So the other day, I stupidly stepped on what the dog avoided because she was sniffing and looking at where she was going.
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Singapore – Are protests becoming the trend in Singapore, as this tiny island continues to grow its population so that any protest held can actually have the potential of visually becoming a true mass spectacle? Hot on the heels of bloggers staging protest against the government’s website licensing rules, a local rescued mongrel dog has just staged the country’s first unlicensed mongrel dog protest in her very own home.
Her cause? The right to sleep with her head on the floor… or maybe she was lobbying for a pillow… who can know what goes on in a dog’s mind?
Her owners, Mr & Mrs P, are adamant that the protest is not a result of dog abuse.
“We just upgraded her bed over the weekend,” Mrs P said in an exclusive interview with herself on her blog – weliveinaflat.wordpress.com, “Her bed is now 120 x 60 cm, so much more space to spread out compared to when it was just 65 x 65 cm! She is not like all these other 17 dogs that need bigger beds.”
Picture: Donna the local mongrel on the 65 x 65 cm cushion that her owners claim is a dog bed.
Picture: Donna the local mongrel on her new 120 x 60 cm baby cot mattress that her owners claim is a dog bed.
Mrs P had written on her blog in a previous article that the old bed was too small for the dog and the dog was often observed sleeping on the bed with the head hanging off it on the floor. The couple decided it was time to change the bed when the dog ate something bad and vomited over the bed.
When questioned if the dog may be protesting against not having a dedicated dog bed and instead having to put up with human furniture masquerading as dog beds, the couple explained that the dog preferred human furniture especially the forbidden firm foam sofa in the living room.
“Dedicated dog beds are also very expensive,” said Mrs P, “They can run up to hundreds of dollars in the local pet shops for medium to big dogs. The Ikea cushions cost us under $10, and even the cheapest baby cot mattress cost us $20. Of course, it’s the more sensible choice. The bed is easily replaceable when the dog gets sick and vomits all over the bed. Also, we now have a layer of mattress protector for the new bed. So fingers crossed, we may not even throw the bed away the next time if she vomits on the bed again. Choy! Choy! Choy!”
Despite the publicised dog protest on Mrs P’s dog blog, Mr P was keen to suggest that the unlicensed dog protest was a non-event.
“Give her big bed she still half on the ground,” he commented in a Whatsapp message from work, labeling the dog’s actions as “stupid” and a manifestation of her low intellectual capability to understand the proper usage of the bed. The couple has shared on their dog blog, what can only be described as a picture to publicly shame the dog while it was sleeping.
Picture: Donna the local mongrel shamed for bad sleeping habits, a subterfuge for the country’s first unlicensed dog protest activity?
The blog post itself sent conflicting messages with pictures that featured the dog sleeping in awkward postures in a gloomy cell-like environment but also dreamy pictures of the dog in peaceful slumber or otherwise seemingly not unhappy even on her old 65 x 65 cm bed.
Picture: Donna the local mongrel in dreamy slumber in what looks like a highly manipulated photographic image of the dog taken during its protest.
Donna the local mongrel is currently at risk of being investigated by local authorities for what is being publicised by this news report as the first unlicensed protest carried out by a dog locally.
In Singapore, unlicensed protests are restricted to be held at the Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park only. The actual event still needs to be registered with the authorities beforehand. Un-named imaginary lawyers advised that if convicted, the dog’s owners Mr & Mrs P may be liable to send the dog to counseling in two areas – (1) positive dog training for proper sleeping habits and (2) counseling for the dog so the dog understands that it does not have citizen rights to protest, being a local mongrel with no Pink identification card.
When advised of the possible punishments, Mrs P said that she would not mind if the authorities send them for free positive dog training in any area and Mr P said that counseling for the dog may not help the dog to understand anything at the end of the day because she is already “stupid”.
Both said they are glad that the possible punishments did not include community service for the dog, such as clearing other dogs’ poop around the neighbourhood.
“It would be an absolute horror if she starts eating dog poop on top of all the leaves and flowers that made her vomit on her bed in the first place!” said Mrs P.
Postnote: This is a companion article to Bored Dog Gets New Chill Out Pad. I originally submitted for the photo challenge. But the writing challenge seems fun, so I decided to repost in newspaper article format again for Daily Prompt: Ripped Into The Headline. I must be too free. Hah! Time to take dog out to pee. Bye~
Why so happy?
Because we get to play fetch…
And then we play tug…
All with a simple $2 rope toy from Daiso. Cheap thrill, yah!
And yes, we play the same thing everyday and she looks like this. : )
I used to be apprehensive playing tug with the rope toy. She can be rather rough with her toys as you can see in this video.
But turns out Donna is quite good with the soft mouth thing… and no, not trained by us. Someone in the shelter must have done a good job playing with her. :P She did play bite me before, but she just had some part of my hand in her mouth without actually biting it.
Anyway, it took me quite a while to get the hang of taking pictures while playing with her, phew. I used Gorillacam and later switched to Camera+. The shots of her running down the corridor turn out clearer with Gorillacam though. Whoever would have thought that we would end up taking so many pictures using the corridor as a runway. The downlights here can make lighting a challenge though, depending on where the dog was relative to the downlight.
It’s time to delete,
there’s no more space.
Gorillacam, Snapseed
refusing to save.
“We’re on strike!”
The apps are crashing.
