Beach... again!

We went to the beach again on sunday.

*warning* peek-ture... arghhh, I mean PICTURES intensive post!

Here's Mr Otter-boy making a splash... literally. I don't know why he has to go and create such a spash, and blinding himself with the water droplets in the process.

Splash! again.... and again...


He was swimming so badly that on several occasions, he had to use my MM as a buoy. My MM was complaining of being scratched on his back. I bet he appreciates a non-swimming dog (read: me) now.

Helios: Help! I'm drowning!


After some practise, he finally improved. At least he doesn't spash as much.



But he will start splashing again once he gets excited about his toy.



He also had a little struggle with Tommy over who would be getting the toy.



But he won in the end. I think Tommy gave in to him.



And he tried to bury his 'bone' once he got to shore.



As for Scuba, he was being dragged into the water.... as usual...



Jack was still sitting on the sand looking grouchy... as usual...


Joey was still playing with his ball... as usual...


But at least he was doing something else as well... rolling in the sand


What about me then? I was in my zen mode... being one with the sea...


Yes, I even told my M to make the sea looks more blue and 'zen-ny'. In my meditative state, I can see the future in my mind... and strangely, it seems edible.

Yummy


Until I was rudely awaken from my zen-like state... to find myself being dragged out to sea.... AGAIN!

You're not supposed to disturb a Master in meditation!
I don't wanna GooOOoooOoooo...


I was finally released after a few stuggles, and as I swam back, I said a prayer...

Please don't let her drag me back again!


Even Helios was not spared from such a fate.



So we made our way back together...


Remember where Scuba hid during our last beach outing? Well, I decided to join him there once I reach shore.

Me: Are you sure they can't get us from here?
Scuba: I'm pawsitive!


Luckily, the humans finally decided to call it a day, and we showered. Scuba, Jack and Joey went home but our humans and Tommy's humans decided to go for lunch, and on the way, they found this place which they call the huge hair-dryer. So we were made to stay around to blow dry.



(M: It's actually an air vent, where the air is sucked in from the car park and blown out in the open for ventilation. Because the car park is relatively empty and underground, there's no exhaust smell, and the air is actually quite cooling.

Look at all our flying fur...



And a close up just to show you how strong the wind is, note my butt...



We tried to run around a bit to air-dry as well.


And when the humans finally had lunch, I thought we'll get a share as well, but NoooOooo... we had to stay under the table with no food!


Even when we put on our most pathetic faces, the humans remained unmoved.


See, even Helios tried to tell them that he's fainting of hunger!


Mind power: Food!


But they say that the food is unhealthy for us. I wonder, if it's so unhealthy, why are THEY eating it?

Of course, after the meals, they made us walk a bit more and when they saw a nice patch of grass, they had to make us pose for pictures. And we had to pretend to be happy.



On a side note, when this picture was taken, there was a whole bunch of gawkers looking at us take photos. I wonder... have they never seen a doggie model shoot before? Hmm.. or maybe they wanted our pawtograph.

And finally, we were allowed to leave after a hard day's work! Can you see how happy we were to leave?

Hide & Seek

My M likes to play hide and seek with me. She will hide my toy toy, and I will seek it. And I'm a good boi coz I keep looking til I find it. And I don't take other toys even if they're lying on the floor if it's not the toy I'm supposed to find.

Here is me finding toy toy.



But my M thot it's too e-zee so she made me find again. Ginger was not very helpful.



My M says I can be a good civil defence dog like joey but she is too lazy to bring me after hearing Aunty G telling her that the humans have to climb into holes and get real dirty sometimes as well. I don't mind dirty, but my M seyz she dowanna wash a dirty car and a dirty dog every weekend.

Maybe I will ask Aunty G if she will bring me instead.

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

I met up with my brother Casper at the park on sunday! As in my very own litter brother! And he came with his big brother Reby and big sister Pebbles as well! And we took a family peek-ture.

We are family!
L-R: Reby, Casper, Pebbles, ME!, Herbie


We had fun playing with each other!





And I make him run after me!



My M says I bullie him, coz I sat on him, but Casper says I ain't heavy. And it's true! I am lighter than him!



We also took brotherly peek-tures together to send to our breeder.






My M says we should try to meet up more often. Yay! I can't wait to play with my brother again!

Wrongly accused

Poor me! I have been wrongly accused.... TWICE!... for something that I didn't do.

My M came home last week to find the floor cloth in the living room, with bits torn off. She immediately picked it up and went 'WHO chewed THIS?'. Helios, that clueless boy was still wriggling his fat butt with a toy in his mouth, oblivious to the danger we were in, while I, having recognise that tone of voice, crouched down submissively.

And my M, the great sherlock (NOT!) went 'Ah hah! Herbie! Bad, bad boy!'

Woah... wait a minute here, I'm not the one who chewed it, why was I being scolded? And the worse thing was, the same thing happened again later in the week and I got scolded AGAIN!

(M: Well, it wasn't totally MY fault! Remember the rug incident? You have a fetish for floor rugs!

