Oh my GOSH!

Malaysia Dog Day is coming!! Its at the end of June… Just enough time after my exams to get Aeris to sharpen her Basic Obedience skills! Marvellous – I’m thinking of entering her in the Novice Competition.(http://www.puppy.com.my/k9day2009/obedienceevent.html)

But let me finish my exams, and I shall whip her cajole her into getting her Obedience skills in tip-top condition. After all, the skills required are Sit, Stay, and Lie Down.  Simple eh?

The catch: With distractions eg: Food and possibly the judge walking around. I have long taught her NOT to eat without my OK-ing her to do so (Yeah I’m mean ). So for the latter I’ll practice at the public field and encourage annoying toddlers angel-faced cutie-pie babies – “distract” her. Hmm but she’s a little too friendly with other dogs though. I gotta iron teach that trait outta her ASAP!

Oh and I’m thinking of joining the Recall Competition (http://www.puppy.com.my/k9day2009/games.html) too. All one gotta do is Call your dog to you, and encourage it to come to you as FAST AS POSSIBLE!! Bleargh! Aeris runs like the wind, swifter than a fox

While I’m the subject of a certain honey-coloured cuddly little girl:P Let me just extol her virtues even more! Recently I learnt something about her – she likes to drink fresh water only! She will NOT drink from a bowl that another dog (Namely Leo the Bullmastiff, probably because he drools into the water – double-yucks!  >__<”) drank from. In fact, she will NOT even take a single sip all day until a source of fresh water is provided for her. My mum noticed this trait first. She (my MUM, not Aeris) sometimes wash the floor at the wet kitchen area. She says that Aeris would wait patiently for my Mum to finish washing by standing at the side of the open gate and frequently checks if my Mum has done her washing by peeking in (Description: Body blocked by the wall, only her head turned in – get it?). Usually, after washing my Mum then fills a big bucket with water for future washings. From the tap feeding into the bucket Aeris would lap at the running water.

The past few days, when feeding the dogs, I used a bucket of water instead of the usual doggy bowl to fill water for them. The doggy bowl’s kinda broken so I threw it away. Now when Aeris sees me carrying the bucket, she runs after and watches, so the moment I place the bucket down she will be the first to drink from it. The boy does she drink! She’ll beat any alcoholic anyday! Gulp gulp gulp til her tummy bulges a little. She gives that “I damn hate it if you ever drink this clean water while I’m drinking!!!” look to the Bully when he comes close to drink. Imagine, frowning while drinking water? So emo-gothic right? So awesome right my honey-coloured sugar ball??

Oh oh and, I’ve taught her not to eat from another dog’s bowl but her own. So she knows that she has to wait her turn while I feed the other two dogs first. She doesn’t bark at me to “Hurry up, I’m hungry!!”, she knows she has to wait – besides, she can’t eat anyways even if food is placed in front of her nose, since I taught her NOt to eat without my OK-ing her

What other brilliant things she can do?? Well she can count, do algebra, climb trees, box my brother in the eye, and give me lotsa kisses just for the heck of it! Like when I passed her by to collect their empty food bowls – she lives me a lick on the calf (Well she’s too short to reach anywhere else hehehehe). Maybe its a “Thanks for the efficient service Slave, food was delicious” gesture. OK so she doesn’t count, or do algebra. But she does climb trees (at least she tries to, by jumping ??) and box my brother in the eye. “Why is she so gentle to you?? She’s such a monster to me,” my bro has said a few times before. Well well how do you expect anyone to treat a stinky chimpanzee, huh Chimp Tatt??

My mum cautions me to not get carried away and FOCUS on my exams NOW. OKay, OKay, I will…. Come on its LAND LAW for gawdness sake!! KILLER I tell you! KILLER!