10 Dogs in a Row!

We went for a picnic last Sunday, but I couldn't blog about it because something went wrong with my M's computer.

So here's the long awaited photos...

Helios was the star of the day as my M wanted to take lots of pictures as he is growing up. So she made him play fetch....



But he decided other dog's toys seem more interesting, although he couldn't quite keep up with them...

Helios: I'll get it when my legs get longer!


Joey: Your legs are longer than mine but you still can't get it... ngak ngak ngak


Lolo: Are you getting the ball?
Helios: What ball? Don't see anything.


Scuba was so happy that there's no need for him to swim that he jumped for joy.

Scuba: No swimming! Yippee!


As for me, I was teaching Helios the art of begging.

Just look hopeful


Even Huskee joined us and exercised a bit.



And he finally got to see the 'behind the scenes of group dog photos'. It took all of us at least 5 minutes to get the shot.

behind the scene: crew and models getting ready


Why did the group picture take that long? Because....

...Rafv kept wanting to run back to the shade

I need shade!


... Tommy kept wanting to go back to play
I need more play!


... Huskee kept wanting to run back to his humans
I want my Daddeeeee


While Helios, Lolo and Chewie kept fidgeting. What I'm trying to say is, I'm one of the best behaved dogs in the group.

So this is the final result.

L-R: Chewie, Scuba, Lolo, Tommy, Helios, Me, Joey, Jack (f), Rafv (b), Huskee


Actually, that's not really the final result. My M had to do some 'cheating' with photoshop. This should have been the final result... with such a huge gap in the middle that we could have squeezed an 11th dog, if we had one.

Rafv: My imaginary friend's next to me!


I was so good that I only ran off after the group photo's taken.

I'm a good boy!


I think the humans are planning a beach trip next. I wonder if they'll attempt a group photo in the water. That will be Scuba's biggest nightmare!

CopyCat.... erm... Dog

I like to follow what my big brother Herbie does....

He like to sleep belly up, so I like to sleep belly up too

Belly, Belly Happy


From another ankle....
(Herbie: He means angle.....)





We all sleep curled up on bed bed



We all sit for tweets


And use hooman thighs as pillows during car wides


Herbie says I'm a copycat, but I thot we're dogs?

Having fun!

Just a videoclip of me and Helios playing. My M said we sounded like grunting pigs. I beg to differ.... HELIOS sounds like a grunting pig. I don't make such awful noises.

Wine and Cheese Pawty

The humans had another wine and cheese pawty a few days ago, and it was Helios first time attending such a pawty. So we made him take pictures with the cheese. He looked a little bewildered initially on what the fuss was all about.

Helios: Why must we take photos before we eat?


Well, he soon got the hang of things. In order to eat, we have to pose and let the humans take nice pictures of us.

Say Cheese!


The red box is actually red wine, in a box! It comes with a little nozzle tap for pouring the wine. It's the first time my M has seen wine in a box.

The Spread


Helios seem to like the cheese pretty much. But then again, there's nothing that the little thing won't eat.

Glamour Shots

My M decided to take some 'studio' pictures of me and Helios, before he grows up so yesterday, she started to set up the 'backdrop', which is actually a big piece of cloth taped to the wall. That silly Helios went to pee on the 'backdrop' instead and got punished, and our shot was delayed while he was having a time out.

Unfortunately, Helios is not very co-operative in taking pictures. Now I totally understand how Ms Sunshade felt when Stinky kept messing up her pictures.

Instead of looking at the camera, he was either...

yawning


moving


looking away


See how resigned I look, while waiting for everything to be ok? I got so bored that I settled down to sleep while Helios kept wondering why my M kept saying 'Stay.... stay...."

Wake me when this is over


In the end, my M gave up and just made do with a picture of a very bored looking me, and a very perplexed looking Helios.

New House

Well, the new house is finally on the last stage of renovation, so on Sunday, my M and MM sought the help of Aunty S and Scuba to help clean the house. Actually, only Aunty S helped clean the house. Scuba only made it messier by leaving bloodstains all over the floor.

Scuba has this very bad habit of chewing his own paws, and sometimes he chew so hard that it bleeds. And that silly boy felt no pain at a bloody paw but once the humans punish him by pinching his ears, he screams bloody murder. Talk about tolerance to pain!