It was only until this morning that my name was cleared. My M went to the room, and when she came out later, she found me still lying in the same position where she left me, but Helios was RIGHT NEXT TO THE CRIME SCENE! The cloth was outside again, but although she didn't catch him in the act, he got a piece of thread sticking out of his mouth.

The culprit


See his guilty face? See the tattered pieces of cloth on the floor!!!

My M should know by now I'm always the angel of the family!

Very sad, accused, angel

My New House!

I think I'm gonna get a new house! Or I think it's a new building! People have been telling my M that they saw a new condo-minimum that's named after me!!!

Helios Residences


Here's what they say about MY new house

"The upcoming freehold development (with a maximum height of 20-storey and approximately 80 units) is strategically sited along Cairnhill Road, next to The Light at Cairnhill - another Wing Tai's luxurious development. It is just a mere five-minute walk away from Orchard Road - Singapore's main shopping and entertainment belt where residents can shop to their heart's content at major shopping centres such as Ngee Ann City, The Paragon and Wisma Atria.

Residents of this prime development not only enjoy the privilege of a prestigious address but also the convenience of nearby amenities and facilities as well as the tranquility and privacy of an esteemed residence."

Look, they even have a schwimming pool! And no one can tell me that I can't schwim in there coz it's Helios Schwimming Pool!

I can't wait to move to my new house!

Burpday!

My big brother Herbie says it's my M's burpday today, so last night all of us went out to a restaurant for dinner. But I think that restaurant is only for resting, becoz Herbie was resting there, and we didn't get our dinner there.

RESTaurant.... for resting


Our M and MM kept looking at this board, maybe they're thinking of what bed to choose.

The Board


But in the end they did not rest at all. Maybe the restaurant felt bad they can't find a nice bed so they fed them instead.

They got a tea-ra-miss-you. I don't know who is tea-ra and why would she miss us.
(Herbie: Tiramisu!!!!!)

Miss me?


and they got a warm chocolate cake with ice cream, which my M says we can't eat coz it's poisonous. Maybe she's lying, coz she didn't die when she ate it.

Poison!!!


I think the cake was not warm enough, because the restaurent gave them a free one that comes with a warmer. But maybe my M thinks it was too hot becoz she blew off the fire that warms the cake.

Hot cake!


Maybe Herbie and me should have told them we didn't like the floor as well. Then we can get some food as well.

I donch like the floor, can I have food?

Blinded!

I was almost blinded last night, and to top it off, it was my M who almost blinded me!

What happened was, we were at the park and my M was alternating between scratching my head and throwing the ball for Helios to fetch. On one throw, I happened to inch forward just as she was swinging her arm back for a throw and she ended up giving me a blow to the head instead!

Ouch!


Unfortunately, her nails happened to scratch my eyes. I was so in pain and shock that I jumped up, turned around and ran a few steps away. Aunty G even heard me growl in shock. I wasn't even sure if I was growling, or it could be a grunt. But it definitely was PAINFUL! My left eye was tearing and I kept blinking my left eye and for a moment, I can't really open it.

Of course my M apologised profusely and hugged me, but she was laughing about it as well! Humph! She should have shown me more concern, like feeding me more to keep my mind off the trauma!

Can I change my M? It's dangerous living with such a clumsy owner....

Good Boi!

I am a good boi, but I dunno why my big brother Herbie says I bully him. I even let Herbie eat my dinner if he wants to.

(M: What happened was, during dinnertime one day, I noticed that Helios was eating very slowly, so I let him take his time and went to another room. After a while, I decided to check in on them and realised Herbie was eating from Helios bowl, and that silly pup was just standing at the side looking at him. I turned to look at the toilet and saw a pile of poop.

Apparently Helios ate halfway, went to poop, and when he came back Herbie has taken over his bowl. I think Herbie managed to eat at least 1/3 of the contents.)

I'm also a very good boi becoz I don't go out of the house even if the door is opened until my M says it's ok.

(M: I trained Helios in the very first week that he came not to dash out of the house until I release him. I've heard too many cases of dogs running out of opened doors and getting lost so I'm not taking that chance with him. It helps that Herbie doesn't do that so he learned very quickly.)

See, I don't run out!


So, I really, really, really am a very good boi!

And I've grown bigger as well!



I am now a GOOD boi and a BIG boi!

Bullied

Poor me! See how badly I'm being bullied right now? Soon I'll be right at the bottom of the pecking order, not that I'm not at the bottom already!

Sundays

This is a post about Sundays on a Tuesday. Hmm... I hope I am making cents.

(Herbie: Sense! Sense! Sense!!!!)

I love Sundays

becoz I get to chew on bone bone for breakfast!


but I hate getting my paws dirty so I chew like this!


My big brother herbie doesn't mind his paws getting dirty so he chew like this. Look at his bloody paws!!


And he's got powderful jaws! You can hear him go crunch and crack in the background!



But I also hate sundays becoz I gotta bath. I no like bathing.

Miserable us!


But I like sundays again because we get to go to the park to air dry!

