Moving Out

Hello all, after a long break from blogging this blog will be discontinued. Slurpie will blog at http://slurpiedoo.wordpress.com/ from now.

Please kindly update your bookmarks. Ciao!!!

Rats....

when we were in Taipei earlier this year, we bought a battery operated rat at one of the night markets for Slurpie. Didn't they say schnauzers were bred as rat catchers initially? He was amused and really curious when we set it up, he trailed the rat and watched it carefully. Ready to run initially when the rat turned towards him.

the rat cost us less than $5 but it could turn corners and thus it would never get stuck but keep going so long it is not overturned. Slowly Slurpie had enough of this white furry running about and went up to check it out.

he used his paws to tap it and then turned and run. haha it was hilarious. now we on it to teased him occassionally. Quite stimulating for him i think. =)

Daddy's Home

Slurpie always perks his ears up and stop in mid-act and run to the door sniffing at the gap when he hears our car turning into the driveway. Initially i was puzzled but now whenever he does that i know it means Slurp-pa is home.

He would then run out to the lift and wait.....presenting my personal radar:

waiting waiting patiently for he knows daddy will appear soon.

Wipe Your Paws

We walk Slurpie twice a day unless it is raining. And after the walks, the moment he enters the house, he knows he has to "down" and wait till we wipe his paws with a damp cloth. We are considering getting him boots so he can walk when the ground is wet too. Ya he is a dog some would say and its ok for him to get his paws wet. We typically frown on human items on dogs but the boots would be really practical as wet fur means tangles and with his long fur on the legs its really a pain in a @** to comb.

Still looking for a easy to wear pair that is not more expensive than my Heatwave heels!

New house for Slurpie

haha like real....not that we do not want to but we do not have a garden....ahem (what a good excuse). Reminds me of the chinese saying "same black dog but different lives"

maybe we can start we something smaller like this
but then again Slurpie never likes to stay in his kennel or even on the bed. his fav spot is under the sofa. ya lucky us, we have a low maintenance poochie. Perhaps we can look into a indoor garden for him? Mock grass carpet tiles.....hmmmm i like.

Tadah Groomed!

Slurpie Turns 1

My Christmas Eve Baby - Slurpie is 1!

to celebrate his 1st birthday on 24th Dec 2008 we went to cold storage today and bought a premium slab of beef sirloin. I seared it slightly in olive oil and his sides are boiled sweet potato and veggie (capsicum and broccoli). Look at his wistful face as he awaits the command to start his feast!



And this is him getting all buddy buddy with his ah gu birthday present

Pic of the month - Telok Blangah Waves

I am turning a year old soon!

Doggie Crane

This is our new devise that can pick up objects safely and securely......introducing the doggie crane system:

Fridge Raider

No matter where Slurpie is in the house, underneath the sofa, in the room or out at the balcony and no matter what he is doing, sleeping, chewing his toys or peeing even, he is always by the fridge within seconds when it is opened. He knows his favorite apples are in there! Fridge = Food. His theory is to Sha Chuo Bu Fang Guo I think cos we really do not feed him from the fridge but somehow he notices that his food are stored there maybe!

Stripped!

Overdued pics of how Slurpie looked after the Stripping. The first stripped portions of head and back has already grow out and the fur is very straight and shinny. Nice!

In 2 mths time he should be a handsome boy! Note he was not really affected when we did it as we did it slowly and sometimes he will actually fall asleep.

Play date doggie care

Boxster a 6 mths old salt and pepper belonging to the neighbor came for a play date one Sunday afternoon. He is hyper! The 2 can wrestle non stop, take a 1 min break next to each other or wait while the other take a drink of water and start wrestling again! Well no complains as that gave us the luxury to just relax and watch some TV while they entertained each other =) Wrestling pics are a blur as they were that hyper so could only manage their resting shots.

Nutritional Meals

We have started slurpie on nutritional barf diet, raw beef/lamb/kangaroo meat with veggies and sometimes some boiled potatoes. He is loving it and I guess it must be good for him too as his poo has reduced meaning most of it has been digested and absorbed?? Less stinky breathe too and we think he is putting on muscles not fat =).

What we do is to buy the meat and veggies and prepare them over the weekend into meal size portions using plastic bags and freeze them. Every night we will defrost 2 portions for the next day in the fridge. Its simple actually as all it takes is lots of chopping of the veggie and some packing. The vegs are cheap, I just buy what looks fresh and is having promotional prices (like 3 broccolli for $2.15). For meat we go for minced frozen beef/lamb about $5 for 5 days portion. Kangaroo meat for pets from Cold Storage Katong, hugh pack for about 10 days portion for less than $10. Healthy and good! What you see below has some Alfalfa from our salad yums....

MOVIE of the year

ok so the photos are still in the camera and i have been slacking. But good things must share and this had to be timely!

MARLEY & ME is ocming soon on the big screen, yeahhhhhh. Loved loved loved the book and while movie versions seldom can meet the expectations, i am sure i wouldn't mind this one since there will be cute labs haha.

Watch the sneak here

Schnauzers Gathering at Sentosa again

26th Oct 2008
tanjong beach, sentosa

After 4 mths we are back for the gathering at Sentosa. This time the weather was perfect, cloudy and no rain perhaps because it was also the Barkday Party of the year. Slurpie was surprising well behaved, never barked once. Only time he was notti was when he was distracted by this other schnauzer (male too) and he went off to the beach following him while Slurppa and me panicked and went about searching when i realised my bumble bee was gone!

Still had not downloaded pics from my cam so i stole from Serene's page haha. She has the whole event posted in great details. Go look here >>> Thanks for the great gathering gals! Will upload mine asap.

By the way i was not being cruel and making slurpie wear bumble in the sun but cos he has just been stripped and we did not want the sand and sun to irritate his skin.

Slurpie was so happy

Bumble Bee, Slurpie (aka the hand-stripped Botak) LOL~

Slurpie, digging for gold bars? bones?

End result of the digging~ muahahaha

Ahhhhh~ The sand below is cooler!

Ebi checking Slurpie out

Jester checking the Bee out

Designer Home

wouldn't it be wonderful if Slurpie could have a cool kennel that blends into our modern home. Look what I found on DenHaus

beautiful! could totally act as a coffee/side table yet Slurpie can hide his toys in there. Someone please buy this for Slurpie.

Itadakimasu Slurpie San

sushi for your poochie anyone? are we really humanising our pooch too much? Much as i think this is really cute, to me the ingredients will be a more important consideration. I do not think that Slurpie San really cares what shape his food comes in as long as it ends up in this tummy! Oh by the way this sushi set fo dogs comes with "wasabi" too for a complete jap course. Click on the picture for source.

Botak Pooch

introducing the skin head poochie

Slurpie Passes Obedience Class

Phew! Never had I thought that I would have felt so nervous when my dog takes an exam! We have thought that Slurpie would fail for sure as he was not very consistent in all the trial exams. He gets distracted really easily and likes to sniff the floor.

But Slurpie did PASS his exam! yeahhhhhhh i am so proud of my botak poochie (will do the botak post another time). Barely passed with 163/200 (150 is the passing mark) but still am so so proud! Perfect scores for sit and down stays. He got major deductions for moving for the stand for examination whereby he thought the lady had food in her fist as she was clenching her hand so he quickly sat down and gave her his cutest face. Haiz....he did well for this all the while. And major deductions for Come command when he sat there simply refusing to move despite how the man tried to call him. He only came after like 5 attempts to wave, clap and signal to him. Tsk tsk.....

Gucci Poochie

OMG this is just so adorable! USD150 tsk the last I checked the tree outside my house was still not sprouting money......