Patience with food

I am very patient when it comes to food. This is how I look when godpa and family have their dinner. Sometimes I try to put up a show like pulling my play towel over and tossing it about to act cute. Mostly they ignore my antics.

I've not had brown rice for a long time since my days staying with Bear and Bruno. It sure looks delightful what godpa had for lunch today: brown rice with vegetarian curry, pumpkin, and bitter gouard. I don't mind taking scraps from the tail end of that meal.

Speaking of which, there's this fascination with my tail end at various angles. Perhaps it's rather inviting when I wag it rhythmically. However I think my eyes are much more alluring, and makes for a more photogenic picture (not forgetting it's less of an embarassment).

It's been rare to get sunshine so godpa takes opportunities to bring me for walkies whenever he can. Weather's also gradually swinging between hot and cold so I've been reminding godpa to watch his health.

Besides hot weather, there's been some heated talk about proposed special rules for rottweilers and their owners because of some bad biting incidents in the past. The new rules will require the humans to buy insurance, put up a deposit, and send the dog for obedience class. I wonder what might happen next? I can imagine the maid will bring the dog to obedience class, insurance agents will have new products to sell, and perhaps there'd be a COE bidding system for dog licenses. Will it affect Bear and Bruno? Will they be "retrenched" just like bank workers because of rising costs? I better go save up my treats and toys for a rainy day.

Do you love toys?

I've quite a few toys now, let me count starting from the most favoured one: 1 Nylabone chew toy, 1 squeeky soft toy, 1 rope toy, 1 Chompion chew toy and 1 Kong treat-dispenser. Godpa rotates the toys so that I won't get bored and it also helps to lengthen their life span under my small but destructive jaws.

Godpa noticed the holiday season brings in new movies, especially those about dogs. There's the Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and of course Marley & Me, adapted from the book which godpa enjoyed reading. Looks like puppy Chihuahuas and Labrador Retrievers will soon be tied with pretty ribbons and end up as presents for a loved human. This human is usually a cute innocent child or perhaps some pretty (clueless-about-dogs) adult. I wonder if they'll get sick of us once they learn the hard way that dogs have needs too and we can't be put on sleep mode, patched to fix problems, upgraded to have better behaviours, or even sold to the karang guni man for recycling (as you can see godpa's influenced me with techie lingo).

Godpa's own experience of sharing my life is that dogs do not appreciate in price but they appreciate in value.

So, what new toy am I getting for Christmas?