We play to air-dry... I look fur-rocious, ya?


sometimes herbie look fur-rocious


then sometimes I look fur-rocious again


then he look fur-rocious again


We take turns being fur-rocious

Sometimes I run to air-dry


But herbie prefers to meditate to air-dry. Look, he is willing his fur to dry up!


It works all the time but it takes a long time to work. So sometimes he falls asleep while meditating.



(Herbie: I was not! I'm at the next level of erm... meditation! My soul actually left my body at this point in time!)


My big brother herbie is very smart. He can meditate anywhere! Nothing can disturb him being ONE with the universe he says, except food, because spiritual beings need food to sus-stain too. I want to be like herbie when I grow up too!

So now I practise hard on Yoga



Herbie says this is called 'Digging a hole' position. I told you he's smart!

(Herbie: It's soooo easy to trick young punks nowadays!)

So that's my sunday mornings. What do you do on sundays?

7 things about me

Well, I've been tagged a long time ago by Huskee but I never got around to doing the tag coz... wel... there's nothing much that others don't know about me.

So after days of taxing my brain, here's my list:

1) I seldom fart. That's true! I almost never fart. My M never appreciates this about me until the arrival of Helios, who farts.... a LOT.

2) I fight. Sometimes, rarely. The humans call me the 'Silent Killer', coz I'm usually so placid, but when I do fight, I draw blood sometimes, although I do try to give in to smaller or younger dogs by scaring them instead. Note: I only fight when provoked, and it takes a lot to provoke me.

3) I like to rubba my back on the grass. My M hates that, especially after a recent bath, so she'll stop me from rubba-ing, BUT, if I am at play and rubba-ing, she lets me get away with it. So I flip myself over every chance I get, so sometimes, I'm flipping over even before the other dog gets to me.

Sometimes I forget that the other dog has gone away and I'll still be rubba-ing my back.

Oh dear, I've been attacked! I'm FLIPPING.....



4) Speaking of rubba, I prefer butt scratches rather than head scratches. Sometimes I will subtly move my butt closer to the human's hands when they are trying to scratch my head

5) As much as I'm a greed, I will take raw vegetables only if they're coated with a little 'meat sauce'.

6) I like to 'de-spike' spikey rubber balls. But I'm usually not successful.

7) I don't mind being humped by friends, or smaller dogs, or females. Big strange male dogs become friends after I play with them 3-4 times, so they will go into the 'allowed to hump' category. Other than that, I show my displeasure.

And as a bonus, one thing you won't know about Helios.

Sometimes he wags his tail even when asleep. You will hear his tail go thumping on the floor, but he'll be asleep.

I don't think I will be tagging anyone else, since most have already been tagged.

Bye-Bye, Silly Car

Thank you for those who asked about me, I am feeling much better now, no more puking.

Anyway, like my big brother said previously, we just changed the car. So now our sillycar is no longer silly.

(Herbie: The model of the car is Celica, not Silly car for crying out loud!)

But before we say bye-bye to the sillycar, we gotta take peek-tures with it, and we went some places for the peek-tures. It was tiring taking those peek-tures, coz we had to...


take peek-tures with the front of the car


take peek-tures with the side of the car


take peek-tures with the doors opened\


take peek-tures with the back of the car and on top


My MM said Herbie can't take peek-tures on top of the car coz he's too heavy. And besides all these, we had to take peek-tures of the car with humans, without humans, doors opened, doors closed, left side, right side etc etc

It was tiring but fun.

I wonder if my MM will let me take peek-tures on top of the new car.

Criminal!

Yes, my M has become a criminal, and done the unthinkable, and it's all Helios fault!

The other day she drove us out for an outing and Helios had to puke in the car of all places! My M tried to clean the cushion up but because we've sold this car and getting a new one in a few day's time, my MM had cleared the car of almost everything! So there's no water, no towels, no tissue at all to clean up.

We were in the middle of a park with no shops. So what did my M do? She became a thief! She went to the public toilet and stole a whole roll of toilet paper!

The aftermath


Has anyone ever been arrested for stealing toilet paper? Oh I hope they don't arrest me as her accomplice! And on top of it all, poor me have to travel with the stench for the rest of the journey!

My M did not scold him because she said he looked upset about puking, but if you ask me, he's just upset that he lost his lunch!

It'll be all Helios fault if we all have to go to jail!


(M:Sigh! The things we do for our dogs!)

Photos, Photos

Some of you may have noticed that my banner has been changed to include Helios. My M took us out last week to take a series of photos for the new banner, so I present to you below, our brotherly love.

The day started well enough....

Let's do a good smile for the camera!


... and another one...


... and another one...


... and another one... are we quite done yet? My grin's getting strained.


We're getting bored....


I have to say that immediately after the above photo was taken, Helios started jumping around. Apparently that silly boy went to rest on a pile of ants. My M had to flip him over and pluck out the ants one by one from beneath the fur. He should have stayed on the bench like me. Silly boy!

I hate ants!


Being a model is such tiring business!


I think my M is thinking of bring us out again for another session. Groan.