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The world was ending yet again today. At least, you would think so looking at the panting dog in front of you.

The thunder this afternoon was louder than the mild grumbles of yesterday. Time to re-enact another session of please pee/poop on the new blue pee tray Donna and yay, let’s eat the yummy food when it thunders!

Back and forth, we danced from kitchen to crate, and sometimes the loo. Dog ate up a half can of wet food from yesterday and almost another can of Herbed Duck confit for today. Almost… because by 4.30, she refused another tablespoon of the mushy stuff and just lay on the floor like a stone statue.

Sort of like this stone statue from some time back.

She probably was too tired to walk back and forth any more after 2 hours of standing and walking around in agitated from the thunderstorm. I know my feet hurt! And maybe, she just had food right up to here. *gestures at the top of the throat*

Who knew the thunder-phobic dog had the amazing ability to recover and come by punctually at 8pm seeking dinner?

Dinner… human, it’s time for dinner… … old picture from Drool-worthy

I’m sorry, darling, but you had your fair share of food for the day. So, no dinner for you. :P

This was dinner on a better day.

Ding-Dong! Trick or Treat!

By weliveinaflat

On November 1, 2013

In Behaviour

Trick
So this is the human’s minimal effort at dressing up Donna for Halloween. I’ve been walking her with that silly bow on her head for the whole week and she’s quite used to it now ;) Of course, the first day was really fun for the human who kept laughing at how silly Donna looks with a bow on her head while sniffing, peeing and pooping. But Donna got used to it after a while and so did the human. So it stopped being so funny. Haha.

Saturday night

By weliveinaflat

On October 28, 2013

In Behaviour

Mr P is back! Mr P is back! He played with me a while, and now he’s disappeared into the bathroom.
Tell Mr P to come out please? I haven’t seen him for a week and now he’s back!He is taking his own sweet time, isn’t he? I’ll still be here when he comes out… zzz…ZZZ…zzz…

No longer just sit and stay for doggy parkour, yay!

By weliveinaflat

On October 25, 2013

In Training

Urban agility challenge – Last month at the park

I’m a good girl, where’s my treat??

This was about a month ago, we’re still not very good at completing hopping over the full set of park stools with speed.

Getting the dog to entertain herself

By weliveinaflat

On October 23, 2013

In Training

Due to some unexpected matters taking up my time today, I will only be able to publish the mbpotw post tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Meanwhile, here’s how we get Donna to entertain herself, when we run short of time.

The same toy, the same dog, different view but almost the same pose – day vs night editing effects.
More about the Kong Genius Leo toy in our previous post here if you are interested.

The Kong Genius Leo can be found in pet shops or online pet product retailers, including Amazon.

Kong Genius Leo
Click to buy on Amazon

How we keep training fun while walking the dog at night

By weliveinaflat

On October 22, 2013

In Training

Nowadays, Donna and I often have our long walk in the night because it’s cooler and Donna actually bounces along in the cool air rather than drag her legs and lag further and further behind in the warm day.

Of course, I could make myself wake up extra early when the sun hasn’t risen yet and it’s still cool to walk her. But considering I sometimes am still up at 3am keeping a trembling, thunder-phobic dog company… I’ll say it’s unlikely to happen.

Have to say though, I abhor trying to pick up poo in the dark grass in the middle of the night in the dimly lit streets. Abhor! … but I still pick it up.

Here’s some of the ways we make the walk more fun :)… and by fun, I mean injecting some variety into the walk so it doesn’t get boring for me… If you don’t like training, it may not be as fun for you :P

“Do you want to play?”, asked the mongrel of the husky

By weliveinaflat

On October 15, 2013

In Behaviour, Explore

The other day my mom wanted to visit me but I was taking Donna out to the dog run.

And what does she do there, my mother wanted to know.

Oh, she runs around with the other dogs… you chase me… I chase you … like children.

There is a rather child-like quality about dogs that gets endearing, isn’t there?

This white husky looks bigger than Donna but she is only 7 mths old to Donna’s 4 years :P

A review of Donna’s thunder phobia and how the ThunderShirt and other tools helped her

By weliveinaflat

On October 9, 2013

In Behaviour

Donna has thunder phobia and one of the tools that we thought we would try with her was the ThunderShirt to manage her thunder phobia. I wrote to ThunderShirt, who so kindly arranged with their local distributor Hound Habitat to send me a sample of the shirt for trial.

Back to the storm brewing over our island over the last few weeks…

Playing fetch with a crafty dog

By weliveinaflat

On October 2, 2013

In Behaviour

Sit, Wait, Run, Fetch, Tug
Is tough choice to fetch or tug
Donna wants do BOTH!

I made the mistake of holding my phone vertically while shooting this video —
You can see her visibly panting (tired and needing to drink) at the end of the video and getting enough of play.