The signs are clear,
Phone’s just not memory-sing.
It’s time to go,
free the parking lot,
please Batman and Robin,
this is not your slot.
So they raced past strange signboards,
Their capes uplifting.
Not sure ’bout their morals,
they almost went drifting.
A barking dog set them
scooting away,
ducking in the shadows
where gruesome holds sway.
“My wings’ getting tight,”
Batman stops in mid-flight,
“Rest I must.”
Robin dumbstruck by the fuss.
Batman hangs on a fence,
enjoys the cool breeze.
Security must be tight here.
Batman is pleased.
Because of the way it sounds in Chinese, a bat can be a sign of fortune to come. ; )
And yes, great excuse to purge the phone so that Donna pictures can erm… continue to be edited for future posts :P
This helped a lot in helping me to get rid of undeletable previously-synched photo albums in the iPhone that iTunes refused to let me remove. More than 12000mb saved!
Jul 9, 2012 11:04 AM (in response to davacoco)
I had this exact issue just now. I researched and compiled all of the answers. Surprisingly it worked.
1) On my PC desktop, I right clicked and created a new folder. I named it “Empty folder”.
2) I plugged in my phone to computer, opened iTunes.
3) Clicked on my phone on the left
4) Clicked on “photos” on the top
5) Clicked the box “Sync Photos with”
6) Choose the dropdown and “choose folder”
7) Click “desktop” option
8) Click on the folder that you created and named whatever you named it.
9) Click “apply/sync”
In doing so, it deleted the “Photo Library” with the little sunflower as well as a “My Photos” album it had also created, but it left all of my other photos that I wanted to keep.
I’m shocked that this actually worked.
Hope this helps you.
What do you mean you’d rather sit there and drink coffee?
Well then, I SHALL amuse myself!
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… amuse myself…amuse myself…amuse myself…amuse myself……amuse myself…
… amuse myself…amuse myself…amuse myself…amuse myself……amuse myself…
… there… I’m AMUSED.
It took me a while to clue into what she was doing sticking her nose into her toy bin, so the pictures started mid-way of her spreading her toys on the floor.
We didn’t measure when we bought the bin. So when we got home and compared, we worried that the bin was perhaps too high for her to comfortably get at her toys in the bin. Obviously a groundless worry.
She probably wanted to share her toys and play with me, except that I really needed to have my breakfast caffeine yesterday morning before I do anything else, heh~ :P Don’t worry, she got her fun after that :P
By the way, I discovered snoopygrams today.
Give yourselves a pat on the back people! :D
I love early mornings when the sun casts shadows on the glowing concrete.
See the dog…
… and know the humans are never far away.
It’s kind of hard to relegate Donna to the background when I’m supposed to be holding onto the leash, so we’re depending on some multiple-exposure app goodness here! Hah!
I guess the Japanese doll graphic is copyrighted to the tissue box manufacturer whose product I took a photo of. It was handy since I was busy blowing my nose off from the influenza. :P
Another one, this time comprising photos of the dog at different distances away from me in the living room. Can you spot the one in the background?
iPhoneography Challenge (Abstraction)
It seems we can choose from the list of themes provided this week. I was keen to further explore multiple exposures, so I chose to do Abstraction. Although I’m not sure if this really fits. :/ Heh~
Apps used: Pudding Camera, Blendcam, Gorillacam, Snapseed
Donna has a new toy. It was a gift she won at the Subaru booth at the Nat Geo Adopt a Free Dog event. I said gift, rather than prize because she didn’t really win it. She had to sit on the challenge mat for a full minute and she couldn’t stay that long! Not with all the excitement going on about her. But the judge told us to collect at the prize table anyway. So yes, I would say it was a gift. Haha. Donna doesn’t know to feel bitter sweet about it. :P
A toy is a toy and the toy is mine! Anything soft is to be chewed, even pull-string mechanized toy cars that move!
Now if only my black rat of a dog will make cookie monster noises when she does that!
What do you mean “leave it”?
Stop telling me to “take it” and “leave it”. I don’t want it anymore! There!
Are you happy now? *probably muttering to oneself… if a dog can mutter, that is.*
Yup, I have a talent for frustrating the dog. :D
Today, the iPhone is a mysterious man that offers to sharpen your sense of sight and dull everything else, your taste, your hearing, your ability to touch and to smell. Right away, wouldn’t your world start to seem one dimensional?
What is food without scent and taste to colour it?
But hang on a minute, with sharpened sight, you start to notice details that you may have decided not to notice when you were dealing with all your senses at once.
You see light and shadow, pattern and movement. Little things that once escaped notice because they were insignificant, or in odd corners. Or because they helped form the part of the whole impression of a place, rather than demand your central attention. These little details enrich without calling attention to themselves.
But no, life is incomplete without all the senses at play. And even as you revel in your newly achieved clarity, your dulled senses start to return as the hypnotic iPhone runs out of battery. Slowly, you smell the Peking Duck and hear the buzz of chatter in the background. Sweet relief.
iPhoneography Monday
App: Gorillacam, Snapseed
Black and white photos can be so emotive even with its limited palette. It shows up the interplay of light and the dark in spaces, makes more pronounced the profile of people and things, removes the clutter that is colour and creates a moment of stillness that makes me anticipate the future that follows.
Pictures taken at myVillage, a little mall that we were visiting for porridge and some light dim sum.