Evidence of a bloody mess.... literally


Besides spending time chewing his paws, Scuba spent the remaining of the time admiring himself....



or zoning out.... although I think he prefers calling it trancing, or mediating in front of the pool. Sounds more mystical I guess.... either that or he's praying that no one's brining him swimming.

Ohmmmm......


As for me and Helios, we were initially minding our own business in the kitchen.

Sleeping... I mean, minding our own business



Until my MM decided to use the vacuum cleaner to blow dry me AND purify the air at the same time. Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone. And that little kiddo thought that the wind was too strong and decided to use ME to block it out instead. Well, there's only so many months that I can block it for him, once he gets bigger, he's on his own.

Hair dryer


It was tiring supervising the work of the humans. As you can see, we were 3 very tired dogs after that.

Are you guys done with the cleaning yet?

More work for me

Well, Helios toilet training isn't going as smoothly as my M had hoped. Apparently that little guy has got a BIG bladder and he could hold his pee for at least 4-5 hours if he wants to. Every half hour or so after meals and waking up, my M will bring him to the toilet and keep him in there for 5 minutes in the hope that he will pee, but instead he ended up napping or playing instead. So she has to carry him back into either the room or the crate because she's afraid he will pee enroute. He does have a habit of peeing like 5 seconds after being let out of the toilet when it's been hours since his last pee.

So my inept M has to get ME to help toilet train Helios. She decided to fill him with water. She'll cook extra soup for our meals so that he can slurp it all up. I think it's such a waste to use all that soup for toilet training purposes. I could have made better use for them.

Anyway, she'll then pen him in the toilet and start playing with him to make him excited enough to pee. Of course, she's always not good enough so she had to ask me to play with Helios to make HIM excited enough to pee.

So there were the 3 of us, in a tiny toilet, horsing around with my M making weird squealing noises. And she calls ME a pig! HA!

I am glad to say that because of moi, Helios peed like 30 seconds after we started playing. And my M got so excited she was praising him like crazy, jumping up and down, clapping, waving her arms in the air and squealed some more. I don't see she ever getting that excited about ME peeing. It's just pee, what's the big deal?

My M now thinks it's a swell idea to lock us 3 in the toilet everytime she thinks Helios bladder might be full. I think I'll have to spend my time working and entertaining one big and one little loony instead of having my beauty sleep.

Sigh, I hope I'm gonna get paid for all this.

My bladder's burstin'

Welcome Pack

Being the nice big brother that I am, I have decided to let Helios have his own little space when he wants to write anything, and I'm sure he has lots to say and people to thank... so... here's the little kiddo

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Ello... Helios here... I wanna thank eberybody for welcoming me here. I'm getting used to my new surroundings here. Aunty G and Aunty W even gave me presents to welcome me. But I don't like Aunty G's wrapping, it makes a lot of loud noise. But I like what is inside the wrapping.

Loud wrapper


My M opened up the wrapping for me because I don't wanna go near it.

and this is what I got.... the white furry bone bone is from Aunty W.



I like the furry bone bone



And the other toys as well. I like big orange ball from Aunty G.



And I like the family photo. Herbie says that my M doesn't want her face to be on internet, so we made it blurry. I think if I lick the photo enough it will become blurry.



And I got scolded by Herbie this morning. He was chewing on chew hoof and I want to chew too, so I want to take from him, then his muzzle twitch. I thought his muzzle was itching so I ignored him, so I continue to go near, then he got angry and scolded me. I think I don't want to go near Herbie when he is chewing.

(M: Herbie is very food possessive. I was sitting there and I saw his muzzle twitching but I didn't want to stop him because I wanted Helios to learn not to disturb Herbie when he's eating. Sometimes it's good to have an older dog teach the young ones some manners.

That's all I have to say for now... because I am very sleepy now.

ZZzzZZzzz

Pee Report... and others

As of this morning, we have a very clean kitchen, because my M was mopping it at 5am, thanks to Helios who decided that the kicthen is the toilet instead of the toilet is the toilet.

He pee-ed about 5 times in the kitchen, and once on the carpet in ths study room. My M can't catch him before he squat down and by the time she scooped him up in mid pee, he'd already emptied his bladder or the pee all went back in. So when she deposited him on the papers, he just sat there wagging his tail looking jolly happy.

So my M let him out, and 2 seconds later he pee-ed another puddle on the kitchen floor again. I tell you, he sure has a lot of pee for a small dog!

