What do these cuties have in common? They were all here in one space to attend a Shih Tzu birthday party!
Come check out the party with Donna!!
Tag: birthdays
So the other day, the border collies Lycan and Lexie invited Donna to their birthday party where they have prepared seafood for the kiddos.
Donna examines the packet seafood.
The party was held at Sun Petgamart’s swimming pool.
Donna, who has never really swam before, wasn’t sure what she was supposed to do here. So she wondered around and around the edge of the pool.
I don’t know all these other dogs, human. There’s not enough space to walk here with all the water…
We planned to slowly get her used to the water. The brown dawgs advised before:
… find a banked area of a pond or lake where they can go in slowly and not jump right in. But we try to get them excited and all heated up playing and fetching around the edge of the pond and then toss the toy in the water. Not far just to the edge (hard in a pool if you can find a clean puddle, you could start there). What ever you do, do not toss or otherwise push her in. Even if she jumps in and goes under it might startle her so be prepared. It is not uncommon for it to take many trips before the dog will go all the way in the water (and some is just breeding too). Make sure it is a warm day and the water is warm….most important! Good luck!
But the occasion with so many dogs running around, just didn’t seem suitable to put the advice into action. She was just too distracted and she was never really toy motivated out of doors anyway.
So at that point in time, poor Donna hadn’t really come to love the water or to enjoy it yet. Not like Sir Toby the Golden Retriever :D Toby was definitely the perfect guest for this party.
The slippery slope that deterred him from getting out of the pool on his own was no dampener. His human slave was on hand to… well, give his less than 35kg self a hand or two.
Yup he had fun heading in, being carried out and heading in again…. Several times, repeat and rinse. :P Quite a work out for the human, no?
I thought perhaps the slope was difficult for dogs in general, but Toby’s human told me that some dogs don’t find it difficult although Toby did. Toby, whyyyyyyy? :P
Anyway, I guess Lycan and Lexie would have met all the invited dogs before, so mingling is easy for them. Toby certainly seems to be pretty happy walking in synch with Lycan there.
Clockwise from top left: 1. Toby with Lycan 2. Tugger 3. Tobby with Tugger in the foreground 4. Lexie
Tugger the puppy not so much. He is like Donna trying to make sense of the pool and the other dogs all around. Donna tried her best to initiate play with various dogs that weren’t in the pool, without much success. She ended up persistently approaching Tugger. Tugger did his best to avoid her so I had to reign her in after a while to avoid her stressing him out.
But not for long, because what is a birthday without cake! Donna was so excited she jumped on the bench and we had to call her off it again in case she tried to eat it all on her own. *Oops!*
Perhaps Toby thought it was his birthday?
Nope, it’s Lycan and Lexie’s.
Can I have some cake please? Cobie asked.
Not before we wish Lycan Happy Birthday again (it’s this week!) ;)
Happy Birthday, Lycan! and also Mango today!!
Lycan and Lexie’s post on the birthday party here.
Also Mango the sheltie’s post on the party here. She also made this awesome nose bump video at the party. :)
Note: The Sun Petgamart swimming pool comes equipped with taps for showering the dogs, as pictured below.
More about Sun Petgamart
26, Seletar West Farmway 1 Singapore 798126
Phone: 6484 0709
SGD$38 for 5-year membership gives you discount on purchases and free usage of doggy pool weekends and public holidays. $10/dog on weekdays.
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So, one and a half years ago Donna started her new life with us. Which meant she was pretty friendless, since we didn’t really have any friends with dogs.
We tried taking her back to the shelter to visit on occasion, but she didn’t seem very friendly with the dogs there. We sometimes bump into neighbours on walks and she did make some BFFs but those times we bump into them are few and far in between. All our walking times are just too inconsistent, I guess. We tried meeting up with other dogs on the pets forum, but Donna didn’t find any buddies there either.
It was only when we started our Instagram account that suddenly we were able to connect with other dogs and their humans. And it’s really great because everyone can see each other’s pets and how they are getting on on a more or less regular basis. And somehow, these great bunch of people are just more active and enthusiastic about meeting up and socialising our dogs in general. More active than lazy us!
So we were really happy to be invited to a birthday party by one of our instafriends!
Yesh, I can haz birthday pup cake and eat it with my mouth open, human.
You know what, Donna doesn’t like biscuits. She takes it and usually throws it on the floor. But this one on the pupcake, she actually ate it. ;)
Looking forward to more good times ahead with the Dogs of Instagram, Singapore. ;)
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