Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Introducing... the family pets

Okay, because I am bored, I decided to introduce my family's beloved pets to you people. First of all, we have Pepsi(left) and Cola(right). Yeaps, like the carbonated drink. And if you are wondering why these names, well, my mum decided that it's cute, and easy to remember, after rejecting my idea of calling them "Bubu" and "Chacha", like the cartoon. And I thought THAT was cute. But I digress, so Pepsi and Cola then.


As you people can see, Pepsi is more fluffy, well, probably not as fluffy as say, Tsih Tzu, but then again, she looks adorable. Definitely the most harmless looking one in the bunch of dogs that my family has. And if you ever see her in all her adorable puppy glory, I assure you that you cannot help but fall in love with her. Yeaps, she was that adorable when she was a puppy.

And Cola, if you notice in the picture, which you probably couldn't since it wasn't really clear, she looks as though she has a permanent sad smile on her face. And no, we love her as much as we love Pepsi, so we did not abuse her. Thus, the sad smile is not our fault.

Despite her sad smile, she is actually a friendly and obedient little creature. She is the most obedient one in the bunch, and seriously, you don't even have to yell at her to get her back when she sneaks out of the house with Pepsi. Yeaps, Pepsi is a lil mischevious, and always lead Cola into lotsa mischief in the form of rushing outta the house the moment we open the gate. As for Pepsi, we have to yell and yell and she will instead give us a cheeky look before rushing further away from the house. Cola, well, she will come back, and you won't even have to yell at her. Just say "Cola, home," and she will obediently trot back to the house.

Both Pepsi and Cola are very manja, Pepsi probably more because she has a jealous streak, so whenever we see them they will try to lick us, and if we pet Cola and not Pepsi, she will get jealous. Then you will see Pepsi trying to follow you until you actually pet her.

Oh yeah, Pepsi and Cola are siblings. My mum decided to bring them home sometime in the middle of January last year, so Pepsi and Cola have been with us for almost two years already.

Then, we have Fairy(left) and Madge(right).



Fairy and Madge were previously my aunt's pet, but she gave them to us when we moved our house. Besides, my aunt had many other pets anyway, so Fairy and Madge joined us sometime in July last year.

Fairy is the black skinny dog you see in the pic. Personally, I think she looks Anubis, you know, the jackal-headed God that is often related to afterlife in Egyptian myth. Anyways, she is the smartest in the bunch. And probably the most well-loved one in my housing area. She is very free spirited. She is the only one given free reign to where she wants to roam about because everytime we chain her in the house, she will give you this utterly sad and heartbreaking face, like she has just lost her freedom, well, I supposed that is the case then. She has something against motorists, she will chase the motorists and bark at them fiercely. We don't know why, but my aunt speculated that it might be she has a bad experience with motorist when she was still a puppy.

And as mentioned before, she is the most well-loved one, because well, she is kinda kepoh, you see. My neighbours will put out fruits for "sembahyang", you know Chinese people, and those fruits will attract monkeys from the forest that is behind our housing area. And Fairy, being the kepoh creature that she is, she will chase those monkeys away, thus the fruits that my neighbour put out are then safe ever since my family and Fairy moved into the new house. And she is smart, because she seems to know what we are thinking. If we want to bathe her, one of us has to go talk to her, pretend that we want no harm, while the other waits to ambush and lead her to the shower. Nopes, she absolutely hates being taken into a shower, but once she is in it, she won't give you much trouble.

Oh, just to mention that before I forget, all my dogs seem to dislike having bath, but they have no problem whatsoever playing in the rain. Whenever it is raining, the heavier the rain, the more likely you will see them playing chase in the rain, despite how heavy the rain is. And moving on....

As for Madge, if you didn't notice in the picture, she is huge. Most of the time we fondly call her "Ah Pui", or "Ah Fat", because well, she is way overweight. She is the same weight as me, and I can assure you that I am well over 50kg already. She is the laziest, and not to mention, the most gluttonous of the bunch. She is the happiest when it's morning, because that is when she gets her meal, and you can see her jumping around in a way that you cannot imagine an overweighted dog can manage to do.

Most of the time, however, she is just a lazy ass, lying there like nobody's business. Sometimes she is even so lazy that she refuses to move herself to change her sleeping place when the sun is practically roasting her alive. Oh, have I mentioned how much of a glutton she is? She eats practically everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. I swear, give her anything that she can chew and swallow and she will eat it. Once, my bro actually gave her a duku skin and even though she had this weirded-out expression on her face when she was chewing, she still ate it! So yeah, that is how gluttonous she is.

And then we have Duff, except that she is an extremely anti-social dog. She seems to have a very bad past history with human, because when we first got her (also from my aunt), she was the most timid and shy creature I have ever seen. Even with the friendliest "Hi Duff", she would scamper off like you are trying to harm her or something. But now she is actually better already. She is still a lil afraid of people, but she's getting better. She gets along well with the other dogs now, and even though she will still run and hide when we approach her, now, if you manage to put on a really really really un-intimidating voice and look, she will actually let you get near her before running off. Hey, big improvement from the first time we saw her, okay?

So, because she is that shy, no pic of her.

Moving on, this is the newest pet in my family. I haven't seen him yet, because he just arrived last Sunday. My mum named him Whisky, and well, I think it's a very cute name anyways. According to my mum, he gets along well with the dogs, and my, he is a brave lil kitty. Supposedly cats are afraid of dogs, and apparently he didn't even flinch when Madge barked at him when he first arrived, and seriously, Madge has a very loud, booming bark. If she isn't my pet, I would be scared of her if she barks at me.


Isn't he a pretty creature? Yeah well, actually when my sis called to ask me for a name I was expecting a kitten, since she said he's three months old, but then again, from this pic that my sis sent me, he doesn't look very kitten-ish, does he?

Well, I'm excited about the idea of meeting him. I hope despite his slightly "ganas" look in the pic, he is cuter and more fun to play with in real.

1 comment:

Bernard said...

Your cat damn fluffy - why not take her to KL one of these days??