LOL, can I just say here, my puppy, Summy simply loves playing tug of war + fetch all in one. He is already about 7 months old but to me, he is always a puppy :P
The last time I played, I tricked him and acted like I wasn't interested anymore in grabbing his pillow (yea, he had a mini-sized version of the pillow we had on some of the couches), before making a dash for his pillow and grabbing it right under his furry nose :D:D and after a few times, he learnt and started doing the same back!!!Grr!
And today I played another game with him: Throwing his pillow and when he is off, I quickly took up his puppy bone and throw it again after he finish fetching the previous one...:D He got smarter by the 3rd time and resort to taking whatever's with me before taking off to fetch the other one den leaving one there before bringing only ONE back to me. Smart Summy! *huggiez*

SUMMY: *push push pillow at mistress* I WANNA PLAYYYYYYY!!!!

his really really determined pull at the pillow in tug of war (he doesn't like losing)

SUMMY: *stick the smelly pillow again n again at mistress despite being rejected a few times* I DUN CARE, I WANNA PLAYYYYYY!!!!

*confused look after being rejected*

He's simply too reluctant to go anywhere without his smelly pillow so most of his pics involve him either holding it or being somewhere near it..Isn't he just so cute? Especially when he's looking down if we leave him without any attention for some time..:P (That includes sleeping time, then he'll start waking us up when he is too bored of roaming the house all by himself XD)

And for some reason, he has taken to not eating unless we are eating the same food too, no matter how hungry he is *swt* So even though he has not eaten for hours, he backpedals when I filled up his bowl with his biscuits till we pretended to take some of them and nom-nom out loudly, then only he eats them up!

One of his fave pastime=watching tv (learn from yours truly and the sis), though he dislike all horror/flicks with murderers and ugly fellas cos that's when he'll get up and started barking at them (he's a timid doggie)...he likes cartoons though, except Upin and Ipin or sumtink (I suspect cos the cartoon looks weird).

his occasional 1st class seat ;)

or too captivated to find any proper seats

And I like to think he is happy whenever he shows this kinda faces:

It's a dog's life!

Been reading some blogs and googling stuffs about dogs and here's a few I've read which I think means a lot. In a world where true friends are hard to find, we seemed to turn our sights to pets, and as a dog-lover myself, I can kinda understand. A poem from a doggie's view..it's a lil sad..:S

I got to the gate of Heaven yesterday
After we said good-bye.
I began to miss you terribly,
Because I heard you cry.
Suddenly there was an Angel
And she asked me to enter Heaven's gate.
I asked her if I could stay outside
For someone who'd be late.
I wouldn't make much noise you see,
I wouldn't bark or howl.
I'll only wait here patiently
And play with my tennis ball.
The Angel said I could stay right here
And wait for you to come.
Because Heaven just wouldn't be Heaven
If I went in alone.
So I'll wait right here, you take your time.
But keep me in your heart.
Because Heaven just wouldn't be Heaven
Without you to warm my heart.

 (Grabbed from http://dogpage.mcf.com/petloss/waiting.html)

Isn't it so touching? Couldn't help getting a lil teary after reading it..

My lil doggie, isn't he so cute? :D

Well, dogs are definitely cute, especially when they are young puppies but as they grew older, things changed. What stays are their loyalty and friendship, but most people forgot that as you can see lots of strays wandering about. Keeping pets are responsibilities which shouldn't be taken lightly...

There were news about how Malaysian simply cater off the strays and dumping them on an island like what some in Pulau Ketam did a while back...sigh..
Here's a link http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/ where abandoned doggies are rescued and are put up for adoptions :) We should do our share too! (especially if any of you are looking for a pet doggy)

Our lil furball!

This is the overly-pampered and adorable tzi tsu that is currently residing in my Miri home. He might not officially belong to me, but my sis and i love thinking about him as OURS too! ;) He is a fussy, mischievous furball which could drive your patience to the limits, think Marley but in a smaller package...

His many antics gave us a lot to laugh about even though that is what defined trying to be the alpha of the group n attempting to establish us humans as his followers instead...sigh...we just couldnt resist giving in to him making him more incorrigible than ever! His bad habits include stealthily eating his own poop *ewww* and bugging us all the time by pushing his toys into us (again, a sign of him trying to be the alpha of the pack; pack as in our family including him :P). There are so many sites about how there aren't bad dogs, just bad owners, but we aren't bad, just not firm enough with him.

Anyway, we love him all the same. And jie jie will be a stricter jie jie the next time she sees u ok? Be good and lotsa hugz!