And while in the crate last night, he was fidgeting, turning around, thumping his tail and I can't get a good night's sleep. Doesn't help that the crate took up a huge portion of the floor which used to be MY sleeping area too. So my M woke up at 4am because she was afraid he'll wet his bed, and because of all the thumping.

Well, after all the excitement and early wake up call, I'm glad to say that Mr Helios is finally resting.

On site news report! And pictures added!

Helios has arrived, with his brother Casper this evening at 7pm. This is the latest news report fresh from the oven!

To add on: Latest pictures!

Helios is a very active little boy, and very hungry too! He wolfed down all his dinner, not leaving even a single kibble behind. And he kept wanting to play as well. So far he seems to be adapting well. Here's some pictures for now...



Chewing on a new toy, with a resigned me


Playing with my MM's hairy leg

Adoption Drive

For those of you who are looking to adopt a dog, (not me! I'm not for adoption even tho Helios is coming!) please support the Daevy Adoption Drive. Details here:

Single Dog

It's my last day in a single dog family, my last night in a single dog household. Helios will arrive tomorrow.

But I'm sure I'll still be equally loved. I just hope that he doesn't disturb me too much from my beauty sleep, and take away my portion of treats!

Counting down the hours now....

Babygate

In anticipation of the arrival of Helios and the chaos (read: destroyed home) that would follow, my M went to the departmental store and bought a babygate that was on promotion. She was thinking that Helios can be kept away in the kitchen if she has to run out for errands, thus minimising any potential damage.

Babygate


Something funny happened after my M bought the gate and was on the way home. A lady ran up to my M and asked if the gate is for dogs and where did my M get it and the price. Of course my M shared the information with her, but not without wondering why the lady naturally assumed that it'll be for dogs and not babies. And she's not the only one who made this assumption, as I shall explain further later.

Anyway, back to the gate. I don't know if my M was dumb, (she'd rather put the blame on the manufacturer's instructions), but she can't get the gate to stay put. She thought that it might be a lousy gate since it's on promotion, so she took it back to the store again for an exchange.

The very nice salesgirl there told my M that it's impossible that the gate would be so flimsy as they have tested it before, and proceeded to show my M how to fix it. It turned out that my lousy M had tried to fix it the wrong way all this while. AND the salesgirl also asked if the gate is for dogs. Why didn't anyone think that my M may have a baby at home?? (M: Ahem, because I look too young to be a mother? Hiak hiak hiak...)

Oh Puh-leeeze!

Anyway, my M insisted that it's not her fault. She followed the instructions and this is what it said:

Instructions


Note point 2, which said while holding the gate with the locking bar toward you, lift the locking bar and slide the locking pin into the slot that matches the opening size.

This is what the locking bar and pin looks like:



So this is what my M did, not too sure if you can see it clearly in the video.



She 'lifted' the locking bar, slide the pin into the slot and with just a push, the whole thing toppled.

When in fact she should be doing this:



Which is to totally unclasp and lift the wooden bar up.

In the end, because of her stupidity, I mean the manufacturer's stupidity, she had to make a wasted trip to the store and make a fool out of herself. And the cost of the babygate, which was $29.90, is now $45 after including the return cab fares for the 2 trips.

My only wish now is that if the babygate is made to keep Helios in the kitchen, then I want to be locked in there with him.

I'm separated from all those food!


Will someone please let me into the kitchen?

Flight Delay

Sad to say, that Helios will not be coming on 23 March as expected. Apparently the flight that he was supposed to be taking will now be transporting dry ice on 23 March, and because dry ice is toxic to animals (it gives out carbon dioxide), the airplane can't transport animals. So it'll be another 4 more days before he can fly over.

My M is now hoping that something will happen to the dry ice so that the airline need not transport it anymore.

Can someone make it melt?

New bowls!

Well, with the impending arrival of Helios, my M had to get a new bowl for him, and she decided to upgrade my current bowl to a bigger sized one as well! I guess bigger sized means more food! (M: Fat hope! Bigger sized means you won't be sloshing your soup all over the mat)


Darn! Anyway, she decided to paint our bowls. I think my bowl is nicer than Helios. :þ

So here's the bowls... and don't think my M drew this on her own. She copied the picture of the dog from some comin books and did some background changes, like added the bed and the bones, the house, the ball.... the 'easier' things to draw.

Mine.... dreaming of food...




Helios... she can't decide if he loves food or toys




Which bowl do you think is nicer?